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Polished Recognition vs Kõnele: catalog facts
Polished RecognitionKõnele
Free

Free and open source under MIT; the AI providers you connect may charge for usage.

Free

Free and open source under the Apache-2.0 licence.

Android Android
  • Works in any app as a system keyboard
  • Choose your own speech-to-text and language model providers
  • Speech input keyboard usable in any app
  • Can use a self-hosted Kaldi server on your own network
  • Requires your own OpenAI-compatible API endpoints
  • Sends audio and text to the services you configure
  • Last release listed on the homepage dates from 2022
  • Some documentation is mainly in Estonian
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: MIT License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Needs internet Not stated if it works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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