Follow
these guidelines to improve the way your speech is recognized while dictating:
Speak naturally, without pausing between words.
Speak at a normal rate.
If you speak too quickly or slowly, PowerScribe might misrecognize you.
Pronounce words as you
normally do. Do not overenunciate.
Be careful not to let
your voice drop when you say small words such as the, that, a,
or an.
Speak as you would to
someone sitting across a desk from you. Do not speak too loudly or too
softly.
If you fumble or make
mistakes, simply rewind and re-dictate.
While the microphone is on, avoid making
extraneous sounds such as clearing your throat, inserting uhs or ahs
between words, clicking your tongue, or thinking aloud. Also, avoid dictating
over a radio, a background conversation, or other background noise. Soft
unintentional noises or loud extraneous noise can cause misrecognitions.
Refrain from habits
that can confuse speech recognition, such as chewing gum, eating, drinking,
carrying on conversations with others, and so on.
Be sure your microphone is positioned properly.
Hold the microphone
close (within one inch) to your mouth, but not touching.
The louder the background noise, the closer you need to hold the
microphone to your mouth. However if background noise is soft, keep the
microphone away from your mouth to minimize "breath" sounds.
Turn off the microphone
when you are not speaking.
Recognition accuracy is best when you establish
a cadence, speaking in 6- to 8-word phrases followed by a brief pause.
Pause slightly before
and after small words such as a and the so that these words do
not become slurred into another word and lost.
When dictating over 100
words per minute, pause briefly between sentences so the software does not
connect all of your dictation as one long sentence.
.
Dictate using American English rather than other
English variants. For example, say "period" or "new
line" rather than "full-stop" and "aluminum" rather
than "aluminium."
Speak punctuation marks such as period, comma,
colon, quote, and end quote.
Do not speak
punctuation marks in common words like patient's and twenty-five.
For more advice on
dictating punctuation click help on your logon screen and help
contents, in the search box type dictating punctuation then click on
dictating punctuation – a complete list of terms for punctuation will
display.
Start a new sentence on a new line by saying new
line.
Begin a new paragraph
preceded by a blank line by saying paragraph or new paragraph.
Dictating Capital Letters
PowerScribe recognizes drug names and many
proper names, capitalized correctly. You should not say capital before
the name.
To dictate uppercase
letters, say capital followed by the letter, for example, "capital
A" for A.
You may also use the
international alphabet by saying capital followed by the international alphabet
word. For example, "capital alpha" for A, "capital
bravo" for B, and so on.
Say numbers as you naturally speak them, for
example, "one thousand and one." To say "2 x 3 x 4
centimeters," pause slightly after the digits but not between
"by" and the next digit.
Numbers in the
thousands and millions are punctuated automatically. For example, to
insert 13,100 say "thirteen thousand one hundred."
Telephone numbers are
also punctuated automatically.
|
For this number |
Say this |
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0 |
Zero |
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1000 |
Thousand One thousand A thousand |
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1205 |
One thousand two hundred five Twelve hundred and five Twelve oh five |
|
12,305
|
Twelve thousand three hundred five Twelve thousand three hundred and five |
|
3.18
|
Three point one eight
|
|
2 x 3 x 4 centimeters
|
Two by three by four centimeters
|
Say
dates and times as you naturally speak them. Here are some examples.
A time of day will be formatted correctly if you
follow it with "am", "pm", "at night", "in
the afternoon", or "in the evening." Without this context,
the speech recognizer will interpret the time as a number and not as the time
of day. For example, for this result:
The patient went to bed at 10:30 pm Say:
The patient went to bed at ten thirty pm
If you say "the
patient went to bed at ten thirty", the result will read "The patient
went to bed at 1030."
If you want to dictate
a military time, say "hours" after the time, for example, "at
twenty two thirty hours."
|
For this date or time |
Say this |
|
April 12, 1942 |
April twelfth nineteen forty-two April twelve nineteen hundred and forty-two |
|
4/12/1942 |
four twelve nineteen forty-two four twelfth nineteen forty-two |
|
04/12/1942 |
oh four twelve nineteen forty-two |
|
2001 |
two thousand one twenty oh one twenty zero one |
|
2014 |
two thousand fourteen twenty fourteen |
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1:00 |
one o'clock |
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8:35 p.m. |
eight thirty five pm |