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Your shortcuts live in Home > Shortcuts. Every shortcut is a single modifier key pressed on its own.

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Change your Dictate key

The Dictate key is Fn/Globe by default. To change it:
1

Click the current key

Go to Home > Shortcuts and click the key shown next to Dictate. It changes to Press a key.
2

Press the key you want

Press and release one modifier key on its own. You can also pick one of the keys listed below the row.
3

Try it

Hold the new key in any text field and speak.
To stop without changing anything, press Esc or click the key again.

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Keys you can use

Any one of these, on the left or the right side of the keyboard:
  • Option (⌥)
  • Control (⌃)
  • Command (⌘)
  • Shift (⇧)
  • Fn/Globe
Left and right count as different keys, so Right Option and Left Option can do different jobs. Pipit suggests Right Option or Right Command, which rarely clash with other apps. Key combinations and ordinary keys can’t be shortcuts. If you press one, Pipit shows “Use a modifier key on its own, like Right ⌥, or fn.” and keeps listening. Each key can do only one job. If you pick a key that’s already in use, Pipit keeps your old one and tells you, for example Already used by Enhance or Draft or “That key is already your Dictate shortcut.”

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Using Fn/Globe

On its own, macOS uses the Fn/Globe key for things like opening the Emoji picker. While Fn/Globe is one of your Pipit shortcuts, Pipit sets the Globe key to do nothing so the two don’t clash, and gives your setting back when you pick another key or quit Pipit. If Pipit can’t change it on your Mac, Home shows a note: Set Globe key to “Do Nothing”. Click Keyboard Settings ↗, then set what pressing the Globe key does to Do Nothing.

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Enhance and Draft keys

Until AI is set up, Home > Shortcuts shows one row, Enhance and Draft, with a Set up AI button. See AI cleanup. Once AI is set up, you get two more rows, each with no key until you set one:
  • Enhance: “Cleans up what you say.” Dictate as usual, and Pipit cleans up the text with AI before pasting it.
  • Draft: “Writes it for you, from your screen.” See Draft.
Set them the same way as the Dictate key. To remove one, click its key and choose Remove.
With AI cleanup on and no Enhance or Draft key, every dictation is cleaned up with AI. Once you set an Enhance or Draft key, your Dictate key pastes your words without AI cleanup, and you choose AI only when you want it by using the other key.

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Fixed shortcuts

These can’t be changed: All of Pipit’s shortcuts need the Accessibility permission. Without it, Pipit can’t hear your keys, and the overlay says “Accessibility is off, so Pipit can’t hear your shortcut.” See Permissions.