SpeakON Ships a MagSafe AI Voice Button With Its Own Microphone
Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. Speak into most dictation tools and you get back exactly what you said, fillers and false starts included, in a note you then have to clean up and move somewhere else. SpeakON attacks that gap with hardware: a 25 g magnetic button that snaps to the back of an iPhone, carries its own microphone, and writes finished text straight into whatever app is already open. The Positioning: a Communicator, not a Dic
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A magnetic button that attaches to iPhones carries its own microphone and battery to capture voice input and convert it to text that appears directly in any open app, without requiring app switching or clipboard steps. Unlike standard dictation tools that transcribe speech verbatim, this device processes the audio through features like Smart Polish to remove verbal fillers and restarts, Smart List to structure sequences as bullets, and Style to adjust tone based on the destination app. The dedicated microphone on the device, rather than the phone's system microphone, means the phone remains available for calls or other audio features, and users avoid granting the background microphone permissions that voice tools typically require. The device costs $129 one time with lifetime pro features included and is available in the United States.
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