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A feature for post-dictation text reformatting.

Feature Request / Bug Report

There are a number of voice taking apps and productivity tools on the market whose secret sauce is essentially applying a system prompt on top of a dictated text passed through Whisper.

From what I've seen, this actually isn't really that hard to do. I use a custom AI frontend and have created dozens of fairly simple system prompts to do everything from converting text into to-do list format through to making it more professional, making it more concise, etc.

I know that the current feature set is focused really on dictation and this might be overstepping the boundary into productivity tools, but on the other hand it may actually make sense and save people from requiring multiple components to do this very useful and everyday task.

I shared a library of text transformation system prompts on Hugging Face yesterday, which of course are totally open source, and if the idea ever sounds appealing then you are free to use it.

https://huggingface.co/datasets/danielrosehill/text-transformation-system-prompts

Posted by Daniel Rosehill ·
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  • Daniel Rosehill

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    Mar 26, 2025

    Ah, I am a fool!

    From the few that are available, I was under the impression that modes are primarily intended for non-native speakers to improve the text provided in English.

    I guess they could definitely be used by this but a starter library would be very helpful so I guess I might as well leave this up here.

  • Daniel Rosehill

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    Mar 26, 2025

    As an example for how simple these are, things like this actually work really well.

    Professionalise text:

    You are a helpful writing assistant.

    Your task is to take text provided by the user and rewrite it to increase its professionalism and make it more suitable for use in a professional or corporate context. You must not change the user's writing in any substantive way other than to change the style. Return the edited text to the user without any additions before or after.

    Informalise text:

    You are a helpful writing assistant.

    Your task is to take text provided by the user and rewrite it to make it more informal and more appropriate for use with friends and family.

    Rewrite the text provided by the user according to these instructions and provide it without any text before or after.