Set Voice Styles per app

Applies to: Windows, macOS, Linux

With Voice Styles, Stenowise matches the tone of your dictation to the app you dictate into. An email can then sound more formal than a chat message.

Choose a style

In the sidebar, open Voice Styles.
Under Per app, choose the Mail, Chat, Editor or Other tab.
For Mail or Chat, click the version that should apply.

Tab	Apps	Versions
Mail	Outlook, Thunderbird, Mail	Formal, Matter-of-fact (default), Relaxed
Chat	Slack, Teams, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal	Matter-of-fact, Relaxed (default), Very relaxed
Editor	Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, Cursor	no choice
Other	all other apps	baseline

The versions do the following:

Formal: Formal tone, no contractions, no exclamation marks
Matter-of-fact (Mail): Full sentences, clear paragraphs
Relaxed (Mail): Short sentences, direct tone
Matter-of-fact (Chat): Full sentences, matter-of-fact tone
Relaxed (Chat): Short sentences, casual tone
Very relaxed: lowercase, minimal punctuation

In the editor: “Technical terms, file names and code stay unchanged. Otherwise the baseline applies.” Under Other, the baseline applies without further adjustment. Which apps belong to a group is fixed.

Switch off a style

Every tab except Other has an Own style for … switch, for example “Own style for Mail”. It is on by default. If you switch it off, the baseline applies in these apps.

Use the app context

For Stenowise to know which app you dictate into, Use the app context must be switched on under Settings › Privacy. It is on by default and only appears while text cleanup is switched on.

Only the app name is captured. It goes to the Stenowise server in the EU with the dictation only when a Voice Style applies to that app. Stenowise never reads the window title.

If you switch off Use the app context, no Voice Style applies and the baseline applies in every app. Voice Styles only work while text cleanup is switched on.

Last updated 28 September 2026