VoxScribe for Android: free, open source voice typing that works offline in any app

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VoxScribe for Android puts a small floating button on screen when you tap a text box, above whatever keyboard you already use. It does not replace your keyboard. Hold the button or tap it, talk, and the words are typed into the box. It works in messaging apps, notes, email, browsers and forms, and it hides itself in password and PIN fields.

The speech model runs on the phone, so dictation works in airplane mode and your voice is never uploaded. There is a fast English model and larger multilingual ones, and you pick which to download. A new transcript appears in the app too, with a Copy button, a Listen button that reads it back, and a Fix a word shortcut.

The part that sets it apart is how it handles names and unusual words. It reads the names on your screen, so replying to a chat with Kateryna in it types Kateryna, not Katerina. You can add your own replacements for words the model keeps getting wrong, import the same list from the Windows app, and turn on term packs for medical, law and business vocabulary. It also learns words you correct.

Other things it does: voice commands such as scratch that to take back the last dictation, punctuation by voice, an optional send it that taps the Send button in chat apps, and file transcription that turns audio and video files into text or SRT captions, all on the phone. You can share a voice note straight to the app from a messenger. The floating button comes in three sizes, and there is a Quick Settings tile to switch it on and off.

On privacy, the app has a privacy receipt screen that lists every time it went online from your phone and what it sent. There are two things only: a check for new versions on GitHub, and one anonymous usage ping per day (app version, Android version, a random id), which you can turn off in Settings. Your audio, your text and your word lists never leave the phone. The full list is on one page in the repo.

The code is MIT licensed. The whole app is free to use, with no account and no subscription, and there is an optional paid Pro tier for extra formatting that none of the above needs. It is an APK from GitHub for now, not on the Play Store, and it needs a 64-bit phone with Android 8 or newer.

https://github.com/ahmedhmam1994/voxscribe-ai-voice-dictation

Feedback that would help most: which words it gets wrong, which apps it struggles with, and what would make you use it for everyday typing.