Wispr Flow vs OpenAI

Wispr Flow is an AI dictation tool that works anywhere you can type. Speaking a paragraph is faster than writing a paragraph. Which sounds obvious, but most dictation tools have been so annoying and unreliable that I never actually changed how I worked because of them. Wispr Flow was the first one where I thought, "Oh, okay, this is actually faster."

I use it everywhere now. Slack, Instagram, review drafts, and random thoughts I need to get out fast. I hit my keyboard shortcut, talk, and it gives me clean text, so I can keep moving instead of stopping to fix every other sentence. That's the whole reason it stuck.

That reliability is the whole point. I tried other tools for years, and the pattern was always the same: I'd start dictating, it would miss half of what I said, and I'd end up repeating myself until I gave up. If a dictation tool makes you repeat yourself all day, you are not going to use it. The only way they're going to succeed is if it works flawlessly, and with Wispr Flow, it works pretty damn close to flawlessly on every device.

One detail I found interesting is that Wispr Flow's original vision was apparently even bigger. They were trying to build toward a wearable that could turn your thoughts into text through muscle movement, but the tech is not there yet. So this is the step before that: you speak, it writes. Once you get used to it, it makes a huge difference in your day-to-day.

I think in the near future we will all be talking to our devices more than typing.

OpenAI is general artificial intelligence. You can ask it questions, and it'll answer them, like a human. You can ask it to write code for you, and it'll build it, all while explaining the why and how.

Engineering friends of mine are worried that it'll replace their job, and yet they are using it to become a better engineer (using it to teach them different coding languages).

It's amazing as to what will be made possible with it, and the demo video below between Slack + OpenAI + Motion is just a tiny glimpse into where you can see it intelligently improving our every-day processes.

The craziest thing of it all, anyone can use it, and you don't even need to be technical to use it. Just visit ChatGPT here and start asking it questions. You'll be amazed by what it can do. If you're more technical, then be sure to check out the actual API and see where you can fit it into what you're building (I mean everyone else is).