Does WSR really learn when corrected?

I was wondering if it really does learn every time you correct and spell a word it incorrectly interprets. I know the documentation says it does, but so does dragon say that, and I've personally corrected the same mistake literally hundreds of times in dragon and they persisted, particularly in version nine but version 10 as well.

bipolarbear,

mmarkoe_admin wrote: bipolarbear wrote: I was wondering if it really does learn every time you correct and spell a word it incorrectly interprets. I know the documentation says it does, but so does dragon say that, and I've personally corrected the same mistake literally hundreds of times in dragon and they persisted, particularly in version nine but version 10 as well. The trick with any speech recognition software is to not correct single words. Always correct words in the context and the probability of the word appearing correctly the next time you use it in that context is very high. For example, if I say, "I wish to free slaves in sub Saharan Africa," and it comes up with, "I wish to feed slaves...." I simply say, Correct "to feed slaves" and make the correction, "to free slaves."   Marty

Helloooo Marty,
THIS advice of yours should be in coloured capitals in the introduction to the whole idea of S2T (speech-2-text)!
Most users make the same few simple mistakes:
1.  Don't speak in meaningful bites - from comma to comma, or full stop!
2. Speak too slowly or too quickly. One should read as a BBC (England) Newsreader.
3. Fascinatedly watch/wait for the text to display on screen. Turn it off! Don't watch!
4. DON'T try to correct by using a different voice.  You'll forget and say "wanna do it" next time, again.
5. Before you get mad at the program - test your typing speed AND to the corrected text time in w.p.m.

I, of course don't do any of these things ..........

Cheers!
HimAGAIN