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How do you manage your custom commands?
Submitted by Matt Chambers on Sat, 05/26/2007 - 01:40.
This week, I moved from Windows 2000 and Office 2000 to Windows XP and Office 2003 (in both cases using NaturallySpeaking Professional 9.5).
I've needed to update many of my macros as a result.
I am temporarily not able to use SayWhatPro (long story), so I've been struggling with the native Command Browser. I'm curious how other folks survive without SayWhatPro, given that it is so hard to search through your commands, or even to find a particular command.
Do you struggle with the Browser? Or use SayWhatPro? Or export your commands to xml format and edit with an xml editor?
I really don't have too much
I really don't have too much trouble with the DNS command browser. For native DNS commands, I find it useful to use the refine button to view all possible variations of a command.
To help me remember all of my custom commands, I have created some pop-up dialog boxes with a list of my commands. I styled them to be similar to the DNS "What Can I Say" pop-up boxes and use application specific "What are my commands" macro to trigger them.
Here is one for my custom Word commands (Click run):
http://dsteineuro.page.googlepages.com/Word_DNSFor...
Here is one I made for the phonetic alphabet:
http://dsteineuro.page.googlepages.com/PhoneticAlp...
To run the .hta from DNS, use the following code:
Sub Main
AppBringUp "C:\Documents and Settings\DAS\My Documents\Macro Shortcuts\DNS\Word_DNSFormat.hta"
End Sub
Matt, I have only been using
Matt,
I have only been using Dragon (9.5 Pro) for a few months now, and I understand what you mean. Although I am very impressed with Dragon overall, one of the things I do struggle with is the Command Browser. When I say commands incorrectly, I really want a quick way to bring up the Command Browser and have it tell me what I should have said. So two commands I'd really like to see are:
* A command that opens the Command Browser immediately displaying the commands for the current application or window (whatever it happens to be).
* For when I say the wrong phrase for a command, I'd like to be able to say something like "show me the commands that sound like what I just said" and have the Command Browser pop-up filtered to similar-sounding commands.
Perhaps there's a way to write scripts to do this, but I'm not good enough at it yet. (I'm reading Larry Allen's book on scripting, which is very informative.)
I may check out SayWhatPro.
-Russ
You could create an
You could create an Advanced-Scripting global listing command that would open the Command Browser, switch to the Script menu, switch to the Grammar menu and select the appropriate application. This command is included in KnowBrainer 2006 and would save you reinventing the proverbial wheel.
KnowBrainer Support Staff - Lunis Orcutt
Dictated with DNS 9, KnowBrainer and UniVoice
My problem with the Command
My problem with the Command Browser is a little different. It's the difficulty in editing commands that I find so annoying. I need to revise many commands to address updated programs and file locations. With SayWhatPro, I could do this easily. Not so with the Command Browser.
I've been exporting my command file to an xml and searching thru that to find what I need to change, then using the Browser to make the actual edits, but it is tedious.
The difficulty of using the
The difficulty of using the native Command Browser is one of the major reasons I switched to Vocola. My Emacs search and replace works great with Vocola files...