General settings

Settings → General contains the controls that affect everyday use across Nock. It is organized into Shortcuts, General, Visibility, and Audio & Speech. The labels below describe the current macOS interface.

Shortcuts

Agent Mode and Dictation Mode show your held voice triggers. Choose Change to add or edit accepted combinations. The two modes need distinct triggers; Nock refuses combinations that conflict with protected system shortcuts or the hands-free binding.

Hands-Free Dictation offers the double-tap switch and a press-once shortcut. Hands-Free Agent controls double-tapping the agent trigger. Turn off double-tap if waiting to distinguish one tap from two feels inconvenient. This changes how a tap is interpreted rather than changing recognition speed.

Paste Last Transcript changes the recovery shortcut. It is particularly useful if you dictate into several apps and occasionally switch focus too early. Read keyboard shortcuts, hands-free, and paste-last recovery before choosing an unfamiliar combination.

General

Languages selects your available languages and marks one Primary for recognition. The current implementation uses Primary for each request; it does not automatically rotate through every checked language. See languages.

Launch at Login controls whether Nock starts when you sign into the computer. Show app in dock controls the macOS Dock entry for easier access to Settings. These preferences are independent of whether you hide the resting notch.

Share usage data controls optional product usage reporting, including feature use, setup progress, timing, and limited error labels. Setup events use a random installation identifier; signed-in usage events can be associated with your account. Do not treat every event as anonymous. The event fields are designed to exclude your spoken or typed content, clipboard contents, screenshots, files, and pages. Switching the preference off also stops setup-tip emails that depend on those events. This is distinct from the audio or context required to fulfill a cloud-backed request. See Data and history.

Visibility

Hide side notch when minimized hides the resting side-edge indicator. Hide top notch hides the resting top surface and its hover effect. These do not quit the app. Use the menu-bar item or configured chat shortcut to reach Nock if you can no longer see its resting surface.

Other platform builds can show taskbar or top-bar-face controls instead. Their presence in source does not establish that a download is available for that platform.

Audio & Speech

Interaction sounds controls dictation and notice sounds. Intro music controls the original score during the welcome. Lower media volume while talking reduces system output during recording and restores it afterward. These switches are separate from spoken agent replies in Settings → Agent.

There is no active microphone selector here: choose the macOS input in System Settings. See microphone and sound and media. Test changed preferences with a short recording, and keep the previous shortcut noted until you are comfortable with the replacement.