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Is there a way to teach SMS microphone how to spell?

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  Is there a way to teach SMS microphone how to spell? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2015-09-18 21:53 +0000
    Re: Is there a way to teach SMS microphone how to spell? Big Al <Big_al@invalid.com> - 2015-09-18 19:34 -0400
      Re: Is there a way to teach SMS microphone how to spell? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2015-09-20 06:02 +0000
      Re: Is there a way to teach SMS microphone how to spell? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-10-22 01:23 -0400
    Re: Is there a way to teach SMS microphone how to spell? Alan Meyer <ameyer2@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-22 11:36 -0400

#22392 — Is there a way to teach SMS microphone how to spell?

The SMS microphone to text app constantly spells names wrong, e.g., Nick 
instead of Nik (lots of others).

Is there a way to "teach" the default Android microphone to SMS text app 
how to properly spell a name or place?

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#22395

JJ wrote on 9/18/2015 5:53 PM:
> The SMS microphone to text app constantly spells names wrong, e.g., Nick
> instead of Nik (lots of others).
>
> Is there a way to "teach" the default Android microphone to SMS text app
> how to properly spell a name or place?
>
I thought Nick was correct myself.

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#22402

Big Al <Big_al@invalid.com> wrote in message mti6tl$omv$1@dont-email.me

> I thought Nick was correct myself.

Not this "Nik".

I just want to teach SMS how to spell what I use all the time, and that's
just one (of many) examples of where it constantly gets it wrong.

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#23213

On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:34:00 -0400, Big Al wrote:

> JJ wrote on 9/18/2015 5:53 PM:
>> The SMS microphone to text app constantly spells names wrong, e.g., Nick
>> instead of Nik (lots of others).
>>
> I thought Nick was correct myself.

Well, Nick may be short for Nicholas, but Nik is short for Nikita or
Nikolai. Each is "correct" in its place, and "incorrect" when out of place.

HTH. Cheers, -- tlvp
-- 
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.

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#23215

On 9/18/2015 5:53 PM, JJ wrote:
> The SMS microphone to text app constantly spells names wrong, e.g., Nick
> instead of Nik (lots of others).
>
> Is there a way to "teach" the default Android microphone to SMS text app
> how to properly spell a name or place?
>

I have searched for documentation for Google's text to speech software 
but have never found any.  If anyone knows where to find some, please 
let us know.

It wouldn't shock me if Google has the ability to recognize spelling on 
command.  If so, you could say "N" "I" "K".  But I haven't found any way 
to make that happen.  It would be useful if there were a command like 
"Google Spell" that would start a spelling mode and "Google Spell Stop" 
to stop it.

I have seen Google interpret words like "comma", putting in an actual 
comma "," instead of the word, but I can't find any documentation on 
what punctuation or special characters they support with what words.

My guess is that they tinker with this stuff all the time and purposely 
don't document it so that they're free to change it whenever they want, 
but it's maddening to not be able to do what you know voice recognition 
could do if they made small changes to support it - or maybe it actually 
can do it now, but there's no way to find out how.

    Alan

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