After 40 Years, Someone Finally Found a Good Use for the Pause Key: Voice Input Toggle
esrtweet · x · 2026-11-10
The author shares a neat keyboard trick: binding Handy's speech-to-text capture toggle to the long-orphaned Pause key. The key sits at the far right of the function-key row, easy to hit without looking, and virtually no app ever claims it by default—making it a conflict-free hotkey for dictation workflows.
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