Willow on IOS - Write 5x faster with voice dictation now Available on iOS

Congrats on the launch! That’s a serious technical milestone. How did you get Willow to outperform Apple’s built-in dictation by 3x on mobile?

Using Willow to write this comment. Love Willow!!

Huge congrats on the iOS launch! Curious — how does Willow handle long-form dictation? Can it maintain context across longer paragraphs?

I've been using Willow for months now since @joparisot recommended it. I can't even type anymore now. So thrilled to get it on my iPhone !

Fantastic, I'm hooked on iOS! Will you be releasing a Windows version anytime soon? @Willow Voice

Great app! It would be very useful to have voice control. For example, I’m writing text in Google Docs and need to find something in the text to reference it, or check a fact to use it, or just switch between apps.

I've been using Willow Voice since its YC demo day and I love it. Been waiting for the iOS app. I use it to free associate ideas to chatGPT and let it untangle them into coherent thoughts. I'll use it for voice-to-text on my phone with this app (which I don't do now because voice-to-text is somehow still awful). Very excited, big supporter of this tool.

Hello Allan,

It appears that I have to keep my finger on the function button while talking to you. That's an interesting thing I suppose. That will help with the ADD and not losing focus. There's one less hand to start painting walls or I don't know, crocheting a scarf.

Anyway, I sent you an email yesterday, probably wordy and probably horribly dictated because I wasn't using Willow at the time...No, kind of couldn't it just not be playing ball and there wasn't any help site for iOS . As you can tell, I've got it working. There were interesting things that weren't logical to me to get it that way, but we got there. Yes, it's so much more accurate at dictation, even with my British voice, and I haven't noticed a British setting yet for pronouncing words like "tomato" or "tomato." I know that won't work what I just said anyway (Just imagine courgette versus zucchini here and you'll kind of get the idea).

Clearly you're growing like topsy. Good luck! I love the concept, and my friends will probably love you even more due to my appalling typing or dictation.

EG I told a team of electricians working on my smart home that" we can look forward to anal on Tuesday". As a member of the Gay Society, or whatever the current PC term is (practicing homosexual is just a ridiculous term), I've already had to be gently cautious with the tradesmen, or tradies as we say in Australia, who, somehow when they're in your house, you can tell there's a frisson of nervousness. But sending them that email has just jumped them well beyond frisson. ............. It's a shame, as it would have been excitement from telling them as I've talked the local AC system expert *Anil* into joining us on site.

Ooh, I already like holding the function key down. It focuses me on getting the talking bit done and you don't accidentally get distracted, start making a cup of tea and discover you've accidentally karaoke'd the entire lyrics to something You wouldn't want people knowing it's on your song list.

I've yet to discover the hey Willow function, which sounds a lot of fun. But I should pace myself. On iOS, I've got it going but it kept jumping out after a couple of seconds when it looked like it was in the 'I'm listening' mode and going back to your Willow app. I assumed that was because I'd run out of free time, but looking at my profile now, I haven't, so there are a couple of bugs in there still.But hey, you've got to subscribe early out of it.

I'll shut up now. Julian.