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With AI-powered dictation, smart commands and instant activation, the Wispr Flow voice-to-text app has transformed how I write on my Mac.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The future of voice to text is here. I’ve ...

In some ways, 2025 was when AI dictation apps really took off. Dictation apps have been around for years, but in the past they’ve proved slow and inaccurate — unless you speak with particular accents ...

The Notes app on your iPhone transcribes audio to text for free.. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac In the updated Notes app in iOS 18, you can transcribe audio to text for free: Your iPhone will ...

With the new Voice Typing Dictation feature, users can now speak naturally and have Speechify’s new Mac app turn that recording into clean text across any app on macOS. Here’s how it works. Apple ...

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...

Back in April, I raved at length about Jott, which was then a free beta service. I found the voice-to-text service to be so useful, I couldn’t imagine why any mobile professional would not use it. For ...