Your Brain Moves Faster Than Your Hands
The most expensive gap in your workday is between what you're thinking and what ends up on screen. Voice closes it.
By Glaido Team
You think faster than you type
Most people type around 40 words a minute. Yes, really. That feels slow if you're a fast typist. Most people aren't.
Spoken, the same thoughts move at 150.
A Stanford study ran the experiment in 2016 and measured speech at about three times faster than typing, with fewer errors along the way. That gap has been sitting there the entire time you've been working, quietly pulling hours out of your day.
The real cost of typing through your day
McKinsey says the average knowledge worker spends 28% of their workweek, over 11 hours, just on email.
Asana puts another number on it. 60% of your day is "work about work." Only about a quarter of your time goes to the actual thing you were hired to do.
The bottleneck isn't your brain. It's the keyboard between your brain and the screen.
Voice quietly got good
For a long time, voice wasn't a real alternative. Accuracy was bad, punctuation was worse, and honestly, you'd spend longer fixing the output than you saved by not typing.
That got fixed in the background.
In 2015, industry-leading voice recognition still missed roughly one word in five. Today the best public models sit around 2.46% word error rate, already more accurate than a human transcriber. Glaido itself is at 0.3%.
The tech stopped being the bottleneck years ago. The habit is just catching up.
Voice is becoming the default input
Every major AI lab is moving voice from a feature into the default input. When OpenAI acquired Jony Ive's hardware company last year, Sam Altman described it this way:
"We have the opportunity to completely reimagine what it means to use a computer."
He wasn't talking about a better keyboard. He was talking about pulling out the layer between what's in your head and what ends up on screen.
The next five years are going to reward people who can offload to their computer in natural language, while walking, while thinking, while doing something else at the same time.
What it actually feels like
The first time you draft an email on a walk and send it before sitting back down, it doesn't feel like a productivity hack.
It feels like something was in your way the whole time, and now it isn't.
Why Glaido specifically
A few numbers that matter if you're actually going to live inside this thing every day.
| Metric | Glaido | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Release-to-paste | 458 ms | Time between letting go of your hotkey and seeing clean text. Fastest on the market. |
| Word error rate | 0.3% | Roughly 8x cleaner than the best public models, well below human transcription. |
| Where your audio is stored | 100% local, fully encrypted | Stays on your machine. Encrypted at rest. Only the Glaido app can read it — no one at Glaido can see it, and it isn't shared with anyone else. |
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