Dictating, in three gestures

Hold, speak, let go. The text lands where your cursor is blinking.

Put your cursor where you were typing, in any application: your mail client, a word processor, a terminal. No window opens, you leave nothing.

Hold the shortcut.
Speak at your own pace. The hesitations and the "ums" are dropped along the way.
Let go. The text is there, exactly where you were typing.

The default shortcuts, on Windows:

Dictation: Ctrl + Win, held. What you say gets written.
Instruction: Ctrl + Win + Alt, held. What you say is an instruction, not a text.
Hands-free: Ctrl + Win + Space. One press starts, a second one stops.

On Mac there is no Windows key, so the shortcuts are:

Escape cancels, always, in all three modes. Nothing is transcribed, nothing is written, nothing is counted.

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