> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.granola.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Dictation styles

> Choose how formal your dictation looks in email, work chat, personal messages and everything else.

Styles control how your dictation is capitalized and punctuated in different kinds of apps. You might want full sentences in email but lowercase texts with no periods to friends.

Styles only change capitalization, punctuation and spacing. They never change your words.

# Choosing a style

1. Click your workspace name in the bottom-left corner, then select **Settings**.
2. Open **Voice typing** and scroll to **Styles**.
3. Pick a style for each kind of app.

| Kind of app | Examples | Styles |
| - | - | - |
| Email | Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, Superhuman | Formal, Casual, Excited |
| Work messages | Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat | Formal, Casual, Excited |
| Personal messages | Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Discord | Formal, Casual, Very casual |
| Other | Everything else, including ChatGPT and Claude | Formal, Casual, Excited |

Granola recognizes web apps by their address, so Gmail in Chrome counts as email and Slack in a browser counts as work messages.

Each row starts on **Automatic**, where Granola picks punctuation to suit what you said. When you choose a style, an example under the row shows how it looks.

# The styles

* **Formal**: Capital letters and full punctuation. "Thanks for the update. Let me know what you think."
* **Casual**: Capital letters, lighter punctuation and no period at the end of short messages. "Thanks for the update, let me know what you think"
* **Very casual**: All lowercase, with no periods. "are we still on for dinner? 7 works for me"
* **Excited**: Exclamation marks for upbeat sentences. "Thanks for the update! Let me know what you think!"

Questions keep their question marks in every style. **Very casual** still keeps the original case of technical terms, links and code.

# When styles don't apply

* Styles need [screen context](https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/voice-typing/spelling-names-and-terms.md#screen-context) to know which app you're in. If it's off, the **Styles** rows are greyed out.
* Code editors and terminals keep their own formatting, so technical text isn't changed.


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