Automatic Transcription Filtering in Notes

I just bought a new iPhone and iPad to get the Notes app that supports the transcription facility that accompanies audio input for a note. I am head over heals with excitement about this feature and, in fact, this was the "killer app" for me to upgrade my iPhone and iPad.

I can now use Notes as a dictaphone to comment on anything, but especially ideas I have that I use in my own writing especially about the books I read and about philosophical, historical, and political themes. I can dictate very long (I just did a 40 minute dictation) notes and get a complete transcription of the dictation. Then I can copy the transcription into a file which I can move to my home computer with Microsoft Word to directly create a document from the transcription. I can then edit the document at will to get it into a formal highly readable form.

However, when I dictate I like probably a zillion other people in this world have a bad habit of inserting into the voice track "uh" and "um". In dictating, I have to "think on my feet" and, of course, I do not know in advance exactly what I am going to say (just the general idea of how to proceed in my speech) and so those short thinking pauses force me as a bad habit to insert the "uh" and "um".

Unfortunately, the transcription the results is full of all of those "uh"'s and "um"'s. When I copy the transcription to a Word document on my home computer, the resulting text has all of those "uh"'s and "um"'s and I have to meticulously edit out dozens of these from the Word document.

It would be better if Apple revised Notes transcription with a configurable ability to turn on a transcription auto filtering facility. I propose a user interface in which the user enters in the configuration dialog a string like "uh" and/or "um" (or any other undesirable string).

When the recording is being performed and the transcription encounters the filtering string or strings specified by the user, that phrase is NOT entered into the transcription. For me with "uh" and "um" filtered out, the transcription looks like a smoothly spoken dictated speech and I save tremendous efforts by not having to later manually edit out the "uh" and "um" in my Microsoft Word document.

How convenient this would be!

I hope the S/W staff programming for the Notes app will consider this suggestion in future IOS releases of Notes.

Thank you.