Google on Monday released an offline-first dictation app called “Google AI Edge Eloquent” on iOS. This app is free to download, and once its Gemma-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are downloaded, users can use it to dictate things on their phones. The app allows users to see a live transcript and on hitting pause, it filters out filler words like “um” and “ah” and polishes the text.
Below the transcript are options like “Key points,” “Formal,” “Short,” and “Long” to transform the text. Users can also turn off cloud mode and use local-only processing if they want. The Google AI Edge Eloquent can import certain keywords, names, and jargon from Gmail. Users can also add their own custom words.
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“Google AI Edge Eloquent is an advanced dictation app engineered to bridge the gap between natural speech and professional, ready-to-use text. Unlike standard dictation software that transcribes stumbles and filler words verbatim, Eloquent utilizes AI to capture your intended meaning. It automatically edits out ‘ums,’ ‘uhs,’ and mid-sentence self-corrections, outputting clean, accurate prose,” the company’s App Store description reads.
This app will be in direct competition with Wispr Flow, SuperWhisper, Willow, and others. While it is currently only available on iOS, the app store description references an Android version. According to the description, Eloquent offers “seamless Android integration,” where it can be set as users’ default keyboard for system-wide access across any text field. The app will also use the floating button feature for Android used by other apps like Wispr Flow.
The official site for Google AI Edge Eloquent is hosted on Google’s google.dev domain name, suggesting that this app is very much a work-in-progress. On its platform, Google also said it’s “evaluating other platforms,” including a desktop version.
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While dictation apps have been around for a long time, AI-powered dictation apps have really taken off recently. Advances in large language models (LLMs) and speech-to-text models have helped improve the systems that can decipher speech better while retaining the context to format the text. Developers have built in features to automatically format text, remove filler words, and ignore fumbles to output text that would need fewer edits.
Google releasing an AI dictation app is especially notable considering t’s a fairly simple AI use case when compared to everything else Google is doing in the space. It indicates the growing prominence of AI dictation apps.