Google on Monday quietly launched an offline dictation app called “Google AI Edge Eloquent” on iOS to undertake Wispr Flow formulas, SuperWhisperWillow and others.
The app is free to download, and once the Gemma-based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models are downloaded, you can start dictating on your phone. In the app, you can see the live transcript and when you hit pause, the app automatically filters out filler words like “um” and “ah” and glosses over the text.
Below the transcription there are options like “Key Points”, “Standard”, “Short” and “Long” to convert the text.
You can also turn off cloud mode to use local editing only. (When cloud mode is enabled, the app uses cloud-based Gemini models to clean text.) Google AI Edge Eloquent can import some keywords, names, and terminology from your Gmail account if you want. Additionally, you can add your own custom words to the list.
The app displays the transcript session history and also allows you to search through all of them. It can show you words dictated in the last session, words per minute rate and total number of words spoken.
“Google AI Edge Eloquent is an advanced dictation app designed to bridge the gap between natural speech and professional, ready-to-use text. Unlike typical dictation software that transcribes stumbling verbatim and fills in words, Eloquent uses artificial intelligence to capture the meaning you’re aiming for. It automatically processes “ums,” “mid-correction, unh-curement, unhs, liquidation,” prose,” reads the company’s App Store description.
While the app is currently only available on iOS, the App Store description mentions an Android version. (We’ve reached out to Google for more information and will update the story if we hear back.)
According to the description, Eloquent offers “seamless Android integration”, where it can be set as users’ default keyboard for system-wide access to any text field. Additionally, the app will be able to use the hover button feature, similar to what Wispr Flow uses on Android, for easy access to the transcript from anywhere.
AI transcription apps are gaining popularity among users as speech-to-text models improve. With this experimental application, Google joins the trend. If this test is successful, we could see improved transcription features on Android as well.
