Feature request: spoken symbol commands, number formatting option, and optional offline grammar cleanup

[gouravdadhich]

Summary

Handy transcribes speech well, but it is hard to enter symbols, control number formatting, and get grammatically clean text. I would like to suggest three optional features that keep Handy's offline, privacy-focused approach.

Problem

While testing, I said these two sentences:

1. "I bought 3 apples and 2 bananas for $5 yesterday."
2. "Me and him goes to the market yesterday and buyed 3 apples."

Handy wrote:

1. "I bought three apples and two bananas for five dollar yesterday."
2. "Me and him go to the market yesterday and buyed three apple."

What I observed:

• Small numbers are written as words, and there is no setting to prefer digits.
• Symbols like $, @, #, % and _ cannot be entered reliably by voice.
• Grammar mistakes are kept as spoken, and plural endings like "dollars" can be dropped.

Proposed features

1. Spoken symbol and punctuation commands (optional setting)

Allow commands like "at sign", "hash", "underscore", "dollar sign", "open bracket", "new line" to be converted to the matching character. This would be useful for emails, usernames, code and URLs.

2. Number formatting preference

Add a setting to choose between:

• Leave as the model outputs (current behavior)
• Prefer digits (e.g. "three" -> 3, "five dollars" -> $5)
• Prefer words

3. Optional grammar and spelling cleanup

Add an optional cleanup step that fixes grammar, spelling and dropped endings after transcription, ideally using a small local model so audio and text stay on the device. If it needs an external provider, it should clearly be opt-in and off by default.

Why this helps

• Makes Handy more useful for accessibility, email, coding and note-taking.
• Fits the project goals of being free, simple and private.
• All three could be off by default, so existing behavior doesn't change.

Alternatives considered

• Typing symbols manually, which defeats the purpose of dictation.
• Pasting the output into a separate grammar tool, which adds extra steps and may send text to the cloud.

Environment

• Handy version: v0.10.0
• OS: IOS
• Model used: Qwen3-ASR 1.7B

[sedlund]

If you enable post processing in the advanced settings, the included prompt converts numbers and formats just like you suggest. You can add your own rules as well.