How can we help?
Most questions are answered below. If not, write to us — a real person reads every message.
Something not working?
Tell us the website, what you said and what appeared. A screenshot helps a lot.
Report a problemMissing a feature or language?
The most requested ideas are built first, for everyone.
Suggest an ideaGetting started
- Add DictaPure to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store.
- On the welcome page, click Enable dictation and allow the microphone. DictaPure downloads the speech model for your language — this takes a minute, once.
- Click into any text field. Press the drop next to it, or Alt+Shift+S, and speak. Press again to stop.
Voice commands
Say these words to add punctuation. Capital letters and spaces are added automatically.
period
.comma
,question mark
?exclamation mark
!colon
:semicolon
;dash
—open / close parenthesis
( )new line
↵new paragraph
¶In Russian: «точка», «запятая», «вопросительный знак», «восклицательный знак», «двоеточие», «точка с запятой», «тире», «открыть скобку», «закрыть скобку», «новая строка», «новый абзац».
Fixes for common problems
Nothing happens when I speak
Check that the drop glows red — that means DictaPure is listening. Then open chrome://settings/content/microphone and make sure the right microphone is selected and DictaPure is not blocked.
“Microphone not allowed”
Open DictaPure’s settings (right-click the toolbar icon → Options) and click Enable dictation again. Chrome will ask for the microphone once more.
“Language not supported”
The speech model for this language is not downloaded yet, or Chrome does not offer it on-device. Open DictaPure’s settings, choose the language and click Enable dictation. DictaPure supports the 16 languages Chrome can recognize on-device: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Thai.
The drop doesn’t appear next to a field
Reload the page. After DictaPure is installed or updated, pages that were already open may need one reload. You can always start with Alt+Shift+S.
It types what the TV says
The microphone hears everything in the room. Use hold-to-talk mode in settings, so DictaPure listens only while you hold the key, or use a headset.
Text appears in the wrong place
DictaPure types where the cursor is. Click into the field first. If a specific site misbehaves, please report it — we fix sites one by one.
Still stuck?
Write to [email protected]. Like DictaPure? A review in the Chrome Web Store or a coffee on Ko-fi helps a lot.