Use case · notes
Voice typing in
Samsung Notes.
Samsung Notes famously blocks accessibility tools from typing into the note body, which is why most dictation apps fail there. Fastspoken types through the keyboard layer instead, the one path Samsung Notes accepts, so your notes get your voice at full speed.
Three steps, once
1. Install.
Download Fastspoken and follow the four-step setup. No account needed for the free plan.
2. Open Samsung Notes.
Put the cursor where words should go, exactly like you were about to type.
3. Tap and talk.
Tap the bubble, speak like a person. Whole sentences land at the cursor about two seconds after each breath.
This page exists because Notes is the app that breaks other tools. The keyboard-layer architecture is not a workaround, it is the design.
Private in Samsung Notes, by architecture.
Fastspoken works through Android's keyboard layer, so Samsung Notes just receives typed text, exactly as if you had used the keyboard. On the free plan your speech becomes text on the phone itself: offline, no account, and your words never touch a server. See the whole machine.
No server in the loop on the free plan.
Questions about Samsung Notes
Why do other dictation apps fail in Samsung Notes?
The note body opts out of accessibility injection, so tools that type via accessibility can't reach it. Keyboard input still works, and that is the layer Fastspoken uses.
Does it work in checklists and titles?
Anywhere Notes shows a cursor. Title, body, checklist items, all normal text fields to a keyboard.