Tips for Better Results
Practical habits that improve transcription accuracy and AI output quality in Glaido.
Glaido works well right out of the box. A few habits make it work noticeably better.
Check your microphone
A modern laptop's built-in microphone is fine for dictation in a quiet room. If you're not sure how yours sounds, record a short dictation and listen back to the audio before relying on it for real work.
Glaido applies noise reduction automatically and holds up reasonably well in noisy environments, but a cleaner signal always transcribes more accurately. Reduce background noise when you can, close a window, mute a speaker, or move somewhere quieter. See Microphone Settings for auto-detect and Bluetooth behavior.
Beyond the setup, speak the way you normally would. Don't slow down or over-enunciate. Glaido is built to handle natural speech.
Use the Dictionary sparingly
The Dictionary is for words Glaido consistently gets wrong, not every word you can think of. If a term only trips up transcription occasionally, leave it alone. Glaido's AI formatting layer resolves a lot of ambiguity on its own, and it will often get the word right without any help.
Add a dictionary entry once a specific word keeps getting mangled the same way, a name, a product term, a piece of jargon. A spelling correction handles that pattern better than hoping the AI catches it every time.
Keep it tidy
Every dictionary entry becomes something Glaido has to weigh during transcription. A dictionary with ten well-chosen entries outperforms one with a hundred added "just in case". Prune it occasionally.
Keep formatting rules minimal
Formatting rules run on every transcription, so it's worth being deliberate about which ones stay active. Glaido allows up to 8, but in practice two or three focused rules beat a long list of loosely related preferences. Write each one as a short, specific instruction rather than a paragraph of style notes.
Experimenting is part of the process. Add a rule, dictate a few sentences, and see how the output changes before adding another. Rules stack, so a handful of vague ones can produce less predictable results than one precise one.
Combine dictation with Agent Mode
Dictation alone gets you accurate, formatted text. Pairing it with Agent Mode turns your voice into an editing tool. Select some text, hold the agent hotkey, and say what you want done with it. Translate a paragraph. Shorten an email. Summarize a document. All without touching the keyboard.
It takes a few tries before this feels natural. Start small. Select a sentence, hold the agent hotkey, and ask for something simple like "make this more formal." Once the pattern clicks, it becomes one of the faster ways to edit text in Glaido.