mmumble for Bluesky

Voice typing on Bluesky that lands in 300 characters and sounds human

Short-form posts, replies, the place a particular kind of internet went after Twitter. mmumble is an AI voice keyboard for iPhone built for the brevity-plus-voice register Bluesky actually rewards, with niche proper nouns intact

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mmumble used in Bluesky

Why voice typing in Bluesky hurts today

Bluesky's reward function is brevity plus voice. You're trying to land a post in 300 characters that reads like a person, not a press release. Apple Dictation makes that hard in two ways: it punctuates like a press release, and it doesn't know any of the proper nouns that the Bluesky crowd uses. People in tech, people in design, niche bands, niche academics. The whole vibe of the platform is hard to dictate into without the transcriber actively working against you.

How mmumble handles Bluesky

mmumble preserves the way you punctuate (or don't), handles the niche proper nouns, and matches the short-form register. You can post the thing you thought of while walking instead of waiting to get home to your laptop.

Post 3x faster
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300 characters is short. Voice typing makes posting it instant

iPhone keyboard 50 wpm
the move from twitter to bluesky for some people and threads for others has been the most interesting fragmentation of an online culture i can remember. you can tell which people moved for which reasons by the type of post they make now, the people who came here for the lower temperature post differently than the ones who came for the technical curiosity differently than the ones who came because they thought twitter would die. the platform itself is shaped by which mix is loudest in the early months and i don't think anyone knows what bluesky becomes by next year · 
mmumble 150 wpm
the move from twitter to bluesky for some people and threads for others has been the most interesting fragmentation of an online culture i can remember. you can tell which people moved for which reasons by the type of post they make now, the people who came here for the lower temperature post differently than the ones who came for the technical curiosity differently than the ones who came because they thought twitter would die. the platform itself is shaped by which mix is loudest in the early months and i don't think anyone knows what bluesky becomes by next year · 

Yes, in every language
Bluesky posts in

99+ languages, in 300-character bursts

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What it looks like

A quick observation

You say

"the venn diagram of people who say 'i'm just asking questions' and people who already know the answer is a circle"

mmumble types

the venn diagram of people who say "i'm just asking questions" and people who already know the answer is a circle

Replying to a post

You say

"this is the most maeve brennan thing ive read in months"

mmumble types

this is the most Maeve Brennan thing I've read in months

Posting about a show

You say

"watched the new alex garland thing, the pacing is so weird in a way that i think is on purpose but im not sure he stuck the landing"

mmumble types

watched the new Alex Garland thing, the pacing is so weird in a way that I think is on purpose, but I'm not sure he stuck the landing

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