Know-Me profile
A two-minute interview that tells cleanup who you are, who you talk about, and how you like to sound. It is optional, and it only matters when cleanup is on.
What it collects
Dashboard ▸ Know-Me ▸ Run interview asks five questions, one per screen. Every one is skippable.
| Question | Example answer | What it fixes |
|---|---|---|
| What should we call you? | Alex Chen | Your own name being misspelled in your own writing. |
| What do you do? | iOS engineer at a small startup | Gives cleanup domain context for ambiguous words. |
| Who do you mention most? | Priya, Sam, Dr. Okafor | Colleagues' names, the single most common complaint. |
| Any words it keeps getting wrong? | WhisperKit, TestFlight, Kubernetes | Your jargon. |
| How do you like to sound? | concise, no exclamation marks, Oxford comma | Stops cleanup from making you sound like someone else. |
Onboarding asks only for your name; the rest live in the dashboard interview so first-run setup stays short.
How it is used
Your answers become a short personal-context block supplied to the cleanup model alongside your dictionary — who you are, who you mention, which terms to spell correctly, and how you like to sound. It is why cleanup can pick the right spelling of a colleague's name from an ambiguous transcript.
Running the interview also seeds your dictionary with the names and technical terms you list, without disturbing entries you added yourself.
Like the dictionary, the profile is applied during cleanup. With cleanup set to None it has no effect on your output.
Reviewing, re-running, clearing
The Know-Me pane shows what is currently stored. Re-run interview walks the five questions again; Clear empties the profile entirely. Both take effect on your next dictation.
Where it lives
~/Library/Application Support/OpenVoiceFlow/profile.json on your Mac. If you enable cloud cleanup, this context is sent with each cleanup request to the provider you chose, under your own API key — that is what makes it work. If that trade is not one you want, use local Ollama cleanup, which keeps the same behaviour entirely on your machine, or leave cleanup off and skip the interview.
Documentation for OpenVoiceFlow 0.5.5 · last updated 2026-07-31. Something wrong or missing here? That is a bug — tell us at shimoverse@gmail.com.