[✨ FEATURE] Live dictation / no buffer in the FluidVoice overlay

[semenko]

Mac OS dictation and dictation on Android (via Google Voice Typing) are unique as they insert text almost immediately as you speak. This feels very natural.

By contrast, FluidVoice and most (all?) competitors have a buffer (like the FluidVoice overlay) that waits until text is polished to fully insert it.

I would love a feature that enables ~live dictation. That is, automatically insert text as I speak, instead of waiting for me to finish speaking and then insert text as a large paste / block of text.

[altic-dev]

I've explored this part and I believe that this is pretty hard to implement properly because you need to type every single word into the text field and it doesn't let you correct or format it in a nice way. Apple dictation doesn't care about any of that, so it just works that way. But if you really want to make corrections on the fly based on how you're talking and how you're ending the statement and especially to have AI cleanup at the end, you need to hold on to the buffer before pasting so you can clear all of it and then make sure the text you get is a good text. I have an alpha version of that, and I don't think it's worth it. It's a lot of process for very little gains, in my opinion.

[semenko]

Thanks! (Mac dictation does do some auto correction on the fly, though not as extensive. Somewhat unclear how, but it'll modify inserted words / text / punctuation after their initial insertion.)

[altic-dev]

Yeah for sure. But they are private apis probably that mac owns that doesn’t get exposed to us :( we gotta do every keypress manually n it would take a lot of perf hit. Would you be okay with that? You cannot escape to cancel which is possible now.

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[semenko]

I mean I certainly would, but like all feature requests, I entirely defer to you as the maintainer. 😄

I just personally prefer more of a ~live dictation feel -- and never found that with Wisper, Superwhisper, etc. -- but it's the native Android Gboard Keyboard & OS X builtin style.

[altic-dev]

But the preview box is still live though. It’s just right above the area. Its just in a different field 🤔

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 10:24 AM Nick Semenkovich ***@***.***> wrote: *semenko* left a comment (altic-dev/FluidVoice#409) <#409 (comment)> I mean *I* certainly would, but like all feature requests, I entirely defer to you as the maintainer. 😄 I just personally prefer more of a ~live dictation feel -- and never found that with Wisper, Superwhisper, etc. -- but it's the native Android Gboard Keyboard & OS X builtin style. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#409?email_source=notifications&email_token=BVSOW2QNPEYT4NA7HL5SIRL5BVN6NA5CNFSNUABFM5UWIORPF5TWS5BNNB2WEL2JONZXKZKDN5WW2ZLOOQXTIOBQGIZTKNRYGEY2M4TFMFZW63VHMNXW23LFNZ2KKZLWMVXHJLDGN5XXIZLSL5RWY2LDNM#issuecomment-4802356811>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BVSOW2VQHNO26OCQIYA4YC35BVN6NAVCNFSNUABGKJSXA33TNF2G64TZHMYTANRRGMZDOMZRGE5US43TOVSTWNBXGI3TANBTHEYTLILWAI> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[semenko]

Totally get it. For me, it always feels a little bit like a different context for some reason. 🤷

[altic-dev]

Gotcha. makes sense actually. Will move this to discussion for now so we can keep track of it :) ThanKs for trying out FV!