Lexacom has a vast vocabulary of terms including specialised medical and legal terminology. However, our speech engine will sometimes make assumptions that don’t match your personal preferences. For example, Rachel is the most common spelling, so someone spelling their name Rachael may wish to change this.
You can customise your Lexacom dictionary from the settings window in order to add new words (e.g. local place names Lexacom doesn’t recognise) or create direct text replacement options.
Lexacom decides which words you have dictated based on a range of information. Not just from what it hears but also by probability based on the context in which the word was used. Adding preferred words will tell Lexacom that you want to give those words more weight but will consider context to ensure the best results.
Example: Adding the word ‘Lexacom’ means that if it hears (or mishears) a similar word, it will type it as ‘Lexacom’. but if I said “That word is not in my lexicon” it would understand the context and return ‘lexicon’ correctly.
Of course, Lexacom is already built-in to the dictionary, so this is just a working example.
Replacements are more direct than preferred words.
When you create a replacement, you instruct Lexacom to ALWAYS replace X with Y.
Example: If you or a colleague is called Sara and spells it without the h, you could ask Lexacom to replace ‘Sarah’ with ‘Sara’ every time.
Because Sarah is the most common spelling, without the replacement, you would need to correct it to Sara manually each time.
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