Google’s new Google AI Edge Eloquent app, released Monday, is an AI dictation app that works offline. It offers a handful of advanced features that can turn your halting words into usable text with virtually no editing required.
Google is working to fix an issue that’s improved in recent years but still persists: inaccurate or inarticulate or voice-to-text dictation. Sometimes that’s because the app didn’t translate what was said correctly, and sometimes it’s because the person speaking hesitated and rambled, cluttering the text with pauses and filler words, such as “um” and “ah.”
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To use the new app, you can tap a button, talk into the mic and watch the text appear on your screen. When you’re done, Google’s on-device Gemma models will automatically polish your text.
The App Store’s description says all of your ums, uhs, and mid-sentence self-corrections will be edited out, and you’ll be left with clean text that you can further customize afterward.
AI Edge Eloquent can work completely offline, so everything stays on-device. You can connect the app to your Google account so it can build a dictionary based on your Gmail data, or connect it to the cloud for more enhanced text polishing via Gemini.
Google AI Edge Eloquent can create a dictionary from your previously edited words or your own Gmail account if you choose to connect it.
Google/Screenshot by Blake StimacThe app has a simple layout, with a menu of icons lining the bottom indicating Record, History, Dictionaries and Settings. You can manually add words to the dictionary section, and the app will automatically add words that you’ve made edits to if there’s a spelling mistake — for example, if the app spells a name incorrectly.
The app doesn’t require a subscription.
Google already has voice-to-text capabilities in many of its products, but those looking for a standalone option that’s free to use and will polish your text may have a good option here.
The app isn’t yet available for Android users, but the Apple App Store description promises ‘seamless Android integration.”
A representative for Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
