Gboard’s Rambler voice typing, available only on the Pixel 11 series today, may soon learn from the words you correct. Android Authority’s teardown of Gboard beta 18.6.3.10 found settings that remember your fixes and use your contacts to spell names. None of this is live, and Google hasn’t announced it.
What the Gboard beta code shows for Rambler
Rambler can’t save corrections or learn your vocabulary over time. If it keeps mangling a friend’s name or a word you use daily, you fix it every time. The settings found in the beta target exactly that gap:
- Remember corrected words: a toggle that lets Rambler learn the words you’ve fixed during voice typing and reuse them.
- Contact names: a toggle that checks the contacts on your phone to identify names correctly while you dictate.
- Voice correction list: a new page of collected words, with Import and Export in a three-dot menu.
- Clear all collected words: a button that wipes the list after a confirmation prompt.
Both learning features appear as on/off switches, so they look optional. Android Authority first spotted clues to a dictionary feature in an earlier teardown in August. Features found in code can still change before release, or never ship at all.
The privacy question Google will need to answer
Google’s help page for Rambler describes short-lived processing:
When you use Rambler, your text, audio input, and your corrections to voice output will be temporarily processed by Google.
The same page says that data is never saved, stored or shared, and is deleted right after your text is delivered. A feature that remembers corrected words implies some storage, though. So does one that reads your contacts to match names.
The teardown doesn’t show where the correction list or contact data would live, on your phone or on Google’s servers. That’s the detail to watch if Google ships this. Contact data also describes other people who never agreed to anything, so a clear answer on storage matters more than the toggles themselves.
Who can use Rambler today
Google’s support page lists a Pixel 11 series phone, the latest Gboard set as the default keyboard, and microphone permission. Rambler works best online, offers limited features offline, and is subject to usage limits.
Supported languages include English, Hindi and other supported Indian languages, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Android Authority hopes older Pixels such as the Pixel 10 could get Rambler, but that’s speculation for now.
Some owners of other phones already run it through the unofficial PixelBoard Gboard port, which comes with its own catch. For the tech underneath, see our piece on Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, the model behind Rambler.
Source: Android Authority, Google Gboard Help
