Sprecho punctuates by default. You can dictate three paragraphs of German without saying "Komma" once and get commas, full stops, question marks and capital letters in the right places.
Spoken punctuation is there for the cases where the sense of the sentence is not enough — a legal citation, a bracketed aside, a line break you want exactly there.
You do not need to dictate punctuation
The formatting model reads the whole dictation and punctuates from meaning, not from pauses. It also capitalises sentence starts and German nouns, joins spelled-out letters into their abbreviation ("b g b" becomes "BGB"), and turns counted quantities into digits ("zwanzig Euro" becomes "20 €").
Longer dictations are broken into paragraphs at topic shifts, roughly every two to five sentences. A greeting with a name opens on its own line, and a closing gets a blank line before it.
The most common mistake new users make is dictating every comma out of habit from an older tool. You end up fighting a model that was going to put the comma there anyway. Speak a whole thought normally, release the key, and look at what you get.
Which filler words are removed
Sprecho strips the sounds that exist only because speech happens in real time:
- Hesitations — "ähm", "äh", "um", "uh"
- Stammers and doubled words — "das das Meeting" becomes "das Meeting"
- Abandoned sentence starts — the false start is dropped entirely, not merged into the sentence that replaced it
- Recognition loops — when the same phrase lands twice in a row, it is written once
The Thinking model goes one step further and also drops "basically", "you know" and "like" when they carry no meaning.
What is not removed: hedges and tone particles that do carry meaning. German "halt", "ja" and "ne" as a tag question stay in, as do profanity, emoji and your asides. Removing those would change how you sound.
Self-corrections while you speak
You do not have to start over when you say the wrong thing. Correct yourself out loud and Sprecho applies the correction instead of transcribing the argument:
| You say | You get |
|---|---|
| "Das Meeting ist am Montag. Nein, ich meine Dienstag." | "Das Meeting ist am Dienstag." |
| "Schick es an Anna, lösche das letzte Wort, Peter" | "Schick es an Peter" |
| "…, streiche das, …" | The phrase before the command is dropped |
A "nein" that answers someone else — especially at the start of a dictation — is content and stays.
Dictating punctuation on purpose
Say the name of the mark and Sprecho writes the symbol. This works in German, English and Portuguese.
| Say | You get |
|---|---|
| Punkt / period | . |
| Komma / comma | , |
| Doppelpunkt / colon | : |
| Semikolon / semicolon | ; |
| Fragezeichen | ? |
| Ausrufezeichen | ! |
| Anführungszeichen auf / zu | typographic quotes |
| Klammer auf / zu | ( ) |
| Paragraphenzeichen | § |
| Schrägstrich / slash | / |
| Bindestrich | - |
| Unterstrich / underscore | _ |
| neuer Absatz / new paragraph | blank line |
| neue Zeile / new line | line break |
A command word used as an ordinary noun stays a word — "unter dem Punkt" is not turned into a full stop. The words around a command are all kept.
When you want fewer commas, not more
If a whole category of app is coming out too heavily punctuated for your taste — a messenger where you would rather have short unpunctuated lines — that is a model choice, not a punctuation setting. Open Models in the sidebar and see Set a writing style per app.
If the punctuation is right but a word is wrong, the recogniser is the culprit, not the formatter. Add it to your dictionary.