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General

Magic Formatter

Understand how Magic Formatter cleans up transcripts, when it shows a diff, and what safety limits it follows.

Magic Formatter is Vibe Typer's transcript cleanup layer. It can fix punctuation, capitalization, line breaks, and light wording issues after speech-to-text finishes.

Modes

Magic Formatter has two main controls:

  1. Enabled

    • Vibe Typer runs the formatter after transcription.
    • The original transcript is still preserved in local app state so the app can compare what changed.

  2. Silent mode

    • Vibe Typer inserts the formatted result without showing the diff preview.
    • Turn this off when you want to review the original transcript and formatted version before accepting changes.

When silent mode is off, Vibe Typer can show a diff-style review so you can see what Magic Formatter changed before insertion.

Original vs formatted text

Speech-to-text produces the original transcript first. Magic Formatter then receives that transcript and returns a cleaned-up version.

The formatter is intended to preserve meaning. It should not add facts, invent context, remove important details, or change numbers, dates, times, names, code, measurements, or domain-specific terms.

Safety limits

Magic Formatter is deliberately constrained:

  • It should keep the same meaning as the original transcript.
  • It should protect dates, times, numbers, names, and identifiers.
  • It should respect spoken formatting commands such as new line and new paragraph.
  • It should avoid rewriting structured text such as code, SQL, commands, or exact snippets unless the dictated text clearly asks for that.
  • If formatting fails or looks unsafe, Vibe Typer can fall back to the original transcript.

Review important text before sending it, especially legal, medical, financial, technical, or customer-facing content.

Relationship to tone and dictionary

Magic Formatter is separate from tone controls and the dictionary.

  • Dictionary entries help Vibe Typer prefer your chosen terms and replacements.
  • Tone controls affect style when you explicitly use tone or rewrite features.
  • Magic Formatter focuses on transcript cleanup and should not broadly restyle the text by itself.

If a domain term is repeatedly corrected incorrectly, add it to your dictionary instead of relying on Magic Formatter to guess it.