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I'm loving the new dictation feature in Raycast, will definitely make me start paying for Pro when it's out of beta.

However, there's one thing keeping me from fully switching away from Wispr Flow. Wispr Flow lets you do everything from a single key (I use the right Option key) that adapts its behavior depending on how you press it:

1. Hold to talk: I hold the key, speak, release, done.
2. Hands-free: I double-tap the key and it goes hands-free.
3. Lock mid-session: When I start with hold-to-talk but realize it's turning into a longer thought, I just tap Spacebar to convert the session into hands-free. I can then let go of everything and keep talking.

The reason this is so useful is that you never have to decide upfront how long your thought is going to be. I always start with hold-to-talk and only switch to hands-free if I need to.

Never realized how often I do this, until I tried using Raycast dictation!

Anyone else missing this from Wispr Flow?

Hi everyone,

Thank you for all the bug reports so far, we really appreciate the time and effort you’ve put into helping us improve Raycast.

With the state of reports we have now, we’d like to make sure everything is in one place so we can properly track issues and close the loop for everyone.

For bug reports, please continue using the Send Feedback command in Raycast or email us at support@raycast.com.

We’re removing the Bug Report post flair, as we won’t be maintaining bug reports posted in this subreddit.

Thanks for your understanding.

The newest beta is out and among many other things, they have hugely improved the text rendering and now I'm very pleased with it. No font size/config settings yet, but that's okay for now.

I'm posting it here because I didn't see anywhere that they're putting Beta changelogs, only stable ones.

If you haven't yet tried it, you should!

(not affiliated with Raycast)

New

• AI: New Quick Fix command to quickly fix spelling
• AI: New settings to configure the default model for each AI feature

Improvements

• AI Chat: Improved startup and window reveal performance
• AI Chat: Added line wrapping for code blocks
• AI Chat: Added native full-screen support for the non-floating AI Chat window
• Core: Improved text rendering
• Core: Improved liquid glass controls when the window is blurred
• Dictation: Added support for dictation in root search
• Dictation: Improved cancellation behavior
• Dictation: Added Dia, Helium, Zen, and Orion browser support for Styles
• Settings: Improved Switch component states/interactions
• Script Commands: Script command output is now selectable
• Store: Improved stability of Store results while loading
• Translate: Use Selected Text as Source now works via root search as well as via hotkey
• Window Management: Add support for Quick Look panels
• General: Reduced memory usage for app icons

Fixes

• AI Chat: Fixed selecting reasoning effort resetting model
• AI Chat: Fixed indented markdown rendering
• AI Chat: Fixed new chats opening blank after triggering an AI Command
• AI Chat: Fixed drafts not preserving newlines
• AI Chat: Fixed scrolling to the wrong position after sending a message
• AI Chat: Fixed tab order in the chat UI
• AI Chat: Fixed pagination cursor overlap
• Applications: Use alternate name for Creator Studio apps
• Calendar: Google Meet meeting URLs now include the calendar account email
• Core: Prevent default right-click menu inside popovers
• Core: Allow running several instances of Raycast with different users in the context of Fast User Switching
• Clipboard History: Fix missing Open With and Show in Finder actions for some images
• Clipboard History: Improve reliability for restricted user accounts
• Dictionary: Fixed duplicates in filter panel
• Dictation: Fixed statistics display for large values
• Extensions: Fixed menu bar items not using the system appearance
• File Search: Improved search for files and directories using non-Latin alphabets
• File Search: Fixed an issue which could cause searches to hang the Raycast UI
• General: Fix issues using Raycast v2 in multi-user environments
• Hotkey Recorder: Fixed L⌥ + R⌥ (or any other modifier) not triggering a double tap hotkey ⌥⌥
• Hotkey Recorder: Fixed ⌥⌥ hotkey triggered when pressing ⌥+Space twice
• Hotkeys: Fixed an issue which had hotkeys for disabled commands still respond
• Hotkeys: Fixed hotkey registration when re-enabling a command
• Hyper Key: Improve reliability after restoring from secure input or lock screen
• Import: Improved reliability of Snippet keyword registration after import
• Import: Fix missing open-with application after importing Quicklinks from v1
• Import: Fix occasional hang when running the v1 migration
• Menu Bar: Fix crash when toggling Menu Bar commands
• Onboarding: Tweaked copy of transfer setup to show correct command name
• Permissions: Improved handling of Calendar and Contacts permissions
• Permissions: Fixed an issue where Raycast would not open System Settings when requesting access for a denied permission
• Root Search: Fixed flickering empty state while typing
• Root Search: Fixed duplicate script commands breaking root search list
• Root Search: Renamed "Preferences" section to "System Settings"
• Root Search: Fixed an issue where wrong command ids would show up in HUD after favoriting
• Settings: Fixed double padding issue in Shortcuts settings view
• Settings: Fixed scrollbar not updating when expanding/collapsing sections in Shortcuts settings view
• Settings: Fixed Switch rendering on non-retina displays
• Updater: Surface more detailed error when the updater fails
• Window Management: Improved reliability and silenced some spurious warnings

