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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Dictating into Slack, VS Code and Notion
Chromium apps hide their text from macOS, so dictation used to double a space or capitalize mid-sentence. What changed, and what to check if it still does.
· 5 min read
Two models per dictation: how speech becomes writing
One model hears the words, a second one edits them before they land. What each is allowed to change, and what stops the editor from answering you instead.
· 5 min read
What a good meeting write-up contains
Summary, decisions, action items, open questions. What belongs in each section of a meeting write-up, and what good notes do when the meeting never supplied it.
· 8 min read
Minutes, transcript or chapters: which one to ask for
Meeting Notes can produce four different documents from one recording. What separates them is what each is allowed to throw away - and that is how to choose.
· 8 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
Teach Dictera the names it keeps getting wrong
Custom replacements fix the names, brands and jargon a speech model mishears every time. Where to add one, how the matching works, and where the rules stop.
· 3 min read
Link your calendar so a recording starts on time
Connect your calendar and the notch asks before each meeting whether to record it, so recording begins on the first word. Where the switch is, and what counts.
· 3 min read
Meeting notes without a bot in the room
Most note-taking tools join your call as a participant and upload the audio. Dictera does neither. How it hears both sides through macOS, and what it cannot do.
· 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
Why there is no account
Dictera has no signup, no password and no profile. What replaces an account, what you give up without one, and why the trade was made on purpose.
· 4 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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