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Chapter 12: Improving recognition accuracy
Written form Spoken form
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. the man from uncle
Soddy-Daisy, TN Soddy Daisy Tennessee
Trenton-Mercer Airport Trenton Mercer Airport
If you want to add punctuation to a word that already exists in the Vocabulary
for use in a specific setting, you can create a new written form with the
punctuation included and a unique word or phrase for the spoken form.
For example, if you wanted Dragon to type the word "U.N.C.L.E." in the header
of your letters, the written form could be "U.N.C.L.E." and the spoken form
could be "UNCLE." That way, Dragon would still type only the word "uncle"
when you dictate it as usual, because it also exists in the Vocabulary.
Alternately, if you wanted to add punctuation to a word that already exists in
the Vocabulary every time you used that word, you would change the
properties of the existing word. For more information, see Word Properties in
the Dragon Help.
Notes
n When you train words or phrases, be careful to speak in your normal
voice. Avoid the natural tendency to over-enunciate when speaking sin-
gle words or short phrases as it could actually reduce recognition accu-
racy.
n A word or phrase must exist in the Vocabulary (that is, have been
created previously) before you can train it.
n You can also use the Train button in the Vocabulary Editor dialog box.
n When you train a word or phrase using the Train Words dialog box, you
add to the acoustic data stored for later use by the Acoustic Optimizer.
This data, including your pronunciation and the acoustic differences
between the trained correction and the misrecognized word or phrase
are used by the Acoustic Optimizer to enhance recognition accuracy.
Supplemental training
Supplemental training is any additional training done after your first required
General Training session to help improve your recognition accuracy. You can
do supplemental training at any time, but it is most useful when:
n You have used Dragon for a few days. By then, you will be accustomed to
dictating, and supplemental training should reflect how you actually dic-
tate.
n You move to an environment that is significantly noisier or quieter or
that has different background sounds.
n You have changed your microphone or sound card.
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