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### FUTO Voice Input Speech-to-Text Android Keyboard
(Open Source, not FOSS)

Did you know Google's voice to text app records and saves everything you say into it . . . forever? Yikes! No thanks.

Fear no more. Louis Rossman, and the FUTO organization he works for, have finally released their voice recognition app for Android phones.

The app is called Voice Input. It is based on OpenAI Whisper, which is really good. This means it does capitalization, punctuation, & works better than Google's offline version

This is the solution we've been waiting for! No Internet access needed. It's all done locally on your phone

The Voice Input app is open-source, but it's not FOSS, and has a very, very limiting license

Here is ๐Ÿ‘‰ [the FUTO F-Droid repo](https://app.futo.org/fdroid/repo/).

You can download the app directly from the [FUTO company website](https://voiceinput.futo.org).

Learn more about the app in
this ๐Ÿ‘‰ [video](https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/this-gives-google-less-access-to-your:1)

Here is the ๐Ÿ‘‰ [FUTO Voice Input source code](https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput). (They run their own GitLab server . . ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ’ช)

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rod โœช · 79w
this app does not hace trackers which is good but it does require permission to view network connections, have full network access... Blind trust by users is required. It is FOSS which is good, but that is not a perfect shield for bad actors
spektrum · 3w
> thanks for sharing *FT! google board keyboard does know EVERYTHING u input..! dropped gboard for Futo while back... users accept an adjustment period with Futo (easy, but some patience required) โ€” voice to txt records yr voice first in a block, before converting to txt, but very accurate. HIGH...