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Apple introduces systemwide dictation
Key takeaways
- At its Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC 2026, Apple launched a new systemwide dictation experience with its new Apple Intelligence model powered by Google s Gemini on i OS 27.
- The company said that the dictation experience is built into the keyboard and can correct spellings, punctuation, and capitalization, allowing the feature to work across apps.
- AI-powered dictation apps have been very popular recently, including Wispr Flow, Willow, and Monolouge.
At its Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC 2026, Apple launched a new systemwide dictation experience with its new Apple Intelligence model powered by Google s Gemini on i OS 27.
The company said that the dictation experience is built into the keyboard and can correct spellings, punctuation, and capitalization, allowing the feature to work across apps.
AI-powered dictation apps have been very popular recently, including Wispr Flow, Willow, and Monolouge. These apps clean up filler words like ums and Ahs and format the text after transcribing based on context. The company started restricting some of these apps with iOS 26.4, where they needed extra steps to activate a session with keyboards for those apps.
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