Introducing Phrasora.

Dictation has been "almost there" for a decade. Speech recognition got fast and accurate, and yet most of us still type, because raw transcription gives you what you said, the ums, the false starts, the "no wait, Friday", when what you wanted was what you meant.

Phrasora is a dictation tool built around that difference. You hold a key, talk like a person, and let go. What lands in your document is finished writing: punctuated, capitalized, cleaned of filler, with your spoken corrections already applied.

What's measurably different.

We think dictation tools should publish numbers, so here are ours, measured on the production pipeline and committed to our repository as engineering reports:

• 871 ms median from key release to text inserted in your app; 1,149 ms at the 90th percentile.
• 2.33% median word error rate on 73 real-speech recordings, before cleanup fixes things.
• A learning proof, not a learning promise. Cold start, 15 specialized terms, all 15 misheard. After natural corrections, all 15 correct, with zero false insertions on text where those terms never appeared.
• It only steps in for a real spell-out. Say "new-win, N-G-U-Y-E-N" and you get "Nguyen", once. Dictate "option A or B" and nothing collapses, because nothing was a spelling, a word you actually said stays exactly as you said it.

Learning you can see.

Every dictation tool with a personal dictionary has the same quiet failure mode: it learns something wrong, silently, and you only find out when your text comes out mangled.

Phrasora announces every term it learns, the moment it learns it, a small chip that says what was added, with eight seconds to undo. The undo is real: it removes the term everywhere, on every device, and blocks it from being immediately re-learned. The dictionary also tracks what each term gets confused with, so it stays accurate at hundreds of entries instead of degrading.

Nothing gets lost.

If you dictate into a password field, or focus moves while you speak, or a paste lands nowhere your words are captured automatically to the Slate, a quiet notes surface that holds anything that couldn't land. We built a verifier that catches the worst case: the paste that reports success but never actually arrived. You spoke; you get the text. That's the contract.

Where it runs.

Native apps for Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android, Swift and Kotlin sharing one tested core, no web wrappers. The Mac and Windows apps are signed direct downloads with built-in updates, ready today. The iPhone and Android apps are in store review and land the moment it clears. See platform availability for where each download stands right now.

Getting in.

Phrasora is free for 2,000 words of dictation a week, no card required. When it becomes a habit, Pro is unlimited, and every new account starts with 14 days of Pro free, no card needed.

We'll keep publishing what we measure.