[jinay]

I used to think that typing speed was not really that important, especially when now we have so many LLMs doing the typing for us. But honestly, now I think it's even more important because the specificity and detail in your prompts are paramount to getting a good response, and something like a dictation tool (which is what I'm using right now) is really good for generating very specific prompts.

In fact, I wrote all this out using a dictation tool in ~20 seconds (258 WPM).

[arcanemachiner]

Agreed. I installed Whisper on my Linux computer with a program called SpeechNote. The dictation is all done offline, and it is astonishingly good.

I also have a whisper dictation app on my Android phone (the app's ID string is 'org.woheller69.whisper', there's a few Whisper apps with the same name "Whisper", but this one is my favorite).

FWIW this was typed by hand on my phone, but these apps are both amazing.

[carlinm]

Curious, what dictation tool are you using?

[jinay]

https://github.com/JinayJain/dictator

Built one for myself. It's context-aware and promptable.

Tested well on Linux, not so much on other platforms but in theory should support them.

It's a bit meta but I wrote it mostly using Claude Code. Once I had an MVP, I was able to prompt much faster by just speaking out what I wanted it to change.

[carlmr]

Same, 258wpm is something.

[arcanemachiner]

FYI I wrote a comment in the same thread where I described the tools I use (TLDR: Whisper).