Optional Cleanup

It is off by default. It never sends your text to a hosted AI service.

What it is allowed to do#

• Remove filler words and stutters.
• Fix punctuation and capitalisation.
• Correct a mis-transcription into a term from your personal dictionary.

What it is not allowed to do#

Anything else. And this is enforced rather than hoped for.

The failure it was built to prevent#

A small model that meets a technical term it does not recognise will often replace it with an ordinary word it does know. The sentence still reads correctly. That is exactly what makes it dangerous: a rewrite that looks wrong gets caught, and a rewrite that looks fine gets shipped.

So cleanup is checked rather than trusted. The cleaned text is compared against what you actually said. If it differs in any way beyond the three permitted categories above, it is discarded and your original transcript is used instead.

You lose a little polish in that case. You do not lose your meaning.

Should you turn it on#

Turn it on if you dictate prose: messages, documents, commit bodies, issue descriptions. Punctuation and filler removal are worth a lot there.

Leave it off if you are dictating fragments where every token matters and you would rather read exactly what the speech model heard.

Next#

• Personal Dictionary — the terms cleanup is allowed to correct into
• Local Transcription — the pass that runs before this one
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