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Getting Started with Diktat
What happens after installation, how your first dictation works, and where the text ends up.
Installing Diktat on the Mac
How to install Diktat on the Mac: as a DMG file instead of through the Mac App Store, with 2 permissions on first launch.
Activating your license and freeing up a Mac
One purchase covers 3 Macs. Here's how to enter your license key and what to do when you get a new Mac.
The Hotkey on the Mac
One key starts and ends every recording. Here's how tapping and holding differ.
Dictionary
The dictionary lets you set your own spellings, for brand names or technical terms. Without a rule of your own, Diktat never changes a word.
Paragraphs
Diktat starts a new paragraph where you pause longer while speaking. You can turn that off any time.
Recognitions and models
Diktat offers three recognitions for speech to text. You choose which one writes your text.
Privacy Mode
Privacy Mode copies your text and saves nothing else. Useful for anything that should not end up in your history.
Clipboard and Pasting
On the Mac, Diktat pastes your text directly and copies it as well. On iPhone and iPad, it lands in the clipboard after you stop.
Dictating with the Apple Watch
You speak on the Apple Watch, and your iPhone takes it from there. Here is how the text ends up on your Mac.
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