Changelog

A new name: EnoughType

The app was called Dictation, and for a day Typealoud. Because the name changed, this version is a fresh install: download it once more and give it its permissions again. Everything else stays as it was.

Always on a working version

When a version is too old to work properly, the app says so the moment you press the shortcut, and offers the update, until it’s installed.

• Updates and downloads come from the app’s own site.
• The licences of the open-source parts are inside the app: General › About.
• Anonymous counts of how the app is used, never what you say, with one switch in General to turn them off.

A proper installer

The app comes as a disk image: drag it to Applications. A picture inside shows the three clicks it takes the first time macOS asks whether to open it.

Installs on any Apple silicon Mac

Everything it needs is inside the app. The first time it opens, it downloads the speech model, 3.9 GB, once; the download picks up where it stopped if it’s interrupted.

• It looks for updates once a day, or when you click General › Check for Updates.
• The settings drop from the menu-bar icon in a panel of their own.
• It uses no processor at all while it waits for you.

History and replacements

What you dictated stays on this Mac for a while: the latest in the panel under Dictation › Recent, all of it under All ›. Copy one again, or, if you spoke the other language, have it transcribed again in the right one.

• ⌃ ⌥ V types the last dictation again, wherever the cursor is.
• Replacements: words the model keeps getting wrong, such as names and jargon, are fixed for good after every dictation (Speech › Text › Replacements).

One key, tapped or held

Hold the shortcut while you talk and let go, or tap it, talk as long as you like, and tap it again. No setting to choose between them. The shortcut can also be a modifier key on its own: right ⌘, ⌥, ⌃ or ⇧, or fn.

• Esc, or the caption’s ✕, cancels a dictation.
• The words join the text already there: the right space, a small first letter mid-sentence, no full stop in a search box.
• The clipboard is put back afterwards exactly as it was, images and styled text too.

Say it. It’s typed.

Press ⌥ Space anywhere and talk. Your words are transcribed on this Mac by Cohere Transcribe and typed where the cursor is. Nothing leaves the computer.

• While you talk, a Liquid Glass caption shows the words: faint at once, solid when the model is sure.
• Let go and a white line runs once round the caption; then the words fly into the text field.
• Fourteen languages, and Chinese copes with English words mixed in.