11.5

Deleting “Words” and Modifying Word Properties

If you encounter a word or phrase that Dragon does not transcribe as you would like, remember that it might

warrant a spoken form or longer entry in the Vocabulary and Dragon may need to learn about how and how

frequently you use it therefore you want to have Dragon analyze relevant text and run Accuracy Tuning (see

the Accuracy Center). Also, particularly if the pronunciation contains non-English sounds, you may want to

provide some acoustic “training”—see "Training Words".

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 your profile’s active Vocabulary will solve the conflict by

removing your desired word’s “competition.” For instance: the names Schaeffer, Shaefer, Schaefer and Shafer

all sound alike, so if you want Dragon to write “Schaefer” but it typically writes “Shafer” even though you have

already corrected the error, you may want to delete “Shafer” from the Vocabulary.

You can do this by finding and deleting the word in the Vocabulary Editor, or you can do it by bringing up the

Correction menu over the undesired word after Dragon transcribed it.

Note: Dragon’s active Vocabulary comes with literally thousands of 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!

There’s more you can do in the Vocabulary Editor! For instance, by clicking its Properties button, you open the

Word Properties dialog, where you can view or change the capitalization, spacing and numeral properties of an

entry.

IMPORTANT Use the Word Properties dialog to modify the Dictation Command “new line” if you want it to

trigger capitalization of the following word. (See the lesson Starting to Dictate.) Similarly, you can set the

ellipsis (dot dot dot) to NOT trigger capitalization of the next word.

In the Word Properties dialog box, you can also choose one or even two alternate written forms.