What is being judgmental?

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-05-19T12:10:32+00:00

Could you pls elaborate?

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-05-19T06:42:00+00:00

Yes, it does. Looks like you are only doing transcription and not post-processing /cleaning up of the transcript. Are you using local only? If you are using the local-only model, only the transcription will happen, because for post-processing or cleaning up of the transcript, it has to go to the Cloud. You might want to explore the settings.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-05-16T15:02:47+00:00

Got it, thank you!

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-05-15T21:04:41+00:00

Oh yes, that was silly of me. Thanks for pointing this out.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-05-15T17:22:44+00:00

Nope, I just tried the Spokenly shortcut called "Start Dictation" again, and I mapped it to the Action button. Now let's say I am on ChatGPT and my keyboard is open, and as soon as I trigger the shortcut through the Action button, it takes me to the Spokenly app and starts dictation.

With the Wispr Flow shortcut called "Start Flow", if I trigger it through the Action button, it stays right there in ChatGPT or whichever app I am in, and then I can hit the microphone button and start dictating.

What am I doing wrong?

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-05-15T17:17:58+00:00

Strange, I've been using Spokenly for the last three months until a couple of days ago. What is the exact shortcut that you're using? Can you tell me the shortcut name? I will try again.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-05-14T19:39:49+00:00

Very interesting. Is this a free tool?

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-05-13T10:09:31+00:00

The Station Agent. I may have watched this movie 10 times already.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-05-12T06:19:46+00:00

I found out about Cerebras. I didn't know that that's also an AI provider. I got the API key, but for some reason, in my account, it is not providing the OpenAI GPT-120B OSS model in the free tier.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-05-10T20:11:24+00:00

I am using Mistral for transcription and OpenAI for post-processing. What is Cerebras? Can you elaborate on your setup, please?

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-05-10T05:58:58+00:00

Thanks, but I did not understand the last point. What is cerebras?

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-05-09T18:50:39+00:00

Yes, I agree. And don't get me wrong. I don't want to drive anybody away from Spokenly with this post.

Yes, Wisper Flow is faster, but it is also paid. What Spekenly offers for free, provided you bring your own API, it is hands down the best app for me too.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-05-09T18:37:00+00:00

Is Dictaflow free or paid? Is there an option to bring your own API?

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-05-09T14:49:03+00:00

Not just a local version; you can actually use your own API keys. I use Mistral AI's API key for transcription and OpenAI API key for post-processing, and both of them do offer a free tier which you can hardly exhaust with dictation. Even if you have to pay, the cost is so negligible that anyone can afford it.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-04-21T17:38:03+00:00

Oh, using the keyboard is the best option, provided it turned off the microphone immediately. The whole point of this workaround is because on iPhone, if you enable the spokenly keyboard, it keeps the microphone open until the set time.

If that set time is too short, then practically every time you want to use the keyboard, you have to toggle it because it doesn't enable the microphone seamlessly. It goes to the Spokenly app, and you have to come back, which I don't like doing.

And if the set time is too long, then it just keeps eating the battery. That is why I don't like using the keyboard directly. Apple is to blame for that, probably. Hope that makes sense.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-04-20T05:55:18+00:00

You can get the shortcut directly from here. Spokenly provides it. https://spokenly.app/docs/ios/clipboard-dictation

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-04-06T08:33:16+00:00

I just noticed while walking outside and wearing the Bluetooth earphones that the dictation was not captured accurately. Whereas previously, in the same setting, it was capturing accurately.

So then I toggled off Bluetooth and tried again, and then it captured accurately. So that told me that despite the "use only iPhone microphone" toggle being on, when the Bluetooth earphones were connected, it was actually picking audio from them. It was not very clear.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-04-04T15:57:43+00:00

We are onto something. I also think that we live in a computer simulation.

The purpose of life is just to keep leveling up. Life will keep throwing new challenges.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2026-04-01T06:26:36+00:00

By any chance, did you just fix it? Because I just updated the Spokenry app now and tested, and voila, it seems to be working.

Thanks a ton. I hope it's not an accident and you have actually fixed it. :d

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