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Translation gives you a second dictation hotkey that does one extra thing: before pasting, it translates. You speak in one language, the text that lands is in another. Your ordinary dictation hotkey is unaffected — it keeps pasting in the language you spoke.

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Turning it on

Two things are needed, and it’s easy to do one and not the other. 1. Configure it. Open Settings, choose Language Models under AI Models, then the Translation tab:
  • Enable Dictation Translation — the switch. Off by default.
  • Spoken language — what you dictate in. Automatic here also copes with dictation that mixes languages.
  • Target languages — the languages you translate into. Add up to 5 and mark one as active.
  • Translation Prompt — how the model should translate, if you want to steer it.
2. Give it a key. Open Settings, then Hotkeys under App, and set the Translation Hotkey. Without a key there’s no way to start a translated dictation.
If you haven’t chosen a target language, the hotkey stays inactive — the settings tab says “Pick a target language to activate the translation hotkey.”

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Switching between languages

You can keep up to five target languages configured and switch which one is live from the Active target language control, without re-entering settings each time. Useful if you write to people in two or three languages regularly.

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Its own model

Translation uses a separate model from dictation cleanup — set on the same Translation tab. So you can run cleanup on a local model and translation on a cloud one, or the reverse. Translated dictations are cleaned up first, then translated.

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Where translations show up

Translated entries are marked as such in your History, and you can re-run one through the translation chain from the retry menu if the result wasn’t what you wanted.

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If translation fails

Your dictation is pasted untranslated, with a notice. It’s never dropped — you get the original text and can retry from History.