How do I dictate text into any app on my Mac?
Set a dictation shortcut in Khint, press it, speak, and press it again. The transcript is typed at your cursor in whatever app you were in: Mail, Slack, Jira, a code editor, anywhere you can type. Prefer holding the key instead? That works too, and it ends when you let go. No recorder window, nothing to paste, and no model to download first.
Does Khint clean up filler words and punctuation?
Yes. When you dictate plain text, hesitations and filler words are dropped and punctuation is fixed in the same pass, so what lands reads like something you wrote. If the cleanup can't run, you still get the raw transcript rather than nothing. Dictations that feed an agent, a workflow, or the idea bar skip the cleanup: the agent reads through hesitations itself, and skipping it keeps the run fast.
Will dictation get my ticket keys and product names right?
That's the part most dictation tools miss. Khint primes the recognizer with the names of your agents and workflows, so the proper nouns that matter in your work come out spelled the way you mean them: ticket keys like AUTH-112, product terms, project names.
Can I trigger an agent or a workflow with my voice?
Yes. Set an agent's input to Voice and its own shortcut starts listening: press, describe, press again, and the agent runs on your words, pasting its result back as usual. A workflow can start from your voice the same way, and it shows your transcript as the run starts, so you see what it heard before the steps land anywhere. With the palette already open, the same gesture fills its idea bar instead, and stops there until you press Enter.
What does a dictation cost?
One dictation costs one action's worth of your monthly credit balance, cleanup included: it runs inside the same request. There's no separate voice meter and no per-minute pricing. There's also nothing to download and nothing to warm up, so it's just as fast on an ordinary work laptop as on a new Mac.
Is voice dictation private?
The microphone opens on a press and closes on a press: your OS recording indicator is lit for exactly that span, never outside a dictation you started, and Khint keeps an indicator on screen the whole time. A silent take is refused rather than sent. The clip is then transcribed on Khint's servers by a speech provider with zero data retention: audio and transcripts aren't stored and not used for training, and the provider is named plainly on our privacy page. Khint keeps no server-side copy of the audio.