When I am dictating in Word I tend to use a lot subscript and superscripts. But I still haven't understood how to make Dragon work the way I want.

For example, when I dictate "square kilometers" I would like Dragon to format as "km²". Unfortunately this only works if I dictate "*number* square kilometers" then Dragon types "5 km²". The same happens when I dictate any unit of measure with or without the superscript.

I do have the "units of measure" checked in the auto-formatting options. So any solution to always write the unit of measure instead of the long spelling?

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Under Auto-Formatting Options, I have a check mark in "Units of measure", as per the default, in my UK English profile. All units of measures along the lines of "number square [kilometre, meter, centimetre, millimetre, inch, feet, or whatever]" work flawlessly.



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maybe I did not explain the problem well enough, I want to be able to just dictate "kilometers" and be spelled "km" WITHOUT dictating a number before "kilometers", does that makes sense?

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Win 10 - DPI 15 - AT 8 pro + Andrea USB

Well, that's easy enough. Go to the vocabulary, locate "kilometres", go to "Properties", open the drop-down list under "Printed form", and select "km".



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Thank you that is easy, although it doesn't work with square units. And is there any way to format directly with subscripts? Such as CO2? At the moment I am using a step-by-step command but it's very slow.

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Win 10 - DPI 15 - AT 8 pro + Andrea USB

Hi!

 

In fact, subscripts are possible too.

 

Current Dragon versions support Unicode as written form, so in fact you are able to change carbon dioxide's written form to CO₂, for example.

There are 2 problems, though.

First, you have to find a way to enter the subscript Unicode characters (I copied them from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_superscripts.

Second, there's no general way of adding them, so you have to add all the chemical compounds you want to dictate along with their spoken form (e.g. H₂SO₄\H two S O four).

If you don't mind adjusting your way of speaking you could also add all the subscripts as single words with some common prefix, e.g. ₂\sub two, ₃\sub three, and so on.

If you choose this way, you'll probably have to change spaces before/after to 0 as well.

I tried it, but spelling single letters is always a challenge for Dragon and I couldn't get it to write ₂ instead of "sub two" most of the time.

 

 

Sounds just as complicated as my solution to use key sequences with custom commands...

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But if you enter your chemical formulas once you should be able to get them recognized reliably and - probably even more important - you don't have to interrupt your flow of dictation so that Dragon has a chance to recognize the command.

With my suggestion you can use the formulas like regular words within a sentence with no need to pause in between.

 

I think I might have misunderstood you, I will try your suggestion, thanks!

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Meanwhile, I've added all the superscript and subscript digits to my vocabulary and, in general, it works pretty well.

Vocabulary editor is unable to display some of the Unicode characters, but word properties can be modified nevertheless (usually you will not want a blank before your subscript or superscript digit.

 

Unfortunately, I cannot import the word list from an XML file (otherwise you wouldn't get word properties). From the 21 new words only 10 are being imported, although all 21 are identified as new words.

 

Heaven knows why "hoch fünf" works but "hoch sechs" doesn't. Or why "tief sechs" doesn't work but "tief sieben" does.

I've already filed a bug report with Nuance, but  I'm unsure if I get back anything helpful.

 

Here are other ways to easily do subscripts and superscripts. Just select the number or letter you wish to subscript or superscript, then:

 

SUBSCRIPT:

 

HeardWord "press", "Ctrl", "press","+"

 

OR:

 

SendDragonKeys "{Ctrl+=}"

 

SUPERSCRIPT:

 

SendDragonKeys "{Ctrl+Shift+=}"

 

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Yes, but all these command-based solutions suffer from the same need to interrupt your dictation. Dragon doesn't recognize commands when mixed with dictation, you explicitely have to make a pause before and after the command or it will be written as dication.

 

Oh, and all this only works in Word and different language versions have different keyboard shortcuts, so using the correct Unicode characters seem to be the more general and robust solution.

Meanwhile I had another go at super- and subscript digits and it turned out that DPG/DLG 15.5 can import all of my custom Unicode-characters without problem.

It's only my DMPE 4.3 DEU that chokes on several words.

 

Nevertheless, I've attached my word list (with German pronunciation, though) so you can try for yourself.

 

Have fun,

mav

Thank you for your reply, sorry for the delay I must have missed the notification, this seems very useful! I'm just having a hard time figuring out how I can import this into my DPI profile. Do have to manually modify the pronunciation?

 

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Thank you I finally got around and imported your custom words, it is a neat idea to use special characters but I have noticed that it is not the same as using the sub/superscript function in Word. The superscript digits are smaller compared to typing the actual numbers using the superscript notation. I think I might just use a custom command ties to an .ahk shortcut, because custom command with multiple keystrokes seem to be slow.

 

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There is no such way with square units and the like, because they are "formatted", require formatting for that matter, which involves numbers coming into play.



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Say "Import custom words" works on DPI 15.61

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