Is there a command like "lowercase <text>? Or "uppercase <text>"? It is referenced in the Dragon for Mac documentation (link below), but I'm on Windows (DPI 15), and those commands don't seem to be available.

https://www.nuance.com/products/help/dragon/dragon-for-mac/enx/Content/Formatting/Capitalization.htm

If there are no such commands, is there a way to write them? I only have Dragon Professional, I don't have KnowBrainer, Vocola, etc.

P.S. I realise I can say "select <text>" and then "lowercase/uppercase that", but it would be nice to have a faster workflow.

 

 

An "uppercase" implementation exists in DPI 15. It is "capitalize xyz". A lowercase equivalent doesn't exist, but you can roll your own.



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I'm afraid "capitalize <text>" isn't what I'm looking for here, because it produces title case. I'm looking for commands analogous to "uppercase that" (WHICH PRODUCES THIS) and "lowercase that" (which produces this), not "capitalize that" (Which Produces This).

I haven't been able to figure out how to create my own. I tried, using HeardWord "select", <dictation>, but of course that didn't work, because HeardWord wants every word to be a separate argument. It did work in special cases where was exactly equivalent to an existing vocabulary entry, like "Microsoft Word", but of course I would like it to work for once-off phrases as well. If you do know how to make it work, I would appreciate your suggestions.

(Edited because the angle brackets keep getting lost.)

 

It's in the free tool I'll release within the next few weeks, along with a ton of crazy stuff. I'm still adding some mad features (like an advanced regex replacement grammar...) Will work not just in Word but most editors like Notepad, the text boxes on this forum etc.

 

If you want to know about the release, the easiest is to subscribe to this thread.

In Word, you can say things like:

uppercase the previous paragraph
lowercase the next five words
uppercase the rest of this line
lowercase page 10
uppercase this sentence
lowercase the previous row
uppercase this column

 

There is also a bunch of commands that are prefixed by "initial cap," e.g., "initial cap the entire sentence."

Sub Main

Dim lowerCase As String

Dim upperCase As String

 

lowerCase = LCase (ListVar1)

MsgBox lowerCase

upperCase = UCase (ListVar1)

MsgBox upperCase

End Sub

The above is a proof of concept I call it "Test <dictation>"; I made it a global command. The next step would be to adapt to the code to your needs; I would probably create 2 new global commands:
Capitalize All <dictation>

Lowercase All <dictation>

a single command might look like:

list: "scules" with the contents:

Lowercase

Capitalize

and the command would be:
<scules> All <dictation>

Capitalize All <dictation>

would look like:

Sub Main

Dim upperCase As String

 

upperCase = " " & UCase (ListVar1) & " "

' somewhere on the forum is code for inserting smart spaces

' I didn't bother to use it in the above and if being lazy I would use:

' upperCase = UCase (ListVar1)

' and manage the leading and trailing spaces in dictation

SendKeys upperCase , 1

End Sub

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missink,

The latest KnowBrainer commands, which need to be added to KnowBrainer after you install it, include Lowercase <dictation> Uppercase <dictation> and Title Case <dictation>. Note that Dragon already includes capitalize <dictation> which is the same as the KnowBrainer Title Case <dictation> command but we created this command to follow the naming convention of the other 2 commands. Also note that the Dragon capitalize <dictation> command additionally moves the cursor back to the previous position which may be good or irrelevant, depending on your preferences. By contrast, the 3 KnowBrainer commands move your cursor back to the end of the current paragraph, on the assumption that you may not have finished dictating your paragraph. If you wish to copy the KnowBrainer Uppercase <dictation> command see the following script which was copied out of KnowBrainer and can easily be copied and edited to create a Lowercase <dictation> command or of course you could just get KnowBrainer 2017 which includes thousands of commands (that Dragon customers often request) and 400 artificial intelligence-like commands, such as the following, which kicks commands up a notch.

Sub Main
Dim engCtrl As New DgnEngineControl
engCtrl.Register
engCtrl.RecognitionMimic("select " & ListVar1)
engCtrl.RecognitionMimic("\all-caps that")
Wait .5
engCtrl.RecognitionMimic("end of paragraph")
engCtrl.UnRegister(False)
End Sub

PS: KnowBrainer 2017 also includes Uppercase All, Lowercase All and Title Case All which  selects all of the text in a document or field, applies the appropriate formatting to the selected text and moves the cursor to the end of the formatted text.

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Thank you guys. Smart spaces are important to me and I have been spending a lot of time unsuccessfully struggling with them lately, so I will make do with Alan's suggestion for now.

@missink

If interested in this and other text transformations, also feel free to PM me — happy to set you up with a beta of what I'm working on, can give you a walk-through on Skype.

Wishing you a fun weekend,

-l

"Smart spaces?" Try either my CheckNewPara or CheckSpacing functions (which add a space before (and after) dictation only when needed). Search the forums for those terms . . .


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In this relatively long thread, I don't think anyone has mentioned two commands that are inbuilt in Dragon: "'All Caps That," and "No Caps That." You can use these two commands to precede text as well. For example, "No Caps Mississippi" produces "mississippi."

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Thx, Scribe! Of course, the easy solution for using the "[doing something to] that" commands to xyz text is to select the xyz text first. The following works in Word where the lowercase and uppercase natural language commands are emulated by my pgEmulate.vbs:

[lowercase_uppercase] [dictation]

    pgEmulate = "D:\path\to\pgEmulate.vbs " ' note the trailing space!!
    ShellExecute pgEmulate & """select " & ListVar2 & """", 6 ' select the dictation text
    Wait 2
    ShellExecute pgEmulate & """" & ListVar1 & " that""", 6 ' emulate the Word natural language command 
    Wait 2
    ShellExecute pgEmulate & """go back""", 6 ' go back to where you were

Hth,

 

EDIT: Btw, if you want these commands to work with native Dragon commands, too, you can add to your [lowercase_uppercase] list as follows:

all-caps\all caps
capitalize

lowercase

no-caps\no caps

uppercase

 

and modify the above as follows:

    pgEmulate = "D:\path\to\pgEmulate.vbs "
    ShellExecute pgEmulate & """select " & ListVar2 & """", 6
    Wait 2
    x = ListVar1
    If InStr(x,"\") Then x = "\" & Left(x, InStr(x,"\")-1) ' note the leading \
    ShellExecute pgEmulate & """" & x & " that""", 6
    Wait 2
    ShellExecute pgEmulate & """go back""", 6

 

Ht also h

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