Man Spends Months Talking to Computer, AI Remains Polite Sociopath
KEY POINTS
- •The author spent several months rigorously testing multiple AI dictation apps including WisprFlow and Spokenly.
- •Despite improvements, these apps tend to default to overly formal styles and always end texts with periods.
- •He found these applications useful for quick emails and Slack messages but noted their sociopath-level punctuation habits.
In a world where human conversation costs less than therapy, one brave soul has chosen to spend months chatting exclusively with his computer, testing shiny new AI dictation apps like WisprFlow, Monologue, Spokenly, and the suspiciously named Handy. These techno-talkers, despite their fancy GPT DNA, tend to text like awkward lawyers, throwing formality around like confetti and cruelly slapping periods at sentence ends as if punctuating every message with a tiny digital death threat. Somehow, these apps mastered writing emails and Slack notes faster than he can blink, turning his muttering into functional, if somewhat stiff, modern prose.
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(1 of 3)Finally, an AI dictation app that’s the digital equivalent of your passive-aggressive office buddy who always ends emails with a period and zero emojis.
Spending months talking to an AI only to discover it types like it just got off a compliance training call. Riveting.
These dictation apps are great if you want your texts to sound like courtroom testimony, minus the drama.
Source: Theverge | Published: 7/28/2026 | Author: David Pierce
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