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Your Dictation Feature Doesn't Need a WebSocket
Open any tutorial on adding voice input to an app, and you'll end up in the same place: a WebSocket, a session lifecycle, a partial-transcript handler, and some end-of-turn logic you now have to tune. Then look at what you're actually transcribing. A two-second clip. The user held a button, said "remind me to email Priya about the Q3 numbers," and let go. The audio finished recording before your f…