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Google's Play Store listing for Speech Recognition & Synthesis says its speech-to-text feature is provided to Google and to other third-party apps, so they can convert what you say to text.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Speech Recognition provides speech-to-text functionality to Google and other third party apps to convert what you say to text.”
Speech Recognition & Synthesis - Apps on Google Play, Google LLC, Google Play, n.d., About this app.
Open the original- What it measures
- The store description for com.google.android.tts. The listing gives Google Maps voice search and the Recorder app's transcription as examples of apps that use it.
- What it does not show
- This describes what the app is for. It does not say whether a given keyboard or app uses this engine, and the listing does not describe how the recognition is run (on the device or on Google's servers).