"Add from File" for all files in directory trees

Hello rcoifman,

First, let me say 'Thank you' for using our WSR Toolkit.  I hope it is proving to be a useful tool for your speech recognition productivity.

Regarding your question about empowering the Toolkit to add entire folders of documents, we discussed this during the initial design/testing phase and decided not to include this in version 1.

I have been discussing this concept with my wife (a medical transcriptionist) and she believes that most physician's dictating styles can be represented by a half-dozen or so different document types.  In other words, each physician she types for has a particular style that can be summarized with only a few documents.  Do you find this to be the case for your dictation style?  If so, it will narrow down your "Add From File" requirements considerably.

It is possible that too many "Add From File" files might negatively impact recognition accuracy.  It may be prudent to add just a few and judge accuracy before adding more.  I don't believe it would "overload" the system, but may not have the desired effect of increased accuracy.

Note: You may also want to also consider the "Add To Dictionary" Toolkit option, different in concept than the "Add From File", to improve your dictation accuracy.

Hope you find this helpful.

BradT

PS - Are you using macros for your day-to-day work?  We (over in the macro forum) would love to hear of any macro needs (or wishes) you may have.

cmwilkerson wrote: This specific tool, which in turn calls up another screen in MS Speech, needs to opened with a macro instead of multiple mouse clicks.  When a medical word is not recognized, a "Very fast," method is needed to add individual words.

Edited by mmarkoe - 08/Oct/2008 at 11:19am