Re: 100 most used words in the English language??

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In practice, you will find that many of the 100 most used words will largely
include words like and/the/in/an/or which won't substantially help this
person.


I've a client who I often do not understand due to extremely poor speech (many
others can't understand him at all); but he effectively uses DragonDictate for
complex writing for graduate-level psychology classes. This took LOTS of
practice time on his part -- he's visually impaired as well. He went at this
in a brute force manner and relies on the standard Dragon mechanisms to make
corrections, get the words right, etc. I don't know his formula -- I
suspect he has gotten good at making consistent sounds.


You might consider working hard on the phonetic alphabet if this person is a
good reader. My client has very distinct (and distinctive) pronunciations of
the alphabet.


Larry Allen


P.S. Thanks to Mr. Monkowski for helping a person using a competitors product.
This is the type of assistance that makes this list extremely valuable!


> Subj: 100 most used words in the English language??
> Date: 5/13/98 4:24:58 PM Mountain Daylight Time
> From: MONKOWSK@@watson.ibm.com
> Sender: voice-users@@voicerecognition.com
> To: voice-users@@voicerecognition.com
>
> Ah, it's great to be instantly appreciated. Check out
> http://aac.unl.edu/vbstudy.html
>
> You will probably have little luck doing the enrollment, since the
> pronunciations will be so different. You will have to train every
> word through the correction procedure. (I guess that's why you want
> the list of most frequent words.) It should be an interesting
> experiment.
>
> Mike Monkowski, IBM speech group programmer
>
> =========================================================================
> Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 15:37:05 -0400
> From: Bob Kwasny <bkwasny@@ix.netcom.com>
> To: voice-users@@voicerecognition.com
> Subject: 100 most used words in the English language??
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am starting to help the son of a friend that has Cerebal Palsey. His
> case is severe but he can make repeatable sounds so I will try to adapt
> Dragon Dictate to his needs.
>
> The biggest question I have so far is "What are the 100 most commonly
> used EVERYDAY words in the English Language?"
>
> Anyone that could steer me in the right direction will be instantly
> appreciated by all of us.
>
> TIA,
>
> Bob
>


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