10.0

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 help the software with 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 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).

IMPORTANT You would also use

the Word Properties dialog for the

dictation command “new line”, if you

want it to trigger capitalization of the

following word (see the lesson “Starting

to Dictate”, page 21.)

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.”

Key points about the Vocabulary Editor

9 You can access the Vocabulary Editor with a command like edit vocabulary, through the Accuracy

Center, or through the W

ords menu of the DragonBar.