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7. Select the Message Window to speak your new message.
If you composed this sentence without word prediction features, you would need to make 16 button
selections. With word prediction, the sentence was composed with only six selections.
Context Prediction
The word prediction feature can be enhanced with
context prediction
. When this feature is active, the
software anticipates word selections based on the grammatical structure of the sentence you are typing.
For context prediction to function efficiently, all dictionary entries must be assigned the correct part of
speech. When you receive your device, context prediction is activated as a default setting.
Flexible Abbreviation
Flexible abbreviation is a rate enhancement feature that is especially helpful for names and long phrases.
If dictionary entries are created for words, names, sentences and phrases that you use often, then those
items can be automatically predicted by this feature. When you use keyboard buttons to select letters,
the flexible abbreviation expansion feature will search the dictionary and present items that include the
given letters in the same sequence. You then can choose the predicted items instead of typing out the
rest of the word or phrase. Flexible abbreviation expansion is especially simple to use as no specifically
defined abbreviations are required. You may type abbreviations without needing to memorize one specific
abbreviation. Flexible abbreviation expansion can accelerate your communication if you include
frequently used greetings, farewells and questions in your device’s dictionary.
Try the example below (using the
50 qwerty keyboard
page) to see how the flexible abbreviation feature
works. In this example, you will use flexible abbreviation to predict the question “What TV show do you
want to watch?” This question is already programmed into the DynaVox dictionary.
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