Over the years I have tried many ways of dictating to my phone or computer. Back in the day Dragon Dictate used to be pretty good. But even that struggled with my funny Scottish accent. I have also been a big user of Siri on my phone or my watch. I use it all the time to remind me to do things, to reply to messages and occasionally to dictate short stretches of text.
Although it has improved a lot over the years it still makes mistakes and depending on the mistake I can’t always remember when I go back to look at the text what I was trying to say.
But I am writing this post because I do feel that I have now found the perfect solution. It’s a new app called Whisper Memos which uses Open AI functionality to understand the text that I voice onto my watch or phone and after a couple of seconds comes back with a truly remarkable, accurate transcription. I’m dictating this on it and I’ve not had to change a thing!
The Obvious? 
Oooh – it’s very good, isn’t it! My first attempt was full of extraneous words, for the simple reason that I’ve got used to dictating punctuation, ‘new paragraph’, and so on. If you do that here, it just includes what you’ve said, word for word!
So I’m not sure if there *is* a way to include a line break…
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It makes its own attempt at putting in paragraph breaks, as it did correctly in my blog post. Not always right but easy to adjust.
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Sounds great Euan! I have been struggling with all my various voice recognition assistants too and especially recently (who knows why they have got less reliable). I will give this one a try, so thanks.
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Let me know how you get on with it
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Thanks for this, Euan. Since my mid-60s I have been dealing with essential tremors in my hands. There have been numerous times when I couldn’t easily type on a standard keyboard and I’ve been using Swype on my phone for years. It’s especially frustrating because I used to type around 80 wpm. When I returned to Rocketdyne for two years back in 2015, there were days when I could not easily log onto my computer at work because my hands were shaking so violently. I had to hunt and peck or, as a former girlfriend who had been a USO entertainer in Vietnam used to refer to it, search and destroy, with one finger to get my day started.
At any rate, I’ve installed the app on my phone, lock screen, and my Apple watch. I’ve added it as a complication on one of my watch faces in place of voice memos. Hopefully, it will allow me to up my game a wee tad. Thanks again for sharing.
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Excellent! Happy to help.
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