Expand English contractions automatically when using Serenade for dictation. This supports the conversion of informal speech into formal prose, which is required in scientific publications.
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Serenade is a free, automated speech recognition software application for speech-to-commands and speech-to-code. Serenade also has a dictation mode that you can invoke; the word error rate is relatively low. It is low enough to consider it as an alternative to other automated speech-recognition software.
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186 common and not-so-common English contractions mapped to their expansions.
The file contractions.js has 186 text replacements.
The contraction is the first argument; the expansion is the second argument of the method pronounce(), which is broken currently.
Developers are working on it.
Check if your words.json file exists already. If not, copy words.json to ~/.serenade/words.json. Note that the file is NOT copied to ~/.serenade/scripts/words.json.
You will have to restart Serenade for it to read the contents of the new words.json file.
When it is working again, copy the contractions.js file's contents and paste them into the bottom of the custom.js file located in ~/.serenade/scripts/custom.js.
Changes to custom.js and any other file stored in the scripts subdirectory are picked up automatically by Serenade such that a restart of serenade is not required.
It May be sufficient to just place contractions.js in the scripts subdirectory.
| Version | Changes | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Version 0.1 | Initiated and added 186 contractions. | 2024 May 9 |
| Version 0.2 | Added words.json. | 2024 May 9 |
- NIH: R01 CA242845
- NIH: R01 AI088011
- NIH: P30 CA225520 (PI: R. Mannel)
- NIH: P20 GM103640 and P30 GM145423 (PI: A. West)