Introducing Monologue for iOS

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I built a smart dictation app that thousands of people use every day. The most prolific users speak more than 5,000 words a day—the equivalent of more than two hours of typing saved.

But because Monologue only lived on Mac desktops, I couldn’t use dictation on my own phone, one of the places where I do the most typing every day.

Apple’s built-in dictation mangles my Indian accent. In loud environments, it’s worse—words get swapped, and sentences are garbled. I once dictated a list of groceries that ended up including “three X” instead of “three eggs.” Every time I dictate something, the cleanup takes longer than typing it out with my own two hands. But typing was frustratingly slow because my thoughts move faster than my fingers.