Overview
- Nothing, which launched the tool Thursday, made it available on Phone (3) and set rollouts for Phone (4a) Pro later this month and Phone (4a) in early May.
- Essential Voice converts natural speech into ready-to-send writing by stripping filler words and stutters and by shaping notes, lists, and sentences in real time.
- Users can access it from the keyboard or by long-pressing the hardware Essential Key, with custom voice shortcuts and commands that can auto-fill emails or known addresses.
- It supports more than 100 languages with auto-detection and offers live translation, so you can speak in one language and insert text in another.
- Audio is encrypted and processed on Nothing’s servers with text returned to the device and not stored, which requires a network connection; one review noted dictation can cancel if the screen sleeps, and one report attributes the backend to Google’s Gemini 3 Flash as Nothing plans context-aware tone in future updates.