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Finding your academic voice: faster, healthier writing with AI speech recognition

Voice-to-text tools powered by artificial intelligence can make life easier for academics by replacing the keyboard with dictation and transcription.
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  1. Zhicheng Lin

    1. Zhicheng Lin is an Investigator in psychology and AI at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei and the incoming Lee Youn Jae Rising Fellow Associate Professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.

For most academics, the sound of typing is the sound of progress. But it’s also the sound of a bottleneck — a slow, physically taxing process that stands between our ideas and the page. We accept this as a necessary part of the job, but should we?

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02418-9

Acknowledgement: I used Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemini 2.5 Pro to proofread the this article before submission, following the prompts described at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-024-01185-8.

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