Fact · Dictation in your apps
Chromium's developer documentation says the SODA component of ChromeOS Dictation turns speech into text on the device, without sending it to a Google server.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“SODA stands for “speech on-device API” and turns the user’s speech into text on-device (without sending it to a Google server).”
ChromeOS Dictation (Chromium developer documentation), Chromium Project (Google), undated, Summary, Technical overview.
Open the original- What it measures
- The document names two downloadable components for Dictation, Pumpkin and SODA. Pumpkin interprets recognized text as commands; SODA does the speech recognition.
- What it does not show
- The document describes design. It does not say which languages have SODA on a given Chromebook, and it names a network fallback for when SODA is unavailable.