Talking instead of typing

Anywhere The Margin has a mic button, you can say it instead of typing it. Your words land in the field as text you can still edit, so nothing is saved until you have seen it.

Tap or hold#

The mic in quick capture (⌘⇧K, or the feather on a phone) works two ways.

Tap

starts dictation. Speak, then tap the mic again to finish.

Hold

is hold to talk. Speak while you hold it and let go when you are done.

While you speak, the words your device hears appear as you go. When you finish, the recording is cleaned up in one pass: fillers and false starts come out, and "no wait" or "scratch that" do what they say. If there is already text in the field, you can talk to it: "change Sara to Sarah" edits the draft rather than adding to it.

Checking what it heard#

After each clip a small review sits under the field.

• Undo puts the field back exactly as it was.
• Cleaned and What I said switch between the tidied text and your words as spoken.
• Words it was unsure of are marked. Tap one to see what else it might have been, hear that stretch of the recording, or type the right spelling.
• Tick Always spell it this way and the word joins your dictionary.

Your dictionary lives in Settings→Voice. It follows your account to every device, and the newest entries go with each recording as spelling hints, which is how names stop coming back wrong.

Talking to the assistant#

The assistant's message box has the same mic, on the web and on the phone.

• Tap it to dictate a message, read it, and send it yourself.
• Hold it to talk. When you let go and the words come back, they are sent after a three-second countdown that shows what is about to go. Undo in that time keeps the words in the box so you can edit them.

There are no command shortcuts here, because the assistant is the one who acts on what you say. "Add milk to the list" is simply a message to it.

A voice memo on a card#

An audio file attached to a card has a Transcribe to a note button in the card's attachments. It uses the same engine as dictation, saves the cleaned text as a note in your Inbox linked to the card, and counts against the same minutes.

What it costs#

Cloud voice minutes a month

60

on Free

500

on Pro

1,200

on Family, pooled across the household

500

per seat on Team

120

while a trial runs, unless your paid plan already gives more

Minutes are their own allowance, so talking does not eat into the assistant's actions. Past them, cloud voice uses one AI action for every two minutes. When both are gone, the mic falls back to your device's own recognition, which is free and never counted. What you have left is shown in Settings→Voice.

Recordings are not kept once your words are saved. Cleanup needs a connection; typing, and your device's own dictation where it has one, do not.