Dictionary

The Dictionary page holds the words Mouthtype should get right: names, brands, jargon. Open it from the sidebar in the Mouthtype window.

Saved wordsCopy Anchor Link

Choose New word and fill in two things.

Leave Heard as empty and Mouthtype only fixes capitalization. Rules match whole words and phrases regardless of case.

The editor rejects blank or duplicate rules, keeps your other entries, and holds onto your draft if the file changes underneath you. Cleanup Off leaves words unchanged. If you ever need to repair the file by hand, Settings → Advanced → Edit dictionary file… opens it.

Boost saved wordsCopy Anchor Link

Boost saved words is off by default. Turn it on in Settings → Advanced, and the speech model favors your saved spellings while it recognizes, so a saved name comes out right instead of being fixed afterwards.

• It uses up to 200 saved words, starred ones first.
• The first time you use it Mouthtype downloads an extra speech model of about 100 MB, and dictation never waits for it.
• It's English, so it helps English names best.
• If it can't load or answer in time, you get the ordinary transcript.

SuggestionsCopy Anchor Link

At the top of the page, Mouthtype looks at your last 1,000 takes and suggests words to save: names it keeps mishearing, brand names that come out lowercase, and compounds that get split like "dry doc" for Drydock. It never reads takes from secure fields and never suggests an everyday word as something you said.

Each suggestion shows what it would save, how often it was heard, and Examples from your takes.

• Add saves it. A brief Undo appears under the list.
• Dismiss hides it. It only comes back if its count doubles.
• Weaker guesses sit under Maybe.

Mouthtype also flags saved words that backfire, like an everyday word that rewrites to a name. Those show Remove instead of Add.

Import CSVCopy Anchor Link

Choose Import CSV… to load many words at once. Quoted commas, doubled quotes and multiline fields work.

There are two header styles.

name
Drydock
Priya Raman

A name header saves each name as both the heard and written form. It doesn't guess pronunciations.

heard,written
shawn,Sean
dry doc,Drydock

heard,written headers set exact aliases. Either column order works.

Before anything changes, a sheet previews the file with counts for new rows, already-saved rows and errors. It lists the first rows and every invalid row.

1. Save or cancel any unsaved draft first.
2. Choose the file and read the preview.
3. Choose Import to add only the new words. Your existing entries and their order stay. Cancel changes nothing.

Identical aliases are skipped.

If something else edits your dictionary after the preview, cancel and pick the file again.

RelatedCopy Anchor Link

• Cleanup and Style
• Settings reference for everything else on this page.