One thing I miss from Wispr Flow: Whisper Mode.

You could dictate at a very low volume and it would still pick you up accurately. That made it usable in open offices without drawing attention.

Raycast dictation requires normal speech, which isn't always an option around colleagues.

Anyone else missing this feature? Pls Raycast team fix this, I really want to ditch WisprFlow!

I just wanted to give the team a big cheer for one of the new features in Translator: Create custom commands with predefined language pairs. I often work between English and Portuguese. I've created two custom commands, one for going from English to Portuguese, and another in the other direction. They both have aliases and hotkeys. It's now so fast and efficient to do my translating wherever I'm working -- email, WhatsApp, etc. A big THANK YOU!!!

Literally end of message.

I've tried wisprflow, superwhisper, etc etc, local models, cloud models, windows, macos, etc. You name it, I’ve tried it.

I'm genuinely curious about HOW raycast is doing this. Like V2 is neat and all but this dictation is litearlly going to make me buy pro for sure. If it 8/month just for dictation without the rest of the app I might be tempted as well.

its SO fast. I do hundreds of words at once (daily journalling, writing emails, etc), and the amonut of time it takes to think makes it seem like they have to be processing the audio data as i'm speaking, in some sort of constant process loop or something. I'm not to familiar with the exact terminology, but I'm pretty sure the reason why other models take longer to think is because the audio has to be recorded, sent to the cloud, processed, refined (more processing), and then sent back to the user.

When you try it you'll understand. Anyone hav any ideas about how they were able to pull this off?

I commented on a problem with Dictation in reply to another post, but here is a full report of a problem with Dictation.

I have Raycast Beta installed on a MacBook Air M4, and a Mac mini M4. On the Mac mini, Dictate works as expected. The input is Studio Display microphone.

On the MacBook Air, Dictate is not working at all. Input device is set to MacBook Air microphone. When I trigger Dictate, either with an alias or hotkey (⌃M), the waveform icon appears. On the Mac mini, that waveform icon animates to show it is receiving input speech. On the MacBook Air it does not animate. On the Mac mini when I stop dictating, Raycast pastes the text into the active application. On the MacBook Air when I stop dictating another pill/icon appears saying "No speech detected."

I know the microphone on the MacBook Air is working because I can use it with macOS dictation.

I'll also use Raycast Send Feedback to post this to Raycast support. Any ideas here on how to track down what might be going on would be appreciated.

Huge fan of Raycast. But tried the beta for the first time yesterday. It was painfully slow on a 16GB Mac Mini M1. Anything I tried to do after triggering it took 2-4 seconds, sometimes even longer. I'm back on the original version and it is as fast as I'm used to. Haven't seen many other posts talking about speed -- did I miss them or am I alone in this?

Is there a way to detect anywhere on my computer that when app is opened, it was opened by raycast, not spotlight?

