Google has quietly entered the fast-growing AI dictation space with a new iPhone app called Google AI Edge Eloquent, designed for people who want speech-to-text that reads like polished writing, not a raw transcript. It’s an offline-first dictation app that aims to compete with newer transcription tools that focus on speed, accuracy, and clean output.
Google AI Edge Eloquent is free to download on iOS. After you install it, you’ll be prompted to download its on-device automatic speech recognition models based on Gemma. Once those models are on your phone, you can start dictating right away. As you speak, the app shows a live transcription so you can follow along in real time.
Where Eloquent tries to stand out is what happens when you pause. Instead of leaving in verbal clutter, it automatically removes filler words like “um” and “ah,” and it smooths the result into more readable text. Under the transcript, you’ll also find quick transformation options such as Key points, Formal, Short, and Long, making it easy to reshape the same dictation into different writing styles depending on whether you’re drafting notes, an email, or a longer document.
A major focus here is privacy and local performance. You can turn off cloud mode to keep processing local-only. If cloud mode is enabled, the app uses cloud-based Gemini models to help clean up and refine the text. For people who dictate specialized terms, Eloquent also supports custom vocabulary: it can import certain keywords, names, and jargon from your Gmail account if you choose, and you can add your own custom words as well.
The app doesn’t just transcribe in the moment—it also keeps a searchable history of past dictation sessions. It can show details such as the words dictated in your last session, your words-per-minute speed, and the total number of words spoken, which could appeal to users who rely on dictation daily and want to track productivity.
In its App Store description, Google positions Eloquent as an “advanced dictation app” that captures your intended meaning rather than your exact hesitations. The idea is simple: you talk naturally, and the app outputs clean, ready-to-use prose by removing filler sounds and mid-sentence self-corrections.
For now, Google AI Edge Eloquent is available on iOS. Earlier references in the app listing suggested an Android version and described features like deeper Android integration, including the ability to set it as a default keyboard for dictation across any text field and a floating button for quick access to transcription anywhere. However, as of an update on April 7 at 10:30 PM PT, the app’s listing was revised to remove references to the Android app, while adding that an iOS keyboard is coming soon.
AI-powered transcription apps have been surging in popularity as speech recognition improves and users look for faster ways to write. With this experimental release, Google is signaling that it wants a place in that movement—especially with an approach that prioritizes offline use, customizable vocabulary, and text cleanup that sounds more human than a verbatim transcript. If the experiment goes well, it could also hint at more advanced dictation and transcription features arriving across Google’s wider ecosystem in the future.
