{"id":638491,"date":"2026-10-06T23:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/638491\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:01:11","slug":"aqua-voice-brings-its-ai-dictation-app-to-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/638491\/","title":{"rendered":"Aqua Voice Brings Its AI Dictation App to Android"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nAqua Voice Brings Its AI Dictation App to Android<\/p>\n

\nThe Y Combinator-backed company\u2019s floating voice button now types clean, punctuated text into any Android app, completing Aqua\u2019s lineup across Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android<\/p>\n

\nAqua Voice, the AI dictation company behind the Avalon 1.5 speech recognition model, today released Aqua Voice for Android on Google Play. The app places a small floating Aqua button above the keyboard in any Android app. Users tap it, talk, and finished text lands where they are typing: a WhatsApp reply, an email, a note, a Slack message, or a prompt for an AI assistant.<\/p>\n

\nAqua Voice for Android works alongside the keyboard people already use rather than replacing it. There is no keyboard to switch, no per-app setup, and nothing to paste. The app inserts text directly into the active field. A voice editing feature lets users select text, tap Edit, and say a change such as \u201cmake this a list\u201d or \u201cmake it shorter,\u201d and Aqua rewrites the selection in place.<\/p>\n

\nAndroid has been the most requested addition from Aqua\u2019s users since the company shipped its iPhone keyboard in April 2026. With this release, one Aqua account covers all four major platforms. Custom dictionaries, replacements, and writing-style instructions sync between devices, and a single Pro or Max subscription applies everywhere.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cPeople have been asking us for Android since the day we shipped the iPhone keyboard,\u201d said Finnian Brown, co-founder and CEO of Aqua Voice. \u201cIt is the same model, the same account, and the same one-button habit. You tap, you talk, and the words are there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nAqua\u2019s apps run on Avalon 1.5, the company\u2019s own speech recognition model, trained on how people talk to computers: prompts, code, and email. The original Avalon debuted first among proprietary models and sixth overall on the independent Open ASR Leaderboard in October 2025, and Avalon 1.5, released in April 2026, reached a 5.55 percent word error rate on that benchmark. In a 9to5Mac side-by-side test of the same passage, Apple\u2019s built-in dictation made 17 errors and Aqua made one. Dictation is available in 49 languages, and the Android app\u2019s interface is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Russian.<\/p>\n

\nAqua Voice for Android is available today on Google Play for phones and tablets running Android 10 or later. The first 1,000 words are free. Pro and Max subscriptions are available through Google Play, and existing subscribers sign in with their Aqua account at no additional cost. Download it at https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.aquavoice.android<\/a> or learn more at https:\/\/aquavoice.com\/android<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nAbout Aqua Voice
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Aqua Voice builds AI dictation for Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android. Hold one key or tap one button, talk into any app, and clean, formatted text appears. Its apps run on Avalon 1.5, the company\u2019s own speech recognition model. The original Avalon debuted first among proprietary models on the independent Open ASR Leaderboard. Aqua Voice is SOC 2 Type II and ISO\/IEC 27001:2022 certified, offers a Privacy Mode that does not store transcripts, and provides the Avalon 1.5 API for developers. Founded in 2023 by Finnian Brown and Jack McIntire and backed by Y Combinator (W24). Learn more at https:\/\/aquavoice.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nAndroid and Google Play are trademarks of Google LLC<\/p>\n

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\nMedia contact
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Austin Zitting
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Aqua Voice, Inc.
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austin@aquavoice.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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