Glossary · also: fillers
Disfluency
The ums, uhs, and repeated words that natural speech is full of.
What it means
Disfluencies are the natural debris of spoken language — fillers (um, uh, erm), doubled words, and false starts. Speech arrives with them; written text should not carry them.
Why it matters
A transcript that keeps every filler is a transcript nobody reads. Stripping them is the single highest-value cleanup any dictation tool can do, and it must be conservative: “well” is sometimes a filler and sometimes the word you meant.
How notchos does it
A conservative filler list plus doubled-word collapse, deterministic and inspectable. False-start pruning stays out — when judgment is needed, less is more.
Fair questions
- What about words like “like”?
- The list errs conservative — only words that are almost never meant survive the cut.
- Can cleanup be turned off entirely?
- Yes, globally and per-app through verbatim mode.
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