How the app works and why it is built this way: dictation on the Mac, on device, bought once.https://zumbo.app/https://zumbo.app/blog/apple-dictation-30-seconds/https://zumbo.app/blog/apple-dictation-30-seconds/The setting that half fixes it, the two things that override the setting, and why a dictation session has a length at all.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://zumbo.app/blog/dragon-for-mac-timeline/https://zumbo.app/blog/dragon-for-mac-timeline/Dragon was the reason a lot of people could work on a Mac at all. Here is what happened to it, in order, and what the Mac has instead.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://zumbo.app/blog/why-the-engine-ships-inside-the-app/https://zumbo.app/blog/why-the-engine-ships-inside-the-app/Zumbo is about 570 MB, which is large for a dictation app. That number is the whole product decision, so here is the reasoning behind it.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://zumbo.app/blog/on-device-dictation-apple-silicon/https://zumbo.app/blog/on-device-dictation-apple-silicon/Why a speech model that used to need a data centre now runs on a laptop, what the Neural Engine has to do with it, and where the remaining limits are.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://zumbo.app/blog/what-a-vocabulary-pack-is/https://zumbo.app/blog/what-a-vocabulary-pack-is/A pack is not a list of words bolted onto the output. It changes what the recogniser is listening for, which is why it fixes things a find and replace cannot.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT