QuickVoice

QuickVoice
www.nfinityinc.com  
By nFinity 
Price 59p

QuickVoice is an essential tool for anyone who uses a Dictaphone or takes a lot of notes in meetings or lectures. The app is essentially a Dictaphone, although the full version of the app (there's a lite version too) adds in voice-to-text functionality thanks to SpinVox.

There's little to QuickVoice. The main screen comprises a list of previous recordings as well as record and play buttons. At the bottom are the options to add a title, send the recording by email as a sound byte or as text, translated by SpinVox.
There's no functionality to view the text created from a recording, and SpinVox can sometimes struggle to accurately turn the sound into text,.

We tried recording a sample from the TV, and the sound quality was poor - SpinVox failed to turn a news bulletin into text, but live speech provided much better results, and SpinVox did manage to translate it, but with a couple of mistakes, which were acceptable given this app's usefulness.

Emailing the sound wasn't instant, but this will depend a lot on your ISP. Emailing the text will of course take longer as it has to go via SpinVox, but in our tests it still arrived within 10 minutes.