AI features
THOHT can clean up, reformat, translate and personalise your dictation. Here's every AI feature and how to use it.
Updated June 2026
Raw dictation is just the start. With Pro, THOHT can clean up your speech, reformat it, translate it, learn your vocabulary, and even run entirely by voice. Everything on this page is part of THOHT Pro.
These are Pro features
The AI features below live under Settings → AI Processing and need an active Pro subscription. See what Pro includes and what it costs in Pricing & subscription.
AI Polish and custom prompts
A prompt is an instruction THOHT applies to your transcription to transform it — fix grammar, make it formal, turn it into an email, and so on. You have two ways to use one:
- While recording, tap a prompt chip on the recording panel to apply it to that take.
- On existing text, press ⌥C (the AI Polish shortcut) to run the active prompt on text you've selected or copied — no recording needed.
Only one prompt is applied per recording. The star of the set is AI Auto Edit, which cleans up speech‑to‑text, fixes grammar, removes filler words ("um", "you know"), and reformats based on context.
Built-in prompts
THOHT ships with eight ready‑made prompts you can use immediately:
| Prompt | What it does |
|---|---|
| AI Auto Edit | Cleans up the transcription, fixes grammar, drops filler, reformats by context |
| Fix Grammar | Corrects grammar and punctuation, keeps your wording |
| Formalize | Rewrites casual speech in a professional tone |
| Summarize | Condenses to the key points |
| Formats the text as an email | |
| Bullet Points | Turns prose into a clean list |
| Text Message | Short, casual phrasing for a chat |
| Social Media Post | A concise post |
You can toggle which built‑ins are active, reorder them, and restore the defaults at any time with Restore Default Prompts.
Creating your own prompts
Beyond the built‑ins, you can write your own. In Settings → AI Processing → AI Polish Text, choose Add Custom Prompt, give it a name, and write the instruction (for example: "Rewrite this as a polite Slack message to my manager, keep it under three sentences.").
You can keep up to 30 prompts in total (built‑in plus custom). Your prompts sync across your devices via iCloud.
Auto-Translate
Auto‑Translate transcribes what you say and translates it into another language. Add one or more target languages as chips in Settings → AI Processing → Translation (or pick one on the recording panel for a single take). THOHT translates into 80+ languages.
Personal Context
Personal Context is a short profile THOHT's AI can draw on to personalize results — your name, role, and tone preferences. For example, it can sign emails with your name or match your usual style.
It's a single free‑text box (up to 500 characters) under Settings → AI Processing. Something like:
Name: Alex; Role: Product lead at Acme; I prefer a warm, concise tone in emails.
Custom vocabulary
Custom Words teach THOHT to recognize names, brands, and technical terms it might otherwise mishear — your colleagues' names, product names, jargon. They're fed to the transcription engine as a hint, so they improve recognition without forcing the word to appear.
- Add them under Settings → Vocabulary.
- Free: up to 5 words. Pro: up to 20 words.
- Each entry can be a word or short phrase.
Your vocabulary syncs across devices via iCloud.
Hands-free mode
Hands‑Free Mode lets you control THOHT entirely by voice — no keyboard. It's designed for accessibility (RSI, motor impairment, injury) but anyone can use it. Turn it on under Settings → Accessibility; THOHT will ask for Speech Recognition permission.
Once on, THOHT listens for a wake word, then a command:
- Wake word — choose a preset ("Hands free" (default), "Voice", "Dictate", "THOHT") or set your own.
- Voice commands — start, stop, pause, cancel a recording, or run AI Polish, all by voice. The default phrases (e.g. "hands free record", "hands free stop") are editable, and you can reset them to the defaults.
Hands‑free works best with auto‑paste enabled, so transcribed text flows straight into your app without any keystrokes.
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