Jan 12

Spoken punctuation overrides words in text

Not sure if this is a bug or feature request. Spoken punctuation is incredibly helpful (and pretty much essential) but it defaults to punctuation even if you want the word 'period' or 'return' in your sentence. I appreciate that this seems like a tricky problem to fix.

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changed status toClosed·Mar 27, 2026

Mar 27, 2026

Working on making this smarter, but until then the only way to make this actually 'intelligent' is to create a custom rewrite template and prompt so the local LLM can make an intelligent decision. This won't be perfect either unfortunately, but should be more accurate. The default spoken punctuation option is a very fast and deterministic way to do it that unfortunately isn't super accurate.

Mar 27, 2026

Thanks, Alex. I have a thought with no idea of its feasibility: Something that could help alleviate at least part of this is the ability to add the same word as a word replacement. By that, I mean, if I could add 'period' and 'period' into word replacements, it could override the punctuation. For instance, being outside of the US, I never use the word period to mean the punctuation point at the end of a sentence. Likewise, I'd always say 'new line' instead of 'return'. It's a slightly clumsy workaround but might help with the worst offenders while keeping the rest of the useful punctuation active. Is this pie in the sky thinking on my part?