Word-for-word dictation
Dictation that doesn't change your words
You said one thing. The text says something close to it. If that's annoyed you, you've met AI clean-up, and rawflo is built without it.
Why dictation started rewriting you
The newer dictation tools run what you say through a language model before it reaches the page. It drops the ums, fixes false starts, smooths sentences and sometimes reorders them. For a quick email that can be handy. It's also a guess about what you meant, made by something that wasn't in your head.
Most of the time the guess is close. The trouble is the times it isn't, because you rarely notice. The text reads well, so you send it.
When the exact words matter
- Prompting AI. A prompt tidied before the AI reads it is a different prompt. Emphasis, hedges and the order you said things in all change the answer.
- Code and technical work. Names, terms and odd phrasing are exactly what a clean-up step "corrects".
- Writing in your own voice. Your rhythm and repeats are the style. Smoothed out, it stops sounding like you.
- Notes, quotes and records. What someone said, as they said it, not a tidier version.
How rawflo does it
Press a key, talk, press it again. Your speech goes to the speech-to-text model and the words it hears go straight to wherever you're typing. There is no second step where an AI rewrites them. Punctuation is the only thing added.
- Ums are your call. Keep them for a true record, or switch them off. Switching them off removes the fillers and changes nothing else.
- Names, heard right. Add the names and terms you use and rawflo listens for them. It never swaps a word for one it prefers.
- Fast either way. Your words arrive about a third of a second after you stop talking.