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On voice, typing, and getting words right
Notes on dictation, Asian-language voice input, and turning what you say into text you'd actually send.
What built-in Mac dictation does well — and where it stops
The dictation built into macOS is genuinely good at what it was designed for: turning speech into…
Cantonese voice input: the gap between spoken and written
Cantonese is spoken one way and conventionally written another. A speaker dictating 我唔係好清楚 faces a…
Dictating email that sounds like you wrote it
Speaking an email and writing one are not the same act. This is why most voice typing produces a…
Dictation as an accessibility tool: RSI, fatigue, and voice-first workflows
For people who can't type comfortably all day — repetitive strain, chronic pain, fatigue —…
Drafting long-form by voice: from ramble to readable
Talking a document into existence produces structure-free text, and that's fine — the rewrite pass…
Voice-typing Slack messages: casual tone is harder than it looks
Dictating into a chat channel isn't the same as dictating an email. The output that reads clean in…
Why your dictation tool needs to learn your vocabulary
A generic speech model has never heard your colleague's name, your product's codename, or the…
Who puts the commas in? Punctuation and formatting in modern dictation
Old dictation made you say the punctuation out loud — 'comma', 'new paragraph', 'period' — and the…
From sound to sentence: how AI dictation actually works
Modern dictation isn't one step, it's two: a speech model turns sound into a raw transcript, then a…
How to dictate on a Mac in 2026: options, trade-offs, and what changed
There are three broad ways to dictate on a Mac — the option built into the operating system…
Thai voice typing: a script with no spaces is a segmentation test
Thai is written with no spaces between words — spaces mark only phrase and sentence boundaries. So…
Vietnamese voice typing: six tones and a diacritic minefield
Vietnamese is written in a Latin script loaded with tone marks, and one mark changes a word…
Voice input for multinational teams: write in the language the reader needs
The teams that run cross-language meetings also spend their day writing cross-language email and…
Turning spoken thoughts into meeting notes, right after the call
The minutes right after a call are when decisions and action items are sharpest in your head…
Using Whisper for Mac dictation: what an open transcription model gives you, and what it doesn't
Whisper is a well-known open-source speech recognition model, and people rightly reach for it to…
Where does your voice go? A privacy checklist for dictation tools
A voice-typing tool hears everything you say — meetings, passwords read aloud, half-formed…
Chinese dictation on a Mac: why voice typing breaks on the world's biggest language
Chinese has more first-language speakers than any other language, yet voice typing fails on it more…
Dictating English as a non-native speaker: accuracy beats speed
Most voice typing is tuned to a narrow set of native accents and stumbles on the English the rest…
How accurate is AI dictation? A framework for judging it yourself
Accuracy in dictation isn't one number. Raw word accuracy, formatted-output accuracy, and whether…
Japanese dictation on a Mac: kanji conversion is the real test
Turning Japanese speech into kana is the easy half. Choosing the right homophone kanji — 公開, 後悔, 航海…
Korean dictation: spacing and honorifics make or break it
Korean word spacing (띄어쓰기) is genuinely hard and instantly visible when it's wrong, and the same…
Dictating in two languages at once: the code-switching problem
Real Asian-workplace speech mixes languages mid-sentence — English product terms inside Chinese…
Traditional Chinese voice typing: the simplified-output problem nobody talks about
Most speech models emit simplified Chinese, so Taiwan and Hong Kong users get text they'd never…