David Pierce

The dictation thing I couldn't figure out is I've been reporting on these dictation apps like whisper flow a lot recently and people love them and they work really well.

And one of the things that has been astounding to me has been that Apple's dictation remains so terrible.

They said dictation.

That's about right.

Yeah.

No, they said dictation.

And then the demo they showed, and it's possible that I missed it, but the demo that they showed looked like AI text generation, which is not the same thing.

Like they did a demo where it was like, okay, you can open up a document and tell it what you want, and it will write the first draft of the document for me.

That's a feature.

I have no particular use for that, but that's a feature.

What I want is we made...

the actual speech to text dictation on the iPhone better.

And that's what I thought dictation would mean.

Maybe that's there and maybe I just missed the demo.

So please correct me if I'm wrong, but I started very excited about dictation and ended sort of disappointed unless I missed something.

Okay, that's that's devastating then if if they did not actually fix dictation.

Listen, it's it's like hilarious how bad the dictation is on an iPhone on my pixel.

I'm dictating text messages all day long.

People people hate getting them because my text messages are enormous.

But you know what?