Murmurtale Dialogue formatting
In Fiction mode with the Cloud engine (Pro), Murmurtale formats your passage as you speak, so it is ready when you let go of the key.
In Fiction mode, light AI formatting places dialogue in curly quotes with tags outside the quotes, starts a new paragraph when a different character speaks, and italicizes thoughts you tag (“she thought”) or mark out loud with “in italics”. It may change only punctuation, capitalization, quotation marks, paragraph breaks and italics. Murmurtale checks every result word for word and keeps your exact words wherever the model changed one, and it never deletes repeated words, restarts, or filler you meant to keep — "No, no, no" stays. It never rewrites your prose. Plain mode and on-device mode get no AI formatting.
Interior thoughts
In Fiction mode, a thought you tag — Too late, she thought. or In his head, he thought, What am I doing here? — is set in italics, on your Mac or in the cloud. You can also mark a span out loud with “in italics … end italics”. In rich-text apps the italics render directly; in plain-text fields Murmurtale falls back to the style you choose at Preferences → Character thoughts (Italics, Asterisks, Quotation marks, or Plain).
Paragraph breaks
With the Cloud engine, fiction formatting starts a new paragraph when a different character speaks or acts. In any mode you can say “new paragraph” to start one yourself.
You choose the spacing at Preferences → Paragraph style: a single return between paragraphs (the default, matching modern editors) or a blank line between them (classic manuscript spacing).
On your Mac (free)On-device mode does not add dialogue quotes automatically. Say “open quote” and “close quote” around a line of dialogue, or use the Cloud engine. Murmurtale errs toward leaving text alone rather than adding wrong quotes. See Known limitations.