Pill styles

Speechy shows a small pill on your Mac while you dictate, and you can pick its style in Settings, General, Appearance, Window Mode. Compact is a small pill with a waveform, Wide shows your words live, Dynamic Island grows out of the notch at the top of your screen, and Ticker is one slim line of your newest words.

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How to use Pill styles

  1. Open Appearance

    In Speechy, open Settings, General, Appearance.

  2. Pick a Window Mode

    Compact, Wide, Dynamic Island or Ticker.

  3. Set the background

    Pill Background sets how see-through it is; 100% is solid black.

  4. Put it anywhere

    Hold the pill and drag it to any corner or side of the screen.

What you pick, what you get

Make it look your way.

In Speechy, Settings, General, Appearance.

Questions

They show live text, which needs a Parakeet voice model. Your choice is kept and comes back when you pick one.

Yes. Hold it and drag it to any corner or side of your screen. It stays there for next time.

Yes. On the Wide pill, the minimize button switches to Compact and remembers it.

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