I really like this app. So useful. My problem with the latest versions is that “whispering” doesn’t work as it did with earlier versions (I can’t point to a specific version unfortunately and not sure if my macOS upgrades has also affected this or not). There are times I need to dictate but can’t be loud so I just whispered and dictation was working reliably. But now, out of for example 5 sentences i whisper in one go, the model gets only the first one which is weird.

I am a avid user of dictation on my Mac using it every day, many times throughout the day and I found the Mac native dictation, albeit improved, still very limited, and also kept messing up a lot of words and I always had to go back and adjust things especially if it was more than one sentence. So I tested out the 5 popular dictation apps and this one is easily the best bang for your buck. It doesn't mess up my words, and I am able to add my own vocabulary/names. It allows you to do the key important things that the other dictation apps also allow you to do without all the extra transcription stuff and larger costs. If you want better dictation this is the app. I have no affiliation with this app or the developers… this is just a really good app.

I really want to like this program. Really. But the way it works isn't very helpful. The quality of the transcription seems to be excellent. But the handling of punctuation leaves a lot to be desired, period. as you can see from the previous sentence. The program seems to bundle up a few seconds of audio. The program tunes to bundle up a few seconds of audio. and then transcribe it. The transcription itself goes very quickly. But it should be able to do that on smaller sections of audio. Also, comma, it should not be guessing your punctuation. This makes it useless for writing. This program is, I think, off to a good start. But it needs a lot more refinement. I'm not asking for a budget version of Dragon from this, comma. But it can get closer. I'm looking forward to trying it in the future. when it is closer to complete.

This review was made with Apple's sequoia dictate built into the OS. I can see what I'm typing in real time whereas this program I have to wait for transcription. I tried the real time transcription and it was horrible. It did not get things correct. So why would I spend $20 for something that's already built into the OS? I'm not using my hands at all to type this review. I guess maybe if you have a Mac that doesn't support this feature and this program does then it would be very useful. You can also add custom words and transcribe files, which wasn't perfect, but did work if you needed those features, I guess it's OK. I use a different program for transcribing files personally so I will be removing this as it's functionality is basically built into the OS. And I did use the largest model as well.