. versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind

Hello Illana,

Many of my students have had this problem to. They want to dictate
"period" and end up getting "." instead. It's a word that they often say

Training doesn’t seem to sort it. It's also very weird as they are
pretty much all on UK English vocab's, where you shouldn’t find "period"
as it's American.

The only way I found round this was a simple custom command to "force"
dragon to type period.

Whack this into the command browser as a command called "period" under
advanced scripting.

Sub Main
SendDragonkeys "period"
End Sub

As it's a command, you'll need to pause before saying it to get it to
work reliably, but it's faster than correcting. Not the ideal solution
and one that should only be used in very specific circumstances, but it
works.

Cheers

Liifeboy

N.b., only applicable to the relatively small number of Pro users, so
not likely to help Ilana!

Bruce

----- Original Message -----
From: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>
To: <no.spam@mail.pls>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:31 PM
Subject: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind

Hello Illana,

Many of my students have had this problem to. They want to dictate
"period" and end up getting "." instead. It's a word that they often say
as well. Very annoying.

Training doesn't seem to sort it. It's also very weird as they are
pretty much all on UK English vocab's, where you shouldn't find "period"
as it's American.

The only way I found round this was a simple custom command to "force"
dragon to type period.

Whack this into the command browser as a command called "period" under
advanced scripting.

Sub Main
SendDragonkeys "period"
End Sub

As it's a command, you'll need to pause before saying it to get it to
work reliably, but it's faster than correcting. Not the ideal solution
and one that should only be used in very specific circumstances, but it
works.

Cheers

Liifeboy

Thank you very much for all the advice. But, what is N. B.? I do have a
professional version.
Thank you
Ilana
Generated through DragonNaturallySpeakingR version 7.3 and microphone VXI
Parrott.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Cyr" <no.spam@mail.pls>
To: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>
Cc: "VoiceGroup" <no.spam@mail.pls>; "i. Maymind"
<no.spam@mail.pls>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind

> N.b., only applicable to the relatively small number of Pro users, so
> not likely to help Ilana!
>
> Bruce
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> To: <no.spam@mail.pls>
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:31 PM
> Subject: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
>
>
> Hello Illana,
>
> Many of my students have had this problem to. They want to dictate
> "period" and end up getting "." instead. It's a word that they often say
> as well. Very annoying.
>
> Training doesn't seem to sort it. It's also very weird as they are
> pretty much all on UK English vocab's, where you shouldn't find "period"
> as it's American.
>
> The only way I found round this was a simple custom command to "force"
> dragon to type period.
>
> Whack this into the command browser as a command called "period" under
> advanced scripting.
>
> Sub Main
> SendDragonkeys "period"
> End Sub
>
> As it's a command, you'll need to pause before saying it to get it to
> work reliably, but it's faster than correcting. Not the ideal solution
> and one that should only be used in very specific circumstances, but it
> works.
>
> Cheers
>
> Liifeboy
>
>

 
.

what about a written spoken period/word period or a command "spell that
out" as there is for numbers ?

Liifeboy wrote:

>Hello Illana,
>
>Many of my students have had this problem to. They want to dictate
>"period" and end up getting "." instead. It's a word that they often say
>as well. Very annoying.
>
>Training doesn’t seem to sort it. It's also very weird as they are
>pretty much all on UK English vocab's, where you shouldn’t find "period"
>as it's American.
>
>The only way I found round this was a simple custom command to "force"
>dragon to type period.
>
>Whack this into the command browser as a command called "period" under
>advanced scripting.
>
>Sub Main
>SendDragonkeys "period"
>End Sub
>
>As it's a command, you'll need to pause before saying it to get it to
>work reliably, but it's faster than correcting. Not the ideal solution
>and one that should only be used in very specific circumstances, but it
>works.
>
>Cheers
>
>Liifeboy
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Chuck is right,

Use other methods first, as opposed to mine. Mine's a last resort when
all "traditional" method's fail. But if they do then mine will work.

Liifeboy

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Runquist []
Sent: 1 August 2004 18:48
To: 'Liifeboy'
Subject: RE: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
Importance: High

Lifeboy,

See my explanation regarding punctuation. What you are doing is
throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: Liifeboy []
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:31 PM
To: no.spam@mail.pls
Subject: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind

Hello Illana,

Many of my students have had this problem to. They want to dictate
"period" and end up getting "." instead. It's a word that they often say
as well. Very annoying.

Training doesn't seem to sort it. It's also very weird as they are
pretty much all on UK English vocab's, where you shouldn't find "period"
as it's American.

The only way I found round this was a simple custom command to "force"
dragon to type period.

Whack this into the command browser as a command called "period" under
advanced scripting.

