Inside Dictera.
Guides to every feature, what is new and what comes next, and the reasoning behind the way the app is built.
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Taking notes in the meetings other tools are not allowed in
Legal calls, HR conversations, client work under NDA: the meetings that ban note-takers. What those rules object to, and how to set Dictera up to meet them.
· 8 min read
Meeting notes without a bot: your first recorded call
Open the Meetings page in the notch, check the language and who is on the call, press Record, then Stop. The notes are written on your Mac.
· 5 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
Point cleanup at Ollama or LM Studio
Add your Ollama or LM Studio server in Engine Models, pick it as the Cleanup engine, and every dictation is polished by a model you run yourself.
· 5 min read
Quick Controls: change a language or model mid-sentence
Hold Dictate in the notch, or press ⌥⌘C, to switch a feature, change a language or swap a model without leaving the app you are dictating into.
· 3 min read
Apple, Parakeet, Nemotron or SenseVoice: which to choose
Dictera offers four on-device speech models. Which one to pick comes down to the languages you dictate in and whether text should arrive while you talk.
· 5 min read
What Dictera sends over the network, and how to check
On default settings Dictera talks to three hosts, and none of them hears your voice or reads your text. What each one gets, and how to watch it yourself.
· 6 min read
Getting an answer during a live call without leaving it
Switching to a chatbot in another window mid-call means retyping the question and looking away. What an answer that arrives on its own needs, and its limits.
· 8 min read
Correct Selection: fix grammar in any app with one shortcut
Select text in any app, double-tap right Option, and spelling, punctuation and grammar are fixed in place. What it changes, what it leaves alone, and why.
· 5 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
Edit Selection: rewrite selected text by saying the change
Select text in any app, hold right Shift and say "make it shorter" or "turn into bullets". How Edit Selection works, what it needs, and where it stops.
· 5 min read
Resize the AI Assistant panel and give answers more room
The AI Assistant panel resizes from any edge, and its columns can be narrowed or put away. How to give the answers more room, and how to undo all of it.
· 2 min read
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