·v1.0.57·Release·Ryan Pennington

Scout v1.0.57

Your dictionary stops rewriting plain English, and "quote … end quote" gives you real quotation marks.

Scout 1.0.57 makes your custom vocabulary a lot smarter about when to step in, and adds spoken quotation marks.

Smarter custom vocabulary

Scout's dictionary is great at snapping technical terms and names to the right spelling — but it could get overeager and rewrite ordinary words that just sounded similar. If you said "codes," you sometimes got a dictionary term instead. Scout now recognizes when you're speaking plain English and leaves it alone.

Saying your terms exactly still works the way it always has — they snap to the right spelling and casing, including compound terms spoken as separate words.

Say "quote … end quote"

Wrap anything in real quotation marks by saying "quote," speaking your line, and finishing with "end quote" ("close quote" and "unquote" work too). Scout is careful about it — asking for "a quote for the insurance" stays exactly as you said it.

Smoother pauses

Pausing to think mid-sentence no longer leaves a stray capital letter on the next word — "…the date is missed, Then one option…" now comes out the way you meant it.

New setting: Keep mic warm

An optional toggle in Settings that keeps your microphone ready between dictations, so recording starts instantly on audio drivers that are slow to wake up.

Bug Fixes

  • Dictating in Russian and dozens of other languages no longer drifts into the wrong language mid-transcript.
  • Fixed a few common mishearings ("what gives," "I bought that").

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