A Week on a Three-Week-Old Keyboard

A week with a voice-first keyboard still came down to where voice worked and where typing took over. Most voice typing keyboards either transcribe everything you say and leave you to tidy it up, or they do the cleanup in the cloud. The interesting fork is the one that does the cleanup on the device, where the audio never leaves the phone and there is nothing on the other end to send it to. Yaps is one of the few that takes that fork, it is about three weeks old, it was built by one person, and I used it as my only keyboard for a week to see what living with it was actually like. ...

May 25, 2026 · 5 min · Kashif Nazir