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Dictation is Scout’s core feature. Hold a hotkey, speak, and Scout types what you say into whatever app has focus. When context awareness is on, Scout also uses surrounding text from the focused app to improve recognition, correction, and insertion behavior.

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Push-to-talk

The default dictation mode. Hold your dictation hotkey, speak, and release to inject text.
  • Windows: Hold Ctrl+Shift to dictate. Release to inject.
  • macOS: Hold Fn to dictate. Release to inject.
1

Place your cursor

Click into any text field in any app.
2

Hold the dictation hotkey

Scout starts streaming audio to the speech engine immediately.
3

Speak naturally

Talk at a normal pace. You can say voice commands inline — they’re detected and converted in real time.
4

Release to inject

Scout finalizes the text — applying dictionary, quick phrases, and app style — then injects it at your cursor.

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Hands-free mode

For longer dictation, use hands-free mode so you don’t have to hold a key.
  • Windows: Press Ctrl+Alt+Space to start. Press again to stop.
  • macOS: Press Fn+Space to start. Press again to stop.
Hands-free sessions have two automatic safeguards:
  • 15-minute maximum — Sessions automatically end after 15 minutes.
  • 90-second silence stop — If Scout detects no speech for 90 seconds, it stops the session.
Text is accumulated during the session and injected when the session ends.

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How text injection works

Scout uses a clipboard-based injection method:
  1. Your current clipboard text is saved
  2. The transcribed text is copied to the clipboard
  3. Scout simulates a paste keystroke (Ctrl+V on Windows, Cmd+V on macOS)
  4. Your original clipboard text is restored
The clipboard save/restore preserves text content. If you have non-text content (images, files) on the clipboard, it may not be restored after injection.

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Processing pipeline

Between your voice and the final text, Scout runs several processing steps on your machine:
  1. Context awareness — If enabled, Scout reads the focused field and nearby focused-app context to improve recognition and corrections. See Context Awareness.
  2. Voice commands — Punctuation, symbols, line breaks, and formatting commands are detected and converted. See Voice Commands.
  3. Auto-list formatting — Digit-based numbered lists from the speech engine are formatted into clean list items.
  4. Vocabulary corrections — Words in your dictionary are matched and replaced using fuzzy matching.
  5. Quick phrases — Trigger phrases are expanded to their full replacements. See Quick Phrases.
  6. App style — If you have an app style configured for the current app, it’s applied (unless a quick phrase was expanded).
  7. Text injection — The final text is injected at your cursor.
If something doesn’t look right, say “undo that” — Scout sends the undo shortcut (Ctrl+Z / Cmd+Z) to the focused app. Note that this undoes whatever is on the app’s undo stack, which may include non-Scout actions if you’ve typed or edited since dictating.