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Why the dictation key differs by platform. Alt+Space has opened the window menu on Windows since 1990, and muscle memory outranks cross-platform consistency.

Windows used right Alt until 0.2.2, and it was the wrong key for two reasons. On German, French, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Nordic, Turkish and UK-Extended layouts — among many others — right Alt is AltGr, the key that types @ € \ { } [ ], so every @ started a dictation. And Windows treats a lone Alt release as "open the window menu", which push-to-talk always is. Right Ctrl has neither problem: it is never a third-level shift on any layout, and it produces ordinary key events. If you were on right Alt, Tiune moved you to right Ctrl automatically.

Esc is only live while Tiune is actively listening or has just captured something, so it won't interfere with Esc anywhere else.

Undo the rewrite is live for about five seconds after each dictation and is then released back to other apps, so it never shadows a key you need. Want a different shortcut? Both of these are in Settings → General (dictation) and Settings → Writing (undo) — click the current one and press your new combination. See Settings.

One-button dictation

You don't have to use a chord. Push-to-talk can be bound to a single modifier held on its own — right Ctrl, Fn, or either Shift — so starting a dictation is one key under one finger rather than two keys at once.

Windows already works this way by default: right Ctrl, held alone. On macOS the default is the ⌥Space chord, but a single modifier is available there too — change it in Settings → General, click the current shortcut, and press the one key you want.

On Windows, the key you bind becomes Tiune's alone. Tiune consumes it outright while it is running, so no other application, system shortcut or shell sees it pressed — which is what stops a dictation key from also doing something else. The cost is that the key stops working as a modifier: bind the right Ctrl and shortcuts struck with the right Ctrl stop completing. That is why the default is the right-hand key rather than the left — Ctrl+C and its siblings are struck with the left hand, which is unaffected. Settings warns you before you bind a left-hand modifier, and refuses right Alt outright on a layout where it is AltGr.

On macOS the key is observed rather than consumed, so it keeps behaving normally.

Transformations

Available on Plus and Pro. These chords are registered only while a capture is still settled — the seconds right after Tiune types, when there's something to transform. Outside that window the keys belong to whatever app wants them.

Windows avoids Alt here, because a lone Alt release opens the window menu. Since the dictation key is right Ctrl, use the left Ctrl for these chords — Tiune consumes the right one, so it cannot complete them. See Transformations.

In the review window

After a capture settles, click the bar to open the review window.