Today Nothing has unveiled Essential Voice, a speech-to-text engine that promises to deliver “clear, ready-to-send text in real time.” Thus, it improves upon traditional dictation, which involves all the ums, uhs and ahs, all your stuttering, and sometimes zero punctuation (or, perhaps worse, wrong punctuation), when converting speech to text.
Essential Voice promises to give you “the speed and ease of talking with the clarity and flexibility of text.” It cuts out filler words “for a more streamlined and well-thought-out output.” It auto-detects over 100 languages, and lets you choose regional versions for languages ​​like English and Spanish. Essential Voice can translate what you’re saying while also transcribing it.
It supports shortcuts for things you say often or for specific spellings. So you can tell it to type “nothing os” every time it hears “nothing os”, while, for example, it can also associate an address with the name of your favorite restaurant. Or it can send a transcript to your email if you tell it to (by setting it up first).
There’s nothing promised that Essential Voice doesn’t listen to you in the background, and only becomes active when you choose to use it. Once activated, your audio recording is encrypted and processed on Nothing’s servers. The generated text is returned to your device without being stored on Nothing’s servers.
Essential Voice is now available on Nothing Phone (3). It will arrive in the Nothing Phone (4A) Pro later this month and the Nothing Phone (4A) in early May. It integrates into the built-in keyboard and essential keys.
