Why Mac dictation keeps stopping

It cuts out mid-sentence and you lose the paragraph. There are five different causes that all look identical, and you can fix three of them in about ten minutes. Start here if you are annoyed right now.

Dragon for Mac: what happened, and what to use now

Nuance discontinued it in 2018 and nothing has fully replaced it. An honest map of what is available in 2026, including the free things and the apps that are not ours.

Typing hurts: working hands-free on a Mac

What to set up when your hands need a break, what the first week is genuinely like, and the parts nobody warns you about — including the ones that are not software.

How to fix a word by voice

One word came out wrong and you are holding a mouse. What Apple's dictation can do about that (very little), what Voice Control can (a lot), and what a correction grammar needs to be trustworthy.

Scripting dictation

Mynato runs a local HTTP endpoint, so a Shortcut, a foot pedal, a cron job or an n8n flow can start a dictation or transcribe a file. Endpoints and working examples.