Voice as Interface, Voice as Instrument

David's piece on voice mode is about what happens when you can think out loud with an AI — the brainstorming, the messy iteration, the commute transformed into productive time. The dictation landscape piece maps the tools that make that possible beyond the voice modes built into AI apps. They're two sides of the same shift: voice mode is the conversational interface where you talk with an AI, and dictation tools are the input layer where you talk to your computer and the words land wherever you need them. One is a thinking partner, the other is a capture mechanism. Together, they describe a workflow where typing becomes optional and speaking becomes the default way to get ideas out of your head and into systems that can act on them.