Dictation

Press v in the dashboard (or the global hotkey, CtrlShiftSpace — CmdShiftSpace on a Mac), speak, and stop. The text is pasted into the agent that is open full screen, or else the selected one.

• It never presses Enter. Read what was recognised, fix it if needed, then send it yourself.
• Audio never leaves your machine. Speech is recognised locally; audio is kept in memory only for the current phrase and never written to disk.

Set it up

The speech model is downloaded once, on first use or ahead of time:

nsq dictation setup     # download the model (checked against its SHA-256)
nsq dictation status    # model, folder, hotkey

Pick the other model with --model whisper-large-v3-turbo or in the config (below). nsq dictation test <file.wav> runs a recording through the model, to check it works.

The hotkey

By default a quick tap starts and the next tap stops; holding the key records until you let go. The hotkey is global — it works even when the terminal is not in front — and it does not swallow the key, so pick a combination your terminal does not use.

{
  "dictation": {
    "hotkey": "F9",
    "mode": "hold",
    "model": "whisper-large-v3-turbo"
  }
}

in ~/.neurosquad-cli/config.json. "mode": "hold" records while the key is held, "toggle" starts and stops on each press. "enabled": false turns dictation off.

Platforms

• macOS: your terminal app needs Microphone permission, and Accessibility / Input Monitoring for the global hotkey (System Settings → Privacy & Security).
• Linux: the global hotkey needs X11; under Wayland, use v in the dashboard. On Linux arm64 a recorder on PATH is used (arecord, parecord, pw-record, sox or ffmpeg).
• Over SSH there is no microphone or global hotkey on the remote side.