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Dragon NS8: is it possible to add Correction Window to the mouse context menu?
Submitted by snsok on Wed, 11/23/2005 - 15:42.
NS8.1 Preferred on a WinXP machine, Word 2002.
Is it possible to add a menu point to the right mouse button that will open the correction window with the mouse? I like to do my corrections with keyboard/mouse (and this laptop doesn't have a dedicated number keypad).
I would mainly need this for use in MS Word but I would like to have it in Outlook, so I guess doing it with some sort of Word macro isn't a solution.
For several reasons, I had to remove Vocola from my system, so I can't use that as a solution either (if there happened to be a way to do it with Vocola).
Stan
If you go to
If you go to NaturallySpeaking options you can re-assign the key which brings up the correction box to a different key.
snsok wrote:NS8.1 Preferred
NS8.1 Preferred on a WinXP machine, Word 2002.
Is it possible to add a menu point to the right mouse button that will open the correction window with the mouse? I like to do my corrections with keyboard/mouse (and this laptop doesn't have a dedicated number keypad).
I would mainly need this for use in MS Word but I would like to have it in Outlook, so I guess doing it with some sort of Word macro isn't a solution.
For several reasons, I had to remove Vocola from my system, so I can't use that as a solution either (if there happened to be a way to do it with Vocola).
Stan
Stan,
There are many ways to skin a cat. However, I would need to know why exactly you want to use the mouse vs. the built in voice commands. Seems to me like you are wanting to reinvent the wheel.
Have you tried setting the option to Double Click to correct in the Options dialog, Correction tab? This is how a transcriptionist would do it if they were not working with a voice file.
Otherwise, please explain more clearly what you want to do. Then I can give you a better response. The way you have explained it, it is not clear.
Chuck
Chuck, A couple of reasons.
Chuck,
A couple of reasons. First, I started using speech reco simply as a way to work faster. Along the way, I have developed an vocal cord RSI and after a session of dictating, I just like to be quiet. (Yes, I have tried all the remedies for voice strain and only one--being quiet--works very well). That's why I like to use the keyboard and mouse to correct.
I tried the double-click-to-correct-option but I find it a pain that the correction window opens anytime you select text for other reasons with a double-click.
So, what I want to be able to do is position the mouse cursor over a word, right-click and have "Open Correction Window" (or something like that) appear on the mouse context menu.
ViaVoice was able to do this. Right-clicking a dictated word brings up the mouse context menu, and one of the selections is "show correction window."
Hilary, I don't see a way to assign Correction Window to the right-mouse-button. Besides, I don't want the right-mouse button to be exclusively reserved for the correction window.
Thanks, Stan
DNS only allows for "Double
DNS only allows for "Double Click", while something like "Control plus Right Click" might be useful to you.
A more feasible possibility is that once you have selected text to correct, say with the mouse, you can press "numkey-" to bring up the Correction Window. As Hiliary suggested, you can change this key assignment by bringing up "Tools | Options | Hotkeys". However, it seems that you know and reject this possibility because you are thinking of selecting and correcting a single word with a single button click to minimize physical effort.
You're asking a straightforward question, but I'm going to suggest the situation might be more complicated!
Even if you could add the "Correction Window" as an option to RightClick, it would still take a second stroke to select that option from the menu. So actually, it seems to me that the "numkey-" option is just as efficient as the solution you propose -- unless RightClick could be given the sole meaning of "bring up the Correction Window" when DNS is actively running.
I'm not a programmer, but is seems to me that this trick could take a bit of work since RightClick is essentially an action with system-wide significance in Windows -- not sure if I'm saying that right, nor even if its a valid point.
There may be a more fundamental problem with the proposed program of selecting and correcting a single word -- viz., single word correction!
Single word correction is not recommended unless its a longer, distinctive word. Instead, for the frequently misrecognized smaller words, Chuck Runquist recommends what I call "correcting in context": Select a phrase containing the misrecognized small word and correct that. In effect (but not literally), the phrase is learned as a unit.
Note that if the phrase is something that literally occurs a lot in your dictation, you could nail its recognition by entering it as a new word/phrase in the vocabulary. But often this is not the case, so the correction in context method is more efficient.
Sorry for pointing out this relatively simple issue is more complex than it initially seems!
Bruce
Stan, You should have
Stan,
You should have stuck with ViaVoice.
It does exactly what you want, and you can leave the Correction Window open all the time, which is what I do, and I use the mouse for corrections.
It would appear that DNS does not have this facility, as I tried it in DNS 7 Preferred.
Quentin
Bruce, As I mentioned above,
Bruce,
As I mentioned above, the laptop I am working on doesn't have a -numkey. (That's what I use on my desktop.)
All,
On my other desktop, I use a Philips Speechmike. Because it has programmable buttons, I was able to assign a button to open the correction window (it mimics a keyboard combination). That worked so well that I decided to try to make my regular mouse attached to my docked laptop able to access the correction window.
Before I spend time trying to do this, does anyone know if a it's possible to create a Word macro that opens the Correction Window? If I could do that, I could assign the macro to the mouse shortcut menu, and at least I could have this functionality in Word.
Quentin,
I have to confess to you that for me, DNS works better than VV. The accuracy is better and "active accessibility" type commands are more reliable in DNS than in VV for me. But the thing I like best about DNS is the better correction functionality. I find that having the window allow you to train the word you want and the word you got at the same time makes a huge difference in subsequent recognition.
So, I find I use VV less and DNS more these days.
Stan
snsok wrote:Bruce, As I
Bruce,
As I mentioned above, the laptop I am working on doesn't have a -numkey. (That's what I use on my desktop.)
Stan
I think that's why Hiliary suggested re-assigning it to another key combo -- maybe an odd-ball shift-key plus function key combo, or maybe the opening quote under the tilde key, or whatever might available to you.
It may be possible to do a Word macro to activate a DNS function, but its beyond me.
The reason why the SpeechMike can do this is because it essentially has a keystroke macro facility built in. That would suggest looking for a pointing device with similar capabilities (I don't know of any off hand, but I haven't looked either), or using a third-party keystroke macro that might be able to assign key combos to mouse clicks. Again, I just don't know if this is possible. Here's one macro program that offers a free trial:
http://www.tethyssolutions.com/product.htm
Good luck!
Bruce
Could you reassign it to the
Could you reassign it to the F12 key or is that already being used?
I could reassign the key.
I could reassign the key. But my goal was to have the ability to manipulate the correction box with the mouse.
Thanks, Stan