Voice keyboard for Android

Tap the mic. It types.

A voice keyboard for Android that turns your speech into text on the phone. Your audio is never uploaded, and once a speech model is downloaded, dictation works with no connection.

Free. No account, no ads, no in-app purchases.

The Untapped keyboard recording in a messaging app: live text in capitals above an orange stop button, with the elapsed time. — Night edition: words appear while you speak with a streaming English model.

Untapped is a voice keyboard for Android by Sonicon Software. In any app where you can type, you switch to it, tap the mic and speak, and your words are typed in. A speech model you download once turns your voice into text on the phone, so your audio is never uploaded. It has no account, no ads and no tracking.

Your voice stays on your phone

Untapped is a keyboard you speak into. Switch to it in any text field, tap the mic and talk; your words are typed in. The speech model runs on your phone, so your audio is never uploaded, and once a model is downloaded dictation works with no connection. No account, no ads, no tracking.

Speech recognition: On this phone
Audio: Held in memory, never uploaded
Internet: Speech models and the model list only
Account: None
Ads and analytics: None
Phones: 64-bit Android phones with Android 8.0 or later

Pick a model

You pick one of four open speech models, each a one-time download. The recommended Parakeet model understands 25 European languages and types after you stop. The streaming English models are much smaller and show words while you speak. The app shows each model's size, languages and licence before you download it.

The four speech models
Model	In the app	Languages	Download	Live text	Licence
Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 (int8)	Recommended, 25 languages	25 European	about 639 MB	No, types after you stop	CC-BY-4.0
Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 (int8)	Text after you pause	English	about 630 MB	No, types after you stop	CC-BY-4.0
Streaming Zipformer EN 20M (fp32)	Live text as you speak	English	about 87 MB	Yes	Apache-2.0
Streaming Zipformer EN 20M (int8)	Smallest, live text as you speak	English	about 41 MB	Yes	Apache-2.0

Sizes as the app shows them. The streaming English models write in capital letters without punctuation; the Parakeet models add capitals and punctuation.

Three steps to start

Turn on the keyboard
Turn on the Untapped keyboard. The app opens the right Android settings page and shows when it's on.
Allow the microphone
Untapped listens only while you dictate.
Download a model
The size is shown first, and on mobile data the app asks before it starts. You can skip this and come back later.

Your history, your call

Finished dictations are saved in a private list on your phone so you can copy them again. Delete one, delete all, or untick Save dictations and nothing is written. Dictations in password fields and in fields that ask keyboards not to learn, such as incognito tabs, are never saved.

What Untapped is not

Not a full keyboard: it has no letter keys, and its switch key takes you back to the keyboard you type with.
Not a cloud service: no account, no server.
It doesn't transcribe audio files or record meetings.

Privacy in one paragraph

Untapped has no account, ads or analytics, and we receive nothing from it. Your audio stays in the phone's memory and is discarded after each dictation. Saved dictations stay in the app's private storage, left out of backup and phone-to-phone transfer. The internet is used only to fetch speech models and the model list. Read the privacy policy.