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Teach Neato Echo your words
Add names, jargon and acronyms to the custom dictionary so they come out right every time.
If Neato Echo keeps mangling a colleague's name, a product name or an acronym, add it to your dictionary. Words in there are passed to the transcription model as context, which makes it far likelier to pick them over a similar-sounding everyday word.
Adding words
Click Dictionary in the sidebar and stay on the Dictionary tab.
Type a word and press Enter. The placeholder shows the format: "Add words separated by commas — Neato Echo, Supabase, John Snow, ARR" — so you can add several at once. Words take effect on your next transcription; there's nothing to save.
To add a lot at once, use Import a list and paste them in, one per line or comma-separated. Neato Echo tells you how many it found — "37 words ready" — before you commit.
There's an Export dictionary action too, which is the one to use before moving to a new PC.
What's worth adding
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Names it gets wrong | Sergey, Xanthe, Priya, Siobhán |
| Product and company names | Neato Echo, Supabase, Kubernetes |
| Acronyms and initialisms | ARR, SOC 2, DPA, PII |
| Jargon in your field | amortization, polymerase, arbitrage |
| Internal terms | project codenames, team names, system names |
Add the spelling you want to see. If you want "SOC 2" rather than "sock two", that's the entry.
Auto-learn from corrections
Neato Echo can watch for the moment you fix a transcription in the app you dictated into, and add the corrected word for you.
The setting is Auto-learn from corrections, under Settings → Preferences.
It's a good way to build a dictionary without thinking about it — the words you correct are by definition the ones being got wrong. If you'd rather Neato Echo didn't watch for corrections, leave it off.
Editing and removing words
Hover over a word in the list. A pencil and a ✕ appear at the right of that row — pencil to correct the spelling, ✕ to remove it.
To empty the whole list, use Clear all. It asks first and can't be undone: "This will remove all words from your custom dictionary."
Some entries are marked Added by default — those came with the app.
When it doesn't help
The dictionary raises the odds; it isn't an override. If a word still comes out wrong:
- Check you're not fighting the language setting — see languages.
- Try the spelling you want to read, not the phonetic one.
- For a phrase you say constantly, a snippet may serve better — it replaces a trigger with exact text rather than nudging a model.
- Improve accuracy covers the rest.
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Still need help?
Write to [email protected] with your Windows version, your Neato Echo version (Settings → System), and what you were doing. A person reads every message.