Add names and specialist terms

Add names and specialist terms in Settings → Dictation → Your words. For example, add a teammate’s name, a product, or a technical term that speech recognition often misspells.

Add a word

1. Open Settings → Dictation and find Your words.
2. Add the word using the spelling and capitalization you want.
3. Dictate it in a later recording and check the result. You can edit or remove the entry if it makes other phrases less accurate.

Nock accepts up to 100 entries, with up to 50 characters per entry. Duplicate words are not added.

What happens to the list

With cloud recognition, Nock sends the vocabulary as recognition hints to the speech provider. This applies whether you use Nock’s service or configure your own speech key. With Nock’s on-device recognizer, vocabulary hints are not sent; Nock instead applies matching spelling corrections after recognition. Apple’s on-device recognizer does not use this list.

If a word or phrase should always expand to different text, use Replacements instead. For provider and device choices, see Voice settings.