Questions and answers

Because you already have a good one. Dictation apps that replace your keyboard change the layout your thumbs know. Keyspoken only does the part Apple's keyboard can't: it turns what you say into text, then hands you straight back.

It is what you see instead of a keyboard: one large button, plus delete and return. It appears when you switch to Keyspoken and leaves when your words are in.

The strip starts listening as it opens, stops when you pause, inserts your words and returns you to your own keyboard. You can do a whole dictation without tapping the strip once.

Touch and hold the globe key on your keyboard and choose Keyspoken. When you pause, your words are inserted and your own keyboard returns.

Tap Undo within a couple of seconds and the whole dictation is removed. You can also teach it names and terms it mishears with custom vocabulary.

Anywhere iOS lets you choose a keyboard: messages, mail, notes, search bars, documents. iOS does not allow custom keyboards in password fields.

iOS shows it whenever an app has the microphone ready. Keyspoken keeps the mic ready for a few minutes after you dictate so the next one starts at once. You can put it to sleep at any time.

English uses Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 and is the default. Multilingual uses Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 and covers 25 European languages. Ultra is Parakeet v3 trained further by moondream for fewer errors in those same 25 languages. It is in testing and is not in the app yet. All three are open models that run on your iPhone.

If you only dictate in English, keep English. If you switch between languages, download Multilingual. You can change at any time in the app, and one model is active at a time.

The English model is about 440 MB. The app tells you the size and asks before it downloads, and you can limit it to Wi-Fi.

No. Audio is transcribed on the device and then discarded. There is no account, no analytics and no cloud transcription. The only download is the speech model itself.

iOS requires Full Access for a keyboard to talk to its own app, which is where the microphone and the model live. Keyspoken makes no network requests from the keyboard. Delete and return work without it.

Yes. Once the model is downloaded, dictation works in airplane mode.

Kymata Labs LLC, a technology studio in Washington state. You can reach a person at contact@kymatalabs.com.

Yes. Keyspoken types what you say at the cursor, in any app on your iPhone where a keyboard appears. It runs the speech model on the phone and does not replace your keyboard.

Keyspoken will be free, with no subscription, no word limit and no account. It is in final testing and is not on the App Store yet.

No. Keyspoken is built for iPhone.

No. It does not use OpenAI's Whisper. It runs NVIDIA's open Parakeet TDT models on the device.

Not with Keyspoken. Transcription happens on the iPhone, so it uses no mobile data. The only download is the speech model, once, at setup.

Yes. It works in Messages, Mail and any other app where a keyboard appears. iOS does not allow custom keyboards in password fields.