In some ways, 2025 was when AI dictation apps really took off. Dictation apps have been around for years, but in the past they’ve proved slow and inaccurate — unless you speak with particular accents ...

Justin Bieber has a bone to pick with Apple. On Thursday, Bieber took to Instagram to air his grievances about a popular iPhone function that has been interrupting his daily routine. "If I hit this ...

First-grader Mary Greer shows her work during a phonics-based reading lesson at Hunt Valley Elementary School in Springfield, Virginia. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) The “reading wars” that ...

Jeffrey McQuillan claims that encouraging phonics instruction will be a “train wreck” in California (Letters, Oct. 3). Yet his main piece of evidence, a 2020 analysis, is wanting. Aside from some ...

There are few things people on both sides of the political aisle agree on nowadays, but one is that ditching phonics-based instruction for reading has been a disaster. Even California is now following ...

I’m a big fan of dictation and voice commands. The latter are the most common way for me to control my smart home, and I dictate a lot of my messages and other short pieces of text. Apple’s built-in ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

This carticle was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A bill that could reshape literacy education in California elementary schools cleared a major hurdle in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Last year saw the launch of Wispr Flow, a new dictation ...

LONDON — Apple is fixing a bug within the dictation feature on some iPhones that briefly suggests the word “Trump” when a word with an R consonant is spoken, including “racist.” The company is ...

Apple is fixing a bug that caused its voice-to-text dictation software to mistakenly transcribe the word “racist” as “Trump,” the company said on Wednesday. The glitch, which was called out by users ...

Apple is addressing a voice dictation glitch causing iPhones to transcribe 'racist' as 'Trump'. The company attributes the bug to phonetic overlap, though a former Apple employee suspects a prank. The ...