Dictate: hold a key, talk, let go

Every dictation app I tried had the same two problems. I still fixed every third word, and the moment I switched from Spanish to English, it fell apart. I speak English, Spanish and French, often in the same sentence, so that second problem was the whole problem.

So I built Dictate. Hold a key, talk in whatever languages you speak, let go, and the words land wherever the cursor is.

What mattered

Accuracy across languages. Dictate is built on Soniox, which in my tests was the most accurate speech model for people who mix languages. Names and jargon you teach it stay right.

Speed. Words show up live while you talk and land about half a second after you let go. No spinner.

Nothing else. No account, no editor, no feed. One key and a small pill at the bottom of the screen.

Modes

Every dictation starts as a clean transcript, with the ums and false starts dropped. Tap ⇧ while you talk to switch modes: Chat for messages that sound like you, Code for a crisp prompt to a coding agent, Write for clear paragraphs. Each mode is a plain-language instruction you can edit.

It runs on the Mac, and there’s an iPhone keyboard too.