macOS Dictation

“The default mac dictation tool that ships with Mac and every other device has been good for an over ~5yrs”

“Apples voice-to-text still isn't good compared the what I used to have on my Android phone”

“I am little disappointed with the eventual release. It's not a disaster”

“works at least as well and as quickly as Handy or GhostPepper”

“the quality and latency of those Apple services in MacOS is way lower than SOTA”

“it is an absolutly miserable experience that I wish I could swap out for any other competitor”

“just use built-in dictation”

“cuz normal thing works great”

“sends information like your voice input, contacts, and location to Apple.”

“The biggest issue is that it still executes parts of it online via Apple's servers”

“it can never do things like learn slang, change the punctuation based on the input box, filter filler words”

“being able to edit everything right while the dictation is still active”

“in most apps it's identical to typing as you speak”

“Just tested it and it works locally and offline”

“Dictation on iOS requires uploading your address book to Apple on every request, even if you don't use iCloud.”

“it seems to be doing an even better job of correcting itself”

“apple's thing is not upto scruff, like mistranslating words corresponding to a domain”

“iOS speech-to-text dictation refuses to write my 'um's and 'uh's with no way to change that behavior”

“the typo rate was high enough that I was constantly going back to fix things”

“macOS already has a dictation feature that does this exact thing, albeit in real time.”

“The streaming dictation they also added in that release is also much appreciated although occasionally buggy.”

“The only advantage I find to Apple's stt is less friction.”

“Apple dictation on MacOS is actually pretty dang good.”

“yup, this is how I 'type'”

“macOS dictation mutes other sounds while it's running. This is a deal-breaker for me.”

“I use the baked in Apple transcription and haven't had any issues.”

“macOS does native, local TTS dictation pretty well.”

“Its quality isn't great, but it is damn fast and that matters a lot!”

“It even pulls last names from my address book and spells them right.”

“Siri/iOS-Dictation is truly good when it comes to understanding the speech.”

“Apple’s built-in dictation and most other apps don't come close in terms of accuracy”

“The one built in is much faster, and you only have to toggle it on.”

“it tries to guess when commas or full stops should be added and it's horrible”

“it does awkward things, like the streaming text shows up at the bottom of the screen”

“But, OSX does come back and fix things.”

“Besides being trash as others said, there’s a trade off with real time transcription word by word”

“MacOS built in dictation is OK, but struggles with technical language.”

“macOS has Dictation built-in, when you short press F5 it should start transcribing your spoken words into text in real time.”

“dictation is actually great for that”

“the dictation built into the iOS keyboard very rarely has a problem with my accent”