By @CNET
Publication Date: 2026-04-07 17:16:00
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…