Use the voice profile
Dictate learns from your dictations and corrections and suggests words, text blocks, styles and the dictation language. How to check, accept and undo the suggestions.
- Applies to
- Windows, macOS
- Version
- Dictate 0.4.0-beta.6
In the sidebar, open Personalize›Voice profile. On the Insights page, Open voice profile goes there too.
Dictate learns from your dictations and from what you change afterwards. From that it suggests entries for your dictionary, snippets and style. Your voice profile is built on this computer. Dictated text never leaves it for this.
Dictate counts and makes suggestions on every plan. You can accept suggestions on these plans: Basic, Professional, Dedicated. On other plans the page shows the suggestions locked.
Until the profile makes suggestions
From 2,000 dictated words on, Dictate knows you well enough to make suggestions. Until then the page shows … words to go and a progress bar. Dictate learns quietly in the meantime.
What Dictate learns from
| Source | What it gives | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| Your dictations | text blocks, recognition, dictation language, facts about how you dictate | The dictation history is on. |
| Your corrections after a dictation | words for the dictionary, style | Suggest words from corrections is on. Windows only. |
If the history is off, the page says The history is off. Dictate learns only from your corrections and suggests no text blocks. with the Turn on history button. If Dictate reads no corrections, the page shows Turn on. On a Mac, Dictate does not read corrections yet.
Check and accept suggestions
Open suggestions are under Suggestions. Each one names its kind and the reason, for example how often you corrected a word.
| Kind | Example |
|---|---|
| Dictionary | a word you keep correcting after a dictation |
| Recognition | a misheard form of a word, or a word Dictate should prefer |
| Text block | a sentence you often dictate the same way, a sign-off for example |
| Style | another style for a kind of text, because you often change the punctuation afterwards |
| Language | another dictation language, because many of your sentences are in that language |
- Accept takes a suggestion. For a text block, first enter under Trigger what you want to say to insert it.
- Reject discards it.
- Accept all takes every open suggestion.
Very sure marks suggestions Dictate is very sure of.
Accept suggestions automatically
Turn on Apply automatically. Dictate then applies only suggestions it is very sure of. Text blocks hold dictated text and always wait for you. The switch is off by default.
Undo an accepted suggestion
Recently learned lists what Dictate applied, also automatically. Undo takes an entry back.
What Dictate knows about you
The What Dictate knows about you section sums up what the profile observed: for example how many words per minute you speak, in which programs you dictate most, how long your sentences are, and in which programs you use "Sie" or "du".
Reset the profile
Click Reset profile and confirm with Reset. Dictate forgets what it observed and every open suggestion. Words, text blocks and styles you accepted stay.
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