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152e Cache and the Golden RuleMacSpeech Dictate 1.5
analterationinthedocumentwherevocalcommandsjustwon’tdo.That’sno
crime;simplyrememberthatafterwardsyoushouldissuea“Cache”command.
Forexample,sometimeswhenusingtheRecognitionwindowtotrainthevoice
modelandemendsometextyou’vealreadydictated,MacSpeechDictatemight
becomeconfusedandgetthespacingorcapitalizationwrong,sothatyoumustuse
themouseandkeyboardtoxthedocument.Evenmoredramatic,supposeyou
tellMacSpeechDictatetoselectalargeswatchof text,andthenyournextspoken
commandismisinterpretedasdictationandthewholeselectedpassageisacci-
dentallyreplaced!Clearly,thisisnotimetobeworryingabouttheGoldenRule;
justpressCommand-Z(Edit>Undo)andxthedocument.Afterwards,though,
toresumedictating,you’llwanttoissuea“Cache”commandsothatMacSpeech
Dictatecanonceagain“see”thedocumentcontentscorrectly.
Purge
ToemptyMacSpeechDictate’scachecompletelyiscalledpurging the cache:
• Whenyousay PurgeCache ,it’slikedoingjustthersthalf of a Cache
Document command:MacSpeechDictateforgetswhatitenteredinthis
document,anddoesn’treadthedocument.Itjustassumes the document is
empty.
Consider,forexample,adialogconsistingof twotextelds.Youdictatetextinto
thersttexteld,thentabtothesecondtexteldanddictatetextthere.Mac-
SpeechDictatecan’t“see”thattherearetwotextelds;initscache,itconsiders
thersttextandthesecondtexttobepartof onecontinuousstretchof text.This
isgoingtoleadtonavigationerrors!Thesolutionis:Asyoustarttoworkonthe
secondtexteld,say PurgeCache .NowMacSpeechforgetswhatitdidinthe
rsttexteldandtreatsthesecondtexteldasanewemptyworld.