Message Style: Keep a Casual Draft in Your Own Voice

A casual message can sound strange when a writing tool makes it too formal. You wanted to say that you are running a little late; the result reads like an announcement. Message style is designed to keep a dictated draft compact while preserving your voice, meaning and spoken level of politeness.

The preset treats the recording as the message you want to write. It does not fetch a conversation or infer what another person asked. Supply the actual reply, including the qualifications and questions you want the recipient to see.

Set up a message draft

• In Styles, select Message.
• If you want a separate copy with your own instructions, use New style → Template → Message, review the name and prompt preview, choose an available speech model, and select New style.
• Open Rewrite to check the independent Speech transcription and Text formatting selections.
• For global shortcut dictation, set Default style to Message for unmatched destinations or link your messaging app/site through Linked apps or Linked websites. Linked matches take priority. Place the cursor in the draft, record your wording, and stop to process it.
• Read the result for the relationship and tone you intended before sending.

For an in-window test, select Message and use Today's Start listening, which uses the active style. Selecting that card alone does not determine the style used by global shortcut recording.

For example, dictate: “I'll probably be about ten minutes late. Please start without me if everyone else is ready.” An illustrative cleaned message is: “I'll probably be about 10 minutes late. Please start without me if everyone else is ready.” Check that “probably” and the condition remain. Removing them would change the message.

Keep the relationship in the wording

Message style's instructions preserve spoken politeness, including Korean endings that express a relationship. That makes the language you dictate important. Speak with the level of formality you want, then review whether the formatted result retained it.

The default preset adds no email framing, signature, emoji or hashtag unless you dictate it or explicitly request it in your rules. If you usually end a message without a sign-off, you do not need to invent one for the recording. Deliberate line and paragraph breaks should also remain part of the draft.

The template starts with money and digit cleanup enabled, and numbered lists disabled. Keep these settings for concise written amounts and numbers, or adjust them to your preference in Rewrite. Review quantities and times alongside the request you dictated.

Change one thing when the result feels wrong

If a draft feels too formal, inspect the saved Prompt and any rules you added before changing models. A broad instruction such as “make this professional” may conflict with the casual tone you wanted. Prefer a focused rule: “Keep my casual wording and all uncertainty.” Save it, then test one short message.

For a recognizable transcript without the writing stage, compare Exactly as spoken. For an internal task update, use the Work message guide. The Message instructions provide the complete control reference.