Voice
Hold the Option key and speak. dooze listens.
Talking to dooze
Press and hold the Option key (⌥). Start talking. Release when you are done.
Your speech is transcribed locally on your Mac using WhisperKit. Nothing is sent to a server for transcription.
dooze routes your words based on what it hears. A question or statement goes to Ask AI. A function keyword like "summarize" or "polish" triggers that function directly.
Hands-free mode
Hold Option for about two seconds. dooze enters hands-free mode — it keeps listening after you release the key. It stops when you stop speaking or press a key.
Dictation
Hold the Control key (⌃) and speak. Your words appear wherever your cursor is — emails, messages, documents, any text field.
This is passthrough dictation. It does not go to dooze. It goes to your app.
The difference
Option talks to dooze. Control types for you.
Option is for the AI. Control is for your keyboard.
Music detection
If music is playing when you start speaking, dooze pauses it and resumes when you finish.
Secure fields
If the active app has a password field focused, voice input is suppressed. Nothing is transcribed.
Setup
Go to Settings > Voice. You can enable or disable voice input, choose a transcription model (smaller is faster, larger is more accurate), and toggle right-side key filtering for compact keyboards that trigger Option accidentally.