AI-powered dictation startup Wispr Movement has launched its Android app in the present day. The corporate launched its app for Mac and Home windows first, then launched on iOS in June 2025.
On iOS, customers may use Wispr Movement via a devoted keyboard. On Android, the interface is a bit completely different, as you’ll be able to entry the dictionary via a floating bubble. You’ll be able to maintain the bubble and dictate, or press as soon as to start out, after which press the shut button to cease the method. Similar 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 all the time needed. Solely when the platform will get out of the best way can we really count on voice to exchange typing on cellular,” Tanay Kothari, co-founder and CEO of the startup, stated.
The app can help translation in over 100 languages and may work throughout different apps. Together with the Android app launch, Wispr Movement stated that it has performed an infrastructure rewrite that makes dictation 30% quicker than earlier than.
Whereas there are tons of AI-powered dictation apps accessible on desktop and iOS, Wispr Movement is likely one of the few accessible on Android with this launch, moreover 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 individuals in India who converse in mix-coded method.
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“If you happen to’re somebody like me, English and Hindi weave collectively after I’m chatting with household and colleagues again residence. That is a kind of instances after 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.
The corporate famous that even with early rollout to pick customers, customers have spoken over 1.3 million phrases in English in the previous few days.
Wispr Movement has been one of many extra common startups within the class of AI-powered dictation apps which have additionally attracted important enterprise capital consideration. In June, the startup raised $30 million in funding led by Menlo Ventures in June. Inside just a few months, in November, the corporate secured $25 million in a spherical led by Notable Capital. Wispr Movement has raised $81 million in whole, with its final spherical valued at $700 million in keeping with sources.