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Multilingual workflows

Switch languages mid-dictation. Translate as you speak. Use auto-detect when you really alternate, pinned when you mostly stay in one.

Pattern 1: mix-and-match

If you genuinely alternate languages clip by clip (Italian to your team, English to a client), keep Language on Auto-detect. Whisper picks the dominant language per clip.

Pattern 2: translate on the fly

Stay in your native language, output a different one. Use a Custom prompt:

text
Translate the input to English. Keep proper nouns, brand names, and technical terms verbatim. If the input is already English, leave it unchanged. Output the translation only.
  • Speak Italian, paste English.
  • Speak English, paste German.
  • Speak whatever, get a single target language out.

Pattern 3: Italian humour

Style: Imbruttito. Speaks Italian, paste rewritten in the Milanese grumpy style. It is a humour style; not for client emails.

Pattern 4: keyboard layout independence

Dimmy is keyboard-layout agnostic. You can be on a QWERTY laptop in a French AZERTY environment and dictation still works: the hotkey listens for modifier keys by hardware position, not by layout.

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Last updated: 2026-05-22