Text injection

How transcribed text reaches your app, and what happens to your clipboard.

  1. 01Your existing clipboard contents are saved in full — every item and every representation, not just plain text.
  2. 02The transcription is written to the clipboard.
  3. 03⌘V is synthesized as though typed on the keyboard.
  4. 04Your original clipboard contents are restored.

This works universally across every desktop application — editors, terminals, browsers, chat apps — with full Unicode support, because the target app cannot tell the difference between this and a real paste.

Timing

Some apps read the clipboard lazily after receiving ⌘V. If a particular app pastes your previous clipboard instead of the transcription, increase the paste delay under Settings → Injection.