{"id":635890,"date":"2026-05-11T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635890\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:02:09","slug":"get-ready-for-the-whisper-filled-office-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635890\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent feature <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/typing-is-being-replaced-by-whisperingand-its-way-more-annoying-a804fee7\" target=\"_blank\">in the Wall Street Journal<\/a> looks at the rising popularity of dictation apps like Wispr, especially now that they can be connected to vibe coding tools, and what that might mean for office etiquette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One VC said that visiting startup offices now feels like stepping into a high-end call center. And <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/10\/20\/gustos-head-of-technology-says-hiring-an-army-of-specialists-is-the-wrong-approach-to-ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gusto co-founder Edward Kim<\/a> is apparently telling his team that in the future, offices will sound \u201cmore like a sales floor.\u201d (As someone still scarred from the time his desk was briefly relocated to a sales floor, let me say: Oh no.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kim claimed that he only types now when he absolutely has to. But he admitted that constantly dictating in the office can be \u201cjust a little awkward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly, AI entrepreneur Mollie Amkraut Mueller said her husband became annoyed with her new habit of whispering to her computer, so their late-night work sessions now involve sitting apart, or \u201cone of us will stay in our office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Wispr founder Tanay Kothari insisted that this will all seem \u201cnormal\u201d one day, just as it\u2019s become normal to spend hours staring at your phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[274650,12919,274651,274652,74,274653],"class_list":["post-635890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-edward-kim","tag-gusto","tag-mollie-amkraut-mueller","tag-tanay-kothari","tag-technology","tag-wispr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}