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2026-07-28
Why dictation gets names and numbers wrong
Speech recognition guesses. When it guesses about an invoice figure or a surname, the fix is not a better guess — it is refusing to guess at all.
2026-07-28How to tell whether a dictation app is actually private
A checklist you can run yourself, without taking anyone's privacy page at face value — including ours.
2026-07-28Offline dictation, or how to talk to your computer on a plane
Most voice-to-text stops working without Wi-Fi. Here is why, and what has to be true for dictation to keep going when the connection does not.
2026-07-28How to dictate code without fighting your editor
Ordinary dictation turns code into prose. What it takes to speak an identifier, a path, or a command and get the characters you meant.
2026-07-20Hello, Whisper Face
A voice keyboard for Mac that keeps your words on your Mac.
2026-07-10Why your voice stays local
Local-first is not a privacy setting here. It is the architecture.