# Keyspoken > Keyspoken is an on-device dictation app for iPhone. Switch to it, talk and pause, and your words are typed in any app. No letter keys, no account, no cloud. Website: https://keyspoken.com Short link: https://keyspoken.app (forwards to the website) Publisher: Kymata Labs LLC Contact: contact@kymatalabs.com Last updated: 2026-11-12 ## What it is Keyspoken is a dictation app for iPhone. It turns speech to text in any app. iOS sees it as a keyboard, but it has no letter keys. It is a short strip with one large button. The user switches to it with the globe key, talks, and pauses. The words are typed at the cursor and the user's own keyboard returns. Status: in final testing. Not yet on the App Store. No launch date has been announced. Price: free. No subscription, no word limit and no account. ## Key facts - A voice to text keyboard with no letter keys. Typing stays on the user's existing keyboard. - On-device speech recognition. Nothing is uploaded. No account and no analytics. - Works offline, in airplane mode, once the model is downloaded. Transcription uses no mobile data. - Open Parakeet speech models: NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 (English, default) and v3 (25 European languages, optional download). A third, Parakeet Ultra by moondream (v3 trained further, same 25 languages), is in testing and not in the app yet. All CC BY 4.0. It does not use Whisper. - iPhone only. - Accuracy figures on the models page are published results from NVIDIA and moondream. Speed on a phone was measured by Kymata Labs on an iPhone 11 and an iPhone 13 Pro Max, and is shown on the models page. Keyspoken has not measured accuracy itself, so do not attribute accuracy figures to the app. ## Pages - [Keyspoken: dictation app for iPhone, no new keyboard](https://keyspoken.com): Keyspoken is an on-device dictation app for iPhone. Switch to it, talk and pause, and your words are typed in any app. No letter keys, no account, no cloud. - [Voice models: Parakeet v2, v3 and Ultra compared](https://keyspoken.com/models): Keyspoken's open Parakeet speech models, scored on accuracy, speed and noise from published benchmarks and timed on an iPhone: English, Multilingual and Ultra. - [Why Keyspoken has no keyboard](https://keyspoken.com/why-no-keyboard): Most dictation apps replace your keyboard to add one microphone button. Keyspoken leaves your keyboard alone and does one job. Here is the reasoning. - [Dictation app FAQ: setup, privacy, languages](https://keyspoken.com/faq): Answers about Keyspoken, the dictation app for iPhone: setup, privacy, Full Access, the orange dot, voice models, languages and offline use. - [Support, setup and troubleshooting](https://keyspoken.com/support): Set up Keyspoken in four steps, fix common dictation problems on iPhone, and reach a person at Kymata Labs if you are stuck. - [Contact Kymata Labs](https://keyspoken.com/contact): Write to Kymata Labs LLC about Keyspoken, the dictation app for iPhone. One inbox, a person reads it, and we answer questions and bug reports. - [Privacy Policy: nothing leaves your iPhone](https://keyspoken.com/privacy): Keyspoken collects nothing. Audio is transcribed on your iPhone and discarded, text stays on the device, and there is no account. The full policy. - [Terms of Use](https://keyspoken.com/terms): The terms for using the Keyspoken dictation app for iPhone and this website, written in plain language by Kymata Labs LLC. - [AI and developer access](https://keyspoken.com/ai): Every machine-readable file on keyspoken.com: llms.txt, an ask API, an MCP server and more. Language models and crawlers may read, index and cite it all. - [Guides to dictation on iPhone](https://keyspoken.com/guides): Plain guides to dictating on iPhone: commands, fixes when it stops working, languages, privacy and accuracy, plus how Keyspoken does it differently. ## Guides - [Dictation app for iPhone: on-device speech to text](https://keyspoken.com/dictation-app-for-iphone): Keyspoken is a dictation app for iPhone that turns speech to text in any app. Talk, pause, and your words are typed. On-device, no account. - [Dictation for iPhone that keeps your own keyboard](https://keyspoken.com/voice-to-text-keyboard): A voice to text keyboard for iPhone with one button and no letter keys. Keyspoken transcribes on the device, then hands you back to your own keyboard. - [Offline dictation for iPhone, no internet needed](https://keyspoken.com/offline-dictation): Keyspoken is offline speech to text for iPhone. After