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Dictionary Dictionary allows user to Add Words, Exclude Words, and create Replacement Rules. To Access Commands: Click Tools->Dictionary The dictionary is designed to help speech recognition of proper nouns such as names and locations. Adding these items to the dictionary once is enough to have them recognized within the contact of the user’s dictation, without the need to vocally spell out the word or type it into the system. When adding to the dictionary, these best practices are recommended: - Only add words which would *not* be in the baseline dictionary. It is not necessary to add general terms such as "purulent" or "atelectasis". These types of terms already exist in the M*Modal dictionary - Adding basic words impedes the recognition effectiveness of other clinical words and locations that have been added. Avoid entering small words to the dictionary, such as "a", "the", "one", "then". - It is recommended that a pronunciation is recorded with your dictionary items. - Add context to all dictionary entries. Each item will be default to "other", but changing it to the appropriate context title of medication, name, or location will significantly improve your recognition results of that term. - Replacement Rules – When adding replacement rules in the dictionary, use caution and be sure to not expect the original word to be dictated elsewhere in the system; it will always provide the replacement word. - When adding replacement rules for abbreviations, such as b.i.d., it should be entered with the punctuation, so the term is recognized as the characters b.i.d., and not the word "bid". When adding an acronym like "UMC" for "Unversity Medical Center", be sure to capitalize "UMC." |
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