[MV] DNS on MacBookPro

[Joseph Senecal]

On Feb 19, 2007, at 2:39 PM, <vlmaples at bellsouth.net>  
<vlmaples at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I still use iListen in my Mac applications for simple tasks that  
> are repetitive, but the fact that it will not acknowledge my last  
> name correctly nor any of the medical terms I use, it is easier to  
> work in Parallels for lengthy, or medical documents.

Just a note that sometimes you need to use the phonetic editor to get  
iListen to recognize words as you say them. For example, my last  
name. Not being a master of the phonetic alphabet (and being too lazy  
to look it up each time I need it), I just enter words that have the  
sounds I want into the "What I say" panel, create phonemes for that,  
then delete extra phonemes (which are usually easy to spot).
For example, for my name I enter something like "send sick coal",  
create the phonemes ("s e n d s I k k O l"), then remove the extra  
phonemes for everything other than "sen i coal" (s e n I k O l)  
before adding the word.

Most of the time you don't need to do this, but if iListen persists  
in not recognizing a word, it can be worth checking to see what  
phonemes it's expecting for a word using the "What you Say" panel.  
Even if you've already added the word, you can add it again with a  
different phonetic to improve recognition.

Joe Senecal