Google released Google AI Edge Foresight, a free experimental note-taking app for macOS that transcribes meetings and audio files entirely offline using the company's on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model.…
Developer ahmedhmam1994 released VoxScribe, a free open-source Windows voice dictation app that transcribes speech locally using faster-whisper on the CPU and types the result directly into the focuse…
Frigade released Yap, an open-source, on-device dictation app for macOS 26 (Tahoe) on Apple Silicon, positioned as a private alternative to Wispr Flow. Yap uses Apple's on-device Speech framework, req…
A developer set up self-hosted, frontier-level dictation on an iPhone keyboard by running Alibaba's Qwen3-ASR 1.7B model through the open-source Diction gateway and Agent CLI on a home RTX 3090, after…
Wispr Advanced Interfaces Lab introduced Canto, a real-time dictation speech model that achieved the lowest word error rate among all models tested on a 10-hour evaluation set of English-language Wisp…
A developer released Code Dictator, a free VS Code extension that provides voice dictation for AI coding assistants, pasting transcribed text into Claude, Copilot, Codex, Cline, or any other chat tool…
A developer released Next Notes, a native macOS dictation and meeting-notes app that runs fully on-device, supporting Apple and Parakeet transcription plus deterministic or on-device LLM cleanup. The …
Cloudless Voice, an open-source dictation app for Mac, launched as a fully local alternative to Wispr Flow, processing audio entirely on-device to ensure privacy and offline functionality. The app fea…
Google introduced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, its most precise speech-to-text model, which powers the Rambler feature on Android and the Gemini app on macOS, and is available to developers via two APIs. Th…
AI dictation tools like Typeless and Wispr Flow clean up spoken text using large language models, but writer AstrianZ argues that composing at a keyboard is inseparable from thinking and revising, and…
Wispr, a five-year-old AI voice dictation company founded by Stanford University students, has reached a $2 billion valuation after a funding round, up from $700 million in November 2025. The company'…
Airtxt, a new dictation app priced at $9, claims to undercut Wispr Flow's $15 subscription while offering on-device or cloud processing, meeting transcription, and keyboard integration across all apps…
Google's Pixel 11 Pro Fold, featuring the new Rambler voice dictation in Gboard and an 8-inch inner display for controlling AI agents, is the best phone for AI builders, surpassing Apple and Samsung o…
Meta announced a new Mac app for Meta AI with system-wide dictation and screen-aware answers using its Muse Spark model. The app also lets business owners connect Instagram, Facebook, Meta ad campaign…
Wispr Flow raised $280 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures, valuing the AI voice-to-text startup at $2 billion, with total funding reaching $361 million. The company said users h…
Wispr AI, the company behind the AI dictation tool Wispr Flow, is in talks with Menlo Ventures to raise approximately $260 million at a $2 billion valuation, nearly tripling its $700 million valuation…
A developer used AI to diagnose and fix macOS performance issues, replacing paid third-party apps with custom-built alternatives in under an hour each, resulting in a faster system and lower costs. Th…
Google unveiled the Pixel 11 series at its Made by Google event in New York, featuring AI-powered tools such as the Rambler voice keyboard, Magic Capture photos, and multi-step task automation, while …
Wispr Flow, a voice-to-text AI startup, has reached a $2 billion valuation, according to the company's marketing materials. The product claims to be 4x faster than typing and works across all apps and…
Wispr, the startup behind dictation tool Wispr Flow, has launched Wispr Flow Notetaker, an AI note-taking assistant that records meetings and generates conversation summaries. The tool, which starts r…