Stop Touching Your Keyboard. Use This AI-Powered Microphone Instead

How much do you hate typing? The advent of large language models has rapidly advanced voice-to-text technology. Whether it's Wispr Flow joining your meetings to summarize discussions or Google debuting smarter on-device dictation in its latest Pixel smartphone, these tools do far more than transcribe: They intelligently strip filler words, clean up unscripted thoughts on the fly, and seamlessly mediate multilingual conversations.

Now, a new startup is entering the fray. Unlike its software-focused peers, Relay is building a dedicated, portable microphone for high-fidelity voice-to-text anywhere. Based in London, Relay was founded by two former Nothing employees: Cookie Xu, who was Nothing's head of AI and services, and Raymond Zhu, a hardware product manager. While the company is debuting its software today, the hardware—what it calls the Relay Q—won't be available until early 2027.

Zhu says when he and Xu worked at Nothing, they used Wispr Flow's transcription software...

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