User Guide

1. Move your cursor to the screen location at which you want to create a mark.

1. Say "mark X" where X is the name you want to give to your mark (eg. "mark chrome" to create a mark on the chrome icon in the taskbar).
2. Move your mouse anywhere else on screen.

1. Say the name of your mark (eg. "chrome"). This should now move your cursor to your mark location on screen and execute a click of the mouse at that location.

If you already created some marks and are wondering how to manage them, go to the Marks tab in the sidebar:

Here you can:

1. Delete an individual mark by clicking the Delete button.
2. Delete all marks at once to restart fresh with the Delete All Marks button.
3. Visualize where your marks are on the screen by clicking the Show Marks button (or you can say "show marks" at any time). To exit the show marks overlay, either press the escape key, or say "escape".

This is a quick dictation mode for when you want to perform a fast google search, or jot down a thought. To use it:

1. Make sure your cursor is on a location in which you can type text:
   
2. Say the activation phrase type. This will start dictation.
3. Wait for a pop up to appear in the bottom left of the screen, confirming Vocalance is listening for audio:
   
4. Start speaking.
5. As soon as you pause for more than 1 second, the dictation will self-interrupt, and Vocalance will paste what you said at the cursor location:
   

This dictation mode is meant for every day dictation needs (notes, essays, messages, etc.). It's less accurate than Vocalance's Full Dictation mode, but allows you to edit text in real time and move the cursor and dictate dynamically. To use it:

1. Make sure your cursor is on a location in which you can type text:
   
2. Say the activation phrase green. This will start dictation.
3. Wait for a pop up to appear in the bottom left of the screen, confirming Vocalance is listening for audio:
   
4. Start speaking.
5. When you pause for more than 2 seconds, the words you said since the last 2 second pause will be pasted at the cursor location:
   
6. When you're done with dictation, say the stop phrase amber.

This dictation mode is meant for high quality transcription, but allows less real-time editing than Vocalance's Incremental Dictation mode. To use it:

1. Make sure your cursor is on a location in which you can type text:
   
2. Say the activation phrase visual green. This will start dictation.
3. Wait for a pop up dictation window to appear on screen:
   
4. Start speaking. The words you say will appear in near-real time in the dictation window:
   
5. At first text will appear as grey. As you speak more, or as you stay silent, grey text becomes white. This indicates the model is finished with that segment and is confident that's what you said:
   
6. Both white and grey text counts as valid transcription, but white text is unchangeable, while grey text can change as you speak.
7. Once you're happy with what's in the dictation window (both white and grey text, you don't need to wait for everything to turn white), say the stop phrase amber. This will automatically paste all the text in the dictation window at your cursor location.

This is Vocalance's most advanced and flexible dictation mode. Smart Dictation first transcribes everything you say, then passes the output to an AI model (this model is open source and runs entirely on your computer, no data leaves your machine), which will apply a clean up prompt to the text.