Sub Main
SendDragonkeys "period"
End Sub

As it's a command, you'll need to pause before saying it to get it to
work reliably, but it's faster than correcting. Not the ideal solution
and one that should only be used in very specific circumstances, but it
works.

Cheers

Liifeboy

 
.

Not So Dick Tracy -- I think Preferred users can use that solution as well,
as they can make dictation macros containing text including the word
"period." (imagine dictating the last phrase and having it all work out
correctly as intended... cool, yes?)

  Best Regards. //// Richards ////
====================================
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Cyr" <no.spam@mail.pls>
To: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>
Cc: "VoiceGroup" <no.spam@mail.pls>; "i. Maymind"
<no.spam@mail.pls>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind

> N.b., only applicable to the relatively small number of Pro users, so
> not likely to help Ilana!
>
> Bruce
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> To: <no.spam@mail.pls>
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:31 PM
> Subject: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
>
>
> Hello Illana,
>
> Many of my students have had this problem to. They want to dictate
> "period" and end up getting "." instead. It's a word that they often say
> as well. Very annoying.
>
> Training doesn't seem to sort it. It's also very weird as they are
> pretty much all on UK English vocab's, where you shouldn't find "period"
> as it's American.
>
> The only way I found round this was a simple custom command to "force"
> dragon to type period.
>
> Whack this into the command browser as a command called "period" under
> advanced scripting.
>
> Sub Main
> SendDragonkeys "period"
> End Sub
>
> As it's a command, you'll need to pause before saying it to get it to
> work reliably, but it's faster than correcting. Not the ideal solution
> and one that should only be used in very specific circumstances, but it

N.B. -- Latin for note bene -- or note well...
It is a literary attention grabber.

//////////// JHR ////////////

======================================
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilana Maymind" <no.spam@mail.pls>

what is N. B.?

Preferred users can't write script macros, and that's a script macro or
my name is What-cha-ma-call-it.

Bruce

PS: If I'm to be Dick Tracy, you've gotta be Throckmorton, the Water
Commissioner!

PPS: I got six watches here, only five of which keep time, but whenever
I talk into one of them, Buster Brown pops out and gives me a raspberry!

PPPS: Say, if I'm Dick Tracy, then I get to hang out with Annette
Benning or Diane Keaton -- or, Yuck! DustinHoffman! Your name games
have some unexpected ramifications!

PPPS: The fact that I've reached a stage in life where the image of
Diane Keaton . . . Sigh. Never mind!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richards" <no.spam@mail.pls>
To: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>; "Bruce Cyr"
<no.spam@mail.pls>
Cc: "VoiceGroup" <no.spam@mail.pls>; "i. Maymind"
<no.spam@mail.pls>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind

> Not So Dick Tracy -- I think Preferred users can use that solution as
well,
> as they can make dictation macros containing text including the word
> "period." (imagine dictating the last phrase and having it all work
out
> correctly as intended... cool, yes?)
>
> Best Regards. //// Richards ////
> ====================================
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Cyr" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> To: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> Cc: "VoiceGroup" <no.spam@mail.pls>; "i. Maymind"
> <no.spam@mail.pls>
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
>
>
> > N.b., only applicable to the relatively small number of Pro users,
so
> > not likely to help Ilana!
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > To: <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:31 PM
> > Subject: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
> >
> >
> > Hello Illana,
> >
> > Many of my students have had this problem to. They want to dictate
> > "period" and end up getting "." instead. It's a word that they often
say
> > as well. Very annoying.
> >
> > Training doesn't seem to sort it. It's also very weird as they are
> > pretty much all on UK English vocab's, where you shouldn't find
"period"
> > as it's American.
> >
> > The only way I found round this was a simple custom command to
"force"
> > dragon to type period.
> >
> > Whack this into the command browser as a command called "period"
under
> > advanced scripting.
> >
> > Sub Main
> > SendDragonkeys "period"
> > End Sub
> >
> > As it's a command, you'll need to pause before saying it to get it
to
> > work reliably, but it's faster than correcting. Not the ideal
solution
> > and one that should only be used in very specific circumstances, but
it
> > works.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Liifeboy

Ahhh Yesss..... that would conjure up some strange images.... hmm....

But, who is Diane Keaton, anyway...?

Bur - wasn't Throckmorton from the Great Gildersleeves? And was it not
Willard Waterman who played that character in the old radio show? Seems
like one of the great coincidences... Waterman playing the Water
Commissioner...? But, I am not all sure about this.

(No... Just kidding...of course, I KNOW who SHE is...)

Thanks for the fun. /// Richards ///
==========================================

Yes -- but you can do the same result with a Preferred text macro. Just
make a macro called "period" and have it type "." and you are home free.
Preferred can do the same thing, with a slightly different method -- a
slightly different macro.

