Original video in Chinese.
Key Takeaway
- Typeless’s core strengths: AI speech-to-text + automatic polishing, requiring almost no edits; desktop/mobile apps for capturing random thoughts anytime (like while walking the dog or posting on X).
- Voice input habit: set up a directional microphone + hotkey, push through the initial awkwardness, and make efficient transcriptions available on the desktop anytime.
- Chrome Gemini workflow: use Typeless voice input to summon Gemini in the sidebar, ask questions while browsing the web, smooth and practical, boosting everyday productivity.
Once you get used to AI speech-to-text, there’s no going back.
I specifically installed a microphone in this spot so I can do voice input anytime.
All I need to do is press one button, and everything I say next gets converted into text, with a very high level of accuracy. After I finish speaking, I press the hotkey again, and then the AI starts processing it and gets it done in just a few seconds. See? The result is great, right?
The software I just demonstrated is called Typeless. I previously made an episode introducing Spokenly, which is also speech-to-text and pretty useful. But what makes Typeless stronger is that it’s not just speech conversion; it uses AI to polish the text. So the output is highly usable and hardly needs any editing.
Typeless has apps for both desktop and mobile. I used it before to record little fragments of ideas while walking the dog, or to post directly to X.
Honestly, when you first start using voice input, it can feel a little embarrassing. But you get used to it pretty quickly. So I installed the Mac version too, and set up the microphone as well.
What I’m using here is a directional microphone — the RODE VideoMic NTG. Directional means it picks up all the sound from the direction it’s pointed at. Actually, I have another microphone on my left, but if I used that one, I’d have to drag it over just for recording, which is way too inconvenient.
Now that I have Typeless, how do I usually use it?
Honestly, if I’m writing something seriously, I usually don’t use it. Because I’m used to thinking while typing. Voice input activates a different part of my brain, so it’s actually not very suitable for writing articles, video scripts, and similar things.
So when do I use it? When it’s paired with Chrome, the effect is completely different.
In the last episode, I introduced the AI version of the Chrome browser. It has one very useful feature: it can stay in the menu bar all the time.
So when I’m reading an article, I can bring up Gemini in Chrome with a hotkey, then use voice input to send over everything I want to ask. During that process, I can keep scrolling with my mouse and browsing the webpage without affecting the input at all.
You see, used on its own, Typeless is just an AI speech-to-text tool. But when it works together with Chrome, it becomes a complete workflow:
read while thinking; if something comes up that I want to ask about along the way, I press two keys and just speak.
This workflow is very smooth and very simple, so it has already become part of my daily routine.
I really like this kind of plain, unflashy tool and method. A lot of the things bloggers share look very cool, but honestly, most of them are just gimmicks, designed for the sake of the show, and not practical at all. I’m still going to keep sharing the things I actually use myself.
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