The London-based tech company Nothing introduced its Essential Voice feature yesterday that turns speech into clear, ready-to-send text in real-time.
The average person types 36 words a minute on a phone.
But, they can say it four times faster.
Essential Voice turns your speech into clear, ready-to-use writing. pic.twitter.com/l08bnS8sNF
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Essential Voice
Essential Voice turns your speech into clear, ready-to-use writing. Better than a simple transcription, Essential Voice cuts filler words for a more streamlined and considered output. You can use it to send messages and emails, or format your speech straight into lists, steps or bullet points to help get your point across.
You can speak to Essential Voice in more than 100 languages with auto-detection. You can also choose regional variants of languages like English and Spanish. Apart from this, you can speak in one language and have it translated and transcribed for you in real time.
You can say something like “nothing OS”, and a personal mapping would automatically change that to “Nothing OS”. If you have a favourite restaurant, Essential Voice will link an address to the name and type it out in the transcription instantly.
The company has also taken care of your privacy. Essential Voice activates only when you choose to use it, and it does not listen in the background. Once activated, your audio recording is encrypted and processed on Nothing’s server. The generated text is returned to your device and is not stored on its servers.
Availability
The Essential Voice is integrated into the keyboard and the Essential key. It is available on Phone (3). The Phone (4a) Pro will receive the feature later this month, while Phone (4a) will get it in early May.
