{"id":36034,"date":"2026-05-28T19:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=36034"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:23:06","slug":"ccatp-835","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ccatp-835\/","title":{"rendered":"CCATP #835 \u2014 Adam Engst on Dictation and Contacts Hackery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, we go into the dark abyss that is Adam Engst&#8217;s brain and learn how that brain influences his choice of dictation engines. He then explains how he&#8217;s hacked Apple&#8217;s dictation into correctly spelling unusual names of places by creating fake contacts.  As always it&#8217;s a fun ride, and as always he has a terrific post on the subject at <a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2026\/05\/15\/tipbits-how-fake-contacts-can-fix-dictations-proper-noun-problems\/\" target=\"%5Fblank\" rel=\"noopener\">tidbits.com\/&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-36034-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_05_28.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_05_28.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_05_28.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a title=\"mp3 download\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_05_28.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mp3 download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: <a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/transcripts\/CCATP_2026_05_28.html\">CCATP_2026_05_28<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, we go into the dark abyss that is Adam Engst&#8217;s brain and learn how that brain influences his choice of dictation engines. He then explains how he&#8217;s hacked Apple&#8217;s dictation into correctly spelling unusual names of places by creating fake contacts. As always it&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[172,1],"tags":[6705,8246,154,1832,8033],"class_list":["post-36034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ccatp","category-podcasts","tag-apple-contacts","tag-apple-dictation","tag-contacts","tag-dictation","tag-wispr-flow"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ChitChatPond_V7_300px.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36035,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36034\/revisions\/36035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}