Everything Lightmorphic Talk does, in pictures.

It turns your speech into typed text, entirely on this machine. Click the floating button, speak, click it again, and what you said is typed wherever the cursor is, in any application. Nothing is sent to the internet to do this.

Click the floating button once to start listening, speak, then click it again to stop. What you said is typed wherever the cursor was when you clicked.

On a Wayland desktop, no app is allowed to type into other windows unless it asks first. Lightmorphic Talk asks once, during setup: click Share when your desktop's own permission window appears. Without that, it still hears you, but nothing gets typed.

Yes, press and drag it anywhere on screen. On Wayland the desktop decides exactly where it lands when you let go, rather than Lightmorphic Talk; on X11 it drops exactly where you release it.

It is probably sitting behind another window. Click the Lightmorphic Talk icon in your system tray and it comes back to the bottom of the screen. On GNOME this can happen fairly often: GNOME does not let apps stay on top the way other desktops do, so it is not a fault in Lightmorphic Talk.

Yes, an optional GNOME Shell extension that keeps it on top. Get it from the gnome-extension folder, with install steps in its README.

Settings, then General, then Language. It changes straight away, no restart needed.

Yes, the "Start automatically" switch in Settings, under General.

Highlight the misheard word wherever it was typed, then right-click the floating button and choose Teach a word. It reads the highlighted word straight away and asks how it should have been spelt. From then on it corrects that word automatically.

On Wayland, an app is not allowed to read text highlighted in another app; only X11 allows that. Type the misheard word by hand instead, and the rest of the dialog works the same.

Turns the whole feature off: no words you have taught it get corrected any more, and Teach a word disappears from the floating button's menu, until you switch it back on.

Settings, then Dictionary, lists every word pair. Click a row's remove icon to delete it, or use Export and Import to back the list up or move it to another machine.

Yes, the Sounds switch in Settings, under either General or Sounds.

Settings, then Sounds, has ten to choose from. Click the small triangle beside any of them to hear it before picking.

Settings, then Microphone, lists every microphone your system knows about. Choose one from there.

Settings, then Microphone, then Test. It records three seconds and shows you the level it picked up, plus what it understood.

Paste puts your words on the clipboard for a moment and pastes them in one go: fast, and safe with formatting. Type simulates each keystroke instead, which some applications need but is slower and cannot be used with rich text. The setting is in Settings, under Output.

Yes. In Settings, under Reading aloud, switch it on. The voice is a 336 MB download the first time, once, and it runs on your own machine like the dictation does. Then highlight text in any application and press Ctrl+Alt+S: it reads what you highlighted, and a second press stops it mid-sentence. The voice, its language and the reading speed are all on that page, with a Listen button so you can hear a voice before choosing it. You can set the keys yourself: click the shortcut and press the combination you want. Talk says so if another application already holds it. Avoid the Super key on Cinnamon and GNOME, where the desktop menu claims it before any application sees it - a Ctrl or Alt combination is safer.

On Wayland desktops that offer it - Roundel OS, sway, labwc, Hyprland and KDE - the floating button now sits on the compositor's own overlay layer, so it stays above other windows without asking and keeps the place you drag it to. GNOME does not offer that layer, and still needs the extension in the repository. There are British and American English voices, male and female, and voices for seven other languages.

Yes. In Settings, under Dictation language, choose English (British). The speech model itself only knows English, not which country you are in, and it learnt mostly from American text — so colour, centre, organised and the rest are put right after the words come back, before they are typed. Words that mean different things either side of the Atlantic are deliberately left alone, so a program stays a program and a tire stays a tire.

Paste mode uses the clipboard for a moment to insert your words, and normally restores whatever was on it before. Turn on "Keep on clipboard" in Settings, under Output, if you would rather it left your last dictation there instead of putting the old content back.

Yes, if "Remove filler words" is switched on in Settings, under Output.

Automatically, as long as "Apply my dictionary" is switched on in Settings, under Output. Every dictation is checked against the words you have taught it before it is typed.

Only if you turn it on: the History switch is off by default. When it is on, a local, on-this-machine log of your dictations builds up in Settings, under History.

Settings, then History, has both. Export saves it to a file, and Clear deletes it for good.

Right-click the floating button. That menu has Settings on it, and it is there whatever your desktop does with tray icons. On Ubuntu and other stock GNOME desktops the top-bar icon needs the AppIndicator extension, which Ubuntu ships and switches on by default; if it has been turned off, or your desktop has no tray at all, the floating button's menu is the way in.

The typing permission from first setup was likely lost, which can happen after a desktop update or a Wayland session restart. Lightmorphic Talk tells you when this happens: open Settings and restart the app to be asked for permission again.

Check Settings, then Microphone, then Test first, to make sure the right microphone is selected and picking up a healthy level. If dictations are still being cut short, restart Lightmorphic Talk from Settings, under Maintenance.

Teach it: highlight the word after it is typed, then right-click the floating button and choose Teach a word. See Teaching it words above.

Settings, then Maintenance, then View log gives you the log file to attach. Attach it to an issue on the issue tracker.