How it works
One shortcut, your voice, text
Fast Dictate lives in your menu bar: no app to open, no window. A keyboard shortcut starts dictation, wherever you are. Two ways to trigger it, depending on the moment.
Push-to-talk
Hold the shortcut while you speak, release to transcribe. Ideal for a quick sentence or reply.
Hands-free
Press once to start, once to stop. Perfect for longer dictation, hands free.
Both shortcuts are fully customisable in the settings.
Press, speak, it's written
Four beats, and your speech becomes clean text, right where you type.
Start dictation
Press your shortcut, push-to-talk or hands-free. Nothing to open first.
Speak naturally
No need to dictate punctuation or structure your sentences. Speak the way you think, hesitations included.
Fast Dictate handles everything
When the recording ends: transcription, punctuation, your formatting rules, your professional vocabulary and spelling corrections, in a single pass.
The text appears at your cursor
Right where your cursor is, in any application. No copy-paste.
4 minutes of dictation, about 3 seconds of processing
Processing barely depends on length: even a several-minute dictation comes back transcribed, corrected and formatted in a handful of seconds.
Good to know
Re-paste your last transcription
A dedicated shortcut re-inserts your last dictation, for example to drop it into another app.
Shortcuts your way
Push-to-talk, hands-free, re-paste: assign the keys that suit you from the settings.
Everywhere you type
Email, word processor, browser, chat: anywhere there's a text field.