How it all started
Less of a business plan, more of a personal grudge.
ClintSpeaks didn't start as a product. It started as a frustration. I've spent decades getting words into computers for a living, and somewhere along the way I worked out something simple: I think out loud far faster than I type. So I started dictating - and immediately ran into how clunky dictation still is. Conservatively, I have:
- Hunted through Settings to find the dictation toggle, again
- Watched perfectly good tools insist on sending my voice to the cloud
- Lost a sentence because the dictation only worked in one app
- Actually finished the long email by just talking it out (this one's the point)
The problem? Most dictation is either buried deep in the operating system, locked to a single app, or quietly streaming your microphone to someone else's server. Powerful, sometimes - but rarely simple, and rarely private.
I missed something as direct as the best little tools always are: put your cursor anywhere, press one key, talk, and the words appear. When nothing quite did that - offline, and out of the way - I built it. A tiny app that types what you say, and then gets out of the way.
That's ClintSpeaks. Life's too short to type it all out.
