How-To Guides¶

Practical, copy-pasteable recipes for common YazSes tasks. Each guide is self-contained — pick the one that matches what you want to do.

Guide	What it covers
Add words to your personal dictionary	Teach STT names, jargon, and acronyms it keeps mis-hearing.
Create spoken macros and snippets	Say a trigger phrase to expand canned boilerplate or templates.
Apply a house style to your dictation	Keep terminology and spellings consistent from a rules file.
Set a tone per application	Casual in Slack, formal in email, verbatim in a terminal — chosen by the window you speak into.
Jump to a symbol by voice	Say "go to line 240" or "jump to function tokenize" and the editor moves there.
Change the hold-to-talk key	Pick a hotkey (and a dedicated command key) that never clashes with typing.
Dictate into a remote SSH host	Type with your voice into a shell or editor on another machine.
Aim dictation with your gaze	Glance at a window and hold-to-talk — the text lands in the pane you looked at (X11).
Transcribe recordings to text	Turn an existing audio/video file into text — offline, with speaker labels.
Tune for speed and accuracy	Choose the STT model, set the VAD threshold, and manage CPU load.
The update said it worked but the version did not change	A package manager can exit 0 without upgrading anything — the reinstall command per install method.

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