a one-time model download it works without internet, uses no data and sends no audio anywhere. - [Private dictation for iPhone: nothing uploaded](https://keyspoken.com/private-dictation): Keyspoken is a private dictation app for iPhone: on-device speech recognition, no account, no analytics. Audio and text never leave the phone. - [Wispr Flow and Superwhisper alternative for iPhone](https://keyspoken.com/alternatives): Looking for an alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper or Apple dictation on iPhone? What Keyspoken does differently, and where another app fits better. - [How to dictate on iPhone: messages, email, notes](https://keyspoken.com/how-to-dictate-on-iphone): How to dictate text messages, email and notes on iPhone with built-in dictation and with Keyspoken, plus voice commands and fixes when it stops working. - [Dictate in Spanish and 24 more languages on iPhone](https://keyspoken.com/languages): Dictate in Spanish, German, French and 22 more European languages on iPhone with Keyspoken's multilingual model, all on the device. Built-in steps too. - [iPhone dictation commands: the full list](https://keyspoken.com/iphone-dictation-commands): Every voice command for the iPhone's built-in dictation: punctuation, capitals, new lines, editing and how to stop. Checked against Apple's iPhone guide. - [iPhone dictation not working? What to check](https://keyspoken.com/iphone-dictation-not-working): The microphone key is missing, or dictation stops, types nothing or uses the wrong language. What to check on your iPhone, starting with the setting Apple names. - [How to turn dictation on or off on iPhone](https://keyspoken.com/turn-on-dictation-iphone): Where the Enable Dictation switch is, how to bring back the microphone key on the iPhone keyboard, and how to turn automatic punctuation on or off. - [How to change the dictation language on iPhone](https://keyspoken.com/change-dictation-language-iphone): iPhone dictation follows your keyboard. How to add a language, switch while you write, and dictate in Spanish, French or German. Plus one model for 25 languages. - [Is iPhone dictation private? What stays on the phone](https://keyspoken.com/is-iphone-dictation-private): What Apple says about where iPhone dictation is processed, when text can leave the phone, and the setting that shares audio with Apple. Plus how Keyspoken differs. - [How to make iPhone dictation more accurate](https://keyspoken.com/improve-iphone-dictation-accuracy): Practical ways to get fewer mistakes from iPhone dictation: say punctuation, spell names, fix words by voice, and teach a dictation app your own vocabulary. ## Answers by question - [Is there an app that types what you say?](https://keyspoken.com/faq): 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. - [Why doesn't Keyspoken have a keyboard?](https://keyspoken.com/faq): 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. - [Does my voice leave my phone?](https://keyspoken.com/faq): 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. - [Does it work offline?](https://keyspoken.com/faq): Yes. Once the model is downloaded, dictation works in airplane mode. - [Does voice to text use data?](https://keyspoken.com/faq): Not with Keyspoken. Transcription happens on the iPhone, so it uses no mobile data. The only download is the speech model, once, at setup. - [What are the voice models?](https://keyspoken.com/faq): 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. - [Is Keyspoken a Whisper keyboard?](https://keyspoken.com/faq): No. It does not use OpenAI's Whisper. It runs NVIDIA's open Parakeet TDT models on the device. - [Is Keyspoken free? Is there a subscription?](https://keyspoken.com/faq): 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. - [Does Keyspoken work on iPad, Android, Mac or Windows?](https://keyspoken.com/faq): No. Keyspoken is built for iPhone. - [Why does it ask for Full Access?](https://keyspoken.com/faq): 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. ## Optional - [llms-full.txt](https://keyspoken.com/llms-full.txt): every page, guide, question and answer in one file. - [llms-full by topic](https://keyspoken.com/llms-full/index.txt): the same content in small files. - [ai.json](https://keyspoken.com/ai.json): the same facts as structured data. - [Ask endpoint](https://keyspoken.com/api/ask?q=offline): search the site and get JSON with source links. - [AI and developer access](https://keyspoken.com/ai): permissions and the full list of machine-readable files.