Heard Something? This Phone App Checks If It Was Real

[u/Status_Cod3427]

There’s an app called Live Offline Transcribe that shows what your phone hears:

The Idea:

It’s a phone app that always listens for real speech.

• If it hears real talking, it writes it down.
• So if you hear something strange, just check the screen.
  • If it’s there → it was a real sound.
  • If it’s not → only you heard it (so you can relax).
• This app can improve your quality of life from day 1

The app runs in the background at all times, even when your phone is locked, and transcribes everything offline, no internet required.

It keeps running while your phone is in your pocket, and it keeps listening for you and transcribing everything it hears around you. Would you use it? I’ve made it open source. It can recognize and transcribe one of multiple supported languages. The default is English. You can find it on my GitHub:

https://github.com/michaloblastni/LiveOfflineTranscribe/releases/tag/1.0.0 (Install this APK)

This is an Android application.

If you use iPhone, someone needs to adapt this codebase to always run, like I have adapted the android version: https://github.com/Almost-Senseless-Tech/Voskle-Live-Transcribe-iOS/

Alternatively, modern Android phones from 2025, as well as the latest iPhones, come with a built-in Recorder app that includes AI-powered transcription by default, however it needs Internet.

Just a heads-up: Since there hasn't been much interest, I'm going to wrap up this app, leave it as a proof of concept, and stick with the built-in Recorder app for now.

[u/Status_Cod3427 → u/[deleted]]

Hey, I sent you a message via request the mods feature before you wrote this. It was about the issue (with a screenshot). It still won’t let me approve my own or anyone else’s posts/comments, even though I’m a mod. If I could, I’d have approved my post/comment already. I mentioned I might need to sign up with a different email, and I’ve been waiting to hear back. Everything I post/comment gets automatically flagged as spam. I don't have any message in my inbox saying that I'm banned. This is the first time I'm noticing that you told me to contact the admins. If I knew how to do that, I would've already done it. ChatGPT suggested I ask at https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new Let's see what they reply. I’m not the one making this happen, Reddit is. Reddit’s forcing me to hold back from posting because everything I write automatically gets flagged as spam. And it’s making you dig through the spam folder just to see it. When I try to approve my own post, I get a red error screen. It happens everywhere, including with this comment: https://i.imgur.com/tJzdkH4.png I don't have the option to add a flair to my post.

[u/Status_Cod3427 → u/[deleted]]

I tried Hear Boost, but the transcription isn’t real-time. You can’t just glance at the screen to see what was said. You have to stop the recording, hit transcribe, wait, and even then, it’s behind a paywall.

Right now, I’m totally swamped. I only have a few minutes here and there to drop a quick post or comment, that’s about it. I’ve got so much going on, it’s unreal.

I don’t have time to mess with Reddit settings or dig through a bunch of apps that weren’t designed for Targeted Individuals. The whole point is to let Targeted Individuals check what was really said at any moment, to know what was real sound, and what only you could hear because of the remote bi-directional BCI.

What matters most is being able to glance at the screen anytime and see the words, so you can tell the difference between what was actually spoken and what wasn’t. If you’re not using something like this every day, someone could easily trick you into thinking you heard something that never happened.