Ivan Mehta

Late professional update: I'm now writing for @TechCrunch on consumer tech. So if you know about companies building secret projects and features send me DM or email me at im@ivanmehta.com.

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Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets users connect their Google accounts for tailored Gemini answers, to India, initially for AI Pro and Ultra users (@indianidle / TechCrunch) techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/goo… #a260414p19" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260414/p19#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

His father Un must be buzzing

@anmolm_ Maybe now?

this could easily be a 100 cr arr biz on UPI autopay

Wispr Flow now has UPI payments available for India

Wispr Flow now has localized Indian Indian pricing of ₹320 ($3.5) per month instead of $12 per month for annual billing.

@ashwinexe Are you doing this more for learning or do you have a very specific use case for yourself?

Keeping my audiophilia aside, I spent the weekend learning about Speech-to-text and I learnt a little too much! Here's Gossipr v1. github.com/ashwinexe/Goss… Extremely straight forward STT, replaces my use-case of wisprflow for when I want to do dictation. Built simply with Python & @GradiumAI.

@JoannaStern Since you’ve already tried Superhuman give a shot to Shortwave (shortwave.com) or Mimestream (mimestream.com)

Is there a great Mac email client? Like an actual great one where I won't find myself going back to Gmail web four days later.

Apple is breaking transcription apps like Wispr Flow and SuperWhisper with the new iOS 26.4 update. While, there are fewer apps on Android, the experience on the platform is much better because of the flexibility Google allows weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/apple-is-bre…

@ArtinBogdanov @sunapp_ai Hey Artin, what’s the best way to reach you?

@sunapp_ai @a16z @speedrun Download SUN here 👇 sunapp.ai/download

Today, we’re opening @sunapp_ai to the public. We’ve been building this not so quietly during @a16z @speedrun. Audio used to be something you search for. Now, you generate it. Podcasts. Audiobooks. Courses. Any topic. Any length. Ask questions as you listen. And if you don’t know what to generate, SUN knows what to play. This is a new era of audio. Download it and experience the magic! Link below 👇

@anmolm_ Yes, there is a UPI option. I wish more software companies did this.

@IndianIdle AutoPay?

Grammarly seems to be widely rolling out its ₹392 per month plan in India. Some people have been getting emails about this for the last few months.

Lumiate says India is now the second-largest music streaming market behind the U.S., with 489.9 billion streams clocked in 2025. India is also the largest market for ad-supported streaming in Asia, with 84% streaming share coming from that channel.

@purnacool I won't likely pay for Grammarly's premium product, but since I write in many apps, I don't want to have to paste text into another tool for basic proofreading every time.

@IndianIdle It remembers your initial prompt. Define it with a one letter and can use that letter : everytime before the thing to proofread

@purnacool Sure, but you'll have build an edit/proofread product on top of it.

@IndianIdle No point of it when all these LLMs free version exist

@nikitabier I still see posts in the language of origin, both on iOS and on the web. Any specific reason for that? As

We're rolling out auto-translate worldwide to give posts in any language global reach on X. The translations are powered by Grok and have improved substantially over the last couple months. If you prefer to read in the original language, you can always turn off auto-translate by tapping the gear icon.

Voice AI had a stellar first quarter, with startups getting more than $1.88 million in funding in voice and voice-related startups. January was the biggest month with over $1 billion in funding My story in the newsletter: weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/week-in-voic…

@stufflistings Aliexpress or are there other sources?

@IndianIdle Planning on getting it asap

Gadget of the day. Anker made a power strip that clamps to your desk, has 10 charging ports, and is thinner than AirPods Pro 3. Costs $69.99. The Anker Nano Power Strip...

I have an update. Apar and I received emails yesterday from India's IT Ministry to discuss the new IT Rules amendments at 1pm . We are going for this meeting. If you have been censored / have questions for them, please respond here or DM me (open DMs).

@GauravBanka @Google That’s true. Right now due to whatever changes have happened dictation on iOS is annoying. Google might not have wanted this kind of experience. They’d rather work with this for now, improve the models and release integrated app on Android.

@IndianIdle Not integrated to a keyboard. So everytime one has to open the app, speak & transcribe, copy text, go to desired app and paste. Too much friction. @Google integrate it as keyboard similar to WisprFlow and Monologue.

Google has quietly released a Gemma-based dictation app on iOS. It can run without any internet access and also can polish your spoken words. techcrunch.com/2026/04/06/goo…