Voxscribe - Offline Voice Input
2026-09-29
- double tap the empty part of the panel to start a new line (in multi-line text fields)
- new setting to switch off the swipe and double tap gestures
- added German and Estonian translations
Voxscribe is free software. It is published under the MIT open-source license. Voxscribe uses whisper.cpp for on-device transcription, which is also free software published under the MIT license.
SETUP
Voxscribe does not ship a speech model. You download one yourself and point the app at it.
- Download a Whisper model file in GGML format from the Hugging Face repository ggerganov/whisper.cpp: https://huggingface.co/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/main
Recommended files:- ggml-base-q5_1.bin (~60 MB), the recommended default
- ggml-small-q5_1.bin (~190 MB), better quality but slower
- ggml-tiny-q5_1.bin (~32 MB), for older or weak devices
Use a multilingual model only. The .en (English-only) variants break both language modes. - Open Voxscribe, tap "Model file", and pick the file you downloaded.
- Under "Setup", tap "Enable Voxscribe keyboard" and turn Voxscribe on in the system keyboard settings.
- Under "Setup", tap "Microphone permission" and allow recording. You can also grant it the first time you hold the mic button.
- In any text field, switch to Voxscribe with the keyboard's mic button or the system input-method switcher, then hold the mic button to record and release to insert the transcript.
FEATURES
- Offline, on-device transcription, so nothing leaves your phone
- Push-to-talk: hold to record, release to transcribe
- Two favourite languages to switch between on the panel, or automatic language detection
- Light and dark themes, plus Material You dynamic colors
A WORD ON PRIVACY
Voxscribe works entirely on your device. Your speech is recorded while you hold the mic button, transcribed locally by whisper.cpp. There is no web service behind Voxscribe. The Whisper model stays wherever you saved it. The only permission Voxscribe requests is microphone access, needed to record your voice. Voxscribe does not hold the INTERNET permission. It cannot transmit data.
- Author: y20k
- License: MIT License
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2026-09-09
- Voxscribe can be selected from the keyboard switcher again
- smaller download and install size
- updated the speech recognition engine to whisper.cpp 1.9.3
2026-09-02
- added a space key to the input panel
- hold the space key to insert a comma, period, question mark or exclamation mark
- swipe sideways across the empty part of the panel to move the cursor
- Voxscribe now shows up on the mic key of keyboards that have one
- refreshed the launcher icon