Write by voice

Most people talk around 150 words a minute and type 40 or 50. That gap is the whole reason dictation works for a blank page. Speaking skips the part of your brain that wants to fix every sentence before it exists, so you get something down and shape it later. Curious about your own numbers? Try the words per minute test.

Dictated sentences also tend to read like a person talking, because that's what they are. For some writing that rhythm is exactly what you want. And if you write for hours a day, voice gives your wrists a break. Plenty of writers with RSI have moved to dictation entirely, and others switch back and forth depending on how their hands feel.

Drafting is the common one. Open your writing app, press the shortcut, and talk through the article or chapter. Super Mode cleans things up as you go, adding punctuation, trimming false starts, and giving the text some structure. You finish with a rough draft that's already closer to done than a raw transcript.

Journalists lean on it for interviews. Record a conversation live or drop in an audio file afterward, and you get a transcript good enough to pull quotes from. Voice Mode keeps things faithful to how you spoke, which suits journaling. Custom modes go further: a newsletter mode that adds headers, a fiction mode that leaves dialogue alone.

Then there's the small stuff. Email, Slack, a quick social post. Still writing, still eats your time. Saying a reply beats typing it, and the app works in those apps with no setup. Want to feel it in the browser first? The free talk to text tool runs the same idea without an install.

Voice Mode hands you raw transcription with punctuation and nothing else. Super Mode reads context, fixes grammar, and structures what you said. You can also build custom modes with your own system prompts for a specific format. The table below lays out where each one fits.

On-device models mean you can dictate on a plane or in a cabin with no signal. Audio never leaves your machine, so nothing gets uploaded while you draft. That local processing is also why Superwhisper holds up under SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA requirements, which matters if your notes touch sensitive material.

It runs on macOS, Windows, and iPhone, and types wherever your cursor sits. Google Docs, Word, Notion, Obsidian, Scrivener, Pages. No plugins, no extensions. Andrew Wilkinson, CEO of Tiny, put it on his short list of tools he can't live without, alongside Superhuman and ChatGPT.