Vocabulary Editor


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The Vocabulary Editor window is your interface for viewing and editing the list of words, phrases, and symbols that MacSpeech Scribe can transcribe.

To summon the Vocabulary Editor window, choose Tools > Vocabulary Editor.

The very first time you open the Vocabulary Editor window when a given profile is active, there will be a brief delay while MacSpeech Scribe generates an initial list of the built-in dictation vocabulary for that profile. Once this initial list is generated, subsequent access to the Vocabulary Editor window is rapid. (The list is long, though — over 150,000 words — so there can still be a brief delay when you perform certain actions in the window.)

To switch among vocabulary lists:

To filter the displayed list:

If you do a search and no match is found, and if you’re in the All category, MacSpeech Scribe will offer to add the term to your user vocabulary. To add it, click Yes. (You can edit this new vocabulary item later.) To decline, click No.

To edit a vocabulary item:

You can’t edit the written form of a vocabulary item. You can edit the spoken form of a user vocabulary item, but not of a built-in vocabulary item; you should do this if the item’s written form differs from its pronunciation. (For best results, train the item’s pronunciation, as described below.) To edit the spoken form of a user vocabulary item:

The Vocabulary Editor window info area also displays features of the selected vocabulary item having to do with MacSpeech Scribe’s intelligent automatic capitalization and spacing. You can edit these features for user vocabulary items, and for most built-in vocabulary items (although some built-in vocabulary items have complex automatic capitalization and spacing rules, which can’t be fully displayed or edited):

To create a new user vocabulary item:

To delete a user vocabulary item:

To export and import vocabulary items:



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Vocabulary Training