Speedy Flow learns from your corrections
Fix a word after dictating? Speedy Flow remembers it and gets it right next time. Here's how it works, and what stays on your Mac.
· 2 min read
A client's name, a brand, a colleague's first name: there are always a few words that no speech recognition engine gets right on the first try. Until now, you had to add them to the dictionary one by one. Now you only have to correct them once.
What's changing
Right after a dictation, if you replace a word with a similar one — "Spidi" with "Speedy", "iphone" with "iPhone" — Speedy Flow notices. The word joins your dictionary, and a small bubble on the bar confirms it, with an Undo button.
Correct it once. Speedy Flow remembers it for every dictation that follows.
On your next dictation, the word is both passed to the engine as a hint and reliably replaced if it's misheard again.
What gets ignored
Not everything belongs in a dictionary. Speedy Flow leaves out:
- style edits ("demo" becomes "presentation")
- words unrelated to the one you dictated
- a simple capital letter at the start of a sentence
- text you didn't dictate
What about your privacy?
To spot a correction, Speedy Flow only rereads the field it just typed into, for one minute at most. Password fields are never read, and the dictionary stays on your Mac.
The limits
Some web apps and apps built on Electron don't let their text be read back: in those, learning doesn't kick in. You can always add a word by hand from the Dictionary page.
