Two modes on one key
Hold Fn → speak → release. Text lands at the cursor (Dictate). Hold Fn with text selected → tell Skald how to change it ("shorter", "as bullets", "in English") — and the selection is replaced (Command).
Features
Skald is small. That's the point. The things it does, it does well — and nothing else.
Knows where you're typing
Skald sees the active app, the window, the browser address bar and the focused field. It figures out on its own whether you're writing a Slack DM, a customer email or a commit message, and shapes the text to match.
Your dictionary
Names, jargon, product codes, the way your team spells things. Add them once in the menu-bar — Skald never writes them back wrong. Personal to your machine.
Audio stays home
Audio lives in memory, then is gone. No disk cache, no backup, no "anonymous" telemetry from the app. Your voice is yours.
The two modes plus one
One key. Three jobs.
All three live on the same hotkey. Skald decides which job to do from whether you have a selection and how long you hold.
Hold, speak, release.
Text appears at the cursor. Cleaned in tone for the app you're in — Slack reads casual, Mail reads polished, code stays untouched.
Reshape a selection.
Select text, hold the key, say what to change. "Shorter." "More formal." "As bullets." "In English." The selection is replaced — no diff to review.
Long form, own window.
When you have more to say than fits in a field. Opens a Skald window, captures everything, cleans it into structured prose you can drop where you want.