Dictating
Hold to talk, toggle mode, and what happens between key press and typed text.
Hold to talk
Hold the hotkey, speak, release. Warble plays a soft tick when it starts listening and a pop when it stops, then types the text at the cursor.
A tap shorter than a quarter of a second records nothing, and the pill reminds you to hold the key.
If the hotkey is a modifier such as Right ⌘, it still works in shortcuts. Pressing another key while it is down, as in Right ⌘ C, drops the recording instead of typing what the microphone heard.
Toggle mode
For long dictation, switch Settings → Dictation → Mode to Press to start, press to stop. Press once to start and again to finish.
With a modifier hotkey such as Right ⌘, Warble starts and stops when you let go of the key, not when you press it. That way a shortcut like Right ⌘ V neither starts nor stops a dictation.
What happens to your words
Spoken punctuation
Turn on Settings → Dictation → Spoken punctuation to say punctuation out loud.
| Say | Get |
|---|---|
| period, full stop | . |
| comma | , |
| question mark | ? |
| exclamation mark, exclamation point | ! |
| colon / semicolon | : / ; |
| ellipsis | ... |
| hyphen | - |
| dash | a long dash |
| open quote / close quote | " |
| open paren / close paren | ( / ) |
| new line | line break |
| new paragraph | blank line |
Dictating system audio
Settings → Audio → Listen to can also capture audio playing on your Mac, for example to transcribe a short clip. This needs the Screen & System Audio Recording permission; if it is missing, Warble offers to open System Settings once per launch.
Recording whole calls?
Warble is built for short dictation. For meetings, EchoPad records your microphone and the call as separate tracks, tells the speakers apart and saves the transcript to a folder you choose. It uses the same Parakeet model.
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