Need it for one of my hammerspoon scripts

I've been using Raycast for a while now and the file search always worked fine, but for the last few weeks it just started lagging, to the point where it's unusable for file search. I've tried reinstalling Raycast, but that didn't help, I also reindexed spotlight but that also didn't help. It needs about 3-5 seconds per letter I type. I have a M4 max MacBook Pro.

Did anyone else experience this? Is there anything I can do? Thanks in advance

I am currently using V2. Overall, I am very satisfied with it, but I found one change that makes me very uncomfortable:

After V2, content obtained from the clipboard history, when pasted into other apps, comes with formatting such as background color, bold, and so on. But this is actually not what I want. I often encounter scenarios where I only need to paste plain text, so I often use Raycast’s clipboard as a relay station, but in V2 this behavior has become very inconvenient.

Although I can achieve this with [⌘ + control + enter], this is very inconvenient and does not fit my muscle memory at all; I have to often undo and then paste again.

There is another issue: in my perception, the primary action is [Enter], and the secondary action is [⌘+Enter], but in the clipboard history, the [⌘+Enter] action is actually [Copy to Clipboard], which I really do not understand. Why would I copy something from a clipboard to the clipboard? 😂

My expectations:

1. The primary action is [Enter]: paste in plain text format

2. The secondary action [⌘+Enter]: paste in rich text format

3. In the clipboard history settings, it can be set whether the default primary action is [paste in plain text format] or [paste in rich text format]

I've tried a number of other dictation apps, like ParaSpeech and Super Whisper and a couple others briefly, and this beats them hands down. Accuracy and punctuation are almost perfect. I'm really, really enjoying the dictation. Congratulations. Well done, Raycast.

So, naturally, I've been trying V2 Raycast for a week or so now, and, just being direct, I don't like it, it's slow for me, takes too much memory, and lacks functions that I need. I prefer to just wait for stable. But I did want to try it out, so I did, and after the onboarding and the whole migration process, all of my hotkeys in V1 are gone. Is there a way to bring them back at once, or do I have to set them up all manually again? Thx in advance

When i trigger quick window managment in raycast v2, it often says failed to process request and does the wrong command. Could this be fixed?

Hi everyone,

I think I found a bug with Raycast Beta interfering with Adobe Illustrator copy/paste.

When Raycast Beta is running, copying an editable text layer in Illustrator and pasting it back converts the text into outlined/vector shapes instead of keeping it editable.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Adobe Illustrator
2. Create an editable text layer
3. Copy the text layer
4. Paste it in the same file or another Illustrator file
5. The pasted text becomes outlined instead of remaining editable

Expected behavior:

The pasted layer should remain editable text.

Actual behavior:

The pasted layer becomes outlined/vector shapes.

Temporary fix

Quitting Raycast Beta fixes the issue immediately. After Raycast Beta is closed, Illustrator copy/paste works normally again.

System details:

• macOS: M4 MAX
• Illustrator: 30.0
• Raycast Beta: Tahoe 26.5 (25F71)

Has anyone else run into this?

Just what the title says. I understand that Raycast V2 is in beta, but I'm curious how long it will be until we see Focus Mode in there. Thanks for all the hard work!

I may be missing something here, but I wanted to ask other users before assuming anything.

In Raycast V1, opening File Search without typing seemed to show recently opened/modified files first. I used that a lot for lecture videos, because I could search a few letters and the last video I had watched would appear at the top.

In Raycast V2 beta, I’m not seeing that same behavior, or at least it doesn’t feel as useful to me. Maybe I’m using it wrong, or maybe there’s a setting I’m missing. Does Raycast V2 still support this kind of recent-files behavior, or has it changed?

If anyone knows the right way to use it, I’d appreciate the help.

Hey there!

Today I turned my work PC on and noticed that Raycast won't open no matter what I do. I just reinstalled it from the Microsoft Store, but that didn't help.

How should I proceed? I visited the website looking for troubleshooting instructions, but the link at the bottom of the page just redirects to the manual, where I couldn't find anything addressing this specific issue.

Thanks in advance!