Gboard is learning to turn your stream-of-consciousness rambling into polished text

• Tired of wasting time editing speech-to-text transcriptions for accuracy and brevity? Gboard will soon be able to use Gemini models to polish transcribed text for seamless dictation.
• Similar to the iOS-only Google AI Edge Eloquent release in April, the new Gboard “Rambler” feature sifts through your filler words, pauses, mistakes, and corrections to provide a polished text output.
• Rambler is optional, and it lives right in Gboard — you’ll be able to access it anywhere throughout Android when it arrives this summer.

Voice-to-text transcriptions are intended to save Android users the hassle of manually typing on their tiny virtual keyboards. A single filler word or moment of brain fog can trip up dictation on your Android keyboard, forcing you to start over. Google started publicly exploring ways to improve speech recognition and dictation with Google AI Edge Eloquent last month, an iOS-only app that uses on-device AI models to clean up and polish transcribed text. Android users’ patience seems to have paid off, because Gboard is getting similar speech-to-text improvements with “Rambler,” a new feature debuting as part of the Gemini Intelligence suite.

Google announced Rambler within Gemini Intelligence during The Android Show I/O Edition, and it’s designed to make sense of your senseless “rambles.” Since it is integrated with the Gboard keyboard, it’ll work anywhere in Android. If you want to use Rambler to convert speech to text in a Google Messages conversation, a Notion document, or a Slack thread, the tool will be there. It’ll be available in every app that supports Gboard, making it more convenient to use than Google AI Edge Eloquent on iPhone.