I am having a problem with DNS v. 9.5 capitalizing the first letter of the first word of any utterance that I try to interject into the middle of a sentence.

To prevent this from happening, I must repeatedly preface a new utterance with the command "No Caps" to keep the next letter from being capitalized, whenever I have moved the cursor to a new spot.

A "new" utterance, in this case, is any word that I dictate after a key-stroke or screen-flip or whatever activity I do that disrupts the flow of verbal input.

I can pause for any length of time between utterances, without the inappropriate capitalization occurring on the first letter of the next word, once I resumed dictating, as long as I to do anything with a keyboard or mouse.

This is happening regardless of whether I have started DNS before any other apps or not and regardless of how many times I load/run the program.

Interestingly, this is happening only with Vista as my at-home OS, whereas it is not a problem with 9.5 on XP at work, running DNS v. 9.5 but with a different user file there.

I have searched the SC/WSMC forum for a fix for this specific situation, and have not been able to find one as yet.

Thanks for any suggestions.

MarkO

PS: a small and unrelated tip that I use, to shorten those pauses that sometimes occur while DNS is processing a long utterance, I just hit the Shift key once, and it seems to prompt DNS to start entering the text into the document, without any apparent decrease in recognition/accuracy.

This may work with other keys as well, but I just happen to use the Shift key, since it does not add any characters into the string of text being entered.

Interestingly, hitting the shift key has no effect on the capitalization problem noted above.

Thanks again.