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CHAPTER 3
Improving Your Speech Recognition
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More about spoken forms
Perhaps your vocabulary contains proprietary words with unusual
capitalization, or proper names with unusual spellings. Some phrases,
such as company names, have particular punctuation. Or, you might
want Dragon NaturallySpeaking to write out a person’s name when you
say their initials. You can teach the program to type the word or phrase
correctly when it recognizes the spoken form.
You can also create a spoken form for a word you’re having trouble getting
Dragon NaturallySpeaking to recognize (for example, if the program often types “Lara”
when you say “Laura” and correcting and training the word doesn’t help). In the last
example in the table, the written form for the word would be “Laura” and the spoken
form should be a unique phrase, such as “Laura my office mate.”
For any word or short phrase that is less than 128 characters and fits on a
single line, you should create a spoken form rather than a dictation
shortcut (see page 38).
Here are some examples of words with different written and spoken
forms. Look in the Vocabulary Editor window for more examples.
To create a spoken form for a word:
1 On the NaturallySpeaking menu, point to Advanced, then click Edit
Vocabulary.
2 Find the word you want in the list by typing the first few letters in the
Written form box.
WRITTEN FORM SPOKEN FORM
eBusiness ee business
Daniell Daniel with two ells
Niamh Nev
CINCPAC sink pack
[e-mail] my e-mail address
Robert F. Kennedy R. F. K.
Waldron, Lichtin & Foust Waldron Lichtin and Foust
[phone] my phone number
TIP
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