# A voice keyboard with no keys to learn

> Keyspoken. Markdown copy of https://keyspoken.com/voice-to-text-keyboard. Publisher: Kymata Labs LLC. Last updated: 2026-11-12.

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.

Source: https://keyspoken.com/voice-to-text-keyboard

### Why dictation apps are keyboards

On iPhone, the only way an app can put text into another app is to be a keyboard. That is why every voice typing app you find is, technically, a keyboard you add in Settings.

Most of them go further and ship a full keyboard of their own: letters, numbers, autocorrect, all rebuilt so one microphone button has somewhere to live.

### Two kinds of voice keyboard

- A replacement keyboard gives you its own letters and a dictation button. You get voice typing, and a different keyboard with it.
- A dictation strip, which is what Keyspoken is, has no letter keys at all. It appears when you want to talk and hands you back when you are done.

### How you use it

- Touch and hold the globe key and choose Keyspoken.
- Talk. It is already listening.
- Pause. Your words are inserted and Apple's keyboard returns.

### What the strip has

One large button, plus delete and return. Delete fixes a slip. Return sends the message or starts a new line. Everything else stays on your own keyboard.

### About Full Access

iOS requires Full Access for a keyboard to communicate with its own app, which is where the microphone and the speech model live. Keyspoken uses it only for that. The keyboard makes no network requests.

### Questions

**Is Keyspoken an AI voice keyboard?**
It uses an AI speech recognition model to turn your voice into text, and it runs that model on your iPhone. It does not use a chatbot to rewrite or rephrase what you said.

**Is Keyspoken a Whisper keyboard?**
No. Keyspoken does not use OpenAI's Whisper. It runs NVIDIA's open Parakeet TDT models on the device.

**Do I lose my normal keyboard?**
No. Keyspoken has no letter keys and does not replace your keyboard. You switch to it to dictate and it switches you back.