When you dictate in English, German, or French, Dictaty leaves spoken fillers out of the text it inserts. In English that means “uh,” “um,” and “erm.” In German it means “äh,” “ähm,” and “öhm.” In French it means “euh.” This is on from the start. Turn it off in Settings if you want those sounds kept.
Settings now has text snippets. Say a short word you picked, and Dictaty swaps it for a longer phrase, such as a sign-off. Say “new line” or “new paragraph” and Dictaty inserts that break. German and French have their own phrases for the same breaks. Those breaks are on from the start, and you can turn them off.
Setup now finishes with a practice field. As soon as you choose Continue on the welcome step, Dictaty starts the download you need before you can dictate, and a bar shows the progress. On the last step, speak a short sentence and it lands in the field. You can skip that step.
Dictate right next to a word that’s already on the page, and Dictaty puts a space in so the words don’t run together. If the sentence is already going, a small word such as “and” or “the” stays lowercase, and a period at the end of what you just said is left off. Afterward, your dictation is still on the clipboard.
While your free trial is running, the license window’s button says “Done” and only closes the window. Dictaty keeps running. You can paste a key that still has a label in front, such as “License:”. Right after the trial runs out, the window says “Trial expired” instead of “0 hours left.”
Custom words has a new switch: “Recognize custom words more accurately.” It stays off until you turn it on. Then it downloads 574 MB once, and after that everything works offline. When you say a word from your list, Dictaty gets it right much more often, and the text shows up a moment later.