Wispr

You can talk a lot faster than you can write.

That’s uncontroversial. The controversial bit is: Would talking, rather than typing make you a more productive person?

That’s the thesis that Wispr is trying to answer. Wispr is a voice-to-text tool; just talk and Wispr will be able to turn those words into text on a page.

Voice-to-text feels like it has been around forever. There’s always been attempts to do it, there’s just never been a tool that’s been able to do it well.

Is Wispr suitable for a blog? Probably not. I like to play around and I’m quite a strong user of grammatical conventions. For example I love semicolons. I like brackets and I don’t know if I can really do that with Wispr.

What I do know is that it’s super useful for long-form prompts. For a lot of LLMs being able to give a really detailed prompt, even if it’s quite unstructured in your brain, seems to be more useful than a really tightly-calibrated one. Who’s got the time to write a six-paragraph prompt? I mean if you really have to do it then you will but it’s so easy just to talk into the microphone, go back and forth, and let the LLM sort it all out, especially if you’re using a frontier model.

I’ve been using Wispr Flow last week and I’m well over 3,000 words, including this very blog post. Honestly, I recommend giving it a go, you might like it.

If that sounds like something you’d be interested in, you can enjoy a free 14 day pro membership by using the link HERE. No credit card required.

Happy Wispring.