NUANCE DRAGON MEDICAL - VERSION 10, User Manual

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Correcting and Editing
hen Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Medical types
the wrong words, you should correct these mistakes. By
giving the program the right word, you actually teach the
program not to make the same mistakes again.
Correcting mistakes requires some extra effort, but it saves you
time in the long run by making Dragon more accurate. You’ll
probably need to correct mistakes often when you first start
dictating, and then less frequently as the program learns from
your corrections.
Make it a habit to correct mistakes to continue to improve the
accuracy of the program. Make sure you save your speech files
when prompted, to preserve the adjustments the program
makes.
You must select a word before typing over it. Using the backspace
key and retyping (or saying “Scratch That”) will not enable the software
to learn from corrections and improve recognition accuracy. For
accuracy to improve, you must first select text and then correct it or
overwrite it with the words you said.
Correcting mistakes
There are a number of ways you can correct the
misrecognitions in a document. The following techniques
describe the most basic methods, but you can combine these
techniques in any manner that suits your working style.
To correct text with the keyboard:
1 Move the insertion point to the beginning of the dictation you
want to correct.
2 Press the correction hot key to display the Correction menu.
By default, this is the minus (–) key on the numeric keypad.
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