Untapped questions

What is Untapped?

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, and your audio is never uploaded.

Does Untapped send my voice to the cloud?

No. Untapped records your voice into the phone's memory, turns it into text with the speech model stored on the phone, and discards the audio when the dictation ends. It never saves the audio as a file and has no code that uploads it. There is no account, no analytics and no ads.

Does Untapped need the internet?

Only to fetch speech models and the model list. A model downloads when you accept it, and on a metered connection the app asks first. When you open the Models screen, it may also refresh the list of models. Once a model is on your phone, dictation works with no connection at all, even in airplane mode.

How big is the speech model download?

Each model is a one-time download, and the app shows its size before you start. The smallest, English-only streaming model is about 41 MB. The multilingual Parakeet model the app recommends is about 639 MB, and the English Parakeet model about 630 MB. You can delete a model at any time to free the space.

Which languages does Untapped understand?

The recommended Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 model understands 25 European languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian, and you can pin one of them in the app. The other three models are English only. Languages outside that list, such as Hindi, Chinese, Japanese or Arabic, are not supported.

The full list: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Russian and Ukrainian.

Do words appear while I speak?

With the streaming English models, yes: words appear while you speak. The Parakeet models type the text after you stop. They add capitals and punctuation, while the streaming models write in capital letters without punctuation. Either way, a waveform shows the mic is listening and a countdown shows when the dictation will end.

Does Untapped work in password fields?

No. In password fields the mic is off and the keyboard says “Dictation is off in password fields. Switch keyboards to type here.” In fields where an app asks keyboards not to learn, such as an incognito browser tab, dictation works but nothing is saved to your history.

Can I type letters with the Untapped keyboard?

No. Untapped is a dictation keyboard: it has a mic, space, Enter, backspace and a key that hides the keyboard, but no letter keys. Its switch key takes you back to your previous keyboard, and a long press opens Android's keyboard picker. Keep your usual keyboard installed for typing.

Where are my dictations saved, and can I delete them?

If saving is on, which is the default, each finished dictation is kept in a private list on your phone with its time, length and the model used. You can copy or delete one entry, delete everything, or turn saving off in Settings. The list is not synced or backed up, and uninstalling Untapped deletes it.

When does Untapped stop listening?

Untapped listens only after you tap the mic. It stops when you tap stop or cancel, or after a pause, 0.8 seconds by default, which you can set between 0.3 and 2 seconds or turn off. A single dictation also ends after 60 seconds, and the text so far is typed in.

Which phones does Untapped run on?

Untapped runs on 64-bit Android phones with Android 8.0 or later. The large Parakeet models need a lot of memory: on a Pixel 9 Pro XL the multilingual model used about 1.6 GB while transcribing. On a phone with less memory, the smaller streaming model is the lighter choice.

What does Untapped do with my data?

Untapped has no account, ads or analytics, and we receive nothing from it. Audio stays in memory on your phone. Dictation history, if you keep it, stays in the app's private storage and is excluded from backup and transfer. The internet is used only to fetch speech models and the model list. The full policy is on our privacy page.