Voice command instead of dictation.
Joe
There should be a feature that allows me to use my voice to issue commands. For instance, I could say, "Help me write this email," and then provide the email's content. The system would enhance that text instead of requiring me to dictate the entire email.
This can be implemented in two ways. If I press and hold a key, my voice will be transcribed as spoken. However, if I use a toggle shortcut, my voice will serve as a command rather than dictation.
The ideal scenario would be if it is able to use screen context, similar to Alter, which uses its own Appsense technology https://alterhq.com/docs#interacting-with-your-apps
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Guy Mannerings
On this note, the floating icon thing is kind of pointless. You can use it to record a message, but then it just copies to the clipboard.
You then have to go in to Brain Max, paste in the text, then run it.
Voice dictation when out of the Brain Max app should just happen. You should jsut be able to run commands or ask for answers, without any further interaction needed.
Yes, I can make the argument that, when you are IN the Brain Max app, you then take steps to confirm - so maybe it dictates in to the text box and you confirm with "go" - but if I am outside of the app, it should definitely just run those things.
(Or, if you have it turned on in a setting, stack those commands to check and run later - in line with another idea I posted elsewhere about having a backlog of commands to check then run.)
Guy Mannerings
I disagree with press and hold vs press and let go doing different things, though.
It should simply be whatever you ask at the beginning: "dictate the following...." vs something that is clearly an action.
Or a different key for dictate.
Reason: I use press+hold for short messages, and press+let go for long ones. I don't want to sit there holding the key for a long dictated message, and I don't want to sit there holding it for a long commanded action.
Guy Mannerings
Yep. This is, indeed, what I thought it would do.
Dictation is really not needed - Windows and Mac both already have that on a native level.
I really want to dictate commands and it do it.
Big use-case for me, like you, is taking a long rambling voice note and turning it in to whatever I ask.
E.g., "turn these thoughts in to a cohesive email with bullet points", or, "take these thoughts and turn them in to an outline for XYZ", etc.
This is what Letterly https://letterly.app/ does well. You can get it to turn it in to something formal, informal, bullet points, structured, etc. Whatever you ask, really.