# Bad Influence story: Dictation Bench: Voice Arena's open test of Mac dictation apps

Active · 2 articles · 2 sources · First reported 11-11 10:09. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/9553c3ab-9f94-4081-9e64-255702ee5522

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Latest update (11-11 11:35): Voice Arena's Dictation Bench tests AI dictation apps by use case

Overview: Voice Arena releases Dictation Bench, an open benchmark that runs the same 761 recordings from 87 speakers through ten Mac dictation apps and publishes its policies, configurations, judge instructions and results. Five LLM judges assess whether each draft could be sent as-is. Rohan Paul says dictation companies should check any "best" accuracy claim against the benchmark and report against it routinely. Paul notes the current scope is US English on macOS only.

Elvis Saravia says the benchmark tests real dictation apps rather than their APIs, and reports that Wispr Flow scored 79% and Apple scored 35%. He argues users should choose tools by the output quality their own tasks need. The source reports these scores, but the story does not report independent verification of them.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-11 11:35 · Elvis Saravia · [Voice Arena's Dictation Bench tests AI dictation apps by use case](https://badinfluence.news/items/gyuqiuer9zcpkwv8nds9c74km)
2. 11-11 10:09 · Rohan Paul · [Rohan Paul calls for AI dictation apps to be judged on Dictation Bench](https://badinfluence.news/items/kjt18zc0mzxluqs3k7q0ndg0i)
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