Using Sonari

The shortcut

The default shortcut is ⌘⇧Space. You can change it to anything in Settings.

There are two ways to use it:

• Toggle mode (the default): press once to start recording, press again to stop and transcribe.
• Hold mode: hold the shortcut while you speak, and release to transcribe.

Pick whichever feels natural in Settings.

What you'll see

While you're recording, a floating pill shows a live waveform. When you stop, it switches to "Transcribing…", and a moment later your text is pasted into the app you were already in.

You can also click the record button in the menu-bar panel instead of using the shortcut.

Where the text goes

By default, Sonari pastes the finished text into the focused app, the one your cursor was in. It works the same everywhere: Mail, Slack, a code editor, a terminal, a text field in the browser.

If you haven't granted Accessibility permission, Sonari can't paste for you, so it copies the text to your clipboard instead. Just press ⌘V. To switch to automatic pasting, grant Accessibility in Settings → Permissions. See Troubleshooting if paste isn't behaving.

Cleaning up and reshaping text

Every transcript runs through your custom dictionary and whichever AI transform is active (clean-up, email, list, and so on) before it lands. Both are optional and both run on your Mac.