Dictation ROI Calculator
How much time does voice dictation save you? Adjust the sliders to find out.
At 50 WPM, voice dictation (130 WPM average) is 2.6× faster for you.
Resonant auto-transcribes meetings — saves ~15 min of note-writing per hour.
Saves ~10 min/day retrieving context for AI tools.
Saved / day
1h 39m
Saved / week
8h 14m
Saved / year
411h 52m
Based on dictation at 130 WPM, 15 min note-writing saved per meeting hour, and 10 min/day saved via MCP context retrieval. Assumes 250 working days/year. Test your actual WPM →
Why dictation saves so much time
The average adult types 40–65 WPM. Most people speak naturally at 120–150 WPM — roughly 2–3× faster. That gap compounds across a workday. Two hours of typing at 50 WPM produces the same output as 46 minutes of dictation.
For knowledge workers, the math is stark: if you spend two hours a day typing and earn $75/hour, switching to dictation is worth over $3,700/year in recovered time.
Resonant runs entirely on your Mac — no cloud, no account, no audio leaving your machine. Don't know your WPM? Test it here →