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
- Find the document in Finder: a PDF manual, a datasheet, a picture of a diagram.
- Drag it up to the notch. Three spots open: Files Tray, Visualize and AirDrop.
- Drop it on Visualize, in the middle. The notch says Reading… while Koi reads it, then Building… as the model appears part by part in its own window.
- Turn it, zoom it, and click a step in the captions to fly to the parts it's about.
- Save it with the download button at the right end of its title bar: a PNG, or a .koi file that opens again in Koi with a double-click.
Good to know
Worth knowing
- No call and no voice needed.
- Koi reads about thirty pages and looks at pictures of the first six. A longer document is read from its start.
- Drop several files and Koi builds the first one it can read.
- It counts against your plan's Koi. The document's words, pictures of its first six pages and its file name go to Koi's AI once, to build it. Nothing of it is kept.
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 get Koi to explain with a picture
On a call, ask how something works and Koi draws it on a card or builds it in 3D while it talks. Turn it, click its steps, and save it as a PNG or a .koi file.