Dictation software for RSI
Same work. A fraction of the keystrokes.
- Cuts the count, not the output
- 99%+ accurate
- Ready to send
Free to try. No card. Every feature included.
Apple Silicon · macOS 14 or later · Windows 11
Nobody gets RSI from one email. You get it from years of them. There is no moment where the damage happens, so there is no moment where you can obviously stop.
Which is why rest keeps failing. Two weeks off, it settles, you come back to the same inbox and the same keyboard. The only thing that breaks the loop is doing less typing on the same amount of work.
How many keystrokes is that?
Step one
Hold one key
One key, not a shortcut. Wrist flat, no reach. Put it on whichever hand is doing better.
Step two
Talk normally
No punctuation out loud. No pausing between sentences. No waiting for it to catch up.
Step three
Let go
Finished text lands where your cursor was.
The count is the injury
A working day of email, notes and messages is five to fifteen thousand keystrokes. Every one is small. That is the whole problem with them.
40 words a minute
Comfortable typing, and every word of it built from individual key presses.
150 words a minute
Comfortable talking. Same minute, four times the writing, no key presses.
Thousands a day
What a normal day of writing costs you now, and what mostly stops happening.
What you have probably already tried
All of it is real. All of it is a variation on typing more carefully.
Kit
Split keyboard, vertical mouse, wrist rest, new chair. Better positions, same count.
Breaks and stretches
Genuinely useful, and the first thing to go the week something is due.
Typing less
Works, and you pay for it in short replies and jobs pushed to tomorrow. Dictation gets the same drop without the bill.
It types where your cursor is
Click where the words go, hold the key, talk. Nothing to open, nothing to copy after.
To team@northgate.co
Subject Friday handover
Quick one before I log off. The invoices are approved, and Dan is covering the client call at ten.
Happens on the second save, not the first. Looks like the draft is written before the id comes back.
Approved. Send it to finance and copy me in.
What lands is ready to send
Fillers and false starts come out, punctuation and capitals go in, and the names and jargon you taught it arrive spelled right.
It learns your names and jargon
Colleagues, clients, the systems your company runs on. Every one it gets wrong is a correction, one letter at a time.
Add it once
A name, a product, a system, an acronym. Type it once and never again.
It follows you
The list moves between your Mac and your PC. Teach it once, not twice.
99+ languages
It works out which one you are speaking. You do not set it each time.
Free to try, no card. Enough to get a week of work done without the keyboard.
Works in every app you already use
It types at your cursor, the same as a keyboard does. If there is a text box, it works.
Plus Outlook, Word, Teams and every other app on your Mac or PC.
Work that cannot leave your machine
Nothing you dictate is stored or used for training. If the work cannot leave the building at all, it can run entirely on your own computer instead — offline dictation has the detail.
Better than the dictation you already have
Mac and Windows both include it. On anything longer than a sentence:
| Feature | JotMic | Built-in dictation |
|---|---|---|
| Accuracy | 99%+ | ~85% |
| Ready to send | Fillers taken out | Every um typed in |
| Learns your words | Taught once | No way to teach it |
| Languages | 99+, picked up as you talk | One, set in Settings |
| Controls your apps | Open apps, switch, scroll | Types only |
Setup takes two minutes
- Download, allow the microphone, pick your key
- No voice training and nothing to read aloud first
- Free to try, every feature, no card
Read next
Carpal tunnel
The nerve version, and why numb fingers make you type more rather than less.
Wrist pain
What to do before you have a name for it, and the mouse half of the problem.
Hand pain
The short version, whatever is causing it.
Compared with the other apps
If typing is the thing that hurts, the question is which app gets you off the keyboard soonest — not which one has the most settings.
Questions
Does dictation help with RSI?
It cuts the number of keystrokes in your day, which is the thing RSI is built out of. It does not treat anything. Whether it is the right call for you is a question for your doctor or physio.
I already take breaks and I have a good keyboard. What else is there?
Breaks and better kit change how you type. They do not change how much you type, and for most desk jobs the amount is the problem.
How many keystrokes does it actually save?
Almost all of them, for anything you are writing rather than editing. A normal day of email, notes and messages runs to thousands. What is left is the edits you choose to make by hand.
I am mid flare-up. Can I use it now?
That is the point of it. One key, held, with your wrist flat, and you can put that key on whichever hand is doing better. No shortcut to stretch for.
Will it slow me down?
The other way round. Most people type around 40 words a minute and talk at about 150. The first day feels odd because talking to your computer is new, not because it is slower.
Do I have to say the punctuation?
No. Full stops, commas, question marks and capitals come from the way you talk. You never go back for the symbol keys afterwards.
Will it change my words?
It cleans up, it does not rewrite. The ums come out, punctuation goes in, everything else stays as you said it. One switch gives you the raw transcript.
Will it spell names and jargon right?
Add them to your vocabulary once and they come out right from then on. Every word it gets wrong is a correction, which is exactly the small repetitive typing you are cutting.
Does it work in the apps I use?
It types where your cursor is, so anything with a text box works. Outlook, Word, Gmail, Teams, Slack, Jira, your browser, whatever internal system you live in.
Can I use it on my work laptop and my own machine?
One licence covers both, and your vocabulary and settings follow you between them.
Is it better than the dictation built into Windows and macOS?
They leave the fillers in and never learn your words, so you fix it at the keyboard afterwards. For the odd sentence they are fine and they are free.
Can I dictate work that has to stay private?
Yes. It can run entirely on your own computer with the wifi off. It works best on a machine with room to spare.
Do I have to train it on my voice?
No. Install it, pick your key, and talk. There is nothing to read aloud first.
Is this a treatment?
No. It is a way to write with your voice instead of your hands. It does not replace a doctor, a physio or an occupational health assessment.
Free to try, no card. See what your day costs without the keyboard.