# 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](personal-vocabulary.md) | Teach STT names, jargon, and acronyms it keeps mis-hearing. |
| [Create spoken macros and snippets](macros-and-snippets.md) | Say a trigger phrase to expand canned boilerplate or templates. |
| [Apply a house style to your dictation](house-style.md) | Keep terminology and spellings consistent from a rules file. |
| [Change the hold-to-talk key](change-hotkey.md) | Pick a hotkey (and a dedicated command key) that never clashes with typing. |
| [Dictate into a remote SSH host](remote-dictation.md) | Type with your voice into a shell or editor on another machine. |
| [Aim dictation with your gaze](gaze-look-to-pane.md) | Glance at a window and hold-to-talk — the text lands in the pane you looked at (X11). |
| [Transcribe recordings to text](../tutorials/transcribe-recordings.md) | Turn an existing audio/video file into text — offline, with speaker labels. |
| [Tune for speed and accuracy](performance-tuning.md) | Choose the STT model, set the VAD threshold, and manage CPU load. |

## See also

- [Configuration reference](../configuration.md) — every `config.toml` section and key.
- [Feature reference](../features.md) — every capability and how to turn it on.
- [CLI reference](../cli-reference.md) — every `yazses` command and flag.