App dashboard - history, settings, vocabulary, and prompt editing

The evoglyph app dashboard is a SwiftUI window that opens from the menu bar icon. It is the control centre for everything you might want to customise: your transcription history, app settings, vocabulary entries, and the AI cleanup prompt. This article walks through each section.

Opening the dashboard

Click the evoglyph icon in the macOS menu bar and open the dashboard from the menu.

The dashboard window is a standard macOS SwiftUI window — you can move, resize, and minimise it like any other app window.

History

The History section shows a chronological list of every transcription evoglyph has produced. Each entry includes the transcribed (and cleaned, if cleanup was on) text and a timestamp.

Entries can be deleted individually. History is stored in a local SQLite database — see Transcription history for details on the database location and how to delete entries in bulk.

Settings

The Settings section is where you configure:

Hotkey — the global keyboard chord used to start and stop recording. See Hotkey configuration for details.
Parakeet model variant — switch between Parakeet TDT v2 (English, ~2.58 GB, the default) and v3 (adds 25 European languages at the speech-engine level — note the full evoglyph pipeline is validated on English only).
AI cleanup toggle — enable or disable the Qwen3 cleanup pass. See AI cleanup for what the pass does and the latency tradeoff.

All settings are saved immediately and take effect on the next dictation. They are persisted in ~/Library/Application Support/evoglyph/.

Vocabulary

The Vocabulary section lets you add custom words — names, acronyms, project identifiers, and domain jargon — that evoglyph boosts during transcription via CTC rescoring. Words added here are more likely to be transcribed correctly when spoken, even if they are uncommon or ambiguous.

Add an entry by typing the word and pressing Return. Delete entries individually by selecting them and pressing Delete. Changes take effect on the next dictation.

For a full explanation of how vocabulary boosting works, see Custom vocabulary.

Prompt

The Prompt section shows the system prompt sent to Qwen3 during the AI cleanup pass. You can read and edit the prompt directly in the text area. Changes are saved immediately and used from the next dictation onward.

The default prompt targets punctuation, casing, and filler removal. Custom prompts can narrow the scope (punctuation only), change the style (formal vs casual), or target specific use cases (code identifiers, structured data).

For prompt ideas and examples, see AI cleanup.