Fact · Dictation on phones and tablets
Google said in 2019 that its new on-device speech recognizer is always available, even when the phone is offline.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“the new recognizer is always available, even when you are offline.”
An All-Neural On-Device Speech Recognizer, Johan Schalkwyk, Google Research Blog, 2019, Post body.
Open the original- What it measures
- Google's March 2019 research post about an all-neural recognizer that runs on the phone, which it said would power speech input in Gboard.
- What it does not show
- A 2019 claim about the first on-device model. Google's post does not list the languages or phones that supported it at that time.