Voice Is My New Keyboard

For a while I was using handy.computer. Genuinely good. But the latency always showed. It takes its time getting around the edges. Not a dealbreaker, but enough that I gave Wispr Flow a try.

That try changed everything.

Now voice is the primary source of almost everything I do. I always spoke a lot, but Wispr Flow is different. With dictionaries and precise transformations, it actually follows my style. I can get my thoughts out without stopping to correct the words I just said.

A few weeks in, I’ve dictated 35,574 words at a 22-day streak, averaging 136 words per minute across 27 apps. I’ve already made back what I paid for it.

Drafting an email. Coding. Building an app. Sharing feedback. Literally everything. The thought process feels more natural now, and Wispr Flow combines it with clean formatting so my ideas come out clear. It quietly auto-fixes a lot along the way.

There’s one catch. If the internet is slow or gone, Wispr Flow struggles, and I fall back to handy. As a dev I’m rarely on my laptop without a connection, so it’s not a big deal for me, but it’s the one real drawback.

Everything else, I love.

Speed is the thing I care about most, and I keep a small club of tools that respect it. Raycast for everything: launching apps, shortcuts, the whole flow. It’s a no-brainer, my default. Shottr for screenshots, the best screenshot tool on Mac right now. And Wispr Flow just joined the club for getting thoughts out of my head. That’s the stack.

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