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30 Minutes with This App = 3 Hours of Writing

2025-06-06 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:28 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Tools, apps and tech · mode: Announcement and promotion · tags: His own products discussed, His own numbers, AI

Ali argues that speaking is four times quicker than typing and promotes VoicePal, his team's app: he says he has written 203,168 words with it in a year, saving over 60 hours, and that 30 minutes of speaking into it gives him as much writing as three hours at his computer.

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The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Typing speed versus speaking speed

  • ★★ Ali says the average person types about 40 words per minute but speaks at 160, so speaking what you want to write is four times quicker than typing it. — 00:00:00
  • ★ Ali says radiologists, who get through many scan reports and X-rays, tend to dictate their reports rather than type them. — 00:00:00

00:00:24 — VoicePal, a ghost writer in your pocket

  • ★★ Ali says that in the last year of using VoicePal he has written 203,168 words with it, a time saving of over 60 hours. — 00:00:29 · VoicePal
  • ★★ VoicePal, the app Ali and his team built, has thousands of users around the world. — 00:00:29 · VoicePal · first in: 2025-05-03, 17 Cheap Purchases That Actually Improved My Life
  • ★★ Ali says VoicePal users often tell his team that the app saves them multiple hours in their creative process every week. — 00:00:29 · VoicePal
  • ★★ In VoicePal you hit record and speak your thoughts; the app asks sensible follow-up questions to help you go deeper on your own ideas. — 00:00:29 · VoicePal
  • ★★ Ali says VoicePal's AI is not trying to write for you: the core of the ideas comes from you speaking, and the AI only cleans up what you said. — 00:00:29 · VoicePal
  • ★★★ Ali finds that about 30 minutes of walking around and speaking ideas into VoicePal gets him as much writing as about three hours of writing at his computer. — 00:00:58 · VoicePal

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Also: ghostwriting

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