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 affects how the brain processes written language — specifically the mapping between sounds and their written symbols. Reading and writing require that mapping to be fast and automatic. When it is not, even composing a simple email becomes a multi-step cognitive task: find the word in your head, 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.
When you dictate instead of type, the translation step disappears. You do not need to hold a word in memory while working out how to spell it — you simply say it. The spoken word is inherently how you already know it; no conversion required.
This matters practically. The internal monologue that becomes blocked when writing often flows freely when speaking. Ideas arrive faster. Sentences feel more natural. The vocabulary you actually use in conversation — not a simplified written substitute — makes it onto the page.
Voice typing is not new, but older systems had a significant limitation for people with dyslexia: they were accurate but raw. You would get a block of lowercase text with no punctuation, or every "um" transcribed faithfully, or sentence boundaries in the wrong places. Cleaning that up required careful re-reading — which is exactly the part that dyslexia makes difficult.
Hovor adds a formatting pass after transcription. Once your speech is converted to text, the app runs it through a cleanup step that:
The result is text that is ready to paste or send, not a raw transcript that requires another round of editing. For someone with dyslexia, that post-transcription editing phase is a significant burden — Hovor's cleanup reduces or eliminates it.
The cleanup happens server-side by default and works across all platforms: iOS, macOS, and Android. You do not need to configure anything; it is on by default.
Dictation systems sometimes stumble on names, technical terms, or words specific to your field. 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.
Hovor's custom dictionary lets you add those words once. They are stored in your account and applied every time you dictate, on every device. If your name is Siobhan, your company is Czepiga & Associates, or you frequently mention a product called Kübel, you add it to the dictionary and Hovor uses the correct form going forward.
For people with dyslexia this matters beyond convenience. A misrecognised proper noun is another thing to catch and correct manually — exactly the task you were trying to avoid. Getting it right the first time, consistently, removes that friction entirely.
The dictionary syncs across iOS, macOS, and Android automatically. Snippets — short text blocks you can expand with a spoken phrase — are available in the same place and work the same way.
The practical workflow is simple: open the app or the keyboard extension (iOS), tap the record button or press the global hotkey (macOS), say what you want to write, and release. The formatted text appears in whatever field was active — an email, a document, a chat window, a search bar.
You do not need to switch apps or paste manually. Hovor inserts the text directly into the active field across every app on iOS and macOS. On Android, Hovor works as a keyboard replacement — the same record-and-paste flow wherever you are typing.
A few features that reduce keyboard interaction further:
Hovor is available on iOS, macOS, and Android. The free tier includes 2,000 words per week of cloud dictation — enough to try it meaningfully. Pro removes the word limit (Monthly $11.99, Yearly $89.99).
Download Hovor on iOS, Mac, or Android. Free tier: 2,000 words/week. Pro removes the limit — $11.99/month or $89.99/year.
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