Quick Controls: the panel for things you change mid-flow
Press ⌥⌘C. Six tiles appear in the middle of the screen, one for each thing you are likely to change mid-sentence. Press the same keys again and they are gone, your cursor where you left it.
What is on the panel?
Two rows of three. The top row is what happens to a dictation — Dictate, Translate Dictation, Cleanup. The bottom row is what Dictera does to selected text: Correct Selection, Edit Selection, Translate Selection.
The icon is the switch. Press it and the tile takes the feature's colour, so the panel reads as on or off at a glance. Dictate has a small lock instead — dictation is the app, and there is nothing to switch off.
Each tile carries its own hotkey and the language it will use. Cleanup shows Auto instead of a key: it runs on every dictation rather than on one of its own. Under the grid, three rows name the model behind Speech, Cleanup and Translation, and open the list — the four speech models, or a server you added.
Why not just open Settings?
Because Settings is a window, and a window takes focus. The panel never does: the text field you were about to dictate into keeps it, so you flip a switch, press ⌥⌘C again and carry on in the same sentence. A click anywhere else closes it, the way a menu does.
It opens centred on the screen holding the focused window, not whichever display macOS calls main. The menu-bar menu has the same item.
Can the people on a call see it?
Not unless you let them. The eye button in the header excludes the panel from screen capture, and it is on out of the box: the panel is meant to be flipped mid-call, and what you switch off is nobody else's business. Click it to make the panel visible.
A tile whose engine is not ready dims and shows a warning triangle. Pressing it opens the Settings pane that fixes it — the missing download, or the server that is not answering — instead of switching on something that cannot run.
Can I change the keys from here?
No. The panel shows shortcuts and never records them: recording one means capturing keys across the whole system, which a window that cannot take focus has no safe way to do. Settings ▸ Shortcut owns all of them, ⌥⌘C included — and the panel prints that one in its header, the one key you cannot look up while the panel is open.
What the six tiles do is on the features page and the dictation page; Correct Selection has a post of its own.
