Mobile app · AI chatbots & assistants
Voice Keyboard
Speech-to-text keyboard that uses your own Whisper API key.
- Free, with trade-offs
- Android
- Open source
Overview
Voice Keyboard is a speech-to-text mobile app, available on Android.
Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: voice input and commands, open-weight models (Llama, Mistral…), choice of several models and providers.
Services and protocols mentioned: OpenAI.
Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.
Excerpts that establish this information
- “Speech-to-text keyboard that uses your own Whisper API key” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Voice Input.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
- “Speech recognition needs an API key for a supported service, such as Groq or Mistral, or a server of your own.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Sends audio to OpenAI-compatible transcription endpoints or chat endpoints accepting — by default Groq (free tier available), with optional LLM post-processing.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
At a glance
Voice Keyboard is free, with trade-offs: it relies on a non-free online service.
Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.
Strengths
- Open source code
- No advertising
- Commercial use allowed
Weaknesses
- Flagged by F-Droid: relies on a non-free online service
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