App-aware formatting

App-aware formatting makes Speechy's Smart Polish write for the app you're dictating into on your Mac. In code editors and terminals, spoken file names and commands become code; in chat apps your casual tone stays; in email you get full sentences and paragraphs; in notes apps lists become dash lists. It's on by default in Settings, Personalize, and needs Smart Polish.

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How to use App-aware formatting

  1. Turn on Smart Polish

    On the Models page, switch on Smart Polish.

  2. Leave it on

    App-aware formatting is on in Settings, Personalize.

  3. Dictate anywhere

    Speechy notes which app and window you're in.

  4. It fits the app

    Code where you code, chat where you chat.

What you say, what it types

Let it read the room.

In Speechy, Settings, Personalize. Both work with Smart Polish on.

Questions

Code editors and terminals like VS Code, Cursor, Xcode, Terminal, iTerm, Warp and Zed; chat apps like Slack, Discord, Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal; email like Mail, Outlook, Spark and Superhuman; and notes like Obsidian, Notion, Apple Notes and Bear.

No. The app's name and window title only go into the writing model on your Mac.

They get Speechy's usual cleanup, without app rules.

App aware, in Settings, Dictation, is a separate beta setting that looks at your screen and uses Speechy's server. App-aware formatting stays on your Mac.

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