Hi folks,

Here's one for you; I'm going to be working with my recorder and I tend to use some utterances that I can't seem to get Dragon to understand. I used to be "add a new phrase or word" option and several attempts but it was still no cigar.

Sometimes while I'm trying to find my thoughts and I'm dictating to a recorder I tend to say, "uhmm", or, "ahhh". Because Dragon doesn't understand those utterances it puts words in its place to the best of its ability. Later on, when I'm transcribing I would find myself trying to remember what it was that I said there before I realized that it was just a "thinking hesitation".

Now what I tried to do was include the "comma" before and after the utterance and then when it asked for a spoken form of the utterance I had a little problem there.

This is what I put in the spelled form and the spoken form: Spelled: ",uhmm," Spoken: uhm. And the other was; Spelled: ",ahhh," Spoken: ah. That is without the quotations of course. I also tried it without the comma's. Any suggestions?

I used the following sentence to test if it would work: "Today, I was going down the street when I,uhm, found out that there was,ahhh, something about the Tommy."

Dragon would place "am" where "uhmm" was supposed to go and most of the time it ignored "ahhh" altogether.

Rich

PS Yes, it's me again. This new 'recorder in the field' thing is bringing a few questions with it.