Styles

What Styles do

Styles control the tone and level of polish applied to your dictation output.

Unlike Prompts, which shape what the AI does with your text, Styles set the overall register of the final result.

Available styles

• None (default): clean, natural written text. Dictāta fixes grammar and punctuation but keeps your wording and tone.
• Casual: stays as close as possible to what you actually said, word for word. Good for chats and quick messages.
• Formal: rewrites your speech into polished, professional language. Good for work emails and documents.

What every style does

Whichever style you pick, Dictāta:

• removes hesitation sounds such as "uh", "um", or "ähm";
• removes false starts and accidental repeated words;
• keeps only your final version when you correct yourself ("Tuesday, no wait, Wednesday" becomes "Wednesday");
• adds punctuation and splits longer text into short paragraphs;
• puts the greeting, body, and sign-off of an email or message on separate lines;
• turns spoken sequences ("first…, then…") into lists;
• keeps the language you spoke in.

None vs. Casual

	None	Casual
Grammar	Corrects clear grammar and spelling mistakes	Leaves your grammar as spoken and does not add words you left out
Wording	Keeps your words and tone	Keeps your exact words and word order, no synonyms
Slang and contractions	Kept	Kept, including spoken short forms such as "gonna"
Thinking fillers ("you know", "I mean")	Removed when they add nothing	Kept when they are part of how you talk; only hesitation sounds are removed
Period at the end	Yes	No final period, like in a chat

Example, spoken: "so um I think we gonna need, you know, two more days for this"

• None: "So I think we're gonna need two more days for this."
• Casual: "So I think we gonna need, you know, two more days for this"

Actual output depends on how the sentence is spoken; the example shows the direction of each style.

Formal

Formal is the only style that actively rephrases. It rewrites the text into professional, workplace-appropriate language, and it is the only style that replaces profanity and insults with neutral wording while keeping your meaning. Names, numbers, dates, and technical terms stay exactly as spoken.

Switch styles

Open the floating button menu and select Formal (briefcase icon) or Casual (shirt icon) from the style options.

The selected style applies to every dictation until you change it.

Styles and Prompts

Styles and Prompts are mutually exclusive. If a Prompt is active, the Style setting has no effect, and vice versa.

Deselect the active Prompt to use a Style. Deselect the Style to use a Prompt.