Edit selected text by voice.

On the Mac

1. 01
   Select the textIn any app, the way you always do.
2. 02
   Hold right Option and ShiftStart talking once the indicator shows. You can let go of Shift; holding right Option keeps it going.
3. 03
   Say what to change, then let goFlula replaces the selection with the new text.

It needs Accessibility, which lets Flula read what you selected. Here’s how to allow it.

On iPhone

1. 01
   Select the textIn any app, with the Flula keyboard up. An Edit button with a pencil shows beside the microphone.
2. 02
   Tap Edit and say what to changeIf Flula isn’t ready, Edit opens Flula first to turn the microphone on. Swipe back and tap Edit again.
3. 03
   Tap the microphone to finishFlula types the new text over the selection. Undo in the keyboard puts the old text back, until you type.

The microphone itself still dictates over a selection, replacing it with what you say.

What to say

• “Make it shorter.”
• “More formal,” or “friendlier.”
• “Fix the grammar and spelling.”
• “Put that in a list,” or “turn it into one paragraph.”
• “Translate to German.”

What it keeps

Flula changes what you ask for and leaves the rest: facts, names, numbers, links, line breaks, and the text’s language unless you name another. It doesn’t add anything that wasn’t in the text or in what you said, and words in your Dictionary keep their spelling.

What it never does

• It never sends the text around the cursor. Only the selection and what you said go, and the selection is used for that one rewrite and isn’t kept.
• It never writes over text that moved. If the selection changed while Flula worked, the new text goes on the clipboard and Flula says Copied, not pasted.
• It never changes text when the rewrite fails. Your text stays as it was, and you can try again.

Limits

Up to 6,000 characters at a time. An edit uses minutes like a dictation: the length of what you say.