Polished Recognition

Polished Recognition

Voice input for any keyboard — transcribe with your own API endpoints

Georg Graf Speech Recognizer

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Description

Polished Recognition is a voice keyboard powered by your own AI. Switch to it, speak, and polished text lands in whatever app you are typing in — transcribed by the speech provider you choose, refined by the language model you choose, with a prompt you write.

Switch to the Polished keyboard and recording starts instantly. Pause and resume mid-sentence, switch to your typing keyboard and back without losing dictation, then tap send: audio goes to your STT provider, the LLM polishes the text — fixing filler words and punctuation, restructuring, or translating to another language — and flawless text is typed into the field. Raw mode skips the LLM entirely and inserts the plain transcription; Polish only refines without translating.

Bring your own provider. 19 presets (OpenAI, GROQ, OpenRouter, Cortecs, Google AI, DeepSeek, xAI, Mistral, local Ollama/LM Studio, …) or any custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint. GROQ's free tier covers a complete STT-plus-polish pipeline at zero cost. The system prompt is fully editable, with variables for source and target language; searchable model pickers with per-provider caching handle hundreds of models.

Gboard will never use this. Gboard's microphone is hardcoded to Google's voice typing and cannot be redirected to any third-party voice input. Use a keyboard that delegates its mic: the AOSP keyboard (LineageOS and derivatives), HeliBoard (F-Droid only), Fossify Keyboard, or OpenBoard.

Privacy-first: No analytics, no tracking, no proprietary SDKs, no account, no central server. All data flows directly between your device and your chosen endpoints — or nowhere at all, if you run Ollama locally.

Permissions:
• RECORD_AUDIO — required to capture microphone input
• INTERNET — required to send audio to your configured STT/LLM endpoints

Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
1.5.0 current
ce3c4836e3928983…
2026-10-16 2.3 MB API 30
1.4.0
01cf10fd399dce61…
2026-10-15 2.3 MB API 30
1.3.6
d22a32d3b8cf8bb1…
2026-10-12 2.1 MB API 30

Permissions

What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.

  • MicrophoneRecord audio.
  • Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
  • Network stateCheck whether and how the device is connected.
  • Foreground serviceKeep running in the background, visible in the status bar.
  • FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MICROPHONE
  • NotificationsShow notifications.
  • polishedrecognition.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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