File > New with Dictation menu command opens dictation to capture to a new draft.Use the Home Screen Widget: The Drafts Widget offers a command that launches the app directly to dictation of a new draft.The “Dictate” option will open Drafts custom dictation interface and insert the results at the cursor location. “Dictate” option in text selection menu: Place your cursor in the editor, and hold as if making a text selection.Select “Dictate” to start a new draft via dictation. Tap and hold new draft (“+”) button: This opens the new draft options selector.Also, Drafts custom dictation interface can be opened via several methods: Table of ContentsĪs always, if dictation is enabled and supported on the standard system dictation can be used with the keyboard microphone button (iOS) or associated hot key (macOS) as you would in any app. Standard macOS dictation in macOS versions earlier than 10.15. The Drafts custom dictation interface requires APIs added to macOS in version 10.15, and these features will not be visible when running on earlier versions of macOS. See Apple Watch article for details on using dictation on the Apple Watch. This article is focused on dictation on iOS and Mac. Extended dictation time: Dictate longer segments of text, subject to some system limitation.Language and locale selection: Dictation can be used with any language supported by Siri dictation and languages/locales changed on-the-fly - even within a single dictation session.Easier access: Dictation can be triggered in more different ways (details below).In addition to supporting standard Siri dictation using the microphone icon on the iOS keyboard or using standard system dictation on macOS, Drafts has a custom dictation interface which enables additional features, including:

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