Hints

Articles, tips, hints, and recommendations related to speech recognition. Most of these hints apply to Dragon Medical 10 as well as earlier Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical releases.

New Users, New to Speech Recognition

Software

• Which Version is Right for You?
  An informative guide to help you choose which DragonNaturallySpeaking version is best suited for your needs.
  • User Profiles
    • Medical
    • Organizations and Buying for a Group of Users
    • Data Collection
• Who Benefits Most?
  A helpful guide for speech recognition software in the enterprise environment.

Hardware

• Buying or Upgrading a Computer System (for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10)
• Microphones
• Microphone/Sound System Verification
• Sound Cards
• System, Memory Requirements

Dragon Medical Hints

Accuracy

• Accuracy Hints
• Better Accuracy Saves Time
• Expectations for Accuracy
• Hardware (related to accuracy)
• Inserting Small Words
• Little Word Errors
• Performing More Training
• Persistent Recognition Errors After Excellent Recognition
• Repeated Extraneous Words
• Troublesome Words

Backup & Recovery from SAPI Errors

• Backup basics
• Error recovery

Basics

• See also: Getting Started

Converting Documents

• Converting Large Numbers of Documents for Vocabulary Builder

Corrections

• Corrections: Use the Mouse and Keyboard!
• Correcting common mistakes in Word documents after dictation

DragonPad Formatting

• Changing Default Font for NaturallySpeaking

Enterprise and Multi-User Issues

• Phrase Lists for Multiple Users
• Skipping the "Open" Menu

Macros

• Lists useful for constructing macros (intermediate-advanced users)
• Macros Available at this site
  • Macros from Scripting for Dragon NaturallySpeaking^® 10
• Web Links to Macros

Online Assistance: Discussion Lists, Websites

• Online Assistance

Vocabulary

Vocabularies and Phrase Lists

• Converting Large Numbers of Documents for Vocabulary Builder
• Phrase Lists: Building
• Phrase Lists: Maintaining
• Phrase Lists: Maintaining a Phrase List Manually
• Phrase Lists: Using GetWords/PutWords to Maintain a Phrase List
• Special Characters: Adding Special Characters to Dragon Medical
• Special Characters: Changing Characteristics of Symbols, Words, and Phrases
• Special Characters: Unicode Characters
• Special Characters: Using the Keyboard
• Special Characters: Words with Special Characters, including Subscripts and Superscripts

Special Vocabularies and Phrase Lists

Medical

• 5, 6, and 10 Point Scale Dictation
• Medical Transcription Resources
• Spellchecker Plus Information
• Dimensional Measurements

Regional Phrases, Vocabularies

• Maricopa County and Arizona word lists (Towns, Hospitals)

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Odds and Ends

Misc. Hints

• Transcribing Interviews...sorry with one major exception for multilingual communication
• For multilingual communication with patients, see Converser™

Just for Fun

• Hitting on Computers, or What if Speech Were First?
• Dragon Medical Easter Egg

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