I'm with you. This is a "Yes, And..." tool. Dumbdown compliments existing solutions. TDLR: Dictation, transcription of voice input. First use case I thought

I'm with you. This is a "Yes, And..." tool. Dumbdown compliments existing solutions. TDLR: Dictation, transcription of voice input. First use case I thought of is voice transcription. Dictating HTML, markup, misc sucks. Dumbdown could make it practical. Better dictation has been on my mind a lot recently. Once I got a dog, I got A LOT more interested in audio & voice. Podcasts, audiobooks, voice commands. Now diving into using Siri Shortcuts for transcribing my Quantified Self stuff. eg I speak my weight and blood pressure, which creates entries in Health.app. Neat, right? Well, dictation of text messages truly sucks. No editing mode. There's no vi style out of band meta language to munge stuff afterwards. At least none that I've found. And Siri's auto carrot truly pisses me off. Not the mistakes, that's tolerable. What I can't handle is editing and correcting pops me out of whatever task I'm doing. For my Night Shift style ramblings, I now just use the voice recorder. Basically sending voice mails / memos to my future self. I feel stupid doing it. Always reminds me of a boss (Peter) who'd do this. Very clever strategy. But omg his messages made us worker bees howl. He'd call his home phone and say something "Hi, this is Peter, remember to buy milk. Bye bye." Like he wouldn't know it was himself calling. Gods, I still crack up thinking about it. Any way...