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On Android one can just use the Microphone input from the keyboard. Just tap and instant transcript, in whatever you like (I use a web-based knowledge thing).

Tap Icon on home screen, tap new, tap Microphone, talk for a few minutes, press save.

Why am app for a built in feature?

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It going to your email is quite useful for those that have that email be the primary method of collecting work and notes. It's like that old blackberry concept of the universal inbox, everything just goes to one thing, and get's collected there.

For those with that work flow this is really cool app.

On iOS you can define a two-step Shortcut that does this (type or dictate text and then send it by email to a predefined address [0]). I imagine there are similar facilities on Android.

[0] “Ask for Input” followed by “Send Email”, deactivate “Show Compose Sheet” on the latter. Then use the microphone symbol for speech recognition on the initial text input.

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