I want to import a list of the NATO alphabet so that I can quickly tell Dragon to quickly spell a single letter. 

Does somebody have a vocabulary list that has the NATO alphabet pronunciations and the "printed form" of the actual alphabet that I can import all at once so that I don't have to sit there adding "A" with the spoken form "alpha", "B" with the spoken form "Bravo"... for the entire alphabet? 

Thanks

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The NATO/Military alphabet is built into Dragon.

"press alpha" or "type alpha"
"press bravo" or "type bravo"
etc.

If you want to avoid having to say "press" or "type" before each letter, use the "Spelling Window." (You may need to change a setting in "Tools" > "Options" to use this technique.)

"spell alpha delta zulu zulu" ... "press Enter" or "OK" (or "click OK", depending on your Dragon settings).

I do want to avoid saying "press", hence why I was thinking of adding them as vocabulary words with alternate spellings.

The spelling window is not available to me in most of my applications where want to use it, so that's not the solution I'm looking for.



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Dragon Professional Individual v15.6. Windows 10. Knowbrainer 2017.

Can you use "Spell Mode On"/"Spell Mode Off"? If so, you can use the NATO alphabet without importing it into the vocabulary.

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This one is probably already included in KB, but for those who don't have it I attached the following DVC command:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Strangely enough "Sierra" is consistently recognized as "Shara" on my system. Therefore  you may want to use that instead.

I've been using "Shangri-La" for years :-). 

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I call this command "El <dictation>":

Sub Main

Dim words() As String' dimension a string array

Dim k As Integer

Dim result As String

 

result = ""

words = Split(ListVar1," ")

For k = 0 To UBound(words)

result = result & Left(words(k), 1)

Next

SendKeys result

End Sub

now you don't have to worry about any special alphabet (although, if you use the trigger "El" you might need to add it as a custom word - try "L <dictation>").

Try uttering "el the quick brown fox" - on my machine the resulting output of letters is virtually instantaneous running as a KnowBrainer command (I could find no documentation for the Split command and Dragon®).

Try uttering "el the quick numeral 1 brown fox": tq1bf

Try uttering "el the quick cap brown fox": tqBf

Try uttering "el the quick caps on brown fox jumped": tqBFJ

Acronym <dictation>

Sub Main
 Dim words() As String' dimension a string array 
 Dim k As Integer
 Dim result As String

   result = ""
 words = Split(ListVar1," ")
 For k = 0 To UBound(words)
  result = result & UCase(Left(words(k), 1))
 Next
 SendKeys result
End Sub

Try uttering "acronym the quick brown fox"

Try uttering "acronym the quick numeral 1 brown fox"

 

 

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Personally, I find it difficult to understand why literally everyone responding to this thread doesn't actually read the question, but goes on providing alleged solutions no one has asked for.

Quite clearly, the OP asked for a vocabulary solution, when everyone keeps responding by offering command solutions.

Is this really just an attention span problem, or what else is going on around here?

To the OP:

That particular set of vocabulary probably doesn't exist, so you would have to roll your own. Whether or not such a type of vocabulary would be useful or not, practically, would be up for grabs. I would suggest starting with a small set, containing such common words as "Mike", for instance.

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I thought Alan mentioned that these NATO phonetics are "built-in" already.

 

In fact they are built even right into my "monkey Dragon".  We don't have "press" or "type".  But if I say "spell out alpha bravo charlie" in "Dragon Medical Embedded" - out comes "abc" ...

 

Of course, to avoid saying "press/type/spell out", then words like "uniform" in spoken form would always come out as "u", which I personally cannot wrap my head around (more than "attention span" I think) because words like "uniform" are in common usage. 

If OP really wishes to go the shortest route (after she clarified following Alan's post), perhaps she is better off adopting a "non-NATO" set of custom alphabets by training words such as "U-Boat" to stand in for "u".

AX, no amount of trying to be funny could disguise the fact that you are completely missing the point, but rather contributing to the assumption of "short attention span" being a major problem around here. Unless you are here to BS me.

The OP quite clearly stated that he doesn't want any sort of "spell" command approach. The solution you are offering has been around since early after World War II. Do your homework, and consider coming back at me for when you are more witty than that.

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When the NATO alphabet was dropped, we tried all sorts of vocabulary solutions. None of them worked. The suggestions above ("spell..." or Lunis's neat command) are the way to go.

Just to show that we did put in time: we created a list with written/spoken forms for the whole alphabet, including variations (German has a few), set the properties to "no space before" resp. "no space after" and tested the hell out of it. Half of the time, the actual word would be given preference over the letter; with the rest, Dragon never got the spacing quite right. Had it worked, we would have sold it. Since it didn't, we advise users to either type the odd name, or use the "Spell..." command.

Hope that helps, Stephan

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Stephan,

This is pretty much what I would have expected and why my advice had meant to try it, but not to do it all at once but rather start with a few items before investing too much time and effort in it.

It goes to show once again that it is really difficult to beat a Dragon over the head, as Chuck used to say. And how in the world is Dragon to know whether it is "Mike" as in "Mike Pompeo", or "Mike" as in "M".

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