Re: How to get Dragon to Insert the Word for a Punctuation Mark?
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Dani’s question has started me doing something I should have done long ago, that being, learn more about Dragon itself. So I’ve used the example of “comma full” to place a comma, and also trained the command “singoo” for the same purpose. My first tests showed that none of this worked, until I thought of a principle: these are commands. They have to be dictated like commands, with appropriate pauses, not as part of a string of text. When I dictated thus, the word “comma” was placed in my document. Now, unfortunately, since “commafull was treated as a command, no space was inserted before the next word as there ordinarily would have been, so when I said, “I need to insert a [pause] commafull into my document, the result was “acomma” run together. ? Obviously, more has to be done here. I haven’t begun to experiment with Word’s own AutoText , or better yet, AutoCorrect, feature, to see if that can be used for better results. The goal would be to be able to dictate smoothly and have “commafull” seamlessly replaced by “comma.” ? Note that I’m using Dragon 15.3, and I don’t know if any improvements have been made to the software in 15.6 or 16.0, neither of which I can afford at present. ? Encouraging and thought-provoking reading https://bahaiteachings.org ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dani Pagador via groups.io
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2024 7:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [J-Say] How to get Dragon to Insert the Word for a Punctuation Mark?? Hi, Brian.
I tried adding a custom command the way that you suggested and made sure to follow the directions as you gave them. The commands that I created do not work. I made sure that my profile was loaded and that the microphone is on. When I say "comma full", nothing happens. When I say "comma" the punctuation mark is inserted. The same thing happens with the "period full" command.
Just to experiment I tried the "Train" option under the Advanced section of the Commands editor. I got the same result. What should I try next?
Thanks,
Dani ? Whichever way you tackle this using native Dragon techniques, you are going to encounter some difficulties. So I would suggest: ? 1. Say, Add New Command. 2. Into the first edit field, give the command a name, such as, Comma Full or Period Full. 3. Tab several times to reach the edit field for entering text. 4. Type, comma or period. 5. Tab to the plain text check box and check it. 6. Tab to Save and press Space. 7. Into your document, say the term you entered, such as, comma full, and the word will be spelled out. ? Brian Hartgen Hartgen Consultancy. Our usual opening Hours are 9 AM to 5 PM UK time, Monday to Friday. ? Telephone (in the UK) 02921-051325. Telephone (in the United States of America) 239-256-7779. ? ? Hi, Everyone.
How do I get Dragon to understand that I want to insert the literal word for a punctuation mark e.g., period instead of "." Instead of "Write period after the symbol." I get "Write . after the symbol."
I have to go into Spell Mode and phonetically spell out the word. The document I'm creating has a lot of occurrences of "period", "comma", etc, and I'm not looking forward to having to do phonetic spelling for all of them.
Thanks,
Dani?
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