
What's New in Diction 4.0
Diction 4.0 is the biggest update since launch. The theme is straightforward: do more with your voice, with fewer rough edges. This release took hundreds of commits and more testing rounds than I want to count. Here is what landed. Speak to Edit This is the headline feature. Select any text in any app, tap the mic, and say what you want changed. You are editing an email. You select "Wednesday works for me" and say "Thursday actually." Diction replaces the selection. It also handles instructions. Select a paragraph and say "translate to Czech." Or "make this shorter." Or "more formal." Diction figures out whether you are giving a literal replacement or an editing instruction and acts accordingly. Before this, voice keyboards were append-only. You could dictate new text, but editing meant switching to the regular keyboard. Now you stay in voice the whole time. Custom Words Improve Transcription Directly In 3.0, custom words (My Words) only helped during AI Enhancement cleanup. Now they f
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