Documentation

Dictate guides

Everything about Dictate 1.0.0 for macOS and Windows. Start with the install and the first dictation on your platform. Then read the guide of the setting you want to change.

• Getting started on macOS

  Install Dictate from the DMG and pass the one time Gatekeeper step and allow Microphone and Accessibility and download the small model and dictate your first sentence.

• Getting started on Windows

  Unzip the Windows build and run Dictate.exe past the SmartScreen message and find the tray icon and dictate your first sentence. Windows asks for no permission.

• Hotkeys and modes

  Hold to talk and hands free and the default keys on macOS and Windows and how to rebind them and the two ways Dictate puts the text into the app you use.

• Models and languages

  The five speech models with their sizes and how fast and how accurate each one is and the download and the Remove button and the language setting with auto detect.

• Vocabulary and replacements

  Teach Dictate your names and terms with the vocabulary field and turn a spoken phrase into typed text with the replacements table and the two clean up toggles.

• License and trial

  The 14 day trial and the one x4ops subscription that covers every x4ops app and the key by email and the 3 computers and offline use and Remove license.

• Privacy

  What stays on your computer and the two network calls Dictate makes (the model download and the license check) and where the history lives and how to clear it.

• Troubleshooting

  No text appears and the hotkeys do nothing and the microphone is silent and the download stopped and a key is refused. What each one means and what to do.