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Speak Your Book Into Existence.

The AI ghostwriter that turns your voice into a professionally written book. Guided phone interviews with Silas, our AI interviewer, become chapters in your own voice. We handle the writing, the cover, publishing and launch.

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15hrs
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your copyright
100%
Silas, Dictate's AI interviewerLive demo · real author interviews
Chapter 3 · South Vietnam · Teaching the Enemy to Defuse
INTERVIEW RECORDING · TRANSCRIBED

Richard D.:The Vietcong, they were everywhere. They would have they would do they would do night raids and and night bombings and villages and attack different places. We were under a constant threat down there. So we had defensive army people and we were close to an air base. Which that's where they sent up the helicopters and different aircraft, the napalm aircraft were left from there. And we were just there to support any ordinance that they might find or torpedoes, rocket, hand grenades, anything like that.

Raw interview transcript · 87 words
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You Have a Book Inside You.

You just don't have the hours to write it. Our founder Mike wrote his with about six hours of talking.

You talk

Silas calls and asks good questions. You answer the way you'd answer a client. No typing.

We write

Your stories and lessons become chapters in your phrasing. You read each one and approve every line.

You publish

Cover, layout, the Amazon listing and launch are handled for you.

You're an expert: a consultant, founder, doctor, coach, executive. People pay for your knowledge. But writing a book? That's a different skill entirely.

See How It Works
Five stages, one team

How It Works

From first conversation to published book. No writing required.

  1. We map your audience, your big idea and every chapter before anyone records a word.

Your blueprint, chapter by chapter

In four words

  1. Talk

    Have natural conversations with our AI interviewer who researches you first.

  2. Capture

    Your Voice DNA is extracted — vocabulary, rhythm, personality, patterns.

  3. Create

    AI writes your book in YOUR voice, with your stories, frameworks, and ideas.

  4. Publish

    Review, refine, and publish a book that sounds unmistakably like you.

Your Voice. Not a Robot's.

Our Voice DNA technology captures how you actually speak — then writes your book in that voice. Voice DNA learns how you actually talk: your rhythm, your phrases, the way you tell a story. Drafts reach a 95%+ match before you ever see them.

Iolanda J. · This Isn't Random95%+ Voice DNA match

It was not a gradual decline. It was a collapse. I would be in tears. I could not concentrate. I would wake up on a Sunday morning, not due at work until Monday, already dreading what was coming. Already working, because nights and weekends there was always something under my ownership that needed to be done. The culture demanded it. You were expected to have the answer, to make sure everything under your responsibility ran smoothly, to carry a level of ownership that never switched off. Shutting my mind down was not an option.

Vocabulary

Your preferred words, phrases, and industry jargon — captured and replicated.

Rhythm

Sentence length, structure patterns, and pacing that match how you naturally talk.

Personality

Your humor style, energy level, and emotional register — the warmth behind your words.

Patterns

Signature phrases, transition habits, and rhetorical devices that make you sound like you.

Voice Accuracy

  • Call 160%
  • Call 380%
  • Call 6+95%

Voice DNA analyzes your speech across multiple interviews, building an increasingly accurate profile of your vocabulary, sentence architecture, rhetorical patterns, and emotional register.

Books by Dictate Authors

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Iolanda Johnson, author of This Isn't Random
Finished book · Iolanda J.

This Isn't Random

Uncover the Hidden Patterns Shaping Your Life—and Change What Happens Next

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A presenting pattern is smoke. It tells you something is burning, but it is not the fire. When all you do is fan the smoke away, the fire keeps producing more.
From Chapter 2 · The Smoke Was Never the Fire, drafted from Iolanda's interviews

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You Just Don't Have 500 Hours to Write It.

The Book Writing Problem

The numbers tell a clear story: most experts never publish, not because they lack ideas, but because the traditional paths are broken.

of people want to write a book
81%
New York Times survey
actually finish writing one
3%
Publishing industry data
typical ghostwriter fee
$30K–$80K
Reedsy marketplace data
hours to write a nonfiction book
500+
Author surveys

You Don't Have the Time

Writing a quality nonfiction book takes 500-1,000 hours. Between running your business, serving clients, and speaking at conferences, those hours simply don't exist. Your calendar is full of things that generate revenue — writing a manuscript isn't one of them.

Writing Isn't Your Craft

You can explain your framework to anyone in a conversation. You light up on stage. You coach with precision. But staring at a blank document for hours? That's a completely different skill — and it's not the skill that made you successful.

Ghostwriters Cost a Fortune

Traditional ghostwriters charge $30,000-$80,000 and take 12-24 months. The good ones have year-long waitlists. And even then, you're gambling that a stranger can capture your voice — the thing that makes your expertise uniquely yours.

