How to dictate in any app
Tap the dictation keys, talk, and Koi types where your cursor is, in any Mac app. Voice commands, offline use, languages and how to stop, step by step.
Step by step
How to do it
- Hover the notch, open Tools and click Teleprompter.
- Paste or type your script, or click Import for a PDF, Word, Markdown or text file (dropping one on the box works too). The last one is kept for next time.
- Pick how it's paced: following your voice, or a steady speed from 60 to 260 words a minute.
- Press Start. The notch grows into a black panel under the camera, the line you're on brightest.
- Read. Space pauses and goes on, Esc ends it.
Good to know
Worth knowing
- Or ask Koi on a call or in the chat box: "open the teleprompter", "put my keynote.pdf in the teleprompter", "make this my script", "start it", "pause", "a bit slower", "follow my voice". Started on a call, it reads once the call ends.
- An imported file comes in as plain text. A line break stays a line break and a blank line parts sections, and lines of a PDF that only wrap are joined.
- Following your voice, speed up, slow down or stop to think, and it waits. A skipped sentence or a misheard word doesn't lose it.
- ↑ and ↓, the trackpad or the mouse go back and on, and ⌘↑ goes to the top.
- + and − change the speed, or the text size while it follows your voice. ⌘+ and ⌘− always change the text size.
- Under the pointer, or while it's paused, a strip shows play or pause, the speed, the text size, mirror (for a teleprompter glass) and close.
- The keys are only taken while it reads and is in front. A click on another app gives them back.
- While it's on, the notch is hidden from screen capture, so apps like Zoom, Meet and Teams leave it out of what they share or record.
- Your voice is heard on your Mac by the speech model, a few seconds at a time, only to find your place. Nothing heard is kept, and neither the sound nor the script is sent. Without the microphone it scrolls at a steady speed, and says so.
Keep exploring
How to teach Koi your words, snippets and styles
Make Koi spell names your way, type a saved address when you say a phrase, and pick Casual or Formal for each app. All in Settings, Dictation, on your Mac.
How to talk to Koi
Tap the call keys once and talk: Koi answers out loud, looks at your screen, points, draws and fixes your writing. How a call starts, ends and what it sees.
How to type to Koi
Tap Control twice for Koi's chat box: type a question, get a written answer that sees your screen and selected text, and send saved prompts with a slash.