Voice Activation

Voice activation turns a dictation into a command without reaching for a second hotkey. Start an ordinary dictation, open with "Glaido," and say what you want done.

The phrase

Say "Glaido" as your first word. "Hey Glaido" works too, and Glaido drops the "Hey". Capitalization makes no difference.

The name has to land within the first two words of what you said. Later in the sentence it does nothing, and it stays in your text as dictated.

Glaido strips the name out before the command runs, so "Glaido, make this more formal" arrives as "make this more formal".

How it works

1. Start a dictation with any dictation hotkey.
2. Open with "Glaido," and follow it with what you want. For example, "Glaido, make this more formal" or "Hey Glaido, what's a better word for 'important'?"
3. Stop the dictation the way you normally would.
4. Read the answer in the command window. Press Enter to paste it, or Esc to close the window and paste nothing.

The dictation bar turns into the command window. History saves the whole thing as one command entry, so you don't get a stray transcript next to the answer.

Saying the name on its own

Say "Glaido" or "Hey Glaido" and stop there. The command window opens, replies "What can I help you with?", and waits. Hold the commands hotkey and say the rest when you're ready.

Your selection comes along

Text you had selected before you started dictating is sent as context, the same as a command started from the commands hotkey.

Select Sarah's email in your inbox, start a dictation, and say:

"Glaido, write a short reply to Sarah thanking her for the project update."

The draft appears in the command window, and nothing is pasted until you press Enter.

Always on

There's nothing to switch on. Voice activation is part of every dictation, so it has no row of its own in Settings > Hotkeys.