kheldiente / whisper-voice-input-android

Using the Whisper CPP on-device STT recognition as Android voice input

Whisper Voice Input in Android

A voice input app using the ON-DEVICE MODEL voice-to-text transcriptions using whisper.cpp that allows users to talk and input voice from the keyboard mic functionality.

To run this project:

1. Get the sample model from here. OR select and download a model from the whisper.cpp repository.
2. Copy the model to the "app/src/main/assets/models" folder.
3. Run the project.

How it works

Prerequisites

whisper-voice-input-android's Issues

Record a voice using the mic in the keyboard

Steps for the user

• User is an app and the keyboard shows
• User will click the mic icon in the keyboard
• User will pick the Whisper Voice Input to be the transcriber
• User clicks the record button and talks to the device
• Whisper API will run in the background and transcribe the recorded voice
• Voice input will paste the transcribed text to the focused text field (any input fields)

Make the Whisper Voice Input keyboard pretty

Check if we could use lottie to make the UI in the keyboard pretty and intuitive to the user

Add a simple UI in the app

We can make it as the control panel of the Whisper Voice Input

Things we can add

• Simple tutorial. How to set the voice input as an option
• Model information, device, and the API

Make sure microphone permission is GRANTED

Update README

Write the ff:

• Title and short description
• How to enable voice input
• How to use
• Specs and things to download, etc