Dictation has been having a moment since Whisper's release in 2022. And I get it: in an ever-accelerating world, dictating at 150 words per minute instead of typing at 50 is appealing.
Yet despite using it on and off since then, something never quite clicked. Too many mistakes, too much missing context, and too many recognition errors. It wasn't reliable enough for me to use daily.
That changed a few weeks ago while I was using Raycast Dictation: I realized I had been treating these tools as a way to get magic transcriptions of my thoughts rather than as a way to create ready-to-use artifacts across my apps.
By that, I mean turning rambling thoughts directly into an output like this:
That's what we'll look at today: how to actually use dictation apps, build useful workflows, and develop habits that make it more reliable over time.
