You're Sending Voice Messages to Your AI. Here's What It Actually Receives.

You open Telegram. Find your OpenClaw bot. Hold the mic button and say what you want. The bot receives an audio file. Not your words. An audio file. The AI processes it, transcribes it somewhere in the pipeline, and responds based on whatever it heard. You never see the transcript. You can't correct it before it reaches the model. There's a better way to talk to your AI. Diction is an iOS keyboard. You tap the mic, speak, and the keyboard shows you the text right there, before you send anything. Read it. Fix a word if you need to. Then hit send. The AI gets clean text. Exactly what you meant to say. Why This Matters More Than It Sounds When you send a voice message, you hand off control at the worst possible moment. The bot hears whatever the transcription layer catches. If you said "OpenClaw" and it heard "open cloth", the AI responds to "open cloth." You get a confused reply and have to figure out what happened. With a keyboard that transcribes before you send, you see the output fir