App Styles

Built-in presets

Preset	What it does	Best for
Formal	No changes — uses the speech engine’s default output (proper capitalization + punctuation)	Email, documents, professional writing
Casual	Removes the final trailing period from your text (keeps all other punctuation, including abbreviations like “Dr.” or “U.S.A.”)	Slack, Discord, iMessage, casual chat
Minimal	Converts to lowercase + removes the final trailing period	Quick notes, search boxes, very casual contexts

Setting up an app style

Open Settings → App Styles

You’ll see the list of available style presets.

Choose a preset

Select Formal, Casual, or Minimal.

Add app matchers

Tell Scout which apps should use this style. You can match by:

Matching is case-insensitive and uses substring matching, so “slack” matches “Slack.exe” and “com.tinyspeck.slackmacgap”.

Enable the style

Toggle the style on. Scout applies it automatically when the matching app is focused.

How matching works

When you start dictating, Scout checks the focused app against your enabled styles:

It checks the process name first (case-insensitive substring match)

Then checks the window title (case-insensitive substring match)

The first enabled style with a matching app wins

If no style matches the current app, Scout uses the default output (equivalent to Formal).

Examples

App Styles are not applied when a quick phrase expansion occurs in the same dictation.

Start with Casual for chat apps and Formal for email. You can always adjust after seeing how it feels.

Built-in presets