Dictation.
How to dictate well, and what Dictera does between the key going down and the words landing.
Writing an email by voice, start to send
Dictate the body a paragraph at a time, say the structure, and fix sentences by voice instead of retyping them. A routine for email, first word to Send.
· 8 min read
Dictating in a noisy room: microphone and silence settings
Background noise costs dictation twice: in the words the model hears, and in when a recording ends. A closer microphone fixes one, three sliders the other.
· 8 min read
On-device vs cloud speech recognition: what changes
Where the recognizer runs decides where your voice goes, whether it works offline and when the text arrives. The words change less than you would think.
· 7 min read
Two languages in one sentence: what keeps both intact
Mixing languages mid-sentence works when the speech engine hears both and nothing forces one alphabet. Which engine to pick, and when a pinned language hurts.
· 7 min read
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
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
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
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.
· 6 min read
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