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I Bet You Don’t Use a Chatbot For This
Still a bit annoying, but relief is on the way
Have you ever tried to dictate a message or a note to Siri, only for it to completely mangle what you said? Sure, you can go back and correct that manually, but that’s an annoying waste of time.
This is what I do: I dictate what I want to say into ChatGPT. It almost never screws anything up. I don’t send it through the LLM — I just copy the text where I want it, then delete it.
Soon, hopefully very soon, we’ll be able to tell Siri something like “Hey, send an email to my daughter and tell her that I’ll be there around 3 o’clock tomorrow. Wait, no, change that. Tell her I’ll be there around 4 o’clock today.”
The Next Step: Sending It for You
Right now, ChatGPT can connect to my Gmail account to read messages and tell me anything I want to know, but it can’t send email. They are supposedly rolling out this ability to paid users, but I don’t have it yet.
I’m quite sure Apple will have this in the spring of 2026, maybe even sooner. ChatGPT may open it up for free users by then, or maybe not. One way or another, you’ll get this eventually.
But for now? Use any chatbot to properly interpret what you want used in some other app, then copy and paste it there.
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