Writing with AI
Keep character names straight with Name Check
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When you dictate, names take the hit. A character can come out spelled two ways, or as a soundalike the app heard instead of the name you said. You will not always catch it while you are talking. Name Check does.
What it catches
Name Check scans your prose and flags the character names that look mis-heard or inconsistent: a spelling that drifted, a soundalike that slipped in, a name that shows up three different ways across your chapters. It surfaces them so you can see the mess in one place.
Fix them fast
Once a name is flagged, you can settle on the right version and fix it. The point is consistency: one character, one name, all the way through the manuscript, no matter how many sessions it took to write.
Tip. Run Name Check after a long dictation stretch, or before you export. That is when soundalikes are most likely to have crept in.
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Build your character bible
Your character bible is the AI's memory of who your people are. Write it or dictate it, and together with your prose it unlocks the Direct setting.
Find the characters in your story
MakeVox reads your prose and pulls out the recurring, named characters, then drops them into your Characters list with a short profile each.
Getting started: speak your first chapter
Open MakeVox, hit record, and talk. Your AI editor shapes the rough dictation into clean prose, and your outline grows as you go.