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Vox knows which app you are in. A profile lets you change its behaviour per app, so dictating into a terminal does not have to work the same way as dictating into email.

What a profile can change

Profiles currently change button mappings and the voice commands attached to those mappings. They do not change vocabulary, punctuation, or dictation formatting.

Creating a profile

1

Open Settings

Open Vox and select Buttons.
2

Add a profile and pick an app

Open the profile menu at the top of the Buttons view and choose New Profile…. Name the profile and choose whether to start with the stock mappings or duplicate another profile. Select a profile from the same menu to configure it, and click Set as default when it should be used everywhere without an app-specific match. To assign it to an app, click Assign, add the app, and choose the profile for that app.
3

Adjust the settings you want to differ

Anything you do not change falls back to your default settings.

How Vox picks a profile

The profile follows the frontmost app. Switch apps and the profile switches with you, with no action needed. If no profile matches the app you are in, your default settings apply. Profiles are assigned to apps, identified by their application bundle. A browser profile therefore applies to the browser app, not to an individual website.

Profiles worth setting up

Turn off auto-capitalisation and auto-punctuation. Add your project names, function names, and CLI tools to the vocabulary.
Leave punctuation on. This is where you want the most formatting help.
There is no separate built-in chat profile. Create one only if you want different button mappings or voice commands for a chat app.

Seeing which profile is active

The active profile is not shown while dictating. The default profile is used unless the foreground app has a specific profile assigned.