N'est ce pas?????? (smiling smugly until proven wrong, again...)

/// Richards ///
==========================================
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Cyr" <no.spam@mail.pls>
To: "Richards" <no.spam@mail.pls>
Cc: "VoiceGroup" <no.spam@mail.pls>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind

> Preferred users can't write script macros, and that's a script macro or
> my name is What-cha-ma-call-it.
>
> Bruce
>
> PS: If I'm to be Dick Tracy, you've gotta be Throckmorton, the Water
> Commissioner!
>
> PPS: I got six watches here, only five of which keep time, but whenever
> I talk into one of them, Buster Brown pops out and gives me a raspberry!
>
> PPPS: Say, if I'm Dick Tracy, then I get to hang out with Annette
> Benning or Diane Keaton -- or, Yuck! DustinHoffman! Your name games
> have some unexpected ramifications!
>
> PPPS: The fact that I've reached a stage in life where the image of
> Diane Keaton . . . Sigh. Never mind!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richards" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> To: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>; "Bruce Cyr"
> <no.spam@mail.pls>
> Cc: "VoiceGroup" <no.spam@mail.pls>; "i. Maymind"
> <no.spam@mail.pls>
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
>
>
> > Not So Dick Tracy -- I think Preferred users can use that solution as
> well,
> > as they can make dictation macros containing text including the word
> > "period." (imagine dictating the last phrase and having it all work
> out
> > correctly as intended... cool, yes?)
> >
> > Best Regards. //// Richards ////
> > ====================================
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bruce Cyr" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > To: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > Cc: "VoiceGroup" <no.spam@mail.pls>; "i. Maymind"
> > <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
> >
> >
> > > N.b., only applicable to the relatively small number of Pro users,
> so
> > > not likely to help Ilana!
> > >
> > > Bruce
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > > To: <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > > Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:31 PM
> > > Subject: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello Illana,
> > >
> > > Many of my students have had this problem to. They want to dictate
> > > "period" and end up getting "." instead. It's a word that they often
> say
> > > as well. Very annoying.
> > >
> > > Training doesn't seem to sort it. It's also very weird as they are
> > > pretty much all on UK English vocab's, where you shouldn't find
> "period"
> > > as it's American.
> > >
> > > The only way I found round this was a simple custom command to
> "force"
> > > dragon to type period.
> > >
> > > Whack this into the command browser as a command called "period"
> under
> > > advanced scripting.
> > >
> > > Sub Main
> > > SendDragonkeys "period"
> > > End Sub
> > >
> > > As it's a command, you'll need to pause before saying it to get it
> to
> > > work reliably, but it's faster than correcting. Not the ideal
> solution
> > > and one that should only be used in very specific circumstances, but
> it
> > > works.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Liifeboy
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Liifeboy supplied a script macro -- but I believe Richards is suggesting a
Text and Graphics macro, plain text, with a name and the text "period".
One might want leading and trailing spaces. One problem with the macro
technique is that you might have a spacing problem depending on the
application, your options, and context.

Larry Allen
http://www.pcspeak.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Cyr []
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 7:38 PM
> To: Richards
> Cc: VoiceGroup
> Subject: Re: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
>
>
> Preferred users can't write script macros, and that's a script macro or
> my name is What-cha-ma-call-it.
>
> Bruce
>
> PS: If I'm to be Dick Tracy, you've gotta be Throckmorton, the Water
> Commissioner!
>
> PPS: I got six watches here, only five of which keep time, but whenever
> I talk into one of them, Buster Brown pops out and gives me a raspberry!
>
> PPPS: Say, if I'm Dick Tracy, then I get to hang out with Annette
> Benning or Diane Keaton -- or, Yuck! DustinHoffman! Your name games
> have some unexpected ramifications!
>
> PPPS: The fact that I've reached a stage in life where the image of
> Diane Keaton . . . Sigh. Never mind!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richards" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> To: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>; "Bruce Cyr"
> <no.spam@mail.pls>
> Cc: "VoiceGroup" <no.spam@mail.pls>; "i. Maymind"
> <no.spam@mail.pls>
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
>
>
> > Not So Dick Tracy -- I think Preferred users can use that solution as
> well,
> > as they can make dictation macros containing text including the word
> > "period." (imagine dictating the last phrase and having it all work
> out
> > correctly as intended... cool, yes?)
> >
> > Best Regards. //// Richards ////
> > ====================================
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bruce Cyr" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > To: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > Cc: "VoiceGroup" <no.spam@mail.pls>; "i. Maymind"
> > <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
> >
> >
> > > N.b., only applicable to the relatively small number of Pro users,
> so
> > > not likely to help Ilana!
> > >
> > > Bruce
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > > To: <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > > Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:31 PM
> > > Subject: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello Illana,
> > >
> > > Many of my students have had this problem to. They want to dictate
> > > "period" and end up getting "." instead. It's a word that they often
> say
> > > as well. Very annoying.
> > >
> > > Training doesn't seem to sort it. It's also very weird as they are
> > > pretty much all on UK English vocab's, where you shouldn't find
> "period"
> > > as it's American.
> > >
> > > The only way I found round this was a simple custom command to
> "force"
> > > dragon to type period.
> > >
> > > Whack this into the command browser as a command called "period"
> under
> > > advanced scripting.
> > >
> > > Sub Main
> > > SendDragonkeys "period"
> > > End Sub
> > >
> > > As it's a command, you'll need to pause before saying it to get it
> to
> > > work reliably, but it's faster than correcting. Not the ideal
> solution
> > > and one that should only be used in very specific circumstances, but
> it
> > > works.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Liifeboy
>

