Glossary
Transcript Assist (Galaxy AI)
Transcript Assist is a Samsung Galaxy AI feature that converts a saved recording in the Voice Recorder app into text. It works on select Galaxy models and needs a working internet connection. It transcribes recordings you already made, so it is not live dictation into a text field.
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Also called Transcribe assist.
Transcript Assist is a Galaxy AI feature on some Samsung phones and tablets. It converts a recording you have already made into text. The usual place to use it is the Voice Recorder app: you record a meeting, a lecture or a voice memo, then ask the phone to write out what was said. Samsung's own term for the step is Transcript assist, and some pages say Transcribe assist.
It does not work like dictation. Dictation writes your words into a text field as you speak. Transcript Assist starts from a finished file, and it writes the text after the recording exists.
Which Galaxy phones have it
Availability is limited. Samsung says Transcript Assist is on select Galaxy models, and that availability may vary by model and region 1. Samsung's Voice Recorder page for the US lists 16 languages for Transcript assist, including several regional forms of English, Spanish and Portuguese 2. The language list also varies by region, so check the list on your own phone before you rely on a language.
How to turn a recording into text
Samsung's steps for a Voice Recorder recording are short. Select the recording, tap the Transcript assist icon, and then tap Transcribe 3. You can then copy or edit the text in the app.
Example: a lecture recorded on a Galaxy tablet
A student records a 40-minute lecture on a Galaxy tablet. Later, at the desk, they run Transcript Assist on the saved file and copy the text into a notes document. They then read the transcript against the slides and fix the names and technical terms. The feature saves typing during the lecture, but it does not replace checking the output.
It needs a connection
Samsung's UAE page tells you to check your internet connection when Transcript Assist is slow or gives errors 4. Plan for a connection before you start a long transcription, and do not expect it to run in a place with no signal.
Why it matters for dictation and typing
Transcript Assist is useful when the speech already exists as a recording. For drafting in real time, you need live dictation or voice typing on the keyboard, which writes words as you say them. Use Transcript Assist for interviews, lectures and memos, and use dictation when you are composing a message or a document. Our guide on how to transcribe a recording on Samsung walks through the steps on a Galaxy phone. For the live keyboard option, see Samsung talk to text.
Check every transcript. Speech recognition on a recording can mishear names, numbers and quiet speech, and background noise or overlapping voices make errors more likely. For the general idea behind these errors, see dictation.
Related terms
- Voice message transcripts: text versions of voice messages sent in a messaging app.
- Dictation: speaking so that your own words are written into a text field.
- Voice typing: the keyboard feature that writes words as you speak.
- Online speech recognition: recognition that sends audio to a server, which is the case when a connection is needed.
Guides and questions that cover it
- How do you turn a voice recording into text on Samsung?: the steps on Galaxy phones.
- Talk to text on Samsung Galaxy: how to use it: the live voice input on Samsung keyboards.
- Dictation on phones and tablets: our overview of speaking to text on iPhone, iPad and Android.
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Related terms
- Dictation and Voice to Text on iPhone and AndroidThe topic this term belongs to
- Allow Full AccessAllow Full Access is an iPhone setting that you switch on for a third-party keyboard before it can have open access, such as network access. Apple warns that a keyboard with this setting on is permitted to collect and transmit the text you type.
- GboardGboard is Google's keyboard app for Android and iPhone, and its microphone key turns speech into text in any app where you can type. On Android it can run speech recognition on the phone, while on iPhone the voice input is handled inside the Gboard app and sent to Google.
- Google voice typingGoogle voice typing is the speech-to-text input that Google provides on Android, so you can speak words into a text field. Its name and location vary by phone: Gboard shows a microphone key, while Samsung Galaxy phones list Google Voice Typing next to their own voice input.
- Live CaptionsLive Captions is a feature that shows text for speech and audio as it happens, using the phone's own processing. Google calls it Live Caption on Pixel phones, and Apple calls it Live Captions on iPhone. It reads what others say, so it is the reverse of dictation.
- Live TranscribeLive Transcribe is a Google app for Android phones that turns the speech of people around you into captions as they talk. It helps you follow a conversation. It does not type your own words into a text field, which is what dictation does.
- Real-time text (RTT)Real-time text (RTT) is a way of sending text as it is typed, so the other person can read each word before the sender finishes. It is used in conversation by many deaf and hard of hearing people, and it has no send step like an ordinary text message. It is a typing channel, not a speech technology.
- Samsung voice inputSamsung voice input is the voice-to-text feature built into the Samsung Keyboard on Galaxy phones and tablets. It works only with that keyboard, so it is a separate choice from Google Voice Typing.
- Speech Services by GoogleSpeech Services by Google is the Android speech engine from Google that turns speech into text for other apps and reads on-screen text aloud. Google's Play Store listing now uses the title Speech Recognition & Synthesis, and reviews on that listing still call the app by the older name.
- Third-party keyboardA third-party keyboard is a keyboard app from a developer other than the phone's maker, which you install and switch to in place of the built-in keyboard. Apple calls the iPhone version a custom keyboard, and Apple's rules limit what it can do, such as network access and microphone use.
- Voice Access (Android)Voice Access (Android) is a Google feature that lets you operate an Android phone or tablet by speaking commands, such as opening an app or tapping a labelled item. Google built it for people who have difficulty using a touch screen. It is a control tool that can also enter text, and it is separate from Windows Voice Access on PCs.
- Voice message transcriptsA voice message transcript is written text of the words in an audio message, produced by the messaging app so you can read instead of listen. Apple, Google and WhatsApp each offer one, with different defaults and different privacy arrangements. It turns audio into text, the reverse of dictation.