My 3 favorite AI tools for voice dictation while vibe coding - and one is free

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  • Fast self-correction matters more than raw accuracy alone.
  • Wispr Flow led on corrections, vocabulary, and reliability.
  • Free, local FluidVoice nearly matched the paid winner.

Since February, I have dictated 120,896 words. In the last three months alone, I have dictated 50,234 words. I've done this across 2,314 individual microphone recording sessions, averaging about 24 words per dictation sequence.

With improvements in AI, dictation quality, speed, and accuracy have come a long way. Over the years, I've tried to work with speech recognition many times, but it hasn't been very successful until quite recently.

A typical article is roughly a thousand words. So if you look at it that way, I have dictated the equivalent of roughly 120 articles since February.

Also: 7 surprisingly useful ways to use ChatGPT's voice mode, from a former skeptic

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