Google just released AI Edge Eloquent on Product Hunt. Powered by on-device Gemma, this free offline dictation app removes filler words. Are STT startups doomed?
Yo fellow keyboard mashers, ever catch yourself sounding like a broken record saying "umm" and "ahh" when dictating a PR description or rambling in a daily standup? It seems Google heard our stuttering prayers and just dropped a new toy on Product Hunt that might actually fix our verbal spaghetti.
The tool is called Google AI Edge Eloquent. In short, it's a dictation app. But the killer feature? It is completely free and offline-first.
Instead of bouncing your audio to the cloud, it uses Gemma-based ASR models running directly on your local machine. Its main job? It aggressively trims out those annoying filler words and mid-sentence stumbles automatically.
Privacy freaks, rejoice! 100% local processing means you can ramble about your proprietary code without Uncle Google listening in. But wait, there's a catch: if you want that big-brain formatting, you can flip the switch for the optional Gemini cloud mode. It'll handle the heavy text cleanup and make you sound like a poetic genius. The wildest part? It can even pull custom vocabulary directly from your Gmail. Pretty slick, ngl.
It bagged a solid 140 points out of the gate on PH. Skimming through the comments, here's what the community is yapping about:
If you hate typing out long-winded Jira tickets or architectural docs, grab this app and take it for a spin. If it saves you 10 minutes a day, that's a W.
But the harsh reality check for indie hackers out there: building a startup around a basic utility or a simple AI wrapper is risky AF. You're always one Google or Apple free update away from getting absolutely steamrolled.
Source: Product Hunt
