Wispr Flow: AI Voice Keyboard

Hi. On my phone Wispr Flow is hearing VoiceOver and inserting that text into my output. I think I can get around that by turning speech off, but is there a better way?

Probably the only way is the usual way: using a headset or earbud like AirPods. You could also try an external microphone, like a lapel style that you clip on. This would allow Wispr Flow to tell which voice is the more dominant (closer) one. If just using iPhone microphone and speakers, it can't tell.

Even if you have a Bluetooth or wired microphone connected to your iPhone, the Wispr Flow app uses the iPhone's built-in microphone as default; however, you can change this in the application settings.

So I'm gonna ask the obvious question here. How is this different to dictating into ChatGPT apart from convenience? I'll give you an example. What I tend to do when I'm sending a long message is dictate into ChatGPT. I don't send it. I just use the dictation feature built into ChatGPT, copy the text, and paste it into the app.

It sounds like this thing is a keyboard, and you just dictate into it, no matter what app you are using. Now, when you're dictating with ChatGPT, while the dictation is running, VoiceOver goes to the earpiece. Useful for some cases, although I suppose if you are hard of hearing, then that's going to be a bit difficult.

This entire message is being dictated using ChatGPT. I'm not sending it off to get it corrected. I'm just dictating.

mind you, I am stopping the dictation to formulate my thoughts before resuming, but I think everyone does that, even when typing, unless you know for sure what you want to say.

I know what some of you are probably saying, you don't have to use it, and you're right, I don't have to use it. And I don't use it. But I'm already paying for ChatGPT, which pretty much does the same thing.

a few extra steps just to get what you've dictated into the app of your choice, I consider that a small price to pay.

Oh, and here's another bit of convenience for you. If you are typing into a keyboard, people see you are typing when you are typing a message, for example. But when you dictate into ChatGPT, copy the text, and then paste it into, say, WhatsApp or iMessage or Facebook Messenger, whatever app you use for messaging, I'm not even sure if they see the so-and-so is typing a message. They will probably see it for as long as the text is in the edit field, and then you hit send. And then they are probably thinking, how did that person write all of that text in three seconds, when the reality is, they didn't.

More than one way to do a task. Isn't modern software great? Wispr Flow is officially a keyboard so it can type in edit fields, which is convenient. Sadly, Apple has added security steps which is good, but no way to permanently approve your app you want to use which is bad, so using a microphone enabled keyboard on iOS is not as convenient as it could be.

Hi kool_tur, is ChatGPT properly punctuating your messages? It sounds like I have the wrong impression that my phone was passing messages into ChatGPT and not properly punctuating them.

Hi Jim, for the phone, you will need to be a little bit careful because sometimes ChatGPT tends to put in little phrases at the end of your messages. I don't know why it does that. Maybe it interprets sounds around the room as speech. Who knows? I usually end up deleting those anyway manually. For some reason, it always inserts something like, thank you for watching, or thank you for listening. little phrases like that. I'm dictating all of this into ChatGPT right now, and if you pause in the right places, most of the time, it does a decent enough job.

I'll admit, I had to do a little bit of proofreading with this message, mainly because I'm speaking quietly. The microphone is about an arm's length away from where I'm sitting.

I'm also talking quietly because I don't want to wake up the rest of the household. It's after midnight here as I dictate this. I really should be typing it instead of dictating, but I just wanted to show you what it's capable of when you use normal dictation. And I'm also not pronouncing punctuation. All I'm doing is speaking normally.

And I thought I had to send all my messages to ChatGPT. I never thought to do dictation like this because I thought the on-screen button was using SIRI or whatever Apple's dictation uses.

Hopefully this works. I'm dictating while converting a video at the same time. The fan on the computer is currently going nuts. It usually does when it converts a video. So, hopefully this turns out alright. There's two buttons for dictation. One is the normal Apple dictation one, and the other one is the one for ChatGPT. I think you'll be able to tell which one's which, because when you are dictating using ChatGPT, it will transfer voiceover to the earpiece. Not perfect for some people, but it works. I suppose if you really want to get around that, just use headphones when you know you're going to dictate. The only drawback with dictating into ChatGPT is if you are in a crowded room. Say, I was once in a crowded room, in a hospital ward, of all places, and it picked up the conversation from the people next to me. Like I said, not the best place to do dictating. I suppose you could whisper into it as well, but sometimes when you whisper... certain words like drain and train get mixed up by the model, but it's small things like that that you can usually fix manually. That is, if you take the time to fix things manually. I've seen a lot of people on here just dictate and not proofread before sending. I usually proofread before sending. That's just how I work. But again, I'm dictating all of this into ChatGPT, and I just stumbled over my words, so hopefully it didn't get tripped up. If it did, I'll just go back and edit it manually. But it does work quite well. I also find when I'm dictating, I tend to ramble, and forum messages end up being much longer because of it. But I think that's a me problem than a typing problem. I don't ramble when I'm typing. I ramble when I'm dictating. But you don't have to send it off into ChatGPT unless you want to actually get it to clean up your forum post and make it more professional. But what I'm doing now is dictating and rambling, it seems. So I will end right here.
PS, only needed minor editing this time, and again, no need to speak punctuations out loud.