Murmurtale Two modes, chosen by the key
| Hold this | Mode | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| fn | Fiction | The full literary pass: genre conventions, dialogue quoting, interior-thought italics, speaker-shift paragraphing, and editor-style cleanup. |
| right ⌥ (Option) | Plain | Clean everyday prose for email, Slack, and notes: grammar, punctuation, capitalization, filler removal, spoken commands, and correct name spelling — with none of the fiction formatting. |
Both modes only clean up; neither writes for you. Both honor your dictionaries and run on whichever engine you have selected. The pill shows the mode badge while you hold, and History labels every dictation with the mode that produced it.
Continuous mode (hands-free)
For longer stretches, tap the pill (or choose Continuous Listening from the menu). Murmurtale stays armed and inserts a passage after each natural pause. Stop it with the red square, another tap, or the Esc key.
Because continuous mode has no held key to pick a mode, it uses the setting at Preferences → Activation → "Continuous mode uses", which defaults to Fiction.
Spoken commands
You can speak punctuation and structure. Murmurtale recognizes commands like these:
- "comma", "period", "question mark", "exclamation point"
- "em dash", "ellipsis", "open quote", "close quote"
- "new paragraph"
Context is respected: saying "a comma" as part of a sentence leaves the words alone rather than inserting punctuation.