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Custom Dictionary: one vocabulary, everywhere

Teach Amlin a term once and it's heard right in meetings and spelled right in dictation, notes, and Ask.

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Written by Junan Pang

The Custom Dictionary is the shared vocabulary behind both halves of Amlin. It lives in Settings → Custom Dictionary.

Add a term once and it's used to:

  • Bias speech recognition — so the word is heard correctly in meetings and dictation

  • Enforce spelling and casing — so it's written correctly in transcripts, dictated text, enhanced notes, and Ask answers

That's why it's a top-level Settings section rather than a dictation sub-setting: one list, both products.

What's worth adding

  • Colleagues', customers', and prospects' names

  • Company and product names — yours and your customers'

  • Acronyms and internal jargon — ARR, MQL, K8s, project codenames

  • Anything Amlin keeps getting wrong

Adding terms

Type the term in the field at the top of the section and press Add or Enter. Terms are listed alphabetically as removable chips. Click the × on a chip to remove one.

Terms carry a few optional properties, shown when you hover a chip:

  • Sounds like — alternate pronunciations to listen for

  • Forced casing — whether Amlin should re-case the word (eBay, McKinsey) or just use it as a recognition hint

  • Scope — a term can be marked dictation only or meetings only when it should apply to one and not the other

  • auto — the term was learned from a correction you made, rather than typed by hand

It syncs

Your dictionary syncs across your Macs with your account, so you teach it once.

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