Snippets

Say a short phrase and Scribe inserts an address, a sign-off or any fixed text, exactly as you wrote it.

What a snippet is

A snippet is a short trigger phrase paired with fixed text. Say the phrase and the text goes in verbatim: your postal address, an email sign-off, a link you paste ten times a day, a standard reply.

Add a snippet

Open Settings › Snippets (Mac or iPhone).
Enter the phrase you will say, for example my address.
Enter the text to insert, with line breaks if you need them.
Save.

Pick phrases you would not say by accident. Two or three words work well.

Use one while dictating

On its own. Hold Talk, say my address, let go. The snippet is inserted as written; Refine is skipped so nothing is reworded.
Inside a sentence. Say Send it to my address, thanks. The phrase is replaced by the snippet text in the final result and the rest of the sentence is refined as usual.

Matching ignores case and small differences in punctuation.

Edit or remove

Back in Settings › Snippets, select a snippet to change its phrase or text, or delete it. Changes apply to the next dictation.

Where snippets live

On the device. The iPhone app shares them with its keyboard; Mac and iPhone keep separate lists. A backup includes Snippets.

Common problems

The snippet was reworded. It was recognised inside a longer sentence and Refine changed the words around it, not the snippet itself. If the inserted text is wrong, check the snippet text in Settings.

It did not trigger. Say the phrase exactly as written. Phrases that are also common words, like thanks, are easy to miss; make them more distinctive.

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