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Guides 2026-06-21
What is AI dictation? (and how it differs from speech-to-text)
AI dictation is speech-to-text plus a language-model cleanup pass - punctuation, filler removal, code identifiers, style, translation. See what it does and how.
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Guides 2026-06-11
What happens when your dictation app goes down? If it runs in the cloud, you stop dictating
Why cloud dictation fails during outages and offline does not. The failure points in a cloud speech pipeline, what offline changes, and the airplane test.
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Guides 2026-06-11
Is your dictation private? It depends on where your voice is processed
Whether dictation is private comes down to where your audio is processed. What cloud apps send, why "Privacy Mode" is not offline, and a checklist to vet any app.
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Guides 2026-06-09
Do you need a GPU for voice-to-text? No — here is what the numbers actually say
Voice-to-text does not need a GPU. Parakeet TDT runs at RTF 0.033 on CPU. Whisper base runs in real time on any 2020+ laptop. Here are the actual numbers.
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Guides 2026-06-08
Why your dictation cuts off the first word — and how to fix it
Voice-to-text dropping your first word? Here is the real timing cause behind it, why it gets worse over time, and how to fix it.
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Guides 2026-06-08
The best multilingual dictation apps — and how language detection actually works
How multilingual dictation and automatic language detection really work, why auto-detect is less accurate than you expect, and which apps handle multiple languages.
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Guides 2026-06-04
Dictation that types exactly what you say — verbatim vs AI-enhanced
Some dictation apps type what you said. Others rewrite it with AI before pasting. Here is the difference, when each one is right, and which apps belong in each category.
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