NotesNOW · fix dictation mistakes
Dictation got it wrong? One tap puts it right.
No full stops, no capitals, "flower" where you said "flour". NotesNOW's context sweep reads the whole note, fixes the punctuation and grammar, and highlights every word that doesn't fit – so you check three words, not the whole thing.
- 5 free sweeps a month
- Works on text from any app
- Undo any time
The usual mistakes
What speech to text gets wrong – and what the sweep does about it
No punctuation
Dictation writes one long run-on line. The sweep puts the full stops, commas and question marks back in.
Missing capitals
Sentence starts, names, days and places get their capitals – Saturday, Christchurch, Sarah.
Sound-alike words
Where grammar decides – their, there, they're – the sweep fixes it for you. Where it can't be sure, it asks.
Misheard words
Beech for beach, whether for weather. Each one is highlighted with a suggestion: Change it, type your own, or Keep mine.
Example
A real dictated note, before and after
Dictated
meeting with sarah on thursday at 2 bring the quotes from both suppliers and ask if the whether will hold for the beech clean up on saturday
Swept
Meeting with Sarah on Thursday at 2. Bring the quotes from both suppliers, and ask if the weather will hold for the beach clean-up on Saturday.
Capitals, full stops and the comma went in by themselves. The two highlighted words were offered as changes – one tap each, or Accept all.
How to
Fix dictation mistakes in three steps
- 1
Get the text into a note
Dictate straight into NotesNOW, or tap Write and paste what you dictated somewhere else.
- 2
Tap the sweep
It's on the note's title line. Punctuation, capitals and grammar are fixed straight away.
- 3
Check the flagged words
Change it, type your own, or Keep mine. Changed your mind? Undo sweep brings the original back.
A closer look
Screens from NotesNOW
Questions
Good to know
Why does dictation leave out full stops?
Most phone and browser speech to text writes your words as one continuous stream and only adds punctuation if you say "full stop" out loud. The sweep reads the whole note and puts the sentence breaks back in.
Can it fix text I dictated in another app?
Yes. Tap Write, paste the text into a new note and tap the sweep.
How many sweeps are free?
Five a month. NotesNOW Plus – $5.99 a month or $39.99 a year (NZD), with a 7-day free trial – makes them unlimited and adds Rewrite as….
Will it change what I meant?
No. On its own it only fixes punctuation, capitals and grammar. Any change to a word is shown to you first, and Undo sweep puts the original back.
Does it use New Zealand spelling?
Yes – colour, organise, metre and the rest.
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