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Dictate Keyboard is an Android keyboard built for speaking. Tap the microphone, talk, and your words appear as text, transcribed by the AI service of your choice, by Dictate Cloud, or entirely on your phone. Underneath it is a complete keyboard with word suggestions, glide typing, clipboard history, emoji and an offline translator.
This wiki explains every feature and every setting, with screenshots. You can open it from the app at any time: Settings → Help.
- New to Dictate? Getting started walks you through the setup and your first dictation.
- Something doesn't work? FAQ & troubleshooting lists the common problems and every error message.
- Looking for one setting? Use the magnifier at the top of Dictate's settings, or the sidebar of this wiki.
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Dictation basics | Recording, the recording bar, messages, and the recording and output settings |
| Transcription providers | Choosing a service, API keys, a fallback, network settings |
| On-device transcription | Speech recognition on your phone, without internet |
| Dictate Cloud | Prepaid dictation minutes, no account and no API key |
| Dictation languages | Which languages are expected, and pinning one |
| Realtime & live preview | Text appearing while you speak |
| Long-form dictation | Long recordings, sent in pieces |
| Rewording & prompts | Letting AI fix, shorten, translate or reformat your text |
| Custom words & mappings | Names and terms, and automatic replacements |
| Floating button | Dictating into any app, with any keyboard |
| Voice input for other apps | Dictate as the voice input of other keyboards and apps |
| Transcribe files | Turning voice messages and recordings into text |
| History & statistics | Your past dictations, and the time you saved |
| Wear OS | Dictating on your watch |
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Layouts & languages | Adding languages and keyboard layouts |
| Keyboard size & layout | Height, one-handed, floating and split keyboard, number row |
| Typing & suggestions | Suggestions, autocorrect, learning words, dictionaries |
| Glide typing & gestures | Sliding through letters, swipes, the space-bar trackpad |
| Smartbar & actions | The bar above the keys and its buttons |
| Clipboard | Clipboard suggestions, history and pins |
| Emoji, GIFs & stickers | Emoji panel and suggestions, GIF search, your own stickers |
| Translation bar | Translating as you type, offline |
| Utilities | Text editing panel, calculator, scan text, incognito |
| Themes, sounds & vibration | Look, sound and feel of the keyboard |
| Physical keyboard | Using Dictate with a hardware keyboard |
Backup, privacy & other settings: the settings app itself, backups, where your audio and text go, and what the app stores.
- Questions, bugs, ideas: Settings → About → Feedback & support sends an e-mail to the developer. Bugs and feature requests can also go to GitHub Issues, questions to GitHub Discussions.
- When you report a problem, mention the version (Settings → About → Version, tap to copy it) and, for an error, the text you see when you tap the message.
Dictate Keyboard is open source under the Apache License 2.0 and based on FlorisBoard.