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22 MacSpeech DictateChapter 5 — Dictation
Adding New Words
If you are using MacSpeech Dictate’s Note Pad, you can add
new words using Train Vocabulary from Selection. Here’s
how:
1. Make a selection in a MacSpeech Dictate Note
Pad document that contains the word or words
you want to add.
2. Select “Train Vocabulary from Selection…” from
the Tools menu.
3. You may not want MacSpeech Dictate to learn all
the unknown words. 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5-4(withadifferent
list of words, of course).
Figure 5-4
6. To move an excluded word back to the included
list, highlight it in the right column and then click
the“Include”button.Whenyouaresatisedwith
choices,clicktherightarrowtonish
(Figure 5-5).
Figure 5-5
7.Whennished,MacSpeechDictatewilldisplaya
screen informing you the words have been added
to your vocabulary. Click the “Close” button or the
red close window button to dismiss this window.
Note Train Vocabulary from Selection only works in
MacSpeech Dictate’s Note Pad. It will not work within other
applications.
Sleep Mode
If you are interrupted while using MacSpeech Dictate, the
program can be put to sleep. In sleep mode the microphone
is still active, but it will only respond to commands intended
to wake it up.
Sleep mode is useful for short interruptions such as
phone calls or taking a break. Sleep mode is activated by
saying Go To Sleep. To wake up MacSpeech Dictate and
return to the mode you were last in, say Wake Up. When
MacSpeech Dictate is asleep, the Status window will look like
Figure 5-6:
Figure 5-6
If you will be away from the computer for an extended period
of time, use the Turn Microphone Off command instead.
This insures MacSpeech Dictate can’t accidentally interpret
room noise or speech from a conversation as a Wake Up
command.