RoomTalk FAQ:
Offline Captions, No Subscription, No Account

RoomTalk is an offline speech to text app for deaf and hard of hearing people that turns the speech around you into large, easy-to-read captions on your phone. You slide one switch to start, and the last thing said stays on screen so you have time to read it.

Yes, RoomTalk works without internet, without wifi, and without cell signal, because all speech recognition happens on the device using bundled models. It even gives you live captions in airplane mode, and nothing is ever uploaded.

Your conversations stay on your phone and go nowhere else: RoomTalk has no servers, no accounts, and no analytics or tracking. Saved conversations live only on your device and can be deleted any time with one tap.

RoomTalk is built first for deaf and hard of hearing people, and especially for older users who find phones hard to use. Every choice favors them: very large text, strong contrast, and a single obvious control.

Yes, RoomTalk is a voice to text app for deaf people: it turns the speech around you into large live captions on your phone, so deaf and hard of hearing people can follow any conversation. It works fully offline and costs $4.99 one time.

Yes, RoomTalk is the simplest app to talk to a deaf person: you speak and your words appear as large, easy-to-read captions, so a hearing person and a deaf person can have a normal conversation. As a big text app, the words are easy to read across the table.

Yes, RoomTalk shows the whole conversation in big text, so a deaf or non-speaking person can follow every word and stay involved without speaking. Many people use it as a talk without speaking app for everyday chats at home, at the counter, or at the doctor.

To follow a conversation in a loud bar or noisy restaurant, open RoomTalk and turn on listening: it shows big captions of what the other person says, so you can read the conversation even when it is too loud to hear. They talk, you read.

You can talk to a deaf person without sign language by letting RoomTalk turn your speech into big, clear captions on the phone, so a hearing person and a deaf person can have a normal conversation. The hearing person talks and the deaf person reads along.

Yes, RoomTalk automatically softens strong language, keeping the first and last letter and masking the rest, so a swear word reads as S**T instead of the full word. It keeps captions comfortable to read in front of family.

RoomTalk gets more than 95% of everyday speech right, because it is built on a high-accuracy English dictionary that runs entirely on your device. It also capitalizes modern names like ChatGPT, OpenAI, and NVIDIA correctly.

RoomTalk costs $4.99 one time, with no subscription, no ads, and no account to create. It is available on the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad, and for Android direct from roomtalk.app.

Yes, RoomTalk is a true transcription app with a one time purchase: you pay $4.99 once, you own the app, and you never pay again. There is no subscription, no monthly fee, no ads, and no account to create.

Yes, every conversation is saved on your phone the moment you switch listening off, so you can read it back later. You can browse saved conversations by date, Today, Yesterday, or any day, and re-read every line with its timestamp.