Guides

How dictation actually works on a Mac, what breaks, and what fixes it. Written to be useful whether or not you use this app.

Accuracy

Why Mac dictation gets your words wrong — three different problems that all look like "bad accuracy", and how to tell which one you have.

Dictating code and technical terms — why dictation fails in a terminal, and why the fix is per-app behaviour rather than a better model.

Taglish dictation on a Mac — what two languages in one sentence do to a speech model, with real transcripts.

Privacy and offline use

What actually runs locally — how to check an "on-device" claim rather than trust it, and what running locally costs.

What a cleanup pass does to your transcript — the second stage of dictation, its failure modes, and measured numbers.

Accessibility

Hands-free typing with RSI — latching instead of holding a key, foot pedals, and where dictation still needs your hands.

Beyond dictation

A Pomodoro timer that writes your timesheet — focus blocks and breaks, with every sitting logged to a Markdown file per project.

Meeting notes with no bot in the call — both sides transcribed on your Mac, and no audio kept.

A voice to-do list — say a task with its time, and have it reach your phone through Apple Reminders.

An MCP server for your lists — let Claude Code or Codex read your tasks, notes, meetings and time log, with changing and deleting behind switches that start off.

Comparisons

Bunso vs macOS built-in dictation — thirty recordings through both, every transcript published.