It feels that AI companies want all of us to talk to their products more often. Meta, Google, Openai and Anthropic, to mention some, have added functionality to allow users to talk to their AI bots as natural as they would with another person, taking advantage of the progress of speech technology in text.
A boot called Flow wispr He thinks he can overcome bigwigs, however, with dictation technology that supports more than 100 languages. The company today increased existing Windows and Mac applications with a new iOS application that doubles as a keyboard, allowing you to use your voice to type in any application.
Now, you might think it’s another text talk company, but this journalist came very impressed with the Wispr Flow. As an Indian, I never found a speech application in text that can fully understand what I am saying. I also have a hard time taking AI assistants like Alexa and Siri to perform requests.
However, the WISPR flow has experienced a much better experience than any dictation technology I have used by Big Tech. First of all, I had to edit my suggestions across the WISPR flow desktop and mobile applications, but after using it sometimes, the dictation experience was drastically improved. We ended up using the app to write large emails and messages, and I even wrote a large part of this story using only my voice.
The app also has a numerical keyboard and the symbols keyboard if you need to type special characters and automatically learns customized names and terms or you can add them through the dictionary section. It also allows you to whisper in your microphone if you want to use it in environments where you can’t talk loudly. The company claims that the iOS application can work in poor network coverage as well.
The co -founder of the start, Tanay Kothari, told TechCrunch that he began manufacturing a portable device that would allow users to type only in silent words. The functional layer of this costume was flowing last July, the company rotates to focus on the software and release the Mac application a few months later.
In the Desktop application, users can begin to dictate in any application by pressing a hotkey key, which is easier to access. For iOS application, the challenge will be to persuade users to go to the WISPR keyboard whenever they want to use the app.
WISPR flow is free to use until you hit a 2,000 -word limit per week. There is an unlimited plan for $ 12 a month (or $ 144 per year) that also gives you timely access to new features.
The company has raised $ 26 million to date from investors, such as NEA, Palo Alto Networks and 8VC. Kothari said his subscription business is seeing a 19% conversion rate and starting revenue is increasing by 60% month to month.
Starting is working to release an Android app this year. It also creates the functioning of common environmental functionality for groups, so that the application can understand common terminology within the business frameworks.
Wispr has many competitors including Yc-backed aqua; Speaker; Pride and Improvement. While Kothari expects more competition during this time with progress in AI technology and voice, he believes that the WISPR engineers and long -term technology investment will stand out.
The story has been informed to reflect the exact rate of revenue growth.
