Fact · Dictation on phones and tablets
WhisperType downloads its Whisper speech models from Hugging Face when you choose Download, and it can instead use a model file you import, which works offline.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Whisper models download on demand from Hugging Face when the user chooses Download; Import works offline.”
WhisperType Keyboard (F-Droid package listing), WhisperType project, F-Droid, n.d., Setup and model notes.
Open the original- What it measures
- The model choices named in the listing are tiny.en, base.en (the default) and small.en. The download is the only step that needs a connection.
- What it does not show
- The first setup needs an internet connection to download a model. After that, dictation runs on the phone according to the listing.