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American Englishlanguage
In 2019 Google said its new on-device Gboard speech recognizer was initially launched to all Pixel phones in American English only.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Our new all-neural, on-device Gboard speech recognizer is initially being launched to all Pixel phones in American English only.”
An All-Neural On-Device Speech Recognizer, Johan Schalkwyk, Google Research Blog, 2019, Final paragraphs on compression and launch.
Open the original- What it measures
- Google's 2019 research post describing an all-neural speech recognizer that runs on the phone for Gboard voice input.
- What it does not show
- This describes the 2019 launch only. The post does not say which languages or phones have offline recognition today, so check current settings on your own phone.