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Personal Vocabulary

Add custom words and terminology so Echo recognizes names, jargon, and specialized terms correctly.

Personal Vocabulary lets you teach Echo the words it wouldn't otherwise know -- technical terms, product names, people's names, or industry jargon. When you add words here, Echo passes them as context to the AI enhancement step, which helps it produce the correct spelling and formatting for those terms.

Note: Personal Vocabulary requires Intelligent Transformation to be enabled, since the vocabulary is used as context during AI processing.

Adding Words

  1. Click Vocabulary in the sidebar
  2. Select Personal Vocabulary
  3. Type a word or phrase in the Add word to vocabulary field
  4. Press Return or click the + button

You can add multiple words at once by separating them with commas. For example, typing Kubernetes, kubectl, Helm and pressing Return will add all three words.

Managing Your Vocabulary

Your words appear in a grid under Vocabulary Items with a count showing how many you've added. To remove a word, hover over it and click the x button.

Duplicate entries are prevented automatically. If you try to add a word that's already in your vocabulary, Echo will let you know.

How It Works

When you record a transcription with Intelligent Transformation enabled, Echo includes your vocabulary words as context for the AI model. This helps the model:

  • Spell specialized terms correctly (e.g., "Kubernetes" instead of "Kuber netties")
  • Preserve brand-specific capitalization (e.g., "ChatGPT" instead of "chat gpt")
  • Recognize names and acronyms that would otherwise be unfamiliar

Echo also includes a built-in set of common technology terms to improve recognition out of the box.

Tips

  • Add the exact capitalization and formatting you want. If you add "macOS," the AI will prefer that spelling over "MacOS" or "Mac OS."
  • Focus on words that are genuinely uncommon or specialized. Common English words don't need to be added.
  • This feature is especially valuable for non-English names and technical terms that general-purpose models tend to get wrong.

Smart Corrections

Automatically replace specific words or phrases in your transcriptions with the text you actually want.

Filler Word Removal

Echo automatically removes filler words like uh, um, and hmm from your transcriptions.

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