Kaiboard: Offline Speech2Text

Kai's Soapbox

About this app

Kaiboard is a powerful and fully open-source speech recognition keyboard that gives you the power of OpenAI's Whisper Speech Recognition at your fingertips. With Whisper, you can unlock the power of multilingual speech recognition, speech translation and language identification. Faster, more accurate, and more private voice input, anywhere you are, regardless of internet connection.

Ratings and reviews

It's not perfect, but there's nothing out there that is. It's now my main keyboard app for the past six months or so. My favorite thing about it is that I can pause for as long as I want and then just continue speaking and It works just fine, unlike the Google keyboard (Gboard). The most annoying thing is that I have to switch to another keyboard if it makes a mistake I need to go edit. Edit: Found that FUTO uses the version 3 of the whisper model and so I use that now.

It's okay, but has some issues. I'm finding that too many words drop out completely, and some are just mistaken. I think it may be the language model that's being used in the app... United States English. Unfortunately, it doesn't allow the user to select any different language or other form of English. I speak with a New Zealand English accent. I look forward to an improved version with the option to choose the language and model size. Currently, it's dropping too many words to be useful.

It's very basic and does just what it says, but it gets a lot of words wrong because it's using a tiny model, Even with Max threads. I have a lot of space on my phone, so I would rather download and use the V3 model if it was an option. A more advanced keyboard would follow gboards example and type during silence but use the whole text for context in following chunks. Even better would be to let me select words and choose other highly scored alternatives.

What’s new

It's been a while since there's been a new release, I apologize! In the background, I've been rebuilding the keyboard from the ground up to make it easier to make changes and add some requested new features in the future. This, along with some issues I encountered, has earned this project a new name: Kaiboard! Enjoy a slightly prettier UI, fixed app icons, and new features hopefully soon! <3