Short answer: Jordan Metzner says he types about 60 words a minute, while Wispr Flow measures him at about 160 dictating, in multiple languages. Sam Nadler says its dictionary learns business names and he uses it daily.
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From Episode 1: How We Built an AI Video Studio in 3 Days, starting at 29:10.
Sam Nadler [29:09]: Great. Let's transition to and this is somewhat unrelated, but I guess in some use cases could be related. What is just one of your favorite AI tools? I know it's probably, a tool that's been out there for a while. People may have heard of it, but maybe they haven't. I encounter a lot of people who haven't heard of this tool and absolutely love it immediately. Tell me about one of your this favorite tool that we use quite frequently.
Jordan Metzner [29:37]: Okay. So are we jumping into tool of week? Right? Yeah. Okay. Cool. So let me just open, something like a new doc just so I have kind of an empty space to type and write. And I'll just make it a little bit bigger. But, I type like pretty fast. I've done some typing tests. I do about like 60 words a minute, which I think is pretty good. I'm definitely on like the 80 or 90 words a minute, which is really hard, but I definitely seen a lot of developers or even non developers like be able to type that fast. But I can certainly talk fast and so, dictation on the Mac has been around for pretty much for a really long time, like, Nuance and Dragon, there's been a ton of applications around that. I think Apple bought that company a long time ago. And so when I first tried to, like, add dictation into my Mac, I turned on, like, the Apple dictation under, like, accessibility, and it's really clunky.
Jordan Metzner [30:35]: It, misses words. It's kinda like on my iPhone. I kinda have the same type of problems. Like, it's a little clunky and, like, miss words and things like that. And then, yeah, I was reading on Twitter about like a vibe coder who uses this tool to like help him vibe code and yeah, basically what it allows you to do is simply, like, talk to your computer and it types. I'm gonna show you the website real quick. That's called Wispr Flow. Announced yesterday, they just raised a bunch of money, so, maybe this is, perfect timing. See here, raised, 30,000,000. It's pretty cheap. I think it's like $10 a month a user, something like that. Maybe they changed their pricing a little $12. Yeah. So, not too bad. And let me just show you how it works. So what you do is you like assign a key on your keyboard and, I'll show you an example. But, once you hit that key, you'll get a little hot button down here that'll talk. And this is just a quick example of how using Wispr Flow will allow you to type and put text on the screen faster than typing it. And so all I did was just talk that out and I was able to get a perfect sentence without having any errors. And what's really cool for me is I'm bilingual.
Jordan Metzner [31:53]: I speak a lot of Spanish as well. So with Wispr Flow, you can put on multiple languages. So you can say, like, Wispr Flow And so I can just do something like that, and, it'll basically do it really quickly and certainly much faster than I type. And I think according to the Wispr Flow app, I'm about like a 160 words a minute. So, three to four times faster than if I was typing and, still probably two times faster than the fastest people who are typing. I found it works really great for me for writing emails. It you know, sometimes I don't wanna write emails because I just kind of, like, don't wanna type that much out, so it's really helpful for that. Also, it's helpful where if I'm writing an email, I might talk it out and then use ChatGPT to help me, like, improve the email before I send it. It's obviously great for vibe coding whether using Cursor, Bolt, or Lovable, or some of these other tools, but, simply just talk right back to your application. And I think it kind of all brings back to kind of what I showed you earlier using Replit, which is, I use this just all the time, inside the agent tool just trying to find improvements and things like that.
Jordan Metzner [33:00]: I'll just talk to it. So, yeah, I found it super helpful. Sometimes I'll not click in the right box, and I'll I'll miss talk, but they recently added some features where you can kind of like copy and paste your previous talk out loud. So, yeah, I found it to be a great tool. It's really helped me move along faster. I don't know. What do you think, Sam? I mean Yeah. Has it helped
Sam Nadler [33:19]: I mean, you introduced Wispr Flow, I don't know how long ago, probably three months ago, four months ago and it's a tool I now use daily. I mean, what I love about it is when you have to chat with ChatGPT or Claude and you have to provide a lot of context to your prompt in like really any use case, like the more context and guidance and structure you give the prompt, usually a better outcome. And typing that out can just require minutes and minutes of effort. Whereas if I'm just speaking it out, I can kinda get my thoughts all out. Maybe I just, ship as is or just go in and tweak and edit a little bit. The other really cool feature that I love about it is I think it's I don't remember the exact terminology. I think it's called dictionary. It begins to learn specific terms that you use. Specifically for us, we have business names that, may or may not make sense. But, once it learns that that's your business name, it captures it quickly and records it quickly.
Sam Nadler [34:23]: So I find that really helpful. And overall, yeah, I just I think, even in Slack, sometimes I have a somewhat long Slack message I wanna write a coworker and it's just easier to whisper it out quickly. Punctuation is great. So overall, I think it's a great tool to significantly increase productivity and actually get more from AI.
Jordan Metzner [34:47]: Do you think like this is something like Apple could like Sherlock, like Apple could improve their like voice to, text to speech or voice to text or whatever this is, I guess, and kind of eliminate the need for Wispr Flow?
Sam Nadler [35:00]: Absolutely. I mean, they're, a company that's fully capable of doing that, but, when are they going to do it? I mean, look at Siri, there's so many improvements that Siri could, happen. I know totally kind of different solution, but, know, people are using Wispr Flow. They just raised $30,000,000, I think yesterday. So, yeah, I do think Apple could significantly improve their dictation. But when or if it's a priority for them, who knows?
