Introducing Essential Voice

Zac · 2026-04-23T12:00:00+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJd1JO_vVQs Hey Community, Right now, the main way we communicate on our phones is through typing. But speaking is more natural and four times faster. That is why voice notes have become so common. But they are not perfect. They take time to listen to, cannot always be played out loud, and are harder to scan when you just want the key point. Traditional dictation has not really solved this either. It turns speech into text, but often leaves you with something rough and fragmented, including all the ums, uhs and stutters you did not want in the first place. That is where Essential Voice comes in. It turns speech into clear, ready-to-send text in real time – the speed and ease of talking with the clarity and flexibility of text. Integrated into the keyboard and the Essential Key, it’s a step towards voice-first interactions with our devices. #### **More than simple transcription** ##### ![](https://cdn.nothing.community/2026-04-22/1776851642-200080-ev3-ezgifcom-video-to-gif-converter.gif "banner") Better than a simple transcription, Essential Voice cuts filler words for a more streamlined and considered output. Use it to send messages and emails, or format your speech straight into lists, steps or bullet points to help get your point across. #### **Built for multilingual communication** ![](https://cdn.nothing.community/2026-04-22/1776851511-245764-evtrabnslationnew-ezgifcom-video-to-gif-converter.gif "banner") Speak to Essential Voice in more than 100 languages with auto-detection. You can also choose regional variants of languages like English and Spanish. And you can speak in one language and have it translate and transcribe it for you in real time. #### **Shortcuts for the things you say often** ![](https://cdn.nothing.community/2026-04-22/1776851681-65734-ev2-ezgifcom-video-to-gif-converter.gif "banner") Think of this like a text shortcut library you build over time to use specific spellings or add additional text without saying it every time. You can say something like “nothing OS”, and a personal mapping would automatically change that to “Nothing OS”. If you have a favourite restaurant, Essential Voice will link an address to the name and type it out in the transcription instantly. #### **Privacy and Data Handling** Essential Voice activates only when you choose to use it, and it does not listen in the background. Once activated, your audio recording is encrypted and processed on our server. The generated text is returned to your device. It is not stored on our servers. > **Availability** > > Available now on Phone (3). Phone (4a) Pro will follow later this month, with Phone (4a) in early May.

Tom-B

Essential Voice just made Typeless-keyboard obsolete for me, so pumped to try it out! 🙌

ronv

at the moment it’s below the keyboard but would have better if it had more options. Upon double tapped on the icon and settings appear from that?

PradeepKumarGanesh

SFNothing-Brad same doubt here

JP

YoshiMK with that logic you have to make your own phone…why being lazy??

Samsung and apple has unlimited money for doing r&d and developing their on AI, still they’re relying on google so there must be some difficulty right???!!!

YoshiMK

JP I’ve just made my own phone actually - all I did was scratch off the Nothing logo and added my own.

fbr5

We hope that the 3a series will also receive this function…

JP

YoshiMK 😱😱no way …Einstein brain

MiliindThakkar

Zac

Will it coming to 3a pro

etidorhpa

Make for 3a Pro.

riggs7sco

Zac and how does one turn this function off? 🤔 I’m not so excited to have this option forced upon me…🙄

lolifnotely🇮🇱

riggs7sco You can disable the shortcuts for this via Settings/intelligence toolkit/essentials voice

riggs7sco

lolifnotely🇮🇱 thank you 🙌 😁

Sammar

I received the Nothing OS 4.1 update on my CMF phone 2 pro, but what exactly changed? What did you guys actually deliver in the name of an update? Just a single new clock style—that’s it? And even its positioning isn’t right. Furthermore, the battery is draining rapidly.

L10

Zac That’s a great feature! I wish it were on the 3a series.

Civilian

Zac could you bring it to nothing phone 2🥲….

Cmf Guy

Civilian I think it is not going to happen. Probably it will be available only on phones which support essential space. Sorry buddy 😟

themountofmint

Well, can I just mention that beautiful advertising with Cynthia! Not sure I’ll try that feature but maybe someday (as I’ve got an update)

YoshiMK, well, so Nothing should create their own AI assistant, in your opinion? Waaaat. Like does this really bothers you?🙃

YoshiMK

themountofmint where did it “bother” me?

If Carl is going to pretend Nothing are an AI focused company maybe they should develop their own models otherwise we may as well just buy a Pixel and get better AI (Google reserve the best versions of Gemini for their own products)

lolifnotely🇮🇱

YoshiMK Dude, it’s not “just” to produce a model all at once. Even Gemini was started in 2022 (without all the other projects Google had before). It’s a lot of work, and honestly - I would have preferred them to spend their time fixing existing bugs before making such a leap.

themountofmint

YoshiMK why they should? I’m totally okay with Gemini on Nothing. Why do I need another AI assistant where there’s a good one already.

RobMintzes

I’d love to see this as a third-party keyboard for iOS too. If it works well, it’d be a great way to showcase the usefulness and inventiveness of Nothing software to outside users.

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