Dictating

Avette gives you two ways to dictate, both on the Right Option (⌥) key.

Push-to-talk

Hold Right Option (⌥) and speak; release to stop. Your words appear as marked text while you hold, and commit when you let go. Let go a little early? Avette waits for you to finish your sentence before committing, so you don’t lose the tail of what you were saying.

Hands-free

You don’t have to hold the key the whole time. There are two ways into hands-free:

• Start hands-free: tap Right Option (⌥) quickly — Avette keeps listening without you holding anything.
• Switch mid-dictation: already holding for push-to-talk and the sentence is running longer than you wanted to keep holding the key? Press Right Command (⌘) to hand off from push-to-talk to hands-free, then let go of Right Option and keep talking.

Press Return (↩) to submit when you’re done.

Submit and cancel

• Submit — Return (↩): end the dictation and commit it. In apps where Return sends (like a chat box), that fires off your message.
• Cancel — Escape (⎋): discard what you were dictating.

Shortcuts at a glance

• Push-to-talk — hold Right ⌥
• Start hands-free — tap Right ⌥
• Push-to-talk → hands-free — Right ⌘ (while holding)
• Submit — Return (↩)
• Cancel — Escape (⎋)