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John Birmingham on his Whisper Dictation Journey
John Birmingham, on sixcolors.com:
Recently, I switched from Dragon, which had been baked into Microsoft Word, to MacWhisper Pro, an LLM-based app for macOS. I was already trying out a writing experiment, switching from apocalyptic novels to, er, spy romances, so I figured it was a good time to try some experimental dictation, too.
I was stunned by the results.
Forgot to post this a few months back, but still very relevant. John Birmingham is an author. He writes for a living. He’s journey is less anecdotal that for some of us.
I’ve been using MacWhisper Pro for about six months now, so I feel confident saying the changes I’ve seen are deep and structural. This isn’t a novelty bump. It’s a genuine shift in how I work and how much I can produce without burning out.
I strongly believe that voiced based interfaces are going to be important over the next 10 years. As we voice input approach keyboard input reliability, it will cover even more scenarios.