---
title: "Use the specialty vocabulary of your profession"
summary: "Choose your profession so Dictate spells its technical terms correctly. The specialty vocabulary applies on every plan."
url: "https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/dictate/specialty-vocabulary"
product: "MediSync Dictate"
platforms: ["windows","macos"]
access: "public"
updated: "2026-11-11"
version: "Dictate 0.4.0-beta.6"
---

# Use the specialty vocabulary of your profession

Choose your profession so Dictate spells its technical terms correctly. The specialty vocabulary applies on every plan.

Open **Personalize › Dictionary**. At the top of the page is the **Specialty vocabulary** block. It names your profession and the number of its terms. If you have not chosen a profession yet, it says **Choose your profession. Dictate then knows its technical terms and spells them correctly.**

MediSync maintains these terms. They apply on every plan. Smart Dictation uses them when it writes.

## Choose your profession

1. In the **Specialty vocabulary** block, click **Choose profession**. If a profession is already chosen, the link says **Change**. The list of professions opens.
2. Search in the **Search a profession or a term** field, or narrow the list under **Field**. **All fields** shows every profession.
3. Click a profession. The view shows **Examples from the terms**.
4. Check **Dictation language**, **Writing style** and **Self-corrections**. Below each row is the suggestion for this profession.
5. Click **Use this profile**.

Dictate takes over the profession, turns the terms on and saves the writing style and self-corrections. **All profiles** goes back to the list, **Done** closes it.

You also choose the profession during the first setup, see [Set up Dictate](https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/dictate/first-run-setup).

## Turn the terms off and on

On the right of the block is the **Use the technical terms when dictating** switch. When it is off, Dictate does not use the terms. Your profession stays saved.

## What to know

- Your own words with the same spelling come first. A word from your team dictionary also comes before a specialist term.
- The terms go to Smart Dictation, not to speech recognition. A term that speech recognition always mishears belongs in your [dictionary](https://help.medisynchealth.ai/en/dictate/wordbook-and-text-blocks), best with **Correct a misrecognition**.
- The terms exist in German and English. If you dictate in another language, Smart Dictation uses the English terms.
- The terms do not show in the dictionary list, and you cannot change them. If your search in the dictionary matches specialist terms, a line below the list gives the number of matches.

## Sign-in and internet

Dictate loads the terms from MediSync when you are signed in with your MediSync account. Without sign-in the block says **Sign in and Dictate loads the technical terms of your profession.** With a licence key and no account there is no specialty vocabulary.

Dictate loads the list again when you sign in, when you change the profession or the dictation language, and every 12 hours. Without internet Dictate uses the last version it loaded. If it never loaded the list, the block says **The technical terms could not be loaded. Dictate will try again later.**