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Any improvements to voice to text? I use iPhone 13 Mini and so keyboard has always been hard to type on. But voice to text..man..it is an absolutly miserable ex

Any improvements to voice to text? I use iPhone 13 Mini and so keyboard has always been hard to type on. But voice to text..man..it is an absolutly miserable experience that I wish I could swap out for any other competitor. I normally don't complain that iOS/MacOS isn't customizable because the defaults are good enough to work for me but that voice to text man its like they completely forgot about it.

phoghed 11d ago
I use it constantly and it mostly works well for me since as long as I can remember. My biggest gripe with it is all the random ass commas it puts.
ilamont 12d ago
Hear hear. The insistence upon prioritizing names in my extensive contacts list as well as certain geographic names leads to so many unnecessary manual edits.
aschobel 12d ago
i’ve been using the beta for a few months now, and the speech to text is significantly better. Put in parentheses using apple speech to text Some stuff, as you can see, isn’t perfect :-) I don’t think it is parakeet v2 level, but it’s good enough to not be frustrating
coder543 12d ago
There is also a new, larger voice to text model available... but not for an old iPhone like the 13 mini. Only like the iPhone 17 Pro and above. The best workaround is a third party app that lets you run Parakeet V3 or Whisper on your phone. There are quite a few.
- matthewfcarlson 12d ago
  It’s by far the best speech to text I’ve ever used so I’m a fan
  - nati0n 11d ago
    Can you clarify, you like third party? Or you like the larger Apple model
- xattt 12d ago
  Dictus is one that I’ve been playing around with.
  - sneak 11d ago
    This is GREAT! It’s not possible to enable local-only dictation on iOS with the OS alone. :(
AgenticKeyboard 11d ago
try this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ghostspeech-agentic-keyboard/id6783482820 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ghostspeech-agentic-keyboard/i....
ericzawo 11d ago
Have you tried wispr flow?

phoghed 11d ago

I use it constantly and it mostly works well for me since as long as I can remember. My biggest gripe with it is all the random ass commas it puts.

ilamont 12d ago

Hear hear. The insistence upon prioritizing names in my extensive contacts list as well as certain geographic names leads to so many unnecessary manual edits.

aschobel 12d ago

i’ve been using the beta for a few months now, and the speech to text is significantly better. Put in parentheses using apple speech to text Some stuff, as you can see, isn’t perfect :-) I don’t think it is parakeet v2 level, but it’s good enough to not be frustrating

coder543 12d ago

There is also a new, larger voice to text model available... but not for an old iPhone like the 13 mini. Only like the iPhone 17 Pro and above. The best workaround is a third party app that lets you run Parakeet V3 or Whisper on your phone. There are quite a few.

matthewfcarlson 12d ago
It’s by far the best speech to text I’ve ever used so I’m a fan
- nati0n 11d ago
  Can you clarify, you like third party? Or you like the larger Apple model
xattt 12d ago
Dictus is one that I’ve been playing around with.
- sneak 11d ago
  This is GREAT! It’s not possible to enable local-only dictation on iOS with the OS alone. :(

AgenticKeyboard 11d ago

try this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ghostspeech-agentic-keyboard/id6783482820 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ghostspeech-agentic-keyboard/i....

ericzawo 11d ago

Have you tried wispr flow?