Stop Recording Automatically When You Stop Talking

EnviousWispr can end a recording by itself once you stop talking, so you do not have to press your keybind again. This is off by default. Switch it on first.

Turn on auto-stop

1. Go to Dictation Settings > Engine.
2. Under Applies to both engines, switch on Stop recording on silence.
3. Use the Pause duration slider to set how long a pause has to be, from half a second to three seconds. The default is one and a half seconds.

A pause shorter than your setting is ignored. A longer silence ends the recording.

Choose a pause length

Setting	What it does
Half a second	Ends recordings quickly, but an ordinary pause for thought is often enough to stop it.
One and a half seconds	A reliable starting point for normal speech.
Up to three seconds	Suits speakers who pause often in the middle of a sentence.

Recording stops while I am still thinking

Raise Pause duration on the Engine tab of Dictation Settings, up to three seconds. Or switch Stop recording on silence off and end every recording yourself with your keybind.

Recording does not stop by itself

Check that Stop recording on silence is switched on. It is off by default. If it is on and recordings still run long, lower Pause duration, or end the recording with your keybind.

Silence is cut out of my dictation

Before your speech is transcribed, EnviousWispr finds the parts of the recording where you were talking and sends only those to the speech engine. In a quiet or normal room that comes to the same thing as removing the silence at the start and the end. Anything the app does not recognise as speech can be left out, wherever it falls in the recording.

This trimming happens whether or not auto-stop is switched on. It runs entirely on your Mac and needs no setup. It works from a copy of your audio with low rumble (fans, engines, air conditioners) taken out. Your recording and the audio your engine transcribes are untouched.

If a noisy room is the problem, read Noise Suppression.