Why there's no microphone in Tamable

There's no microphone in Tamable. You capture an idea by typing or pasting it into one plain field, and there's no voice input or speech-to-text anywhere in the app. That was a deliberate choice, and here's why.

#What changed

Our early designs had a microphone for recording ideas by voice. We took it out, along with every mention of voice input. Capturing an idea became one plain text field, and a note you leave when you send a post back is a typed note too.

#Why we left it out

You already have an AI assistant, and it already listens to you. The speech-to-text in the assistants people use every day is a lot better, and a lot cheaper, than anything we could build into Tamable. If we made our own, it would still be worse.

So we don't try to compete with the thing you already have. If you like to think out loud, talk to your AI the way you already do. It can save what you said as an idea in Tamable, in your own words, and draft from there.

We'd rather spend our time on the part your AI can't do on its own: keeping your ideas and drafts in one place, following your writing strategy, giving you a calm place to read and edit, and making sure nothing goes out until you approve it.

#What it means for you

Nothing to set up and nothing to learn. Speak to your AI when you're on the go, type or paste into Tamable when you're at your desk. Either way, the idea lands in the same place.

#Where to find it

Capture an idea from the Ideas page in Tamable, or ask your AI to capture one for you.