Diction 5.0 is out. Three things changed in a meaningful way: the cloud is rebuilt from scratch, AI Companion can now edit text by voice, and the app is fully localized in 13 languages. Everything else is polish on top of that foundation.
Diction One is a different thing now
I spent several weeks working with physical hardware for this. Dedicated speech models for each language family, better audio processing, faster response across the board. If you tried cloud mode in an earlier version and found it slow or inaccurate, I'd ask you to try it again.
The mic is always warm now. Tap and start talking immediately. No noticeable gap between the button and your voice.
Your voice can now edit
AI Companion in v4 could clean up what you said. In v5, it can edit what's already written.
You're writing an email. You wrote "let's meet Tuesday" but the meeting moved. Place your cursor anywhere in that sentence and say "change Tuesday to Thursday." No selecting, no deleting, no retyping.
Or select a paragraph that's too stiff and say "make this more casual." Diction rewrites the selection. The action bar turns indigo when text is selected so you always know what mode you're in.
Long-press the action bar to rewrite text around your cursor without selecting anything first. Say what's wrong, Diction fixes it.
13 languages, properly localized
Every screen now adapts to your system language: Settings, History, Insights, everything. Switch the UI language live from the picker without restarting the keyboard.
Before this release, everyone got English regardless of what their iPhone was set to.
Other changes worth knowing
Insights is redesigned. Your typing speed multiplier is the main number, with daily average, words per minute, days used, and time saved all visible at once.
New mic release options. "After dictation" drops the mic the moment the transcription finishes. Ten-second and 30-second options for music and podcast listeners.
AirPods work correctly now. Music stays in stereo while Diction uses the built-in mic. Nothing ducks.
AI Companion is smarter about keeping your voice. It preserves natural speech patterns, writes numbers as digits, and doesn't drop sentences on longer recordings.
For self-hosters: support for bringing your own language model for AI Companion, a one-command setup covering 25 European languages, and smart routing that picks the right speech model per language with a health-checked fallback. Open source at github.com/omachala/diction.
Diction 5.0 is on the App Store now: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6759807364
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