Dictionaries

Dictionaries allow you to add find and replace in your Confer transcriptions. For example, if you have a certain website url or complex phrase you want to include in your transcription, you can use a simple word for it while dictating, then Confer will search for the word and replace it with what you specify.

Create Dictionaries

To create a dictionary, click the "Add Entry" button in the Dictionary view. This will open the "New Entry" form in the right sidebar. Here you can specify the search of the dictionary, i.e. what you want to say and have replaced in the transcription.

Next, you may specify the what the content will be replaced by, in the "With this" field. Let's say you wanted to replace "Confer's website" with https://confervoice.app, the find would be "Confer's website", and the with would be "https://confervoice.app".

Regex

For more complicated use cases, you may also specify if the find should interpret regex, by enabling the "Regular expression" toggle. This allows you to use regex in the replace field. For example, say you are working with agentic programming tools, and want to reference an AGENT.md file in your transcription so that your agent may use it. The best way to do this in Confer would be to have a dictionary that uses a case-insensitive regular expression to replace agent( skill)? file with @AGENTS.md. Notice how we have the ( skill)?. Sometimes you may say "agent file", other times you might end up saying "agent skill file", this regex handles both cases to properly replace the words with the correct values.