CONCEPT PRODUCT BRIEF
AirPods Dictate
Voice-first AirPods designed for fast, accurate dictation anywhere.
Designed for dictation
- Near-field voice capture tuned for walking, commuting, and gym noise.
- Dictate Lock prioritizes your voice and suppresses the world around you.
- Wind Slayer automatically adapts outdoors for clean transcription.
- Whisper Drive improves accuracy when speaking quietly.
- Studio Dictation for your cleanest, most natural voice track.
Controls built for writing
- Pinch to start or stop dictation. Double pinch for new paragraph.
- Hold to undo the last sentence. Fast corrections without looking.
- Optional head gestures: nod to accept, shake to reject.
- Adaptive Sidetone: natural monitoring with ultra-low latency.
- Clarity Meter shows capture quality and switches modes automatically.
Technology snapshot
- Voice Capture Stack — 5-sensor system per earbud (directional mics + inward mic + vibration + IMU).
- Industrial design — Subtle Dictation Stem with internal pop-filter geometry and mic WindShield ring.
- Battery (dictation) — Up to 12 hours continuous dictation (concept target).
- Fast top-up — 2 minutes in the case for about 1 hour of dictation (concept target).
- Privacy — On-device by default, encrypted temporary cache (user controlled).
Works with iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Dictate directly into Notes, Messages, Mail, and any text field.
Concept only. Specifications and features are illustrative.