Update ViaVoice voice model by re-typing mis-recognized?

[John G]

> To: Rajpaul Bagga <rajpaul at mac.com>
> 
> Rajpaul Bagga,
> 
> You can select each word in the phrase one at a time, and there is
> more likely to be a correct suggestion in the correction window. 
> But
> if there are no suggestions and you don't want to type the whole
> thing out one letter at a time, IBM recommends simply re-dictating
> it
> more clearly.  
> 
> I'm really not sure that spelling it trains it better than simply
> dictating it again.  Powersecretary used to take spelling as a
> stronger form of training, but for ViaVoice I think you have to use
> the Train This or Manage My Vocabulary feature if you're having a
> really problematical word. 
> 
>  I talked with engineers at IBM about a related question.  The
> question I had was, how can it tell whether I am correcting a
> misrecognized phrase or typing a new phrase.  Their answer was that
> if what you type is much different phonetically from the speech
> that
> was there, it doesn't attempt to learn.  
> 
> John Glenn

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