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TIP Entries containing symbols, digits, or unusual spacing are particularly likely to warrant a Spoken Form.
If you add e-mail addresses to the vocabulary, giving them a Spoken Form can make them quicker to dictate:
for instance, for AmyT&[e-mail], “Amy and John at yahoo dot com” or even just “Amy and John at
yahoo”.
Deleting “Words” and Modifying “Word” Properties
If at some point you find that an item is not transcribed as you wished, remember that it might need a spoken
form, or a longer entry in the vocabulary. (Also, particularly if the pronunciation contains non-English sounds,
you may want to give the software additional help by “training” it acoustically.
You may also run into cases where a word you need is consistently transcribed as another word: if that other
word is not important to you, deleting it from the Vocabulary Editor will solve the conflict by removing your
desired word’s “competition”. The names Schafer, Shaffer, Schaefer, and Shafer all sound alike, for instance.
Note: Dragon comes with literally thousands of vocabulary entries; as you browse the Vocabulary Editor, you
will see many you are very unlikely to ever dictate, but don’t spend time deleting them unless they actually
cause a conflict!
TIP There’s more you can do in the
Vocabulary Editor!
For instance, by clicking the Properties
button, you can view or change the
capitalization, spacing and numeral
properties of an entry.
In the Word Properties dialog box, you
can also choose one or even two
alternate written forms: for instance,
if you prefer the word “figure” to be
written as “Fig.” when before numbers
(Fig. 3), or if you prefer the dictation
command “new line” to trigger
capitalization in addition to a blank
line.
Your documentation provides more details; in particular, take a look at the Help topics “The Vocabulary Editor
Dialog Box”, “Deleting words”, and “The Word Properties dialog box.”
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