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[FEATURE][WINDOWS]Context-aware capitalization, trailing punctuation, and preferred language setting

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The issue does not name files or tests. First locate the Windows dictation text-insertion flow and the Voice Engine settings, then trace how the Blazing fast engine handles language selection. The requested work is complete when capitalization and trailing punctuation follow the surrounding text, and users can set a preferred dictation language for that engine.

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Description

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Problem

Here are the two problems:

  1. Incorrect capitalization and punctuation when inserting text mid-sentence
    When dictating a passage into an existing sentence, FluidVoice usually capitalizes the first letter of the inserted text and adds a period at the end. These things have to be corrected manually every time when inserting text mid-sentence.

  2. No preferred language setting
    Without a way to set a preferred dictation language, the model has to guess the language for every short phrase (especially 2–3 word utterances). This frequently leads to incorrect transcriptions.

Proposed solution
Feature Request

I’m using FluidVoice 0.0.9 on Windows and it's really great! Though would suggest the following improvements for the real-time dictation:

1. Capitalization rules

Before inserting dictated text, check the character immediately before the cursor, ignoring all consecutive spaces.
Example: if the text before the cursor is "кгаож ", treat "ж" as the previous character.

  • Then capitalize the first letter only if the previous relevant character is a period (.) or a newline. If the previous character is a period or newline, the first letter must be uppercase.
  • In all other cases, start with a lowercase letter. It'd be very useful when trying to insert a few additional words in an existing sentence.
2. Trailing punctuation rules

Also check the character immediately after the cursor (again ignoring consecutive spaces).
Example: if the text after the cursor is " врата", consider only "в".

  • Then if the next relevant character is not uppercase, the dictated text should not end with sentence-ending punctuation (., ?, or !) but with a pause.
  • Otherwise, if the next relevant character **is ** uppercase one has to end with sentence-ending punctuation (., ?, or !).
3. Preferred language setting

Please add a setting for the preferred dictation language (e.g. German, French, Bulgarian) in Blazing fast engine (now it works only in Nemotron). The onboarding says "You can change this later in Voice Engine settings" yet I can't see such a setting.
By adding the preferred dictation language one should improve the recognition accuracy, especially for short phrases of one or two words, by preventing the model from guessing the language every time.

Thank you!

P.S.
I just have to say you did really amazing work on FluidVoice. It’s the best voice-to-text software I’ve used so far.

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