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Polished Recognition

Voice input for any keyboard — transcribe with your own API endpoints
Polished Recognition is a voice keyboard powered by your own AI. Switch to it, speak, and polished text lands in whatever app you are typing in — transcribed by the speech provider you choose, refined by the language model you choose, with a prompt you write.

Switch to the Polished keyboard and recording starts instantly. Pause and resume mid-sentence, switch to your typing keyboard and back without losing dictation, then tap send: audio goes to your STT provider, the LLM polishes the text — fixing filler words and punctuation, restructuring, or translating to another language — and flawless text is typed into the field. Raw mode skips the LLM entirely and inserts the plain transcription; Polish only refines without translating.

Bring your own provider. 18 presets (OpenAI, GROQ, OpenRouter, Google AI, DeepSeek, xAI, Mistral, local Ollama/LM Studio, …) or any custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint. GROQ's free tier covers a complete STT-plus-polish pipeline at zero cost. The system prompt is fully editable, with variables for source and target language; searchable model pickers with per-provider caching handle hundreds of models.

Gboard will never use this. Gboard's microphone is hardcoded to Google's voice typing and cannot be redirected to any third-party voice input. Use a keyboard that delegates its mic: the AOSP keyboard (LineageOS and derivatives), HeliBoard (F-Droid only), Fossify Keyboard, or OpenBoard.

Privacy-first: No analytics, no tracking, no proprietary SDKs, no account, no central server. All data flows directly between your device and your chosen endpoints — or nowhere at all, if you run Ollama locally.

Permissions:
• RECORD_AUDIO — required to capture microphone input
• INTERNET — required to send audio to your configured STT/LLM endpoints
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Versions

Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.

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  • Version 1.3.3 (10303) suggested Added on Sep 26, 2026

    This version requires Android 11 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • run foreground service
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
    • run foreground service with the type "microphone"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "microphone"
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • record audio
      This app can record audio using the microphone while the app is in use.
    • com.georgernstgraf.polishedrecognition.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 1.4 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • Version 1.3.1 (10301) - Added on Sep 22, 2026

    This version requires Android 11 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • run foreground service
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
    • run foreground service with the type "microphone"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "microphone"
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • record audio
      This app can record audio using the microphone while the app is in use.
    • com.georgernstgraf.polishedrecognition.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 1.4 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • Version 1.2.4 (10204) - Added on Sep 21, 2026

    This version requires Android 11 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • run foreground service
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
    • run foreground service with the type "microphone"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "microphone"
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • record audio
      This app can record audio using the microphone while the app is in use.
    • com.georgernstgraf.polishedrecognition.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 1.4 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

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