AICHE +Gmail Integration
Voice input for email
Speak your emails directly into Gmail.
The short answer: open Gmail in your browser, click into any compose or reply field, press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux), speak for 30-60 seconds, and AICHE inserts the formatted email at your cursor position.
Gmail handles somewhere between 40 and 60 percent of all professional email. That volume creates a real problem. If you send and receive 80-120 messages a day, typing every one of them turns inbox management into a 2-3 hour daily commitment that eats into focused work time.
- Open Gmail in your browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or any other).
- Click Compose to start a new email, or open a thread and click Reply.
- Click into the email body so your cursor is active in the text field.
- Press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux) to start recording.
- Speak your full message naturally, including greeting, body, and sign-off.
- Press the hotkey again. AICHE transcribes your speech and inserts the formatted text.
- Review the message, make any edits, then click Send.
Heads-up: enable Message Ready in AICHE settings before composing professional emails. Your casual, spoken phrasing gets restructured with proper punctuation, paragraph breaks, and a professional tone automatically.
Keyboard-Only Email with Gmail Shortcuts
Gmail has its own keyboard shortcuts, and they pair well with AICHE. If you enable keyboard shortcuts in Gmail settings (Settings > See all settings > General > Keyboard shortcuts on), you can compose and send emails without ever reaching for the mouse.
Press C to open a new compose window. Tab into the To field, type the recipient, then Tab again to reach the subject line. One more Tab puts your cursor in the body. Now press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux) and dictate. When you finish, press Tab then Enter to send. The entire flow, from opening compose to sending, happens through the keyboard and your voice. No mouse clicks at all.
For replies, press R on any open email to reply (or A to reply all). Your cursor lands in the reply field. Dictate, review, send. This works especially well when processing a backlog of messages, since you never break the keyboard rhythm to grab the mouse.
Cold Outreach and Personalized Replies at Volume
Sending personalized cold emails is slow because each one needs unique details about the recipient or their company. Typing those details takes 5-8 minutes per message, which limits most people to 10-15 personalized outreach emails a day.
With AICHE, you can look at a prospect's LinkedIn profile or website, then dictate a message that references specific details about their work. Speaking naturally about what you noticed takes 30-40 seconds instead of 5 minutes of careful typing. You still sound like a human, because you are one. You are just talking instead of typing.
This also works for support inbox clearing. Open each message, scan the issue, dictate your response. For internal status updates and meeting follow-ups, speak your update once right after the meeting while details are fresh, rather than trying to reconstruct what happened an hour later at the keyboard.
Labels, Filters, and Batch Processing
Gmail's label and filter system lets you sort incoming mail into categories automatically. The practical way to combine this with AICHE is to process one label at a time. Open your "Client Requests" label, work through each message by dictating replies, then move to "Team Updates" and handle those.
This batch approach works because dictation keeps you in a flow state. You are not switching between thinking about what to say and the mechanics of typing it. You scan, think, speak, send, and move to the next message. The cognitive load drops because your hands are not doing the composition work.
The pro-tip: for recurring replies like meeting confirmations or status acknowledgments, speak a slightly different version each time rather than copy-pasting a template. Voice makes personalization nearly free, and recipients can tell the difference between a template and a real response.
Result: processing 50 emails that takes 2.5 hours of typing becomes roughly 45 minutes of dictation, and you clear your inbox before lunch instead of carrying unread messages into the afternoon.
Do this now: open any Gmail thread, click Reply, press your hotkey, and dictate your response in one continuous thought. Time yourself. You will probably finish in under a minute.
Works With
AICHE with Airmail
Airmail email with voice. Dictate messages and replies naturally. Write professionally without typing.
AICHE with Apple Mail
Dictate emails in Apple Mail. Compose messages at speaking speed without the awkward Fn key dictation.
AICHE with HEY
Dictate HEY emails. Compose messages at speaking speed in the web interface.
AICHE with Outlook
Dictate Outlook emails. Compose professional messages at speaking speed in desktop or web.
AICHE with ProtonMail
Dictate ProtonMail messages. Compose encrypted emails at speaking speed in the web interface.
AICHE with Spark Email
Spark Email with voice. Dictate messages and replies naturally. Write professionally without typing.