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Written Form: The Man from U.N.C.L.E

Spoken Form: the man from uncle

Written Form: St. Clement's Hospital

Spoken Form: Saint Clements Hospital

Written Form: Soddy-Daisy, TN.

Spoken Form: Soddy Daisy Tennessee

Written Form: Trenton-Mercer Airport

Spoken Form: Trenton Mercer Airport

Adding Spoken Forms allows you to dictate in the way that is most natural, but also quickest for you. In addition

to indicating pronunciation, Spoken Forms can be used for “vocal shorthand” and automatic substitution: you say

something short and easy, and Dragon types something longer or “trickier” to say (or to remember). This

capability can be used to give consistency and clarity to your writings; groups can take advantage of it to help

everyone comply with recommendations like avoiding abbreviations and other confusable items.

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 about what you are 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. Similarly, you can set the ellipsis (dot dot dot) to NOT trigger

capitalization of the next word.