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130WindowsMacSpeech Dictate 1.5
Recognition Window
TheRecognitionwindowisyourinterfaceforreningMacSpeechDictate’svoice
modelbytelling it about recognition errors it has made.Thisiscalled
training the voice model.WhentheRecognitionwindowisshowing,itoatsoverall
applications.
WhenMacSpeechDictatehastypedwhatyousaidinDictationmode,andhas
madeamistake,usetheRecognitionwindowtocorrect MacSpeech Dictate’s interpreta-
tionof whatyousaid,aswellastocorrect what MacSpeech Dictate typed.
Therearethustwowaystomodifytheexistingdictatedcontentof adocument:
youcanuseDictationmodecommands,oryoucanusetheRecognitionwindow
totrainthevoicemodel.However,thereisabigdifferencebetweenthem:
modifying the doCument.WhenyouuseaDictationmodecommandto
selectanddeleteaphrase,ortoselectanddictatetoreplaceaphrase,andso
forth,youareimplyingthatyoumadeamistake.
training the voiCe modeL.WhenyouusetheRecognitionwindowtotrain
thevoicemodel,youareimplyingthatMacSpeech Dictatemadeamistake;it
misrecognizedyourspeech,ordidn’tknowawordyouused.Usetraining,in
otherwords,toteachMacSpeechDictateandtoimproveitsaccuracyinrecog-
nizingyourspeechandthekindsof thingsyousay.
TheRecognitionwindow,afterdictating
WitheverythingbonedryCOMMA .
Thesecondalternativeiscorrect,sothe
nextstepwouldbetosay Pick2 (orclick
the2button).