james

Hey everyone, quick one.

The iOS app is officially in open beta. You can grab it from TestFlight right now.

The biggest design question was how to make "hold a key, speak, release" work on a phone where there's no physical hotkey. The answer: a custom keyboard. You add Dictura as a keyboard on your iPhone, and from any app- Messages, Slack, WhatsApp, email, whatever- you tap the mic, speak, and the text goes straight into the text field. No switching apps, no copy-paste. Same flow as desktop, just adapted for mobile.

Translation works the same way. You pick your spoken language and up to 5 output languages, and tabs appear right on the keyboard. Speak in your language, tap the English tab, get clean English output. Switch tabs, same recording, different language. It just works.

With the advent of clawdbots, it's as if we've all lost our inhibitions and "put our lives completely in their hands."

I'm all for delegating work, but not giving them too much personal/sensitive stuff to handle.

We re officially in nominees season for the Orbit Awards: AI Workflow Automation.