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I notice this. I usually turn the mic off if I am going to type.
Holland
Judy Anderson wrote:
>
> Sometimes, when I am composing text with NaturallySpeaking, I like to
> type some of the text. Usually, this is when it is going to be some
> technical word that I do not feel like teaching NaturallySpeaking,
> because I think I'm not going to say it very often. Other times, I am
> pasting in some output from a program into a bug report, say.
>
> If I am just typing at the and of the document, then it works great.
> However, if I go back into previously dictated or typed text to make a
> correction with the keyboard, often it seems to do something bizarre.
> In particular, it seems to replace characters with my typing, rather
> than inserting my typing. (I did finally learned to turn the
> microphone off while I am doing this, because otherwise it interprets
> the random clicking of the keyboard as the word "to" and inserts this,
> usually in the middle of the word.) Anyway, the documentation wants
> you to use your voice more, and so it does not discuss using typing
> very much, and less obviously I have not found any documentation that
> tells you about using this word processor from the keyboard. So, has
> anyone else seen this? Any ideas on how to change it to use insertion?
>
> In my most recent experience, I had gone back to insert a % as a
> prompt after pasting the input line into my bug report, and it deleted
> the command that I was attempting to display. Fortunately, I noticed
> this while I was reviewing the document in the mail sender before
> sending it off, or I am certain that the recipient of the bug report
> would have thought I was an idiot. The weird thing is, if I were to
> have spoken the addition, it would have been inserted as I would
> expect. So why is typing different?
>
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