Button-toggled voice notes in the iPhone Notes app are a godsend for taking measurements. Rather than switching your hands between probe/equipment and notes repeatedly, which sucks badly, you can just dictate your readings and maaaaybe clean out something someone said in the background. Over the last decade, the microphones + speech recognition became Good Enough for this. Wake-word/endpoint models still aren't there yet, and they aren't really close, but the stupid on/off button in the Notes app 100% solves this problem and the workflow is now viable.
I love it and I sincerely hope that "Apple Intelligence" won't kill the button and replace it with a sub-viable conversational model, but I probably ought to figure out local whisper sooner rather than later because it's probably inevitable.
I love it and I sincerely hope that "Apple Intelligence" won't kill the button and replace it with a sub-viable conversational model, but I probably ought to figure out local whisper sooner rather than later because it's probably inevitable.