#Google has entered the growing
#AItranscription space with a new app called
#GoogleAIEdgeEloquent, and its biggest feature might be what it doesn’t need: an internet connection.
Launched on
#iOS, the app focuses on offline-first speech-to-text, allowing users to dictate naturally and get polished, ready-to-use text in seconds.
Once downloaded, the app uses on-device AI models to process speech locally. These models are based on Google’s
#Gemma-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) system.
On the app, you get live transcription as you speak, and it automatically removes filler words like “um” and “ah”. Unlike traditional dictation tools that capture every stumble, Eloquent aims to interpret what you meant to say, not just what you said.
There’s also smart editing that cleans up sentences in real time, but after our test,it isn’t highly accurate; the tool had trouble differentiating between “talk” and “dock”.
Beyond transcription, the app includes built-in tools to transform your...