Snippets

Save trigger words that expand into longer phrases anywhere on macOS — perfect for email signatures, addresses, and anything you type often.

Snippets let you save a short trigger that expands into a longer phrase whenever you dictate. Say /sig and Epilude types your full signature. Say "office address" and Epilude types the full street address.

Snippet expansion runs on every dictation, in any app, no matter which Cleanup level you pick.

How snippets work

Each snippet has two parts:

  • Trigger — the word or short phrase you say
  • Expansion — the text Epilude inserts in its place

When Epilude finishes transcribing what you said, it scans for any of your triggers and swaps them for their expansions before the text reaches your text field. Matching is case-insensitive and respects word boundaries, so /sig inside /signature is left alone.

Spoken triggers

Speak the trigger out loud the same way you'd type it. For triggers that start with a slash like /sig, say "slash sig". For multi-word triggers like "office address", just say the words.

Adding a snippet

Open Snippets

Open Epilude and click Snippets in the sidebar.

Click Add snippet

Click the Add snippet button in the top-right of the page.

Enter a trigger and expansion

Pick a short, distinctive trigger you wouldn't say by accident (/sig, /cta, "office address"). Type the full expansion you want Epilude to insert in its place. Multi-line expansions are supported.

Save and try it

Save the snippet, then dictate the trigger into any text field. Epilude expands it the moment your transcript is inserted.

Managing your snippets

The Snippets page lists every snippet you've saved, with search at the top. Click any snippet to edit its trigger or expansion. Click the trash icon to delete it — there's a short window to undo if you remove the wrong one.

The master toggle at the top of the page pauses every expansion at once without deleting your snippets. Useful when you want raw transcripts for a session.

Tips for good triggers

  • Start with a slash or another rare character (/sig, /cta, /addr) so triggers never collide with normal speech.
  • Keep multi-word triggers short ("office address" is better than "my full office address please") — easier to remember and faster to say.
  • Avoid common phrases as triggers. "Hello" or "thanks" will expand every time you say them.
  • Use snippets for anything you repeat: email signatures, common replies, addresses, phone numbers, project names, code blocks.

What snippets won't do

  • They won't run AI rewrites. The trigger is replaced verbatim with the expansion. AI-driven on-the-fly rewrites will be possible once Actions ships.
  • They won't expand outside of dictation. Snippets only fire on text Epilude is processing. They don't replace text you type with your keyboard.

Troubleshooting

  • My trigger isn't expanding. Make sure snippets are enabled at the top of the page. Confirm you're saying the trigger clearly — check Epilude's transcript log to see what was transcribed. If the trigger appears in URLs or email addresses, Epilude skips it on purpose.
  • My trigger is expanding when I don't want it to. Pick a more distinctive trigger (add a slash prefix, or use a phrase that's rare in normal speech).
  • The expansion looks slightly different in the LLM rewrite. At Cleanup levels Light, Medium, or High, the AI sees the expanded text and may adjust capitalization or punctuation to fit the Style you picked. Switch Cleanup to None for a verbatim insert.
  • Dictionary — Teach Epilude how to spell names, acronyms, and jargon
  • Cleanup — Choose how much Epilude rewrites your dictations
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