Get started with StyleTyper
Install it, set it up once, and start talking
Install on Windows
- Open the installer you downloaded from styletyper.com
- If Windows shows Windows protected your PC, click More info, then Run anyway. Windows shows this for apps it does not know yet.
- Follow the installer. It installs StyleTyper for you alone, so Windows will not ask for an administrator password.
- Choose whether to add StyleTyper to the Start menu and the desktop, then click Finish with Start StyleTyper ticked
Install on Mac
- Move StyleTyper to your Applications folder and open it
- If macOS says it cannot check the app, open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. You only do this once.
- To let StyleTyper type for you, turn it on in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Accessibility. Without it, your words wait on the clipboard and you press Cmd+V.
Install on Linux
- Double-click the file you downloaded. It opens in your software installer:
- Ubuntu: App Center says Potentially unsafe, as it does for every app from outside its store. Click Install, confirm with Install, then enter your password
- Linux Mint: click Install Package
- Fedora: GNOME Software opens. Click Install, then enter your password
- KDE Plasma: Discover opens. Click Install
- AppImage: right-click it, choose Properties, turn on Executable as Program, then double-click it
- Open StyleTyper from your app menu
- On GNOME or KDE, your desktop asks once to let StyleTyper type for you:
- GNOME: turn on Allow Remote Interaction, then click Share
- KDE: click Approve, then OK for the Ctrl+Space shortcut
Prefer the terminal? In the folder with the file:
- Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint:
sudo apt install ./styletyper_*_amd64.deb - Fedora:
sudo dnf install ./styletyper-*.x86_64.rpm - openSUSE:
sudo zypper install ./styletyper-*.x86_64.rpm - AppImage:
chmod +x StyleTyper-*.AppImage, then open the file
The first time it opens
StyleTyper opens Set up StyleTyper and walks you through four steps:
- Choose your language. Pick the language you speak and StyleTyper downloads it. You can keep setting up while it downloads.
- Try your shortcut. Choose the keys you will hold to talk, then try them once
- Check your microphone. Pick your microphone and say a few words. The meter shows Quiet, Clear or Loud.
- Try dictation. Hold your shortcut and speak. Punctuation and capitals are added for you
Click Open StyleTyper and you are done. Everyone starts with the Minimal Style; change it any time.
Activate your license
- Find your license key in the email you received when you bought StyleTyper
- Open Settings › About
- Paste the key into the License key box and click Activate
No internet on this computer? Click Activate offline under the Activate button and follow the three steps. See A computer without internet.