Dictate Into Any App
That design is what makes it usable in the places dictation normally is not.
Where it earns its keep#
Code editors
Comments, docstrings, commit message bodies and the long explanation of why a change is shaped the way it is. Prose is the slowest thing to type inside an editor and the fastest thing to say.
Use the personal dictionary for your library and service names.
Terminals
Commit messages, PR descriptions typed into a CLI, notes into a scratch file. Note that a terminal will run what lands in it once you press return, so read before you commit to it.
Issue trackers and PR reviews
Review comments and bug reports are exactly the kind of writing that takes three sentences to explain and thirty seconds to say. This is the highest-value place for cleanup, which handles the punctuation for you.
Documents and chat
Long messages, specs, replies you have been putting off. Hands-free mode is worth switching on here, see Trigger Modes.
The one requirement#
Inserting into another application's text field is a privileged action on macOS, which is why Accessibility permission is required. If text appears nowhere, that permission is the first thing to check. See Permissions Explained.
Next#
- Push to Talk or Hands Free — pick the mode per situation
- Troubleshooting — when insertion does not happen
- Back to the documentation home