Trigger Words for Enhancements

What are Trigger Words?

Trigger Words are specific keywords or phrases that you can associate with any of your custom enhancement prompts. When VoiceInk detects one of these triggers at the exact beginning or end of your transcription, it will automatically activate the associated prompt for that specific task.

If AI Enhancement is currently turned off, detecting a trigger word will automatically enable it for the current transcription. After the enhancement is complete, your settings will revert to their previous state.

How to Assign and Use Trigger Words

1. Choose Your Words: When creating or editing an enhancement prompt, you can assign one or more trigger words or phrases.

2. Prefer Shorter Triggers: While multi-word phrases (e.g., "send email") are supported, it is recommended to use shorter, single words (e.g., email, tweet, fix) for the highest accuracy. Longer phrases are more likely to be misinterpreted by the speech-to-text model itself.

3. Add Variations: Speech-to-text is not always perfect. The model might hear "summarize" as "summary." To make trigger words functionality more reliable, it's a good practice to add common variations. For a summarization prompt, you could add summarize, summary, and summaries as trigger words.

4. Speak Your Trigger: To use a trigger, you must say the keyword or phrase at the very beginning or very end of your speech.

   • Prefix Example: "Email the rest of your speech goes here... "
   • Suffix Example: " ...your speech ends here, summarize."

5. Automatic Processing: VoiceInk detects the trigger, removes it from the text, and then processes the remaining content with the correct enhancement prompt.

Example Use Case

Imagine you have a prompt for drafting emails with the assigned trigger words: email, mail.

To use it, you would activate VoiceInk and say:

"Email I think you should move forward with the new design."

VoiceInk will detect "Email," remove it, and then use your email prompt to format the rest of the text into a properly structured email.

This powerful feature allows you to switch between different AI tasks on the fly, without ever taking your hands off the keyboard.