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Set up SayDart, fix common problems, and get more out of every hotkey.

Start dictating, set up translation and find your way back to saved results.

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Your first voice-typed sentence, step by step.

Speak Chinese, get English: how to set up voice translation.

Find, translate and recover past dictations in History.

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Voice typing vs transcription: writing a draft or recording what was said.

Local history and cloud processing are different things.

How to Voice Type on Windows 11 in Any App

Set the language you read and the languages you speak.

Find the step where voice typing stopped.

Whisper dictation on Windows: run the model yourself, or use an app

Whisper dictation on Mac: whisper.cpp, Apple Silicon and the apps around it

Whisper dictation on Linux: from the microphone to the text field

How to dictate on a Mac: built-in Dictation or SayDart

Choose free voice typing software

Compare trials, free plans, built-in dictation and browser notepads by features, allowance and where you want to write.

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Get started

Set up your microphone and shortcut, turn on the original transcript preview and make a short recording.

Make your first dictation

Translate what you say

Choose a target language, then use Translate on the capsule or your Translation shortcut: Right Shift + Right Alt on Windows, Right Shift + Right Option on Mac, Left Ctrl + Left Alt + Y on Linux. Review the translated result.

Set up voice translation

Reuse saved History

View original transcripts, translate saved records, switch result versions and recover available text or recordings.

Use History and recover a result

Voice typing or transcription?

Choose between writing into a text field and creating a record of speech.

Understand voice typing privacy

Understand cloud processing, local history, shared data and your controls.

Choose a Whisper workflow on Windows

Compare the Whisper model, local implementations, desktop apps and cloud dictation for writing or transcribing recordings.

Whisper dictation app for Windows

Whisper on Mac and Linux

Run Whisper with whisper.cpp on Apple Silicon or Linux, or skip the setup: SayDart for Mac and Linux comes with its voice hotkey already set, so you install it, sign in and start talking.

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Fix Claude Code voice mode

Claude Code's /voice not available over SSH, in WSL or with an API key? Match the error to the documented fix, or dictate and copy and paste instead.

Claude Code voice mode not working: fixes

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