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Three Places Voice Typing Beats the Keyboard (and Two Where It Still Doesn't)

Photo by Matheus Bertelli on Pexels The AI tool you already have and probably ignore Here's a strange fact: most people are sitting on a genuinely useful AI tool right now and never touch it. It's not a new app. It's not something you have to sign up for or pay a subscription to unlock. It's the microphone icon on your keyboard. Voice typing used to be a punchline. You'd say "meet me at three" and it would type "meet me that free," and you'd go right back to thumb-typing. But the transcription models running behind that little mic icon now are a completely different animal than the ones from five or six years ago — closer to the same family of speech models powering things like Whisper, tuned to run fast on your phone instead of a data center. The accuracy jump is real. Most people just never went back to check. I've written before about why new productivity apps tend to die by week three — usually because they ask you to build...