How voice quoting works

How the speech recognition works

When you tap the microphone in Prummo and start talking, your voice is converted to text in real time. This isn't the basic dictation your phone already does, which mangles numbers and units. It's speech recognition built to handle trade language, including accents and technical terms.

The system picks up numbers, units, and prices in context. When you say "fifteen metres of 2.5 twin and earth at three eighty a metre", it understands "fifteen" is a quantity, "metres" is the unit, "three eighty" is a price, and "a metre" tells it that's the unit price, not the total.

That works because the underlying model has been trained on huge volumes of speech. It's not guessing at isolated words, it's following whole sentences in the context of a quote.

In practice, you can talk at your normal pace, the way you'd explain a job to another tradesperson over the phone. No need for artificial pauses or spelling things out. Common technical references get picked up correctly.

What Prummo does with what you've said

Once speech recognition has turned your words into text, Prummo takes over. That raw text, which is basically a running transcript of what you said, gets analysed and organised into structured quote lines.

Prummo picks out each item you mentioned and pulls out four things: description, quantity, unit price, and total. If you say "six 20-amp MCBs at eighteen euro each", it creates a line: 20A MCB | Quantity: 6 | Unit price: €18.00 | Total: €108.00.

It's not just splitting text on commas. Prummo follows the context. If you say "labour, two days at two hundred a day", it knows "two days" is the quantity and "two hundred" is the day rate, even without you saying "euro" or "per day" every time. If you say "painting the sitting room, 28 square metres at 6.50", it knows that's a service priced by area.

It handles corrections too. Say "actually, hang on, it's fifteen metres, not twelve" and the system adjusts. And if you list several items back to back without pausing, which is how most people naturally talk through a job, Prummo still separates each one out into its own line.

All of that takes a few seconds. From the moment you stop talking to seeing the organised quote on screen is typically 3 to 5 seconds.

Real examples: from what you say to what appears

A few concrete examples of what happens when you dictate a quote.

An electrician says: "Consumer unit upgrade from single to three-phase, one unit at 380 euro, fifteen metres of 2.5 twin and earth at 3.80 a metre, four 20-amp MCBs at 18 euro each, labour six hours at 25 an hour." Prummo creates 4 lines: the consumer unit (€380), the cable (€57.00), the MCBs (€72), and the labour (€150), with the total calculated automatically at €659.

A plumber says: "Replace the immersion cylinder, one unit at 420 euro, six metres of 15mm copper at 4.20 a metre, two isolation valves at 8.50 each, labour four hours at 30 an hour." Result: 4 lines, total worked out automatically.

A painter says: "Painting the flat, sitting room 28 square metres at 6.50 a metre, main bedroom 18 metres at 6.50, box room 12 metres at 6.50, ceilings 40 metres at 7 euro, materials three tins of paint at 55 each." Result: 5 lines, with areas, prices per metre, and totals all lined up.

None of these follow a rigid script. Every tradesperson talks differently, and Prummo works with however you naturally explain a job. You don't need to learn a format, just talk the way you already do.

How to get started in a minute

Using voice quotes in Prummo is simpler than it sounds. Nothing to configure, nothing to install, no templates to set up beforehand.

Open Prummo in your phone's browser and set up a free account, takes about 30 seconds. Tap "New Quote", then the microphone icon. Talk through the job as if you're explaining it to another tradesperson: materials, quantities, prices, labour. Prummo does the rest.

Once you're done talking, check the result over. You can edit any line, change a description, adjust a price, add or remove items. When you're happy with it, tap "Send via WhatsApp" and the client gets a professional link.

A few tips for better results: mention the price right alongside the item ("cable at 3.80 a metre", rather than listing everything and then rattling off prices afterwards). Use clear units ("metres", "units", "hours", "square metres"). And don't worry about pausing or repeating yourself, Prummo is good at filtering that out.

Your first quote might take a couple of minutes while you get the hang of it. After that, a minute's plenty. And the 20 or 30 minutes you save on each quote is time you can spend on the tools instead.