Dictionary, snippets, and voice commands

Three separate tools live together on the Words screen in the betterflo Hub: a personal dictionary, text-expansion snippets, and voice commands. All three run entirely on-device — nothing here is uploaded, and nothing needs a network connection to work.

Personal dictionary

Add a word or phrase betterflo doesn’t get right on its own — a name, a brand, a technical term, a place — and it biases recognition toward your spelling of it from then on. Each entry can carry:

• The word or phrase itself, spelled exactly as you want it to appear.
• An optional “sounds like” hint — how it’s actually pronounced, if the spelling doesn’t make that obvious.
• A category — Name, Brand, Technical, or Place — to keep a long list organised.

This isn’t cosmetic. Every dictation reads your dictionary and hands it to the recognition engine as part of the context for that session, the same context described in Privacy controls.

Snippets

Snippets are the opposite direction: instead of correcting one word, you say a short trigger phrase and betterflo types out a longer piece of text in its place — “When I say X, expand to Y.” Useful for anything you type often and would rather speak once: an address, a sign-off, a boilerplate reply. An optional smart-format toggle adjusts capitalization and spacing on the expansion so it fits naturally into the sentence around it, rather than dropping in verbatim regardless of context.

Voice commands — what actually works

The voice-commands screen is a reference list of spoken commands betterflo recognises while you’re dictating, with a master on/off toggle. It’s worth being precise here, because the honest list is shorter than a “voice commands” screen might suggest:

What actually runs — five spoken-punctuation commands:

Note

Exclamation mark only works when you’re dictating in English. In other languages the safe list of spoken punctuation doesn’t include it yet, so saying it there is transcribed as an ordinary word instead of a mark.

What’s deliberately not on the list, and won’t do anything if you say it: “delete that”, “select all”, “undo”, “send”, “clear”, “new paragraph”. There is no spoken-editing engine behind these in this build — said aloud, they come through as literal words in your transcript, exactly like any other sentence. They’re left off the on-device reference screen on purpose, specifically so that screen doesn’t claim a capability betterflo doesn’t have. If you’re picturing hands-free editing — deleting a sentence, sending a message, undoing a mistake by voice — that’s not what “voice commands” means here today; it means the five punctuation marks above.

Related

• Privacy controls — what’s stored on-device for the dictionary and history, and your retention options.
• Writing modes — the script and translation settings, a separate axis from anything on this page.