Default or Live: When does your text appear?
ParusVoice has two dictation modes. Default inserts the finished text when you release the key. Live writes sentence by sentence straight into the document while you speak. Both modes clean up the text.
Default: one finished block
While you speak, you read your text along at the top of the screen. When you release the key, ParusVoice cleans up the whole dictation at once and inserts it at the cursor.
This suits you when you want to finish a thought first, such as a message. ParusVoice handles corrections while you speak: “We’re meeting at ten, no, at eleven” gives you eleven.
Live: sentence by sentence in the document
Place the cursor in the text field and speak. At every pause, ParusVoice cleans up what you said and inserts it one pause later, usually one sentence at a time. So the first words appear after your first sentence.
- Each inserted sentence is a separate undo step in your app.
- If you click into another field in the same app during dictation, ParusVoice keeps writing there at the cursor.
- If you switch to another app, inserting stops. The rest waits on a card, see Dictated text isn’t inserted.
- If you start without a text field, ParusVoice collects the dictation and inserts it at the end wherever your cursor is then.
Switch modes
- Open ParusVoice and choose “Dictation mode” in the sidebar.
- Click “Default” or “Live”.
The choice applies from the next dictation. The “Edit by Voice” switch is remembered separately for each mode. Live mode offers more commands, see Select and correct text by voice.
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