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As a Mac user, am I missing something? macOS has Dictation built-in, when you short press F5 it should start transcribing your spoken words into text in real time. It even does non-English languages.

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Besides being trash as others said, there’s a trade off with real time transcription word by word - there’s no opportunity for an AI to holistically correct/clean up the transcription

But, OSX does come back and fix things.

You mean, after displaying each word as it is spoken, then OSX goes back and fixes what’s been displayed? I think I’ve seen it fix one or two recent words, but I guess you’re saying it could fix the entire sentence as well. I didn’t know that

Yea, I use it daily for getting my thoughts into Claude. I often see it rewriting sentences it’s confused on.

it's trash if:

- you're not a native speaker or have accent

- using airpods mic

- surroundings is noisy

- use novel words like 'claude code'

- mumble a bit

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