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Push to talk versus hands-free timing logic.
When I want to make a quick one- or two-word dictation with push-to-talk, by the time my finger has left the key, it's left running in hands-free mode. I feel like the timing needs to be reduced from whatever it currently is. In my experiments between 500 ms to 1 second works well, better than anything 1 second or over.
One option is to add a setting that allows only push‑to‑talk instead of toggle. I rarely use the toggle; I almost always use push‑to‑talk and I'm happy to keep my finger on it. However, it does get confused many times.
Something that most other apps are implementing is a push-to-talk or double press for hands-free. That generally works very well too.
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One option is to add a setting that allows only push‑to‑talk instead of toggle. I rarely use the toggle; I almost always use push‑to‑talk and I'm happy to keep my finger on it. However, it does get confused many times.
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Same problem. Having separate shortcuts for push-to-talk and hands-free mode could be a the solution to the current delay problem. (the double press also sounds good)
