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1 0 Improving Accuracy
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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Type the new spoken form into the Spoken Form box. Make sure you type it
exactly as is it pronounced.
4
(optional) Make any changes, such as punctuation or capitalization, to the
Written Form box.
5
Click Add. This adds the word with your changes.
If the word was already in the active vocabulary before you edited it, you should
then delete the original word.
Creating a spoken form can be useful in automating some words or phrases that you
dictate frequently. For example, you can define a spoken form for a phone number
that you frequently use instead of dictating a string of numbers.
Here are some examples of words with different written and spoken forms. Look in
the Vocabulary Editor window for more examples.
To delete a custom word from your vocabulary
Normally, you do not need to delete words from the active vocabulary. If a word is
regularly confused with another one that you never use, however, you might want to
delete the word you never use.
To delete a word, select it and click Delete. (You can select multiple words by
holding down the
CTRL
key while you click. Clicking while holding the
SHIFT
key
will select consecutive words.)
Some common words (like “the”) cannot be deleted, since Dragon
NaturallySpeaking wouldn’t understand you very well without them.
W R IT T EN F O R M SPO KEN F O RM
eBusiness ee business
Daniell Daniel with two ells
Niamh Nev
CINCPAC sink pack
mdbowman@company.com my e-mail address
Robert F. Kennedy R. F. K.
Waldron, Lichtin & Foust Waldron Lichtin and Foust
(617) 965-5200 my phone number