You're Sending Voice Messages to OpenClaw. Here's What It Actually Receives.

You ask OpenClaw something via voice message on Telegram. It responds with something off. You read it again. Then you realize: it transcribed "Kubernetes" as "Cuban eties" and your entire prompt made no sense. You go back, re-record, send again. That loop is the problem. When you send a voice message on Telegram, OpenClaw receives an audio file. It transcribes it somewhere in its pipeline before the AI sees your words. You never see that transcript. By the time you get a bad response, you can't tell if the AI misunderstood your intent or if your words came in garbled. With text, that problem disappears. The AI gets exactly what you typed. You can re-read it before hitting send. The missing piece was a fast way to get from your voice to reviewed text before it hits the chat. What Diction Does Diction is an iPhone keyboard that transcribes as you speak — inside the keyboard, before you send. The workflow becomes: Open Telegram, find OpenClaw Switch to Diction keyboard (globe icon) Tap th