[MV] Training words

[Chuck Rogers]

Some words - no matter how hard you try - just can't be trained. The 5K limit per message on the list does not allow me adequate length to explain why, but it has to do with probabilities. In short, the more "convinced" the speech engine is that the morphemes and phonemes speak belong to a certain word, the less likely it will allow that pronunciation to be associated with a different word. (That's way watered down, btw.)

What you can do instead is this: create a text macro with just one word: "Anyse." Title the text macro "type my name." Now, when you get to point in your dictation, pause briefly and say "type my name," then pause briefly again before continuing to dictate.

This same technique will work for any word which one is having trouble getting the speech engine to recognize. Just substitute a phrase you will remember for "type my name."


On Apr 17, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Anyse Joslin wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> No matter how hard I try, I can't train DD to automatically recognize my name! My name is Anyse with the stress on the last syllable. When I try to get DD to recognize my name, even though I have edited and recorded my name in it to teach it, I still get things like "a Nice" and stuff like that, even though I tell it that it is "uh niece" along with my written name in the teaching part. I teach phonology and I know the difference between the long "a" and the shwa! However, DD can't recognize this at all when it comes to my name. So, I may have to resort to some fantabulous Russian or Thai word to make this work for me. Any ideas?
> 
> Thank you.
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