Use This Hack to Get the Pixel's AI Dictation on Any Android Phone

Rambler, Google's AI-powered dictation feature, seems genuinely useful. At its core, Rambler is akin your phone's existing dictation tool, lone much smarter. It can automatically edit your address into a additional polished end product. It'll eliminate your filler words akin "um" and ah," form up your grammar, and comprehend your intended definition (e.g., if you say "we need to choice entire milk...I mean, oat milk," Rambler volition category "we need to choice up oat milk.")

This is the category of characteristic most of us would akin to have on our phones, there's lone one problem: Despite evolving the Android functioning system, Google decided to create Rambler a Pixel 11-exclusive feature. As such, if you have a non-Pixel phone, akin a Samsung or a Motorola, you're out of luck, unless you desire to upgrade to one of Google's smartphones—or, as it turns out, download this third-party tool instead.

"PixelBoard" adds Rambler to any Android

As reported by Android Authority, developer Akshay Kadam modded Google's Gboard app and uploaded it to GitHub under the name PixelBoard. Kadam advertises PixelBoard as a "supercharged Gboard mod" sporting features from the Pixel 11 series—including AI penning tools, and, notably, Rambler.

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According to Kadam's GitHub page, PixelBoard runs side-by-side alongside the Gboard app on your phone. You don't need to substitute the existing app or uninstall it, nor do you need to base your Android. Still, this is an unofficial harbor that requires sideloading onto your Android device. While the tool comes from a community GitHub page, exercise alert if you desire to provision it a shot.

If you do, Kadam's GitHub leaf has detailed instructions for downloading the app on your phone. It seems you have three options: You can download PixelBoard immediately from GitHub, afterward instal it from the notification drawer or File Manager on your phone; if you're a developer, you can sideload the app by connecting your phone via USB alongside USB Debugging enabled; and, finally, you can place the inventory Gboard APK using Morphe Manager. (Kadam recommends the archetypal method.)

Once you do have PixelBoard on your phone, caput to Settings > System > Languages & input > On-screen keyboard (or Manage Keyboards), afterward allow PixelBoard. Tap the keyboard toggle clasp or spacebar selector, afterward choose PixelBoard as the input method. To use Rambler, choose "Rambler Dictation" from this settings page, choose "Voice typing," then, under "Dictation type," toggle from "Standard" to "Rambler."

Hopefully, Google brings Rambler to additional phones in due time. But, until then, you can use PixelBoard to bring the characteristic to your equipment on your own.