Google Voice Access vs Wispr Flow

Google Voice Access lets people control an Android device by speaking, including people who have difficulty manipulating a touchscreen. It can open apps, go back or home, show notifications and operate the screen currently in use. Users can display numbers or text labels beside screen items and speak the matching marker to select one. Voice Access also supports dictation and text editing, including replacing words or phrases. Google lists English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese and Japanese; Portuguese and Japanese cover only the top 25 commands. Offline use requires downloading a speech-recognition language pack to the device. Speech is mainly processed on-device, but audio may be sent to Google servers depending on device settings and system language; Google says audio sent for this service is not saved. Audio and transcripts are not stored unless the user enables “Help improve Voice Access Commands.” The microphone listens while Voice Access is active. It does not identify a particular speaker, so anyone can control an awake, unlocked device while it is listening.

Wispr Flow is a voice dictation app for Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android. It enters text wherever a cursor can type, including email, messaging, notes, terminals, code editors and AI tools. Flow supports 100+ languages and can detect the spoken language. It can remove filler words, add punctuation, format writing and handle corrections or repeated speech; users can set custom vocabulary and voice commands. Dictation is cloud-based, with controls for data use, sharing preferences and deleting stored data. The free plan allows 2,000 words per week on desktop and 1,000 per week on mobile, and includes a weekly Notetaker limit. Pro costs $12 per user per month with annual billing or $15 per user per month with monthly billing. Team plans add shared dictionaries, snippets and workspaces, centralized billing and user management. Notetaker provides meeting notes, speaker identification, questions across meetings and MCP access for AI tools, but currently works on Mac and Windows; mobile support is planned. Wispr recommends against Bluetooth earbuds because they can reduce dictation accuracy.