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The Recorder app on Pixel sees a 24% boost in engagement with Gemini Nano-powered feature
Terence Zhang and Kristi Bradford, Android Developers Blog (Google), 2024
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- A 27 August 2024 post by two Google engineers who built the audio summary feature of Pixel's Recorder app. It explains that the summaries run on the phone with Gemini Nano and that a later model was used on Pixel 9 devices.
- How much weight it carries
- Written by the team that built the feature, so it describes Google's own design choices. It is a vendor blog from 2024, with no current device list, language list or limits, so it does not show what Pixel Recorder does today.
Facts taken from this source
- In August 2024, Google said it used Gemini Nano with multimodality to further improve the Recorder app's summarization feature on Pixel 9 devices.
“to further improve its summarization feature on Pixel 9 devices” (Section: The next big evolution)
- In August 2024, Google said that Pixel Recorder's audio summaries use Gemini Nano and keep data processing on the device.
“all while keeping data processing on the device” (Section: Meeting user needs with on-device AI)