AI-powered dictation startup Wispr Stream has launched its Android app at this time. The corporate launched its app for Mac and Home windows first, then launched on iOS in June 2025.
On iOS, customers might use Wispr Stream by means of a devoted keyboard. On Android, the interface is a bit completely different, as you possibly can 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 primarily based 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 best way can we actually anticipate voice to interchange typing on cell,” Tanay Kothari, co-founder and CEO of the startup, stated.
The app can assist translation in over 100 languages and may work throughout different apps. Together with the Android app launch, Wispr Stream stated that it has executed an infrastructure rewrite that makes dictation 30% sooner than earlier than.
Whereas there are tons of AI-powered dictation apps out there on desktop and iOS, Wispr Stream is among the few out there 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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“When you’re somebody like me, English and Hindi weave collectively after I’m chatting with household and colleagues again dwelling. That is a type of instances after I simply needed to construct one thing for me: the primary voice mannequin to really assist transcription in Hinglish as a substitute 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 couple of days.
Wispr Stream has been one of many extra fashionable 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 a couple of months, in November, the corporate secured $25 million in a spherical led by Notable Capital. Wispr Stream has raised $81 million in complete, with its final spherical valued at $700 million in response to sources.
