Wispr Stream launches an Android app for AI-powered dictation

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AI-powered dictation startup Wispr Stream has launched its Android app immediately. The corporate launched its app for Mac and Home windows first, then launched on iOS in June 2025.

On iOS, customers may use Wispr Stream by means of a devoted keyboard. On Android, the interface is a bit totally different, as you’ll be able to entry the dictionary by means of a floating bubble. You possibly can maintain the bubble and dictate, or press as soon as to start out, after which press the shut button to cease the method. Identical to on different platforms, along with dictation, the app cleans up the filter phrases and likewise codecs the textual content based mostly on the context of the app and spoken content material.

“Android lastly gave us the liberty to construct the voice expertise we at all times needed. Solely when the platform will get out of the way in which can we actually anticipate voice to interchange typing on cell,” Tanay Kothari, co-founder and CEO of the startup, stated.

The app can help translation in over 100 languages and might work throughout different apps. Together with the Android app launch, Wispr Stream stated that it has accomplished an infrastructure rewrite that makes dictation 30% quicker than earlier than.

Whereas there are tons of AI-powered dictation apps obtainable on desktop and iOS, Wispr Stream is among the few obtainable on Android with this launch, apart from Typeless, which launched an app for the platform final month.

What’s extra, the corporate has additionally launched a brand new mannequin for Hinglish, a mixture of Hindi and English, for folks in India who communicate in mix-coded means.

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“In case you’re somebody like me, English and Hindi weave collectively once I’m chatting with household and colleagues again house. That is a kind of instances once I simply needed to construct one thing for me: the primary voice mannequin to really help transcription in Hinglish as an alternative of conventional Hindi script,” Kothari stated.

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The corporate famous that even with early rollout to pick out customers, customers have spoken over 1.3 million phrases in English in the previous few days.

Wispr Stream has been one of many extra fashionable startups within the class of AI-powered dictation apps which have additionally attracted vital enterprise capital consideration. In June, the startup raised $30 million in funding led by Menlo Ventures in June. Inside a number of months, in November, the corporate secured $25 million in a spherical led by Notable Capital. Wispr Stream has raised $81 million in whole, with its final spherical valued at $700 million in keeping with sources.

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