As part of this week’s Pixel Drop, Google has expanded support for the Pixel 11 series’ best feature. We’re talking about Hikerof course, which is the super powerful voice-to-text feature that magically transforms your hiking into coherent text via Gboard.
Google announced the expansion of Rambler to the Pixel 10 series via a community support post, but has yet to fully update the Rambler support page to show that the Pixel 10 has access to it. This might lead you to believe that it hasn’t gone live yet, but we updated our Pixel 10 Pro to the latest beta and it gained access, with a welcome message confirming access.
Once you update to the Android November update, you will be greeted with a message regarding the Pixel drop in November. If you own a Pixel 10 series phone, you’ll see Rambler listed as the top new feature, with an explanation page about it.
For those unfamiliar with this amazing feature, you’ll know you have it when you open your keyboard and see the little Gemini star in the voice-to-text microphone button (see below). At the first click live, a pop-up will explain how you can take full advantage of it.
Rambler will attempt to clean up your voice-to-text sessions by removing “ums” and “ahs”, it will allow you to vocally edit the text it produces, and it will be able to switch between languages if you speak more than one. But in reality, you’ll just want hiking on it and see what it can return. You might even find yourself speaking longer messages than you usually would, as it is very efficient at transcribing them.
Again, we love Rambler and have talked about it many times. This is undoubtedly one of the standout features of the Pixel 11 series and we’re using voice-to-text more than ever. Other Pixel 11 users continue to discover its powers as well.
Enjoy, Pixel 10 owners!
Gn tech
