I do most of my writing out loud. Messages, emails, AI prompting, notes to myself etc. Half of it happens at night, talking quietly into my phone because others are asleep in the next room and I do not want to wake them just to answer a message. For a long time I used the big and free dictation apps. The cleanup was fine until I kept catching sentences that were not what I said. Nothing dramatic, just small changes in meaning here and there that I could not send without checking and fixing. So I proofread everything anyway. And when I mixed multiple languages mid-sentence, which is how I actually talk, it often came back mangled, or translated into weird English words when I had never asked for that. The annoying part is that the tool was supposed to save me time. If I have to fix what it writes, I might as well type it myself. At some point I stopped complaining and started building the thing I actually wanted. It is called Olomo (https://olomo.app). You talk the way you talk, rambles, restarts, changing your mind mid-sentence, and it writes back what you meant. It still rewords things with intention and care, that is what cleanup is. It just does not get to change the meaning. I might be biased but I’ve been using this for a few months almost every day and after a lot of fine-tuning, I can say that now I barely need to fix the wording. Obviously there are free dictation apps everywhere now. A lot of them run a local model on your own device, a few gigabytes to download first, or they are just not very good at transcription and the cleanup. I could have built the cheap version too. But what I wanted was quality, words that come back ready to send, not only about beating the cheapest price out there. After all, the cheapest one is already there - your device built-in dictation. That’s totally fine if that’s all you need. Don’t take my word for it. The easiest way to see the difference is to test it on your own dictation. Take one messy message, run it through the dictation app of your choice and through Olomo, and compare what comes back. It is free to try Olomo. The app is improving every day, and a lot of the changes come from people writing in with what annoyed them. If you try it and something feels off, tell me. Fixes land fast. If you dictate a lot, whether it’s in one language or multiple, I would genuinely like to know what your current app gets wrong. Give it a try!   submitted by   /u/CapableAd8612 [link]   [comments]