Short answer: capture stray ideas on phone or Watch while you walk; dictate first drafts at the desk with ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux) in Scrivener, Word, or Google Docs; polish at the keyboard. AICHE inserts text. It does not write scenes for you.
A writer's day in three moves
- Capture with AICHE: iPhone, Android widget, or Apple Watch when the idea hits away from the desk.
- Draft with AICHE: desktop hotkey in Scrivener, Word, or Google Docs for sections you keep postponing.
- Edit by typing: sentence rhythm, cuts, and final word choice stay on the keyboard.
AICHE voice dictation fits capture and rough draft. Final craft stays typed.
Capture away from the desk
Scene transitions, opening lines, and character details often arrive when no keyboard is nearby. Texting yourself works until it does not.
Phone: open AICHE, dictate 15 seconds, sync picks it up on your Mac later.
Apple Watch: tap wrist, dictate (no length cap). Syncs through nearby iPhone.
Android widget: one tap to dictate without opening the app.
Offline: if the network drops, AICHE queues audio locally and processes when you reconnect.
Draft at the desk
- Open your manuscript in Scrivener, Word, Google Docs, Obsidian, or Ulysses.
- Place the cursor where the section should go.
- Press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux) once to start.
- Talk through the section as if explaining it to another writer: setup, beats, tone.
- Press the hotkey again. AICHE inserts cleaned text at the caret.
- Edit in your normal pass. Spoken drafts need tightening; that is expected.
Custom vocabulary (50 entries): character names, place names, series titles, agent and publisher names. Load them once for every dictated draft.
AI cleanup: removes filler and repetitions from dictated drafts; adds punctuation. Output is draft-grade, not publish-ready.
Where voice does not fit
- Final polish. Word choice and paragraph pacing need the keyboard.
- Structured formatting. Submission trackers, query letters with exact boilerplate, tables of contents with fixed lengths.
- AI story generation. AICHE transcribes what you say. Plot and prose decisions are yours. Use Claude, ChatGPT, or Sudowrite for generative help if you want that.
AICHE features that matter here
Cross-device sync. Capture on phone; open the same note on Mac an hour later. Opt-in cloud sync is end-to-end encrypted with a passphrase you set.
Desktop global hotkey. Toggle recording in any app with focus. Not push-to-hold.
Never-lose offline queue. Plane, tunnel, or crash mid-recording: audio stays encrypted locally until processing resumes.
Cloud transcription. Audio streams to Groq, is processed, and is discarded immediately after processing, within 1 second. Not local-only. See privacy comparison if that matters for your content.
English UI on desktop. Voice input works in 99 languages; desktop menus are English. Mobile apps localize in 28 languages.
Three experiments (one week)
1. One AICHE capture per day for five days. When an idea hits away from the desk, dictate into AICHE instead of texting yourself. Review on day six.
2. Dictate one avoided section. Pick a chapter block you know cold. AICHE hotkey, dictate, insert, edit by typing. Compare to typing the section from scratch.
3. Watch for one context. Runs, dishes, line-waiting: dictate with the Watch every usable idea for seven days. Test whether AICHE capture sticks.
Context (why capture and wrists matter)
Many writers produce a few hundred to a couple thousand words of core draft work per day, then edit by typing. Ideas also arrive on walks or in the kitchen; AICHE voice dictation reduces the friction of texting yourself or losing the thought.
Long typing sessions add wrist load. AICHE dictation shifts first-draft work off the keyboard; typing still handles final edits.
For cited research on typing speed vs speech and broader input trends, see The Future of Typing.
Try AICHE
7-day free trial, no credit card. Personal from $3.99/mo billed annually. 9 platforms + REST API on Pro.