Adding Words with Vocabulary Builder
For most cases, use the hidden vocbldr.exe file in the Programs directory for NaturallySpeaking instead of the “Add Words from Documents” or the automatic vocabulary optimizer. Just execute it. Why?
- First, the “Add Words from Documents” does not give you detailed control. Words are your product -- you need to choose them, particularly the “words” that are unusual enough that NaturallySpeaking doesn't know them at all. It presumes that all lower-case words not in the DNS dictionaries are typos so does not add them.
- Second, you need to pick what files are representative of your writing. The Vocabulary Optimizer options are fine if My Documents contains primarily documents that are YOUR work product or language similar to what you user, and you don't have substantial documents elsewhere.
- Third,
vocbldr.exe gives information about new words such as frequency of use. If something shows up as being used only once and you don't know if it is spelled correctly, you can choose not to add it.
- Fourth, with
vocbldr.exe you can add spoken forms to the acronyms and unusual words as part of the vocabulary-building process.
- Fifth, we don't like to change :-) Vocabulary Buildertm was important enough to Dragon Systems to trademark back in 1997. It is still important today. It may take longer to use
vocbldr.exe, but you will save time in the long run with better accuracy.
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