In a recent tweet that’s gone viral, we’re reminded just how much better voice typing is on a Pixel phone compared to Apple’s iPhone.

James Cham from Bloomberg Beta recently tweeted a video where he put a “new” iPhone, presumably meaning an iPhone 11 Pro/Max, side by side with a Google Pixel 3 XL.

In the test, he fires up voice typing on both that Android smartphone and an iPhone mainly to show just how much faster Google’s voice typing is.

That’s not even to speak about how much better Google’s models are with accuracy!

A big part of the difference on the Pixel’s side in terms of both speed and accuracy comes down to how Google handles the voice models for typing.

Both Android and iPhone can handle offline voice dictation, but Google allows Pixel owners to download the entire voice model for English to the device itself.

That allows the phone to handle real-time voice dictation that’s just as accurate as if the data were headed to Google’s servers.

I don't think that people appreciate how different the voice to text experience on a Pixel is from an iPhone.