Use the specialty vocabulary of your profession
Choose your profession so Dictate spells its technical terms correctly. The specialty vocabulary applies on every plan.
- Applies to
- Windows, macOS
- Version
- Dictate 0.4.0-beta.6
Open Personalize›Dictionary. At the top of the page is the Specialty vocabulary block. It names your profession and the number of its terms. If you have not chosen a profession yet, it says Choose your profession. Dictate then knows its technical terms and spells them correctly.
MediSync maintains these terms. They apply on every plan. Smart Dictation uses them when it writes.
Choose your profession
- In the Specialty vocabulary block, click Choose profession. If a profession is already chosen, the link says Change. The list of professions opens.
- Search in the Search a profession or a term field, or narrow the list under Field. All fields shows every profession.
- Click a profession. The view shows Examples from the terms.
- Check Dictation language, Writing style and Self-corrections. Below each row is the suggestion for this profession.
- Click Use this profile.
Dictate takes over the profession, turns the terms on and saves the writing style and self-corrections. All profiles goes back to the list, Done closes it.
You also choose the profession during the first setup, see Set up Dictate.
Turn the terms off and on
On the right of the block is the Use the technical terms when dictating switch. When it is off, Dictate does not use the terms. Your profession stays saved.
What to know
- Your own words with the same spelling come first. A word from your team dictionary also comes before a specialist term.
- The terms go to Smart Dictation, not to speech recognition. A term that speech recognition always mishears belongs in your dictionary, best with Correct a misrecognition.
- The terms exist in German and English. If you dictate in another language, Smart Dictation uses the English terms.
- The terms do not show in the dictionary list, and you cannot change them. If your search in the dictionary matches specialist terms, a line below the list gives the number of matches.
Sign-in and internet
Dictate loads the terms from MediSync when you are signed in with your MediSync account. Without sign-in the block says Sign in and Dictate loads the technical terms of your profession. With a licence key and no account there is no specialty vocabulary.
Dictate loads the list again when you sign in, when you change the profession or the dictation language, and every 12 hours. Without internet Dictate uses the last version it loaded. If it never loaded the list, the block says The technical terms could not be loaded. Dictate will try again later.
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