F8 — Dictate anywhere
Dictate in any app at the speed of thought.
Hold F8 and speak — Flunkey transcribes via Groq Whisper Turbo, OpenAI, or Gemini, polishes grammar, and pastes at your cursor. Works in mail, docs, chat, notes, terminals, and code editors with per-app handling and clipboard restore.
you said → “lets meet tuesday… actually wednesday at ten”
pasted → “Let’s meet Wednesday at 10:00.”
How F8 works
- 1
Hold F8
Click any text field. The bottom pill lights up and a start sound confirms recording.
- 2
Speak naturally
Ramble, pause, self-correct. Custom dictionary fixes names and jargon; grammar polish adds punctuation.
- 3
Release to paste
Text is pasted via the OS clipboard with per-app handling, then your original clipboard is restored.
- 4
Hands-free option
Double-tap F8 for hands-free mode — confirm or cancel right in the pill.
Why it saves time
- 4x faster than typing for emails, docs, tickets, and prompts
- Custom dictionary for names, acronyms, medical/legal/technical terms
- Per-app paste handling: code, chat, notes, terminal, mail
- In-memory transcription — audio is never stored by Flunkey
- All shortcuts remappable; tray icon jumps to Settings
F8 FAQ
Yes — anywhere you can type. Flunkey pastes at the cursor via the OS clipboard, with per-app handling for code editors, chat, notes, terminals, and mail.
Groq Whisper Turbo (fast default), OpenAI transcription models, or Gemini native audio. Bring your own key; audio is transcribed in memory.
Double-tap F8 to record without holding. Confirm or cancel directly in the pill. Sounds confirm each action.
Yes. The optional custom dictionary plus grammar polish fixes product names, people, acronyms, capitalization, and punctuation before paste.
No. Transcription happens in memory via your provider. History is local text only, in AppData, until you wipe it.
Yes — all shortcuts are remappable in Settings if F8 clashes with another tool.
Canonical: https://www.flunkey.space/features/dictate · Also reachable via /f8