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Richard Sibley

I think faster than I type but this game-changing app captures all my words

Otter AI app in use on a smartphone display, clean background.

About 15 years ago, I discovered an incredible productivity hack - I can talk at a million words an hour, which is significantly faster than I can clumsily type. As a journalist and reviewer, what I needed to increase my productivity was voice dictation software. 

There was only one option for Mac OS at the time - Dragon Dictate (Sadly, now discontinued but you can still use Dragon Professional on Windows). After an hour of reading the Dragon scripted text into a microphone, I was ready to start talking instead of typing. The result was that it significantly reduced the time it took me to write articles, but what I really wanted was the ability to do this on my phone. 

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