Totally understandable, but I’ve found that software that transcribes everything after I finish recording actually works better for me. I’ve tried both kinds, and systems that continuously type what I’m saying distract me from completing my thought. I end up reading what’s being typed and noticing transcription mistakes instead of focusing on what I’m trying to say.

I often prefer to dictate everything in my head about a particular thing for 5–10 minutes and then go through it afterward. I find that much more useful because it doesn’t break my thought process the way continuous transcription does.

I can understand both modes. I mostly use transcription as input for my AI assistant and there I find it very useful to be able to check my input and just repeat myself in case something wasn’t fully captured. When using Apple’s transcription feature built into iOS and macOS, I also really like being able to edit everything right while the dictation is still active.

Dream would be a combination of AI models that are smart like a human transcriber. One can just tell the model what mistakes it has made (e.g. "No, you wrote XYZ but I meant WXY"), and it is intelligent enough to realize when it is being instructed and when it needs to transcribe exactly what I say.