Vocabulary Editor dialog box

Tools>Vocabulary Center>Open Vocabulary Editor

Use this dialog box to manage your vocabulary. Dragon uses these words when you dictate. Adding words and phrases to your vocabulary that you might dictate, such as street names and family member names, helps Dragon to transcribe your text more accurately. It also reduces the need to make corrections later.

You should personalize your vocabulary to ensure Dragon transcribes words with your preferred spelling, capitalization, and formatting.

Dragon can't transcribe words that aren't in its vocabulary.

Option

Description

Search for:

Use to search Dragon's vocabulary. You can search for any of the following:

  • Words
  • Phrases
  • Symbols
  • Punctuation
  • Pronunciation
  • Dictation command

Written form

Word, phrase, symbol, or command that Dragon writes when you dictate.

Icons that might appear:

  • Red plus sign (custom word icon)— A custom word. Dragon might have added the word through the Spelling Window or Learn from specific documents.
  • Green arrow (moved word icon)— Dragon moved the word or phrase from the Backup Dictionary to your Active Vocabulary automatically. For more information, see About your Active Vocabulary and the Backup Dictionary and the Automatically add words to the Vocabulary option on the Options dialog box—Correction page.
  • Blue letter P (properties icon)— The properties for this word or phrase have been changed from the default properties.

Spoken form

Pronunciation of the word, phrase, or command. Dragon uses this to recognize your spoken words and phrases. You specify the spoken form to:

  • Provide pronunciations for words that Dragon might not understand easily. For example, for the name Hsueh-tze, you could specify spoken form "shoo tsee".
  • Expand acronyms that might use in your dictation. For example, for the term Explanation of Benefits, you could specify spoken form "EOB".
  • Allow Dragon to recognize abbreviated words in your dictation. For example, if you frequently use the name "Victor Zezgcinskevic", you could provide spoken form "victor zee".
  • Allow Dragon to recognize jargon. For example, for the term "interrogations", you could specify spoken form "rogs".

Note: Dictation commands have only spoken forms.

Do the following for letters and numbers:

Word Written form Spoken form
Initials spoken without periods, such as "JFK" JFK None
Repeated letters, such as AAA AAA triple A
Words with letters and numbers, such as A340 A340 A three forty

Words with punctuation

Trenton-Mercer Airport

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Soddy-Daisy, TN

Trenton Mercer Airport

the man from uncle

Soddy Daisy Tennessee

Display

Search criteria that Dragon uses when searching your vocabulary.

The options are:

  • All words—All the words in the Active Vocabulary.
  • Custom words only—Only entries that have been added to the vocabulary.
  • Words with spoken forms only—Only entries whose Spoken form differs from the Written form.
  • Words with formatting properties only—Only entries with non-default properties in terms of spacing, capitalization, and so on.
  • Words containing spaces—Only entries containing spaces. For example, "New Line Cinema".
  • Words with custom properties only—Words where you have changed the default settings in the Word Properties dialog box.
  • Words containing digits—Only entries containing digits. For example, "B12".
  • Words containing punctuation—Only entries containing punctuation. For example, "X-ray".
  • Words containing capital letters—Only entries containing capital letters. For example, "Oberlin".
  • Temporary words—Entries temporarily added to the Active Vocabulary, such as when you reply to or forward a message while you are dictating in Microsoft Outlook. Dragon finds new words from the original email and adds them as temporary words to the Active Vocabulary. Then, if you send an email using any temporary words, Dragon adds them as regular words.
  • Words moved from Backup Dictionary—Only entries moved from the backup dictionary to the Active Vocabulary.
  • Deleted words only—Only entries deleted from the Active Vocabulary.
  • Searching results

Add

Click to add a new word, phrase, symbol, or punctuation to your vocabulary.

I want to train the pronunciation of this word or phrase

Appears in the Add word or phrase dialog box.

If selected, opens the Train Words dialog box, where you can speak the word or phrase to provide Dragon with the pronunciation.

If deselected, you can later train Dragon using the Train button.

Delete

Click to delete a word or phrase from your vocabulary.

For information on restoring deleted words, see Working with vocabularies.

Train

Click to record a verbal pronunciation of your word or phrase to train Dragon.

Properties

Click to view and change properties for your word or phrase.

For more information, see Word Properties dialog box.

 

Related procedures

Additional information

Adding words and phrases to your vocabulary About adding words and phrases to your vocabulary
Working with vocabularies  

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