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Re: How to get Dragon to Insert the Word for a Punctuation Mark?
开云体育This does take some experimenting, but it can be made to work. I have done so this morning on two separate occasions. ? 1. Into Dragon, say, Add New Word. 2. Into the first edit field relating to the actual word, type the word as you would like it to be spelled, such as: ? Comma ? 3. Into the spoken form edit field, type the alternative using the phrase you would like to speak, such as: ? CommaFull ? Note I have concatonated the phrase here and used appropriate capitalisation. I have not used spacing. ? 4. Activate the button to train the pronunciation of the word. Speak the term, CommaFull, quickly but clearly as one string. Do not hesitate. Many people who use Dragon do not develop a natural dictation style and tend to pause often. ? 5. Activate the Save button. ? I now have two such entries in my vocabulary: CommaFull and PeriodFull. As a consequence, I can now say, ? I would like to spell out the word CommaFull in my document. Which is now represented as: I would like to spell out the word Comma in my document. ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dean Martineau via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2024 2:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [J-Say] How to get Dragon to Insert the Word for a Punctuation Mark? ? 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 ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dani Pagador via groups.io ? Hi, Brian. ? What should I try next? ? On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 1:53?AM Brian Hartgen via <brian=[email protected]> wrote:
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