10.0

Using Playback to Aid Correction

Sometimes, especially if you dictate a significant amount of text before correcting, you may not remember

exactly what you actually said. Dragon’s playback feature is very helpful in these instances. You can take

advantage of it in several ways.

If you see that a certain word or phrase appears incorrectly, use the correct command to open the Spell dialog

box. Once it appears, click or say Play Back to hear the recording of your voice as you dictated that text. If

you realize that in fact you had misspoken or mumbled (as happens to everyone, particularly near the end of

the day), close the Spell box, and dictate the word(s) again.

TIP You can have playback occur automatically with Correction. On the Correction tab of the Options dialog,

check Au

tomatic Playback on Correction. This is particularly helpful as you first learn to use Dragon; you may

want to turn it off after a few weeks of practice.

You can also use the playback to proofread. To do this, select the text you would like to hear played back.

Then, say play that back, or choose P

lay That Back from the Sound menu.

If you find a misrecognition, you can stop playback by clicking the mouse. (Since speech input cannot be

received during playback, you cannot stop playback by voice. If clicking the mouse is problematic for you, play

small selections at a time.)

The DragonBar’s expansion gives access to several useful items (click its arrows or say view extras bar):

• The Correction button opens the correction interface (as do the Correction commands and hot key).

• The play icons, similar to those on a music player, allow you to begin playback, speed up playback

(useful for large sections of text), stop playback, and skip backwards or forward.

• The Transcribe button launches the transcription of recorded files (see the documentation for more

details on transcribing from digital recorders, including the Auto-Transcribe Folder Agent).

To hide the extras bar, say hide extras or click again on the double arrow.

Exercise 3: Dictate a detailed paragraph—about a trip, for instance: where, how long… Then select it and play

it back. If you find any misrecognitions, use the Correction button, hotkey, or commands to correct them.

Key points about correcting recognition errors

9 Although correcting misrecognitions can seem time-consuming at first, it will result in increased

accuracy, which in turn means that there will be fewer and fewer misrecognitions to address.

9 To use the method described in this lesson, the option "Correct" Commands Bring Up Spell Dialog

must be enabled.

9 In Correction commands, do not pause at all between ‘correct’ and the misrecognized word(s).

9 When the Spell box is open, you can say choose n to pick the correct choice from the list. If no

choice is quite correct but one is close, you can quickly modify it: click it once or say select and its

number (for instance select 5), which brings it to the top of the Spell box, where you can edit it by

hand or by voice.