

Both of these permissions are required to support dictation, and will only be used for dictation sessions. The first time the dictation interface is opened, Drafts will request permission to use your microphone and speech recognition services. Actions to dictate new drafts, or insert text ship in the default “Basic” action group - but can also be installed from the directory: Custom Actions and Keyboard Keys: Dictation can also be opened and used via action, scripts, and URL schemes.Dictate toolbar button opens dictation to insert the dictation result in the current draft.Editor > Dictate menu command opens dictation to insert the dictation result in the current draft.

File > New with Dictation menu command opens dictation to capture to a new draft.
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Use the Home Screen Widget: The Drafts Widget offers a command that launches the app directly to dictation of a new draft.The “Dictate” option will open Drafts custom dictation interface and insert the results at the cursor location. “Dictate” option in text selection menu: Place your cursor in the editor, and hold as if making a text selection.Select “Dictate” to start a new draft via dictation. Tap and hold new draft (“+”) button: This opens the new draft options selector.Also, Drafts custom dictation interface can be opened via several methods: Table of ContentsĪs always, if dictation is enabled and supported on the standard system dictation can be used with the keyboard microphone button (iOS) or associated hot key (macOS) as you would in any app. Standard macOS dictation in macOS versions earlier than 10.15.

The Drafts custom dictation interface requires APIs added to macOS in version 10.15, and these features will not be visible when running on earlier versions of macOS. See Apple Watch article for details on using dictation on the Apple Watch. This article is focused on dictation on iOS and Mac.
