Expand English contractions automatically when using Voice In Plus for dictation. This supports the conversion of informal speech into formal prose.

This is a programming tool, not an educational tool.

Voice In is a free plugin for Google Chrome that supports dication in the text areas of web pages. This is where I draft most of my writing these days before it is pasted into a final document. Voice In provides a Notepad for dication if you still need to get a favorite alternative like 750words.com. It also works in Overleaf, Jupyter, and Colab. The word error is about 2-4 percent, better than most alternative dictation software. It does not do long hallucinations like chatbots, which I find to be annoying and a waste of my time.

Voice In Plus requires a modest subscription fee. It adds support for custom commands.

• 186 common and not so common English contractions mapped to their expansions.

The file format is comma-separated values (csv). The first column has the voice commands in lowercase. The second column has the text inserted and any action commands executed in between angular braces. Multi-line text fragments are possible via the newline command (\n).

1. Right-click on the plugin icon and select Options.
2. This act opens the Voice-in options page.
3. Click on bulk add button. A simple window with a plain text area will open.
4. Open the csv file in a text editor like VS Code. Select all, copy, and paste into the text area of the bulk add window.
5. Click the add commands button below the text area. The new commands are available for use.

• Search for Voice In in the Chrome Store
• Full library of commands for Voice In Plus
• Voice computing on MooersLab landing page

• NIH: R01 CA242845
• NIH: R01 AI088011
• NIH: P30 CA225520 (PI: R. Mannel)
• NIH: P20 GM103640 and P30 GM145423 (PI: A. West)