>

"Richards" <no.spam@mail.pls> wrote:

>>>
N.B. -- Latin for note bene -- or note well...
It is a literary attention grabber.
        <<<

Actually, it's Latin for "nota bene" -- with an 'a' at the
end of the first word.

-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,
   Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody
   a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel

                
__________________________________

Larry explains my point correctly.

  Best Regards. ////// Richards //////
========================================= 1
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Allen" <no.spam@mail.pls>
To: "VoiceGroup" <no.spam@mail.pls>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 11:48 PM
Subject: RE: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind

> Liifeboy supplied a script macro -- but I believe Richards is suggesting a
> Text and Graphics macro, plain text, with a name and the text "period".
> One might want leading and trailing spaces. One problem with the macro
> technique is that you might have a spacing problem depending on the
> application, your options, and context.
>
> Larry Allen
> http://www.pcspeak.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce Cyr []
> > Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 7:38 PM
> > To: Richards
> > Cc: VoiceGroup
> > Subject: Re: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
> >
> >
> > Preferred users can't write script macros, and that's a script macro or
> > my name is What-cha-ma-call-it.
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> > PS: If I'm to be Dick Tracy, you've gotta be Throckmorton, the Water
> > Commissioner!
> >
> > PPS: I got six watches here, only five of which keep time, but whenever
> > I talk into one of them, Buster Brown pops out and gives me a raspberry!
> >
> > PPPS: Say, if I'm Dick Tracy, then I get to hang out with Annette
> > Benning or Diane Keaton -- or, Yuck! DustinHoffman! Your name games
> > have some unexpected ramifications!
> >
> > PPPS: The fact that I've reached a stage in life where the image of
> > Diane Keaton . . . Sigh. Never mind!
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richards" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > To: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>; "Bruce Cyr"
> > <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > Cc: "VoiceGroup" <no.spam@mail.pls>; "i. Maymind"
> > <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:07 PM
> > Subject: Re: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
> >
> >
> > > Not So Dick Tracy -- I think Preferred users can use that solution as
> > well,
> > > as they can make dictation macros containing text including the word
> > > "period." (imagine dictating the last phrase and having it all work
> > out
> > > correctly as intended... cool, yes?)
> > >
> > > Best Regards. //// Richards ////
> > > ====================================
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Bruce Cyr" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > > To: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > > Cc: "VoiceGroup" <no.spam@mail.pls>; "i. Maymind"
> > > <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > > Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:44 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
> > >
> > >
> > > > N.b., only applicable to the relatively small number of Pro users,
> > so
> > > > not likely to help Ilana!
> > > >
> > > > Bruce
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Liifeboy" <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > > > To: <no.spam@mail.pls>
> > > > Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:31 PM
> > > > Subject: [VG] RE: . versus period : reply to Ilana Maymind
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hello Illana,
> > > >
> > > > Many of my students have had this problem to. They want to dictate
> > > > "period" and end up getting "." instead. It's a word that they often
> > say
> > > > as well. Very annoying.
> > > >
> > > > Training doesn't seem to sort it. It's also very weird as they are
> > > > pretty much all on UK English vocab's, where you shouldn't find
> > "period"
> > > > as it's American.
> > > >
> > > > The only way I found round this was a simple custom command to
> > "force"
> > > > dragon to type period.
> > > >
> > > > Whack this into the command browser as a command called "period"
> > under
> > > > advanced scripting.
> > > >
> > > > Sub Main
> > > > SendDragonkeys "period"
> > > > End Sub
> > > >
> > > > As it's a command, you'll need to pause before saying it to get it
> > to
> > > > work reliably, but it's faster than correcting. Not the ideal
> > solution
> > > > and one that should only be used in very specific circumstances, but
> > it
> > > > works.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > >
> > > > Liifeboy
> >
>
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>