Advanced Profile Settings

Per-profile settings for AI enhancement, type-out mode, auto-send, media controls, and clipboard behavior.

Each Adaptive Awareness profile can customize how Echo processes and delivers your transcription. These settings let you tailor the full pipeline -- from AI enhancement to output behavior -- on a per-profile basis.

AI Enhancement Per Profile

The Intelligent Transformation section controls whether AI enhancement runs for a profile and how it's configured.

Enabling AI Enhancement

Open a profile in Adaptive Awareness
In the Intelligent Transformation section, toggle Enable Intelligent Transformation on

Once enabled, you'll see additional options:

Provider and Model

You can override the global AI provider and model for each profile:

Provider -- Choose a specific AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) or leave on Use Global Setting
Model -- Choose a specific model from the selected provider, or leave on Use Global Setting

This lets you use a faster, cheaper model for casual messages and a more capable model for important writing.

Prompt Selection

Use the Prompt selector to assign a specific AI enhancement prompt to this profile. Each profile can use a different prompt, which is the core of what makes Adaptive Awareness powerful -- you can have one profile that formats text for email, another that cleans up casual speech, and another that structures text as code comments.

Screen Capture

Toggle Capture screen for AI context to give the AI a screenshot of your screen when enhancing text. This provides visual context that can improve enhancement quality -- for example, the AI can see what application you're using or what you're working on.

This requires Screen Recording permission in macOS System Settings.

Clipboard Context

Toggle Use clipboard text for AI context to include whatever text is currently on your clipboard as additional context for the AI. This can help the AI understand the broader context of what you're dictating.

Type-Out Mode

By default, Echo pastes your transcription using the clipboard. Type-out mode changes this behavior to simulate typing each character individually.

When to Use Type-Out Mode

Type-out mode is useful in applications that detect and flag clipboard pastes -- for example, some chat applications show a "pasted text" indicator, or coding tools may treat pasted text differently from typed text.

Enabling Type-Out Mode

Open a profile in Adaptive Awareness
In the Advanced section, toggle Type-Out Mode on

Once enabled, two additional settings appear:

Speed -- A slider from Slow to Fast that controls typing speed
Use Shift+Enter for newlines -- When enabled, Echo presses Shift+Enter instead of Enter for line breaks. Use this in apps where pressing Enter sends a message (like chat applications or terminal prompts)

Auto-Send

Toggle Send after transcription to have Echo automatically press Enter after pasting or typing your text. This sends the message immediately in chat apps, submits forms, or confirms input -- whatever Enter does in the active application.

Auto-send works with both regular clipboard paste and type-out mode.

Media Controls

Two settings control how Echo handles audio during recording:

Pause media during recording -- Automatically pauses any playing music or video when you start recording, then resumes playback when you stop
Mute system audio during recording -- Mutes all system audio when recording starts and restores volume when recording stops. This is enabled by default.

These settings are useful if you often dictate while listening to music or watching videos, since background audio can interfere with transcription accuracy.

Clipboard Behavior

Preserve transcript in clipboard controls what happens to your clipboard after Echo delivers the transcription.

Off (default) -- Echo restores your clipboard to whatever was there before the transcription. This means your previous clipboard contents are preserved.
On -- Echo leaves the transcribed text in your clipboard so you can paste it again elsewhere.

Tips

Pair auto-send with chat app profiles for a hands-free messaging experience. Add Slack or Messages as an app trigger, enable auto-send, and your dictated messages send automatically.
For coding workflows, enable type-out mode with Shift+Enter for newlines. This prevents accidental command execution in terminals and ensures multi-line text is entered correctly.
If you use screen capture for AI context, you only need to enable it on profiles where visual context matters. Keeping it off on other profiles avoids unnecessary permission prompts and processing time.