Smart Dictation

Smart Dictation is a unique mobile feature that captures your spoken words and transforms them into properly formatted prose with punctuation, dialogue formatting, and character name recognition.

How to Use Smart Dictation

From the Home Screen or Document List in a Project:

Tap the Plus (+) icon in the upper right and select New Dictation

Speak your content

Tap stop when finished

The app will process and format your dictation, displaying it in a popup when done

Inline (in Document) Dictation:

Place your cursor where you want to dictate text

Tap the sparkly microphone in the toolbar pinned to the top of the screen

Speak your content

The formatted text will be inserted at your cursor position

Whether you dictate in or outside of a project/document, all Smart Dictations are stored in the Smart Dictation history, available via the bottom nav bar’s Dictations tab.

Smart Dictation Features

Intelligent Formatting: Automatically adds punctuation and proper dialogue formatting

Context Awareness: Recognizes character names from your story

History: All dictations are saved until deleted in your Smart Dictations menu

Time Limit: Up to 1010 minutes per dictation

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Viewing Your Dictations

Access all Smart Dictations via the Dictations tab in the bottom nav:

Tap Dictations in the nav bar along the bottom of the app

View details: timestamp, duration, word count

See both Original and Enhanced versions

Copy, delete, or send to projects

Enhanced Dictations

Transform your Smart Dictations into fully fleshed-out prose with Dictation Enhancement.

Access Smart Dictations from the nav bar

Select any dictation

Tap the Enhanced toggle up top

The app will expand your dictation into a more developed and narratively complete bit of prose. (The end result may be 10x the word count!)

Sending Dictations to Projects:

Navigate to the Dictations tab in the nav bar along the bottom

Select the Dictation you’d like to send

Tap the More menu (•••) in the upper right

Choose Add to Project

Select your destination project or create a new one

The dictation is added as a new document