Words land as you speak, then tidy up
Your words go straight into the text box while you talk. Pause, and they're polished in place: punctuation, capitals, and the ums taken out. Change your mind mid-sentence and it keeps the change.
New in 1.5: Fix last dictation, by voice
Talk.It types.It tidies up.
Voicebar is a voice-first keyboard for Android: a slim bar right under your thumb. Tap Voice, say it the way you'd say it, and a tidy message lands in the box.
Your wallpaper, your colors
Built for talking
Say it the way you'd say it
Nobody talks in finished sentences. Voicebar hears the ums, the restarts and the pauses to think, and types what you meant.
Pause to think. It waits.
A pause isn't the end of a sentence. Voicebar tidies what you've said so far without adding a period or a capital, and carries on when you do.
Fix last dictation, by voice
Got a word wrong, or edited it by hand? Hold Voice and say what's wrong: "broad should be lowercase." Those words are instructions, never typed, and the whole message is fixed in place.
Tap to finish. Swipe to send.
Tap the pill when you're done. Swipe it right to finish and send, or left to throw it away. Before anything is sent, it gets one last read for what pauses leave behind, like a stray "okay" at the end.
Say the formatting
"Title case… end title case." "Quote… end quote." "Open paren… close paren." The pill shows a badge while it's on.
"Voice bar, send."
End a dictation with voice bar and a command. The command is never typed; the pill turns purple and shows it instead. Loose wording works.
When you'd rather type
Everything else is one tap away
Its own keyboard, under your thumbs
ABC pops up a full keyboard over the bar, with the bottom row where your thumbs already are. Pull the handle down to put it away.
- Swipe to type, run on the phone with FUTO Swipe's open models. Nothing is sent anywhere.
- Hold ABC to hand the field to Gboard. A button over Gboard brings you back, already listening.
A trackpad for the cursor
Drag to move the real cursor. Hold still, then drag to select. Select all, cut, copy and paste sit right above it.
- Keep one finger down while another drags to go further.
- Tap Voice from the trackpad and you're dictating at the cursor.
Keys you choose
Beside ☰, Cursor, ABC and Voice, three keys are yours (one on the floating pill): Space, Backspace, Enter, Paste, Undo, Select all, Last dictation, Fix last dictation, or a switch between docked and floating.
- Hold one, or swipe up from it, to pick another on the spot. Picking only sets it; press it to use it.
- As Backspace, tap then press and hold to keep deleting.
Float it, or shrink it to one button
Choose the floating style and the bar becomes a small pill: ☰, Cursor, ABC, Voice and one key you choose. From ☰ it shrinks to just the record button.
- Drag the record pill anywhere. The app gets the whole screen, and it comes back where you left it.
- Tap it to talk: it grows into the recording pill right there. Its ☰ brings the whole pill back.
The tour
See it in under two minutes
Filmed from the real bar, and narrated. Jump to any part:
How it works
From your voice to the text box
Each part is a choice you make once in setup. Defaults work if you never open Settings again.
You talk
Tap Voice, or set it to listen as soon as a text box opens. With a keyboard attached, it listens only when the phone is in your hand.
Speech becomes text
Live words from ElevenLabs Scribe, or NVIDIA's Parakeet running on the phone with no network at all.
Scribe v2 RealtimeParakeet, on the phone
It gets tidied up
At each pause, a fast, cheap model polishes what you said, fitted to the text around the cursor and, if you allow it, the names on screen.
Claude HaikuGPT-6 LunaOptional
It lands in the box
Right where your cursor is, fitted to the sentence around it. Swipe to send it with the app's own Send button.
An hour of talking to Scribe costs about $0.39, and a cleanup a tiny fraction of a cent. Voicebar shows you the estimate, counted on the phone.
Privacy
Where your words go is up to you
There's no Voicebar server and no account. Audio goes only to the speech service you chose, or nowhere at all.
Your keys, your accounts
Your ElevenLabs and Claude or OpenAI keys are encrypted with an Android Keystore key and kept out of backups.
Or keep it on the phone
Parakeet turns speech into text on the phone. Swipe typing and the "voice bar" wake word never leave it either.
Only your voice
Optional filters on the phone silence other people, the TV and small children's voices before anything is sent. Your voiceprint never leaves the phone.
Passwords stay out
Listening never starts by itself in a password field, and what's in one is never read for context.
Set up
Ready in a few minutes
A setup guide walks through each step, one page at a time, and checks it when you come back.
- Download the APKFrom the latest release on GitHub.
- Install itOpen the file, and allow your browser to install apps when Android asks.
- Turn it onTurn on Voicebar and Gboard, switch to Voicebar and allow the microphone.
- Add a key, or don'tAn ElevenLabs key for live speech, or download Parakeet instead. A Claude or OpenAI key turns on cleanup.