Speech Accuracy Trainer for SpeechMagic

The Speech Accuracy Trainer for SpeechMagic enables you to improve speech recognition by explicitly tailoring the system to your requirements. In general the system primarily learns by analyzing your finalized reports; training the system explicitly might be necessary in the case of words or phrases repeatedly misrecognized.

Note: Any changes you make will only be available to you. Other users of the system will not be affected.

What do you want to do?

Correct a misrecognized word once

Correct a misrecognized word and teach the system to recognize it correctly in the future

Remove a word that you never say but that repeatedly appears in the recognized text

Undo performance improvements you previously made for a word

Control the Speech Accuracy Trainer with the buttons on your microphone

What do you want to do?

Correcting a misrecognized word once

Use this function if you want to correct the word only once and not for all future reports.

To correct a word only once, do the following:

In your document, put the cursor somewhere in or next to the word or select the word.
Start the Speech Accuracy Trainer.

The system lists words that are already in the system and that resemble the word you selected.

Click a word in the list; the word you are training changes to the word you clicked.

Click Correct to apply your correction to the current document.

Note: If the word you are looking for is not part of the list, manually correct the word in the Word to train field and click Add to add it permanently to the system. If you accidentally added a word, you can remove it in the Personal Lexicon Manager. For more information, see the Personal Lexicon Manager Help.

The word is replaced in the current document. Only the current document is modified, future documents are not affected by this action.

Correcting a misrecognized word and teaching the system to recognize it correctly in the future

To correct a word in the current document and teach the system to recognize it correctly in the future, do the following:

In your document, put the cursor somewhere in or next to the word or select the word.
Start the Speech Accuracy Trainer.

The system lists words that are already in the system and that resemble the word you selected.

Click a word in the list; the word you are training changes to the word you clicked.

Click the arrow next to Improve performance to teach the system how you pronounce this word.

Note: You can either record or type in how you pronounce the word; you cannot do both. You can only switch between the Record How You Pronounce This Word tab and the Type in How You Pronounce This Word tab after you have deleted the information provided in the other tab.

To record how you pronounce the word, open the Record How You Pronounce This Word tab, click Record, say the word and click Stop. Click Playback to listen to your recording. Make sure this is the way you regularly pronounce this word when you dictate a report. If you are not satisfied with the recording, click Delete and try again.

Alternatively, you can write down how you pronounce the word. To do this, open the Type in How You Pronounce This Word tab and type in how you pronounce the word. For more information, see Typing in how you pronounce a word.

Click Train.

Note: If the word you dictated is not part of the list, correct it in the Word to train field and click Add to add it permanently to the system. For most words, providing information on how you pronounce the word is not required; in some cases, however, the system will ask you for that information before you can add the word to the system. If you accidentally added a word, you can remove it in the Personal Lexicon Manager. For more information, see the Personal Lexicon Manager Help.

Important: When you change the word you want to train (for example, by selecting a word from the list of similar words provided) any information provided in the Improve performance section is discarded.

Removing a word from the system

Use this function if you accidentally added a word to the system or if a word continually appears in the recognized text even though you did not dictate it.

To remove a word from the system, do the following:

In your document, put the cursor somewhere in or next to the word or select the word.
Start the Speech Accuracy Trainer.
Select the Remove this word check box.
Click OK.

The word will still be available to other users but it will no longer be recognized in your reports.

If you accidentally removed a word, you can reactivate it in the Personal Lexicon Manager. For more information, see the Personal Lexicon Manager Help.

Undoing performance improvements you previously made for a word

To remove a recording or written representation of how you pronounce a word from the system, do the following:

Click the arrow next to Improve performance.
Select the Reset to default check box.
Click Reset and confirm.

Controlling the Speech Accuracy Trainer with the buttons on your microphone

You can use the buttons on your microphone instead of your mouse and keyboard. The behavior is as follows:

Press 'Record' to start recording how you pronounce the word.
Press 'Play' to start listening to your recording.
Press 'Stop' to stop recording or playback, depending on which action is taking place at the time.

Note: If your microphone does not have a 'Stop' button, press 'Record' or 'Play' again.

Press 'Fast Rewind' to select the previous word from the list of words available.

Note: This functionality is only available if you have not yet recorded how you pronounce the word. If a recording is available, pressing the 'Fast Rewind' button has no effect.

Press 'Fast Forward' to select the next word from the list of words available.

Note: This functionality is only available if you have not yet recorded how you pronounce the word. If a recording is available, pressing the 'Fast Forward' button has no effect.

Press 'EOL'/'Transcribe' to confirm your action and close the Speech Accuracy Trainer.
Press 'INS/OVR' to cancel your action and close the Speech Accuracy Trainer.

About Speech Accuracy Trainer for SpeechMagic

Typing in how you pronounce a word

When you add a new word to the system, the system usually generates a phonetic transcription automatically. Providing additional information on how the word is pronounced via the Improve performance function is optional. However, in some cases, providing information on pronunciation is beneficial or even mandatory. The written representation you provide tells the system how a special word, such as an abbreviation, a word containing special characters, or a proper name, is pronounced without using a phonetic alphabet.

To provide a phonetic description, type in the word as it sounds when you say it.

If you want to spell out a word, use spaces between the letters (for example, 'u s a' for 'USA').
You can also enter several pronunciations for the same word. They must be separated by a semicolon (;).

Examples:

How you pronounce it	How it is written
coo detah	coup d'etat
wooster	Worcester
nazdack	NASDAQ
megabyte	MB
c four	C4
u s a;united states	USA
income slash expenditure	income/expenditure
i triple e	IEEE

Note: These examples are for illustration only; you do not need to add them.

Recording sound

The length of recorded sound is displayed in milliseconds on the right side of the Improve performance section.

The maximum length of the recorded sound is 10 seconds. Periods of silence (when the volume drops below a certain level) are not included. The maximum length of microphone input (including periods of silence) is 30 seconds. If your recording exceeds the maximum length, it is discarded. Click OK and try again.

Tooltips

For more information on the icons in the Improve performance section, hover your mouse over an icon to display the tooltip.

Keyboard shortcuts

You can use your keyboard (instead of your mouse or your microphone buttons) to control the Speech Accuracy Trainer. The following keyboard shortcuts are available:

Press Ctrl + Space to go to the Improve performance section and start recording how you pronounce the word.
Press Space to stop recording or playback. If neither recording nor playback is running, playback will be started.
Press Enter to confirm your action and close the Speech Accuracy Trainer.

Personal Lexicon Manager

To manage the words you have added to the system or trained using the Speech Accuracy Trainer, click Personal Lexicon Manager.

When will my changes take effect?

The changes done via the Speech Accuracy Trainer will be immediately effective on the PC you are currently working on. They will be available to you on other PCs in the system after they have been processed by SpeechMagic.

Words that you cannot add or train

The Speech Accuracy Trainer cannot add or train the following:

Alternative spellings of words that are already in the system.
Reformatted phrases; for example, numbers, dates, times, dosages.
Voice commands.

If you want to improve the recognition of a phrase or command, you might be able to train the individual words separately. For example, to improve recognition of the date '01 Jan. 2020', you could train 'first', 'January' and 'twenty'.

ConText administrators can make changes to alternative spellings, reformatted phrases and voice commands; for more information, contact your on-site support.