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Notes from Sona

Product updates, engineering deep-dives, and opinions about talking to computers.

FEATURED · PRODUCT

Introducing streaming mode

Text now lands as you speak — with grammar, punctuation, and corrections applied in the stream. Here's how we rebuilt the pipeline around partial results.

June 4, 2026 · 7 min read
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ENGINEERING

How "scratch that" actually works

Detecting intent vs. dictation in a live stream, without false positives.

May 18, 2026 · 9 min
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DESIGN

In defense of the fn key

Why a hold-to-talk shortcut beats a wake word, every single time.

April 22, 2026 · 5 min
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ENGINEERING

Dictating code that compiles

Teaching the model that "kubectl" is one token and "dash dash force" is a flag.

March 9, 2026 · 11 min
PRODUCT

Sona for Windows is here

Same shortcut, same engine — now on the other half of your team's laptops.

February 12, 2026 · 4 min
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PRIVACY

Why we don't store your audio

A dictation tool hears everything. Our architecture makes that boring.

January 27, 2026 · 6 min
RESEARCH

Benchmarking dictation honestly

Word error rate hides the errors that matter. Here's what we measure instead.

January 8, 2026 · 8 min