Debrief
Say it. It’s typed.
Listening…
Press and hold the button, or hold on your keyboard. Let go to paste.
Three steps. The last one is letting go.
Click into any text field
An email, a Slack thread, a terminal, a document. Wherever your cursor is, that is where the words go.
Hold the shortcut and talk
A small window shows a level meter, your words as they are recognized, and a running word count. Press Esc to throw it away.
Let go
The text is typed into the app you were using and saved in your dictation history. A 15-second dictation lands within a fraction of a second.
Everything you said, kept.
The Dictation page lists every dictation by day, with its audio, its length, and a copy button. Search finds a sentence from last Tuesday in a second, and ⌘K searches your dictations and meetings together, grouped so a result is never ambiguous.
The dictation window, while you speak.
The details that make it usable all day.
Three ways to trigger it
Hold the shortcut like a walkie-talkie, press once to start and again to stop, or both: a quick tap keeps recording hands-free, holding is push-to-talk.
Your clipboard survives
Pasting goes through the clipboard, so whatever you had copied is put back afterwards. Copy a log, dictate "take a look at this error", then paste the log underneath.
Music pauses itself
Other audio is muted while you speak and restored exactly as it was, volume included, even when you cancel. A system you had already muted is left alone.
Spelled the way you mean it
Dictation runs through your Vocabulary, so product names, colleagues, and jargon come out right. Teach a word once and both dictation and meetings learn it.
A history you can search
Every dictation is kept with its audio (30 days by default) so you can play it back or copy it again. Search it on its own, or alongside your meetings with ⌘K.
Wrong window? No problem.
The tray menu copies your last dictation, ready to paste where you meant to put it.
Respects your keyboard
Pasting follows your keyboard layout, so it works on Dvorak and AZERTY without sending the wrong key.
Never waits in line
Dictation can interrupt a long meeting transcription, take its turn, and hand it straight back. The speech model stays loaded, so it starts instantly.
If it has a cursor, it takes dictation.
Product names are trademarks of their respective owners. No integration is needed; dictation types into the focused text field.
Offline, and fast about it.
Dictation runs on Parakeet, a speech model that runs on your own GPU where there is one. Your voice is transcribed on your computer and never uploaded, so it works on a plane, behind a corporate firewall, or with the Wi-Fi off.
Comes with meeting notes attached.
Dictation apps typically charge $12 to $15 a month on their own. MeetingDebrief includes dictation with meeting recording, transcripts, summaries, and chat, for one payment.
Wispr Flow Pro lists $12/month billed annually and $15/month billed monthly (September 2026).
Questions
Which apps does dictation work in?
Does my voice get sent anywhere?
Which languages are supported?
What is the shortcut, and can I change it?
What does it need on my Mac?
What happens in a password field?
Is dictation a separate purchase?
More in the dictation guide.