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Custom vocabulary for dictation

Speech engines are trained on general language. They struggle with proper nouns, brand names, acronyms, and technical jargon. Mumbli lets you fix that.

The problem

Without custom vocabulary, speech engines make predictable mistakes:
You sayYou getYou wanted
”VitePress""wheat press”VitePress
”ElevenLabs""11 labs”ElevenLabs
”Supabase""super base”Supabase
”kubectl""cube control”kubectl
These errors are consistent — the same word gets mistranscribed the same way every time.

The fix

Open Settings > Custom Vocabulary and add the words that matter to you. Mumbli uses them at two levels:
1

Transcription hints

Your vocabulary is sent as a prompt hint to the speech-to-text engine (Groq Whisper). This biases the transcription toward your preferred spellings before any text is generated.
2

Polishing corrections

Your vocabulary is injected into the LLM polishing prompt. Even if the transcription engine still gets it wrong, the polisher knows what you meant and corrects it.
Two layers of correction means errors get caught at both stages of the pipeline.

Benchmarked results

We tested 11 real vocabulary instances that were consistently mistranscribed:
MetricWithout vocabularyWith vocabulary
Exact match accuracy36%100%
Test instances1111
Every single test word was transcribed correctly after adding it to the vocabulary list.

What to add

Good candidates for your vocabulary list:
  • People’s names — colleagues, contacts, public figures
  • Brand names — products, companies, services you mention often
  • Technical terms — frameworks, libraries, CLI tools, protocols
  • Acronyms — spelled out the way you want them (e.g., “GROQ” not “grock”)
  • Domain-specific jargon — medical terms, legal terms, industry language

Engine support

EngineSTT hintsPolish corrections
Standard (ElevenLabs)Not supported (Scribe v1)Yes
Fast (Groq Whisper)YesYes
ElevenLabs Scribe v1 doesn’t accept vocabulary hints at the STT level, so corrections happen during polishing only. Groq Whisper supports hints at both levels.

Download Mumbli

Free and open source. Add your vocabulary in Settings after install.