Find a dictation and insert it again
The dictation history on the Home page shows your dictations of the last 7 days. How to search, copy and insert a dictation, a cancelled one too, and how to switch the history off.
- Applies to
- Windows, macOS
- Version
- Dictate 0.4.0-beta.6
Press Alt+Shift+Z to put the last dictation where the cursor is, on a Mac Option+Shift+Z. This works with a cancelled dictation too. Older dictations are on the Home page under Your dictations.
Insert or copy the last dictation
- Shortcut: Alt+Shift+Z. You can change it under Settings›General›Shortcuts›Insert last dictation.
- Action Bar: right-click it and choose Paste last dictation or Copy last dictation.
- After a dictation that was not inserted, the Action Bar offers Copy.
Your dictations on the Home page
The list shows your dictations of the last 7 days, newest first. Each row has the time, an icon for the kind of program and the text. A click on the text shows all of it. With many dictations, a link under the list shows them all.
Move the mouse over a row:
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Copy | Puts the text on the clipboard |
| Insert | Inserts the text into the program you dictated it into |
| More | Opens a menu with more entries |
In the More menu:
- Insert original, Copy original and Show original: the original is what speech recognition heard before Smart Dictation formatted the text. These entries appear only when the two versions differ. Show final text shows the inserted text again.
- View AI change: appears when a command changed the dictation. Edit text by voice explains it.
- Delete: removes the dictation. The list then shows Dictation deleted. for a moment, with Undo.
If the program is gone, takes no text, or Dictate was restarted since the dictation, Dictate puts the text on the clipboard. While a dictation runs, the row shows Finish the running dictation first.
Cancelled dictations
A cancelled dictation, and one that could not be inserted, is in the list too. The row then shows Cancelled or Not inserted, with Insert and Copy.
Search your dictations
Next to Your dictations, click the magnifier Search dictations and type a word. The heading changes to Found in the last 7 days. If Dictate finds nothing, it shows No matches in the last 7 days.
Where the history is kept
The history stays on this computer. Dictate encrypts it with the key of your system. None of it goes to MediSync, not even in a problem report. Dictate deletes dictations older than 7 days.
Switch the history off
Open Settings›Privacy and, under Stays on this computer, switch Dictation history off. Dictate deletes the history at once. The Home page shows The history is switched off. Turn on switches it on again.
When you sign out, Dictate asks whether to delete the history. The Delete dictation history switch is on by default. Leave it on when others use this computer.
Privacy in Dictate explains what else Dictate keeps on this computer.
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