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Notes from the Voxor team

Research, measurements, and engineering notes on dictation, speech to text, and how the product actually works. No filler.

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Mac dictation does not stop after 30 seconds of talking. It stops after 30 seconds of thinking.

Apple documents the rule, and it is not the one most people repeat. Dictation ends after 30 seconds with no speech detected, which means the pause where you find the right word is what closes the session.

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A gold audio ribbon contained inside a black square while external cords stop short of its edge

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What Voxor sends to the cloud, and what Local Mode does not

What happens to your audio and transcript in cloud mode, what stays on your computer in Local Mode, and where the exceptions are.

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 A paper waveform entering a charcoal terminal card marked with a command prompt and cursor

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Dictating code: what changes when the text field is a terminal

A terminal gives every dash, quote, and space a job. Dictating into one requires a different kind of cleanup from dictating an email.

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 Loose index cards becoming an organized A-to-Z dictionary along a gold ribbon

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A dictation dictionary that builds itself

Custom dictionaries are useful, but maintaining one by hand is a chore. We wanted Voxor to learn the names and terms you already correct while you work.

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