Spelling is only one way to get words onto a screen. Speaking is another, and for people with dyslexia it often removes the main obstacle entirely. Hovor transcribes what you say and automatically polishes the result, so the text that lands in your document is already clean.
Dyslexia disrupts the automatic mapping between sounds and their written symbols, the process reading and writing depend on. The International Dyslexia Association estimates dyslexia affects 15 to 20 percent of the population, making it the most common cause of reading and writing difficulty. Composing even a short message becomes multi-step: recall the word, hold it in memory, work out the spelling, type it letter by letter, then re-read to check it looks right.
That process is exhausting in a way that is hard to explain to someone who does not experience it. It is not about intelligence or vocabulary. People with dyslexia often have a wide range of words available in speech. The bottleneck is the translation from thought to written form.
The result is a writing experience full of friction:
Spelling checkers help, but they catch errors after the fact. They do not remove the effort of getting the words down in the first place.
This article is informational. Hovor is not a medical or therapeutic tool. If you are looking for support around dyslexia, organisations such as the British Dyslexia Association or the International Dyslexia Association are good starting points.
Speaking removes the spelling step entirely: instead of recalling how a word is written, you say it, and spoken vocabulary needs no orthographic conversion. This lets the internal monologue that stalls during typing flow freely, so sentences form faster and the vocabulary you use in conversation, not a simplified written substitute, reaches the page.
Voice typing is not new, but older systems had a significant limitation for people with dyslexia: they were accurate but raw, leaving punctuation, capitalization, and cleanup entirely to the person re-reading afterward, which is exactly the step dyslexia makes hardest.
Hovor runs every transcript through an automatic formatting pass: it capitalizes sentence starts, inserts commas and full stops from your phrasing, corrects small grammar slips introduced by speech-to-text conversion, and can strip filler words. The table below shows how this differs from unformatted, older voice-typing output that leaves punctuation, capitalization, and filler entirely to manual re-reading.
| Capability | Older voice typing | Hovor |
|---|---|---|
| Bypasses manual spelling | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic punctuation and capitalization | No — manual | Yes |
| Filler-word removal | No | Yes (optional) |
| Custom dictionary for names and terms | No | Yes |
| Ready to paste without re-reading | No | Yes |
The cleanup happens server-side by default and works across all platforms: iOS and macOS. You do not need to configure anything; it is on by default.
Hovor's custom dictionary stores names, company names, and field-specific terms you add once, then applies them on every dictation across iOS and macOS. For dyslexia this removes a specific failure point: a misrecognized proper noun that would otherwise need to be caught and corrected manually, the exact kind of post-transcription check the whole workflow is meant to avoid.
A radiographer dictating medical terminology, a developer dictating code comments, a student dictating an essay on a specialist topic: they all have words that a general-purpose model will misrecognise or misspell on the first pass. Add the word once, in your account, and Hovor uses the correct form going forward, on every device.
Snippets (short text blocks you can expand with a spoken phrase) live in the same place and sync the same way, across iOS and macOS automatically.
Recording takes one action: tap the record button in the app or keyboard extension on iOS, or press the global hotkey on macOS, then speak and release. Formatted text lands directly in whatever field is active, with no app-switching or manual pasting. The free tier includes 2,000 words per week; Pro removes the limit for $11.99 a month or $89.99 a year.
A few features that reduce keyboard interaction further:
Hovor is available on iOS and macOS, with settings and the custom dictionary synced across both.
No. Hovor is not a medical or therapeutic tool and makes no clinical claims about dyslexia. It is a voice-to-text app that removes the spelling and typing step from writing by transcribing speech and automatically applying punctuation, capitalization, and grammar cleanup. For diagnosis or support, organizations such as the International Dyslexia Association are appropriate starting points.
On iOS devices with at least 4 GB of RAM, Hovor can run speech-to-text fully on-device using the Parakeet model: once the model is loaded, audio is not uploaded to a server. If the model is still loading — after an app relaunch, or while it is still downloading — that recording falls back to server transcription. The same on-device model is available on macOS. Below the RAM threshold, or when on-device processing is off, Hovor uses cloud transcription instead.
You add the word once to Hovor's custom dictionary, and it is applied automatically to every future dictation on every synced device, iOS and macOS. This covers proper nouns, company names, and field-specific terminology that a general-purpose speech model would otherwise misspell or mishear repeatedly.
Yes. The free tier includes 2,000 words per week of cloud dictation. Pro removes the word limit for $11.99 per month or $89.99 per year and covers up to 5 devices.
Hovor is available on iOS and macOS, with the custom dictionary and snippets syncing automatically between both. The keyboard extension on iOS and the global hotkey on macOS insert formatted text directly into whatever app is active, so no copy-paste step is required.
No. You dictate normally, in full sentences, the way you would speak the text aloud. Hovor's formatting pass infers punctuation and sentence boundaries from natural phrasing and pauses, so no special commands like saying "period" or "comma" are required.
Download Hovor on iOS or Mac. Free tier: 2,000 words/week. Pro removes the limit: $11.99/month or $89.99/year.
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