Voice typing for recruiters on Mac
Speak the candidate message or recruiting note you need to write. Stirae transcribes your voice on your Mac, can refine the wording, and sends the text back to the app where you started.
Three recruiting workflows to start with
Candidate outreach
Dictate the reason for contacting someone, the role details you can confirm, and the question you want to ask. Use a Writing Style to organize the message into short paragraphs. Supply the actual facts yourself: Stirae does not research a candidate or check a role description.
Interview scheduling and follow-ups
Say the available slots, time zone, interview format, and next step. Before sending, check each date, time, recipient, and link against your calendar. If you often insert the same scheduling text, save it as a Voice Shortcut.
Notes for the hiring team
After an interview, dictate your own observations into the relevant note field. Separate what the candidate reported, what you observed, and what has not been assessed. Stirae is for dictated writing; it is not a meeting recorder or an automated candidate evaluator.
Set up a candidate-message workflow
- Complete Stirae setup, including microphone and Text Insertion Access permissions. Open an empty draft in the app you use for candidate messages.
- Open Settings > Writing Styles > New Writing Style. Use Candidate Message as the name. Copy the recipe below into Style Instructions and save.
- Open Settings > Profiles > New Profile. Choose Full Rewrite, the new Writing Style, your fixed spoken language, and Same as Spoken for output.
- Under Use With, choose your email application or an exact website host. For Gmail, use
mail.google.com. Save the profile. Creating the Writing Style alone does not activate it. - Click the draft body, hold your recording shortcut, speak, and release. Function/Globe is the default shortcut. In Toggle mode, press once to start and again to stop.
Use short paragraphs. Put the supplied reason for contact first, role or process details next, and any existing question or next step last. Use a list for multiple scheduling options. Preserve every name, fact, date, condition, uncertainty, and requested action. Do not add praise, urgency, benefits, hiring outcomes, or promises of future contact.
APPROXIMATE: wording and paragraph grouping depend on model judgment. Review the result before sending.
Website Profiles work in Safari, Google Chrome, Brave, and Microsoft Edge. They match the exact host, not a page path or an individual candidate. See Profiles for fallback behavior and browser selection.
A scheduling example
Fictional editorial example — not a captured product result
Spoken draft: “Hi Morgan, thanks for speaking with me. Could you do a portfolio review on Tuesday at ten AM or Thursday at two PM, both Berlin time? It would be a video call with our design lead.”
Illustrative edited draft:
Hi Morgan,
Thanks for speaking with me. Could you join a portfolio review by video call with our design lead at either of these times?
- Tuesday at 10:00, Berlin time
- Thursday at 14:00, Berlin time
Say AM or PM and the time zone explicitly so the draft has the scheduling details it needs.
Keep the details under your control
Add recurring names, company names, and role terminology to Vocabulary. Enable Preserve spelling when exact spelling and case matter. Still check the inserted text: transcription and model output can contain mistakes.
A matched Voice Shortcut ends processing for that dictation after replacement. Refinement and translation are skipped, even when the trigger appears inside a longer sentence. Dictate a saved sign-off separately if the rest of the message needs Full Rewrite.
Audio is transcribed locally. Cloud refinement sends text and the instructions needed to process it. For a run without cloud rewriting or translation, use Refinement Off and Same as Spoken; a valid trial or paid entitlement is still required. Read what stays local and what uses cloud processing before choosing settings for candidate information.
Review the final draft in your email or recruiting system before sending or saving. For more fictional workflow examples and style recipes, open Recruiter use cases.