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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
