Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
Verbatim Shows Its Dictation Work
An open-source macOS dictation tool that types into whichever app currently has the cursor, cleaning up speech as you go.
Why it surfacedVerbatim keeps the messy live transcript visible while showing how fillers, hedges, false starts, punctuation, and trailing words are removed. Its unusually explicit pitch—“every correction shown, not hidden”—is backed by GitHub access, an MIT license, no content telemetry, and support for bringing your own model keys.
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.