Two axes of control — pick what fits the moment
Other dictation apps give you 'casual' and 'formal'. Pithflow gives you 8 tone styles times 6 intent modes — 48 combinations. Each combination is genuinely different, not just a slider.
Other dictation apps give you 'casual' and 'formal'. Pithflow gives you 8 tone styles times 6 intent modes — 48 combinations. Each combination is genuinely different, not just a slider.
Formal — no contractions, complete sentences. Professional — direct business register. Casual — friendly, contractions OK. Friendly — warm, soft openers. Very Casual — slang, txt-message style. Excited — enthusiastic, energy. Empathetic — acknowledges feelings, softens hard messages. Concise — shortest possible phrasing.
Refine — polish, fix grammar, remove filler. Personalize — adapt for a recipient, warm phrasing. Collaborate — switch 'I' to 'we', surface action items. Build — preserve camelCase, format code with backticks. Speak — natural rhythm for voice memos / scripts. Summarize — condense to 3-6 bullets.
Build + Concise → terse code comments. Personalize + Friendly → warm customer service replies. Collaborate + Professional → team status updates with action items. Speak + Casual → podcast outlines. Summarize + Professional → executive briefs from rambling dictation. Empathetic + Personalize → difficult-news messages.
Tone and intent are genuinely independent. You can write a formal complaint in 'Empathetic' tone (you're upset but want to remain calm). You can write a casual brainstorm in 'Build' mode (preserve identifiers, but informally). One slider can't express that — two pickers can.
In the Style tab. Pick an intent (what you are doing) and a tone (how it sounds); each one can also be switched off on its own.
Yes. Every plan, including the free one, has all 8 tones and 6 intent modes.
Yes. It applies to every dictation until you change it.
Yes. Switch AI cleanup off in the Style tab to get the raw transcript exactly as spoken, or set the formatting level to Literal to apply only spoken commands, numbers and addresses. In the Windows app (1.40.6+) the quickest way is Raw mode: tap Ctrl twice until the bar says Raw.
The three quick modes in the Windows app (1.40.6+). Structured uses your tone and intent exactly as you set them here; Prompting turns what you say into a clean, numbered prompt for an AI; Raw types your exact words. Tap Ctrl twice, or right-click the bar, to rotate between them — your tone and intent settings are never changed.