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The notepad

Open it from the tray menu, or with sotto --notepad. Press Record, speak, and the formatted text accumulates in the window. A Copy button puts the whole thing on the clipboard. Use it when:
  • You are drafting, and want to see everything before it goes anywhere
  • The target application does not accept synthesised keystrokes
  • You are dictating into something across a remote session
  • You just want the words somewhere neutral
The formatting is identical to normal dictation — the same pause-driven paragraphs, the same commands, the same cleanup.

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The command line

Sotto runs as a single background process. Invoking sotto again does not start a second copy: it forwards the command to the running one and exits.

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Binding your own shortcut

sotto --toggle is the escape hatch when the built-in global shortcut is not available — on a desktop without the GlobalShortcuts portal, or when you want a compositor-level binding instead. Disable Sotto’s own shortcut in Settings → Shortcut, then bind sotto --toggle in your desktop’s shortcut settings (System Settings → Shortcuts → Custom on KDE), or in your compositor’s config on Hyprland and friends.

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D-Bus

A running Sotto exposes net.mauvely.Sotto on the session bus at /Sotto, with these methods: The command-line flags above are thin wrappers over these, so anything that can talk to the session bus can drive Sotto — a hardware button, a Stream Deck, an editor plugin, a script.
The bus name doubles as the single-instance lock. That is why a second sotto invocation forwards rather than starting another process.

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The tray icon

Sotto lives in the system tray. Its menu opens Settings, opens the Notepad, and quits.

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Starting at login

Settings → General → Launch at login registers Sotto to start with your session, so the shortcut is available without you thinking about it.