Fact · Dictation software
Google says you can choose to donate snippets of your speech to improve its speech models.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“you can also choose to donate snippets of your speech to improve speech models”
Learn how Gboard gets better, Google, Google Gboard Help, 2026, Conventional learning.
Open the original- What it measures
- Google's Gboard Help page on how Gboard gets better, describing its two learning methods.
- What it does not show
- Donating snippets is opt-in. Federated learning is on by default, but it does not send the text you speak or type to Google.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as Gboard: speech snippets: 1 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- Gboard
- Feature
- Recordings can train the maker's models
- Detail
- Opt-in speech snippets
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 1 means the maker's page says the app does this