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15 MacSpeech DictateChapter 4 — Training
Vocabulary Training
Besides analyzing your voice, MacSpeech Dictate can
analyze documents you have written. It will learn new words
and adjust itself to your speech patterns. To do this, you
choose one or more documents for Vocabulary Training to
evaluate, select which words you want the program to learn,
and then save the results.
Here’s how to have MacSpeech Dictate analyze documents:
1. Choose “Vocabulary Training…” from the Tools
menu. The Introduction screen appears. Read it,
then click the right arrow button.
2.TheSelectlesscreenappears.ClicktheAdd
Filesbutton.An“openles”dialogboxwill
appear.
3. Choose one or more plain text or Rich Text (rtf)
lesthatcontainsamplesofyourwritingstyle.
Whenyouhaveselectedoneormoreles,click
the Open button. The Vocabulary Training window
should now look something like Figure 4-5.
Figure 4-5
4. Click the Analyze button. After a short wait (de-
pendingonhowmanylesyouareanalyzing),
the Unknown Words screen will appear.
5. Some of the the Unknown Words will be those
you won’t want MacSpeech Dictate to learn. For
example, there might be proper names that are
not a usual part of your writing, or abbreviations
or parts of URLs. Highlight the words you do
not want to add, then click the “Exclude” button.
The Vocabulary Training window should look
somethingsimilartogure4-6(withadifferentlist
of words, of course).
Figure 4-6
6. To move a word you excluded back to the included
list, highlight it in the right column and then click
the “Include”button.Whenyouaresatised
with your choices, click the right arrow to have
MacSpeechDictateanalyzeyourles(gure4-7).
Figure 4-7