Google has launched a new AI dictation application that can run both locally on the device itself and in the cloud, at the user’s choice. Google AI Edge Eloquent use models Gemma in the first case or Gemini in the second. The app, which is free and is currently only available on iOSis described by Google on its App Store page as being designed for ‘close the gap’ between the way people actually speak and professional text. The system is capable of filter fillers like ‘eh’, ‘mmm’ and mid-sentence autocorrections.
Although the application prioritizes offline operation, which means that you download a Gemma automatic voice recognition model to your phone, it also has a ‘Cloud’ mode. As the name suggests, this mode sends your data to Gemini models in the cloud to handle text cleaning. In theory, Local processing is fast and keeps the audio private while the cloud option can offer a slightly more polished finish on complex phrases.
Gemma models are a family of generative AI models from Google, built with the same technological base as Geminibut designed so that developers and companies can execute, fine-tune and deploy them on their own. Google describes them as open models whose parameters can be downloaded and modified (what in IA jargon is called open weights), also for commercial uses, within the conditions set by the company.
In practice, this means that they are used for tasks such as summarizing, answering questions, reasoning, generating text or transcribing and cleaning text, and that they can run both in the cloud as on local computers, including mobiles, laptops and other devices depending on the variant.
Among the other functions offered by the application is the possibility of summarize a transcript into key points or change tone to make it more formal, brief or extensive. You can also check your history to see your speed in words per minute and total word count from previous sessions. The application uses a context dictionary where you can add slang manually or import specific names and keywords from your Gmail account.
Google AI Edge Gallery
Google has two AI Edge applications in the App Store, since, in addition to Eloquent, there is also AI Edge Gallery. This second application is basically a testing environment in which you can run the entire Gemma family of models on the device, including the most recent ones. Gemma 3n and Gemma 4. The functions AI Chat & Thinking of the Gallery application allow you to see in real time the step-by-step reasoning process of the model. The app also includes a laboratory of prompts and benchmarking tools that allow you to test how different open weight models perform on your hardware.
Gemma 4 was recently launched as a family of open models that allow you to run AI on your own computers, bringing advanced reasoning capabilities to local machines. Family includes sizes E2B and E4B for mobile phones, along with the larger variants of 26B and 31B for desktop computers. These models support a ‘context window’ of 128Kwhich reaches 256K in the larger variants.
Google AI Edge Eloquent and AI Edge Gallery available
Neither Google AI Edge Eloquent nor AI Edge Gallery are yet available on any operating system other than iOS, although Google ‘is evaluating other platforms, including the desktop version’. Regarding its availability by region, in United Kingdom, Swiss and the European Economic Area ‘is currently restricted due to regulatory approval requirements. We are actively working to obtain the necessary approvals and expand into these areas soon‘.