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The Dictionary does one thing reliably: after your speech is transcribed, it finds phrases you’ve defined and replaces them with the exact text you want. Say the key, get the value. It’s perfect for anything you type the same way every time but don’t want to spell out loud:
  • my address → your full street address
  • type script → TypeScript
  • my email → you@example.com
  • sig → a full email signature

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How it benefits your output

Speech models guess at spelling and spacing, especially for brand names, technical terms, and anything with punctuation. The dictionary removes the guesswork: a matched key is replaced with your value character-for-character, every time. No capitalization drift, no Type Script when you meant TypeScript. Because it runs on text (not audio), it’s deterministic — unlike vocabulary, which only nudges the speech model.

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Add an entry

1

Open Dictionary

Find it in the sidebar.
2

Add entry

Click Add entry, type the spoken phrase as the key and the replacement as the value, then save.
3

Dictate

It works immediately — no restart needed.
You can search your entries, and import or export the whole list as JSON.

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Matching rules

  • Case-insensitive keys. Keys are stored lowercase and matched regardless of how you say them, so TypeScript, typescript, and type script all match a type script key.
  • Whole-word matching. For most languages, a key only matches on word boundaries, so cat won’t rewrite the middle of “category”. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text (which isn’t space-separated) matches anywhere.
  • Longest key wins. When multiple keys could match, longer keys are applied first — so a specific multi-word phrase takes priority over a shorter one it contains.
  • Value is verbatim. Your value is inserted exactly as typed, including its capitalization and punctuation.

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When it runs

The dictionary is applied after AI cleanup, on the final text — and it runs even if cleanup is turned off. That ordering means cleanup can reshape your sentence freely, and your exact replacements still land last.

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Import & export

Move your dictionary between machines or back it up as JSON. The format is a plain array of objects:
On import, entries with a key you already have are skipped rather than overwritten, and the response tells you how many were imported vs. skipped.