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Chapter 6. Correcting your dictation

As you begin using ViaVoice, you might say words that are not in the

vocabulary, or ViaVoice might simply not understand words that you say.

These result in recognition errors—misrecognized words—in your dictated

text.

This chapter describes correction, the most important thing you can do to help

ViaVoice understand the words you say when dictating. When you correct

misrecognized words to the words you actually said, you provide ViaVoice

with two important benefits.

v When you correct a word that ViaVoice doesn’t know (because it is neither

in the base vocabulary nor in your personal vocabulary), that new word is

added to your personal vocabulary. The next time you use the word,

ViaVoice should get it right.

v By correcting words, you teach ViaVoice how you actually pronounce

words in the context of other words. Over time, correcting words greatly

increases recognition accuracy for subsequent dictation.

Correct each misrecognized word by using the Correction window. Display

this window whenever you have dictated text by saying "Show Correction

window". When you do not want it on the desktop, say "Hide Correction

window".

Get in the habit of correcting errors after each paragraph of dictated text. You should not

wait until you have dictated a long article to begin correction—by the time you have

finished your dictation, you might overlook some errors when proofreading.