Why Voice Typing Is the Biggest Productivity Unlock You're Ignoring

The speed gap is real

The average person types at 40 words per minute. The average person speaks at 150 words per minute. That's a 3.75x difference.

Think about what that means for your day. A 500-word email that takes 12 minutes to type? Done in 3 minutes with voice.

The old tools were bad

Voice typing has been around for decades. But until recently, the tools were painful:

• Accuracy was terrible. Dragon NaturallySpeaking required training and still made constant errors.
• Latency was high. Cloud-based solutions had noticeable delay.
• They only worked in specific apps. You couldn't dictate into your terminal or a web form.

What changed

Three things converged:

1. Transformer-based speech models (Whisper, Deepgram Nova) hit near-human accuracy
2. LLMs can now correct transcription artifacts in real-time
3. System-level text injection on macOS means it works in every app

This is what Cue is built on. Speak anywhere, text appears — correctly formatted, properly punctuated, in any app.

Start small

You don't have to go all-in. Try voice-typing your next Slack message. Or your next email draft. Once you feel the speed difference, there's no going back.