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34Dictation ModeMacSpeech Dictate 1.5
instruCtions for sPaCing and CaPitaLization.Ingeneralthereshouldbe
noneedforthese;MacSpeechDictatewillperformintelligentautomaticspac-
ingandcapitalization.Butif youdoneednercontrolovercapitalizationand
spacing,youhaveit.See“Capitalization,Spacing,andNumbers.”Toinsert
a space,say SpaceBar .
InmanycasesitwillbesimplertoletMacSpeechDictateperformitsauto-
maticcapitalization,rightorwrong,andthencorrectitafterthefactwiththe
capitalizationeditingcommandsdiscussedbelow.
PunCtuation.Unlikespacingandcapitalization,youmustexplicitlydictate
anydesiredpunctuation;MacSpeechDictatedoesn’ttrytoinsertpunctuation
intelligentlybasedongrammar,toneof voice,oranythinglikethat.Unlike
Spellingmode,Dictationmodedoesincorporatepunctuationintoitsintelli-
gentautomaticspacing.Fornamesof punctuationmarks,see“Punctuation.”
names of Letters.Letternamesmaybeusedtotypeawordconsistingof 
aletter,orfordictatinganacronym;butyoushouldnotuseletternamesin
DictationmodeasasubstituteforSpellingmode.Forexample,totypeAn a-z
of animals,say Analphahyphenzuluof animals .Eventhisapproachis
notentirelyreliable,asMacSpeechDictatemustallowforthepossibilitythat
alpha meansalpha.Spellingmodegetsbetterresults.See“LetterNamesin
DictationMode.”
Commands.Allglobal,key,generated,andapplication-basedcommandsare
available.
reCognition training Commands.Youcantrainthevoicemodelandcor-
rect recognition errorswiththeseDictationmodecommands:
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TraintheWord“Someword”
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TraintheWords“Someword”Through“Otherword”
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TraintheWords“Someword”to“Otherword”