How Tiune Writes
The cleanup pass — what it changes, the line it will not cross, and how it adapts to the app you're writing into.
Speech isn't text. You restart sentences, you say "um", you change your mind halfway and arrive somewhere better. Read back verbatim, that looks like a mess — but you weren't being messy, you were thinking.
The AI cleanup pass (included from Plus upward) turns what you said into what you meant to have written. This page is about what it will and won't do to your words.
Rewriting
Settings → Writing → Rewriting has three settings.
Write what I meant
The default. Superseded thinking is dropped and the conclusion stays:
"meet at six, no, maybe five, let's say five"
→ "let's meet at five."
The deliberation is gone. The decision survives.
Keep my voice
Disfluencies and punctuation only. Your wording and your length survive even where you rambled — if you circled a point three times, you get all three circles, tidied.
Choose this if you write for a living, or if you've ever had software "improve" a sentence you meant exactly as you said it.
Off
No cleanup model at all. Punctuation and filler removal still happen on your machine, so text still arrives readable — it just never leaves for a rewrite.
The line it will not cross
Whatever the setting, the finished text has to be reachable from your own words by deleting — and nothing else.
This is worth stating plainly because it's the difference between a tool that tightens your writing and one that speaks for you. Tiune can remove what you retracted. It cannot substitute a word you didn't say, sharpen a claim you hedged, or resolve something you left open.
A maybe stays a maybe. If you said "I think we can probably ship Friday", you will not get "we'll ship Friday." The hedge is load-bearing, and deleting is the only operation available, so the hedge cannot be traded away for a crisper sentence.
This is enforced rather than requested — it's a property of how the rewrite is constructed, not an instruction the model is politely asked to follow.
The one exception
There is exactly one licence to add a word: an email closing, from a fixed set of four, and only when you didn't say one yourself. Nothing else is ever added.
Undo the rewrite
If a rewrite lands wrong, take it back. Press the Undo the rewrite binding just after Tiune types and the rewritten text is swapped for your exact words.
It's live for five seconds after each dictation and then released back to other apps, so it never shadows a key you need the rest of the time.
How it reads: matching where the words are going
An email and a Slack reply want different sentences out of the same speech. So Tiune reads the destination and writes accordingly — email, work chat, messages, an AI assistant's prompt box, an editor, a terminal, documents, notes, spreadsheets.
The same spoken sentence becomes a properly punctuated paragraph in an email and a short, lowercase line in a chat box, because that's what each place is for.
It reads shape, not names
Tiune classifies by the shape of the fields around your cursor rather than by which app you're in. Two single-line inputs sitting above a taller box is a composer — whatever the app is called, whether or not Tiune has ever seen it before.
Every rule is a ratio rather than a pixel measurement, so it survives any display scaling, and the whole thing works the same on macOS and Windows.
What actually leaves your machine
Nothing about the window. Not the title, not the app name, not the contents — only a single one-word category ever reaches the cleanup model.
You can override any app by hand in Settings → Writing → How it reads, with a plain-English instruction.
Sign emails as
A name added under the closing when you dictate an email and don't say your own.
It's empty by default, and empty means nothing is signed — Tiune will not guess your name or borrow it from your account.
What this doesn't touch
Regular dictation depends on none of this. Getting your spoken words typed where your cursor is works fully offline, for everyone, free and unlimited. Everything on this page is the layer above that.
Related
- Transformations — reshaping a capture after it lands.
- Languages & Scripts — Write it as, which rides on this same pass.
- Settings — where every control on this page lives.
- Privacy — what leaves your machine, by plan.