How to fix custom punctuation gone wrong?
Now that I'm running Dragon 9.5 on a Macbook with Boot Camp, I've of course had to create a new user. And this has involved creating new custom punctuation, etc. I've run into a problem with curly quotes--as before, I set these up with the spoken forms "left quote" and "right quote", but somehow Dragon has become quite unruly: it persists in printing out the actual words rather than the quote symbols I want. When I go to correct, I'm often shown the quote symbols; but choosing them doesn't seem to be helping Dragon to learn what I want. I've tried deleting and re-creating curly quotes as custom words, but this hasn't helped either.
My assumption--and of course I could be wrong--is that somehow I trained Dragon incorrectly, and it can't get that incorrect training out of its head. I'm flummoxed, because as I say, I never had a problem like this with my previous user on my old setup. And given that my equipment is now upgraded, I would've expected better performance here, not worse.
What can I do here? Do I need to create a whole new user--start all over again?
Do you still have your old
Do you still have your old vocabulary? If you do, you might try importing it.
If you don't, you might try starting with the new vocabulary, rather than a new user.
Randy Burgess wrote: Now
Now that I'm running Dragon 9.5 on a Macbook with Boot Camp, I've of course had to create a new user. And this has involved creating new custom punctuation, etc. I've run into a problem with curly quotes--as before, I set these up with the spoken forms "left quote" and "right quote", but somehow Dragon has become quite unruly: it persists in printing out the actual words rather than the quote symbols I want.
Try inserting the curly quote. Highlight it and say, "Make that a shortcut."
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Matt’s suggestion to
Matt’s suggestion to export and import your
vocabulary, via the Manage Vocabularies menu, will only work if you're using
one of the professional versions of NaturallySpeaking. You cannot preserve specialized vocabulary
settings when using the Words/Export menu which is your only option in DNS
Preferred.
Marty’s “make that a shortcut” command
recommendation would work but unfortunately it would require you to pause
before and after deploying it (twice to surround a word or phrase) which isn't
ideally user-friendly from a dictation point of view.
Have you tried the following Graham Henry
recommendation from our Quick Tips
You can add the ANSI characters
for left/right double quote to your Vocabulary (Smart Quotes in Microsoft
Word, IE6/7, DragonPad and WordPerfect).
1. Say “Edit Vocabulary” or go to Words|View/Edit and with the cursor in the
Written Form hold down the Alt key and on the NUMERIC KEYPAD type 0147(for Left double quote). Add
a suitable phrase for the Spoken Form like “Left Quote”.
2. Click the Properties button and select “Keeps capitalization and has no
following space”.
3. Repeat for Right double quote - Alt + 0148 and with Properties as “Keeps
capitalization and has no preceding space”.
4. 0146 = Right Single Quote ’
If nothing else works, you could create an
Advanced-Scripting command that would replace all quotes with curly quotes.
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Lunis
Lunis wrote:
Marty’s “make that a shortcut” command recommendation
would work but unfortunately it would require you to pause
before and after deploying it (twice to surround a word
or phrase) which isn't ideally user-friendly from a
dictation point of view.
Oops, my bad. Pausing for a quarter of a second is not user friendly. Thanks for pointing that out No Brainer.
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Martin Markoe, eMicrophones, Inc.
The best microphones for Speech Recognition
Read, "Key Steps to High Speech Recognition Accuracy"
Play nice...
Let's not start a flame war on here. I expect you two to play nice.
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