The knowledge gap between what you know and what you've published is costing you credibility, clients, and speaking opportunities every single day.

How Dictate Compares

See how Dictate stacks up against traditional ghostwriters, writing it yourself, and generic AI tools.

Compare Dictate with:
Dictate compared with a traditional ghostwriter, writing it yourself, and a generic AI tool

Dictate

Traditional Ghostwriter

Write It Yourself

Generic AI Tool

CostCustom quote (book a call)$30,000 – $80,000$0 (your time)$20-100/month
Total TimelineAs fast as your interviews12-24 months1-3 yearsDays
Your Time InvestmentUp to 15 hours50-100 hours500-1,000 hours100+ hours prompting
Voice Authenticity95%+ Voice DNA matchWriter's interpretation100% yoursSounds like ChatGPT
Copyright Ownership100% yoursVaries by contract100% yoursUncertain
Royalties to Provider$0 — noneOften sharedN/AN/A

100% Your Copyright. Zero Royalties to Dictate.

Your ideas, your words, your book. Every sale and every speaking gig it brings in is yours. Your book is legally yours in every sense. Learn More

Talk Your Book Into Existence by Michael Giannulis, book cover

Talk Your Book Into Existence

Mike Giannulis built Dictate after talking his own book into existence in about six hours of interviews. Now the same process is open to every expert who has a book in them and no time to type it.

The book is the short, honest field guide behind our method: why authority beats expertise, what an unwritten book really costs, and how busy professionals write an authority book by talking instead of typing.

  • 8-minute explainer
  • 70-minute deep dive
  • Paperback $19.99 · Kindle $2.99
Mike GiannulisFounder, Dictate
Read the film's transcript

I run a company. I don't have time to write a book. So I didn't.

Here's what I did instead. I talked. Silas, our AI interviewer, called me, asked good questions, and I just answered. About six hours total.

Then every story and lesson I'd said out loud became chapters. Not generic AI writing. My voice, my phrasing, the way I actually talk to clients.

I read each chapter, made a few notes and approved it. Then the cover, the layout, the Amazon listing, the launch. All handled.

Here's why it matters. When you hand someone your book, you're not a vendor anymore. You're the person who wrote the book on it.

The goal is your book done in weeks, not years. Not because you write fast. Because you never write. You just talk.

If you've got years of expertise and no book, let's talk about yours. Watch my free training. I'll show you how it works, and how to map out your book with the Blueprint.

Time Savings

What is the True Value of Your Time?

See the operational impact of speaking your book into existence rather than writing it from scratch.

Your Details

3h

Most professionals can dedicate 2–5 hours per week

Writing It Yourself

3 Years, 2 Months

at 3h/week

Your Time With Dictate

Up to 15 Hours

We handle the rest

Hours Saved

485

That's time back for clients, speaking, and your business.

What You Get

  • 1 Published Book
  • 60+ Social Media Assets
  • 12 Blog Articles
  • 1 Keynote Framework

Your Book, Your Way

Every engagement includes Voice DNA profiling, AI interviews, and a publication-ready manuscript. We offer flexible packages to fit your goals.

AI-Guided Interviews

Just talk. Our AI extracts your expertise through guided phone conversations.

Publication-Ready Book

A complete manuscript written in your voice: outlined, drafted, and revised.

Author's Toolkit

Bios, Amazon copy, quote graphics, and launch assets included.

  • Voice DNA profiling
  • Content Scorecard & gap analysis
  • Review and comments in your author portal
  • 100% copyright ownership
  • Zero royalties to Dictate
  • Payment plans available

Questions

How much of my time does it take?

Up to 15 hours of interviews, depending on your package. Mike wrote his own book with about six hours of talking. See how the interviews work.

Do I have to write or type anything?

No. Silas calls you and asks the questions. You talk; we turn your answers into chapters. How to write a book without writing.

Will it actually sound like me?

Voice DNA studies how you speak and drafts reach a 95%+ match. You review and approve every chapter before it moves forward. AI ghostwriter vs. traditional ghostwriter.

How long will my book be?

Most books land between 35,000 and 85,000 words. More answers in our FAQ.

Who owns the book?

You do. 100% of the copyright stays with you, and Dictate takes zero royalties. How copyright works with Dictate.

What does it cost?

Every book gets a custom quote. Book a free call and we will map your book and give you a number. See what each package includes.

Your Expertise Has Waited Long Enough.

Watch Mike's free training and see if Dictate is the right fit for your book.

Every day your book isn't written is another day your ideas only reach the people in the room. Your competitors are publishing. Your audience is waiting. The knowledge you carry deserves to outlive every meeting, every keynote, every consulting engagement.

Join the professionals who stopped waiting and started speaking their books into existence. The training is free.