WarbleDictating
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.
Taps shorter than a quarter of a second are ignored, so brushing the key does nothing.
Toggle mode
For long dictation, switch Settings → Dictation → Mode to Press to start, press to stop. Press once to start and again to finish.
What happens to your words
Audio is recorded as 16 kHz mono while the key is held.
Parakeet TDT v3 transcribes it on the Neural Engine.
If spoken punctuation is on, words like “comma” become punctuation.
Your dictionary fixes spellings and expands shortcuts.
The text is pasted at the cursor, and your clipboard is restored a second later.
The dictation is saved to History.
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 video call. This needs the Screen & System Audio Recording permission.