Lunis and I have discussed this before and I want to know if anyone here can provide insight and help me with this very strange behavior in Dragon 16 Professional.  I am a Forensic Pathologist and had been using Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 for years.  I contacted Lunis to try to improve my efficiency in completing my reports.  He suggested that the speach recognition in Dragon 16 Professional is far superior to DMPE2.  I use a Philips digital recorder when I dictate my reports.  The transcriptions of my reports after installing Dragon 16 Professional and the Knowbrainer medical dictionary were horrible. The only way I can get the transcriptions to be good is by having Dragon read my reports.  This drastically improves the transcriptions with one exception.  Every time i use the number "1," the transcription writes the word "one." I have the setting set to 0.  Here are some examples:

one point one centimeters

one thousand one hundred 20 grams

one thousand 10 grams

One .2 centimeters

one thousand 680 grams

one hundred and 40 grams

20 one years

2023 – 169 one

30 one and one half inches 

one hundred 50 one pound

This is not how the numbers are written in any of my reports, so I don't know why reading my reports causes this behavior. If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this, please let me know and I will try them.

Thank you,

Mark

Something similar happened to me recently, and I was able to fix it by setting up a new profile. I think it was caused by me correcting "1" to "one" at some point. Unfortunately I didn't test many words, so I don't know if it was as far-reaching as your problem.

P.S. When you say you've got the setting set to 0, I'm assuming you mean this, which makes sense: DragonBar > Tools > Auto-Formatting Options > Numbers, if greater than or equal to: 0

I have had this exact problem.  It is fixed by creating a new profile but returns if you try to improve your vocab by using old files and reports to  train.  The accuracy if you do not train with old reports,  is poor.  It is so poor that I trialled nuance medical one but that is not the solution either.

Not sure if this helps or not.  I have used Dragon for many years and I think currently it is only so so at the moment  regards  Bob Ivers orthopaedic surgeon.  Microsoft surface  win 11, DNS16 

sorry, after I posted I checked and I am using DNS 15.61.  I thought that it was 16.  Interesting that the same problem occurs with the 2 versions  Bob

Is it possible that some of your old files have text that looks like

"... we must handle the case of at least one 100 pound foobars ..."


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Just to make sure - in DragonBar > Tools > Auto-Formatting Options, have you checked the boxes to format Numbers, Units of Measurement etc at all?

Re training from old reports: If you add significant amounts of text and words to Dragon, I'd make this a two-step process. First let Dragon analyse your files for unknown words, but NOT for writing style. This will add a large number of words to your vocabulary and may already be sufficient. If you're paranoid like me, export your user profile at that point.

In a second step, let Dragon analyse documents for your writing style but not add any unknown words. Don't scan too many documents. 100 pages of text is more than sufficient; less will do.

If you see an improvement, fine. If the issue reoccurs, go back to your exported profile and hope that Dragon will adapt over time (it usually does).

Hope that helps, Stephan

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