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Any improvements to voice to text? I use iPhone 13 Mini and so keyboard has always been hard to type on. But voice to text..man..it is an absolutly miserable experience that I wish I could swap out for any other competitor.

I normally don't complain that iOS/MacOS isn't customizable because the defaults are good enough to work for me but that voice to text man its like they completely forgot about it.

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There is also a new, larger voice to text model available... but not for an old iPhone like the 13 mini. Only like the iPhone 17 Pro and above.

The best workaround is a third party app that lets you run Parakeet V3 or Whisper on your phone. There are quite a few.

It’s by far the best speech to text I’ve ever used so I’m a fan

Can you clarify, you like third party? Or you like the larger Apple model

Dictus is one that I’ve been playing around with.

This is GREAT! It’s not possible to enable local-only dictation on iOS with the OS alone. :(

Hear hear. The insistence upon prioritizing names in my extensive contacts list as well as certain geographic names leads to so many unnecessary manual edits.

I use it constantly and it mostly works well for me since as long as I can remember. My biggest gripe with it is all the random ass commas it puts.

i’ve been using the beta for a few months now, and the speech to text is significantly better. Put in parentheses using apple speech to text

Some stuff, as you can see, isn’t perfect :-)

I don’t think it is parakeet v2 level, but it’s good enough to not be frustrating

try this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ghostspeech-agentic-keyboard/i....

Have you tried wispr flow?

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