Generic dictation mishears professional vocabulary — "metoprolol" becomes word salad, "voir dire" becomes "vwa deer". Pithflow's specialty term packs teach the transcription your field's vocabulary, so professional dictation comes out clean the first time.
Speech-to-text models are trained mostly on everyday speech, so they default to common words. When a doctor says "metoprolol", a generic model hears something rare and guesses something common — "met a pro lol". Same failure for legal Latin ("res judicata"), software tools ("Kubernetes", "PostgreSQL"), and finance vocabulary ("EBITDA"). The fix isn't a better microphone; it's telling the transcription what vocabulary to expect.
Enable a pack in the Dictionary tab (or pick your field at signup) and Pithflow biases every transcription toward that vocabulary BEFORE the audio is decoded — the model expects the terms, so it recognizes them. A second pass repairs near-misses: if a mangled rendering slips through, the AI cleanup compares it against the pack and restores the correct form. Your personal dictionary terms always take priority on top.
Every specialty comes in both languages — toggle English and Español separately from the pack's card in the Dictionary tab. • Medical — top-prescribed drugs, clinical exam vocabulary, diagnoses, anatomy, procedures; en español, vocabulario clínico y fármacos with Mexican and LATAM usage. • Legal — Latin phrases, litigation and contract vocabulary; en español, amparo, derecho procesal, civil y notarial mexicano. • Software & engineering — tools, frameworks, infrastructure, CS concepts; en español, from despliegue continuo to aprendizaje automático. • Finance & accounting — reporting terms, instruments, filings, acronyms; en español, CFDI, SAT, RESICO and the rest of Mexican tax vocabulary. • Science & research — lab techniques, genetics, statistics, publishing vocabulary, in both languages. • Mental health & therapy — modalities, diagnoses, clinical documentation, in both languages. • Education & teaching — IEP/504 documentation, pedagogy, literacy, assessment; en español, planeación didáctica, USAER, evaluación formativa. • Construction & trades — framing, concrete, MEP, permits and project paperwork; en español, cimbra, varilla, tablaroca, instalación hidrosanitaria. • Marketing & sales — SEO/PPC metrics, funnels, attribution, platform names, in both languages.
Spanish-speaking professionals can enable the English and Spanish packs for their field — any field — and code-switch freely: "revisión sobre hipertensión, citing the metoprolol trials" transcribes each part correctly. Auto-detect handles the language per dictation; the packs handle the vocabulary in both.
Packs cover the high-yield vocabulary of each field, not every regional brand name or niche term. For the rest: the personal Dictionary (add a term once, it's recognized from then on) and Fix a word in the History list on Home — spot a miss, type the correction, one click. Both feed the same recognition biasing as the packs.
Term packs improve transcription quality; they don't change data handling. Pithflow is not HIPAA-eligible and does not sign BAAs, so do not dictate protected health information with it. The medical packs are for the medical writing that carries no patient data: research, teaching, and administration.
No. Every pack is on every plan, including Free. Turn them on in the Dictionary tab.
Nine fields, each in English and Spanish: Medical, Legal, Software & engineering, Finance & accounting, Science & research, Mental health & therapy, Education & teaching, Construction & trades, and Marketing & sales.
Add it to your personal Dictionary once, or use Fix a word on that dictation in the History list on Home. Both feed the same recognition as the packs.
No. Pithflow is not HIPAA-eligible and does not sign BAAs, so do not dictate protected health information. The medical packs are for research, teaching and administrative writing.
