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August 1, 2026 · 7 min read

What we keep, and what we do not

A plain account of every place InkSpoke writes your words down, every place it sends them, and the two things it does on the network whether you like it or not.

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Product
July 24, 2026 · 5 min

Why dictation is a toggle, not push-to-talk

Holding a key while you speak seems obviously right, and it is the first thing people ask for. Here is why InkSpoke does not do it.

Engineering
July 16, 2026 · 6 min

Keeping an always-on microphone honest

A wake word means the microphone is always live. What that costs, what stops it firing at your podcast, and why detection never touches the network.

Engineering
July 8, 2026 · 6 min

Getting text into other apps is the hard part

Transcription is the part people think is difficult. Delivering the finished sentence into whatever window happens to be focused is the part that actually is.

Engineering
June 30, 2026 · 5 min

Why your custom vocabulary has a budget

You can add as many terms as you like. Only about a thousand characters of them reach the speech model — here is what happens to the rest, and how to spend the space well.