Looking For A Free Speech-to-Text Tool? Google's New AI App Could Be The Answer

Looking for a Free Speech-to-Text Tool? Google’s New AI App Could Be the Answer

Last updated: 2026/04/07 at 8:36 AM

News Room Published 7 April 2026

Google has launched a new AI dictation app that provides polished speech-to-text transcriptions for free.

At launch, the Google AI Edge Eloquent app supports dictations in English and is available on the Apple App Store for users everywhere except the UK, Switzerland, and the European Economic Area (EEA), where it is still awaiting regulatory approval.

According to the App Store description, Edge Eloquent is powered by Google’s Gemma models, the lightweight versions of Gemini’s tech. It captures the intended meaning of your speech and edits out “ums,” “ahs,” and other mid-sentence mistakes you make to provide a polished draft.

While some advanced features may require cloud support, all other “machine learning processing runs entirely locally on your iOS device,” Google says. “Your audio, confidential conversations, and personal data never leave your device.”

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When you launch Edge Eloquent for the first time, the app downloads the AI models it needs, and after that, you can just tap the mic button on the home page (Record tab) to start dictating. With your permission, the app will record everything you say and display a live transcription as you speak.

You can tap the pause button to think before proceeding and tap the stop button to receive a polished draft.

Live transcription on the Google AI Edge Eloquent App

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At this stage, you can tap the copy button next to “Cleaned up text” to copy the version to your clipboard, and use the pencil icon to edit or modify the output. You’ll see usage stats, such as the number of words and the words per minute, from your last dictation at the top of the home page. You can also access your past dictations from the History tab.

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Home page of Google's AI Edge Eloquent App

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To improve the app’s accuracy for your speeches, you can connect it to your Gmail account or manually add names and jargon you regularly use in the Dictionaries tab. One of the best things about the app is that it “operates entirely free of charge with no usage limits.” Google, however, hasn’t revealed anything about an Android rollout.

An option to connect your Gmail account to Google's AI Edge Eloquent App

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Speech-to-text is available on most word-processing and note-taking tools, including Microsoft Word and Apple Pages. Google’s AI-powered Edge Eloquent comes after OpenAI launched a similar tool, named Whisper, in 2022. Critics have notably questioned the accuracy and safety of such AI tools.