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How to dictate well, and what Dictera does between the key going down and the words landing.

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Dictation for wrist pain: a setup that spares your hands

Dictation removes the typing, not the key press that starts it. How to set a Mac up so a page of writing costs one tap, and what it cannot fix.

· 7 min read
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Why dictating is faster than typing, and when it is not

Speech beats typing on words a minute and loses on anything short, exact or half-formed. Where the time actually goes, and how to widen the gap.

· 6 min read
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Say the punctuation: the commands that work in every app

Nine spoken commands give a dictation its shape: new line, new paragraph, the punctuation marks and scratch that. What each does, and when you can skip them.

· 5 min read
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Push-to-talk, double-tap or stop on silence

Record while you hold a key, from a double-tap until you end it, or until you stop talking. What each mode is good at, and the settings behind them.

· 5 min read

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