Wispr Flow
I recently came across an app called Wispr Flow ↗. Wispr Flow is an AI powered dictation that works anywhere on the Mac. They have an iPhone app too, which I’ll get to in a second.
The platform uses AI to transcribe, auto-edit, and format your speech into polished text, and adapts its tone to different apps. I had 2 thoughts before using it.
- Sounds over hyped on their website. I’m always skeptical of software that claims to be a game changer for productivity, but I also tend to not be able to help but test them out.
- I don’t think I would ever just dictate to my computer. After all, macOS has this built in, and it’s decent, and that has never stuck for me.
Like I said, I can’t help myself though. I downloaded it and forced my self to really give it a try. After about a day, I was sold. It honestly feels like a game changer for me. I definitely still feel very weird talking to my computer, and I don’t use it in all cases, but I find that there are a ton of cases that it’s extremely helpful. The auto correction clearly powered by AI is fantastic. You can correct yourself, and it’s remarkably good at writing what you meant to say, rather than a mistake you may have said. You can also add a dictionary of specific words / spellings that you use frequently that may be difficult to spell. It will also suggest items for the dictionary if you say something, then go back and correct it.
It also gets some amount of context of where your cursor is, and uses that to help format the text given that context. If you’re writing an email, it will format it like an email. If you’re using the command line, it will format it like the command line.
There is an iOS app, which also works pretty well, but the limitations of iOS make it fairly clunky. It shows up as a keyboard, but then you have to flip over to the app, turn on dictation, and then flip back. Once you do that, it works well, but that is a pain to do.
Definitely give it a shot if this kind of thing sounds interesting.