---
title: "Learning path for MediSync Dictate"
summary: "From installation to notes of your meetings, in twelve articles."
url: "https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/academy/learning-path-dictate"
product: "Academy"
platforms: ["windows","macos"]
access: "public"
updated: "2026-11-11"
version: "Dictate 0.4.0-beta.6"
---

# Learning path for MediSync Dictate

From installation to notes of your meetings, in twelve articles.

This path is for everyone who dictates into any application with MediSync Dictate. After step 5 you dictate your first text.

1. [What MediSync Dictate does](https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/dictate/what-is-dictate): you know what Dictate does and which applications it writes into.
2. [System requirements](https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/dictate/system-requirements): you check whether your computer is enough for Dictate and for local processing.
3. [Install Dictate](https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/dictate/install): you download Dictate and install it on Windows or macOS.
4. [The first start](https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/dictate/first-run-setup): you sign in, give the permissions and test the microphone and the shortcut.
5. [Your first dictation](https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/dictate/dictate): you dictate by holding a key or hands-free, and you cancel a dictation.
6. [The Action Bar](https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/dictate/action-bar): you know the buttons of the Action Bar and its menu.
7. [Shortcuts and foot pedals](https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/dictate/change-trigger): you choose the key or foot pedal you dictate with.
8. [Voice commands](https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/dictate/voice-commands): you insert punctuation and line breaks by voice.
9. [The dictionary](https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/dictate/wordbook-and-text-blocks): you teach Dictate medical terms and names.
10. [Notes](https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/dictate/notes): you take notes of meetings and calls and check the draft summary.
11. [Cloud or Local](https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/dictate/cloud-or-local): you decide whether your speech is processed in the MediSync Cloud or on the computer.
12. [Messages in the Action Bar](https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/dictate/messages-in-the-dictation-bar): you understand each message and know what to do.

How updates arrive and what is new is in [New versions of MediSync Dictate](https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/whats-new/dictate-updates-and-versions).