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Manage your dictation formatting

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With Dragon Medical One (DMO) open on your workstation, say "Manage formatting" or navigate to dmo_dragonbar.png > What You Can Say, then click the menu bar dmo_settingsmenu.png and choose Manage Formatting. You can then manage the formatting of expressions when dictating including dates, times, measurements, numbers, etc.

Dates

Define how the system writes dates. When you say a date, you can say the month as a number or as a word. Each spoken form has its own settings; for example, you can configured the system to write the day with a leading zero when you say the month as a number and without a leading zero when you say the month as a word. In order to avoid ambiguous date formats, some short dates cannot be configured. For example, "the second of March" and "the second of the third" are always formatted as "2 March", not as "2/3". When you say "two three", the system does not recognise this as day and month.

  • Format dates
    • Disabled
    • As spoken
    • Write the month as a word
    • Write the month as digits
    • YYYY-MM-DD date format

Months spoken as words

  • Write days 1-9 of the month
    • As spoken
    • With a leading zero
  • Write the month
    • As spoken
    • Abbreviated
  • Write the year
    • As spoken
    • With four digits

Months spoken as numbers

  • Write days and months 1-9
    • As spoken
    • With leading zeroes
  • Write a date separator
    • As "-"
    • As "/"
  • Write the year
    • As spoken
    • With four digits

Times

Define how the system writes times.

  • Write a time separator
    • As a colon
    • As a full stop
  • Write "o'clock"
    • Never
    • Only before "position"
    • Always
  • Write "hours" in 24-hour time format
    • As "hours"
    • As "hrs"
    • Never

Numbers

Define how the system writes numbers.

  • Write the following numbers as digits.
    • All
    • 2 and higher
    • 10 and higher
    • 100 and higher
    • None
  • Write large numbers (million, billion, ...)
    • As digits
    • As words and digits
  • Write the following ordinal numbers as digits.
    • All
    • 1st and higher
    • 2nd and higher
    • 3rd and higher
    • 10th and higher
    • 13th and higher
    • None

Measurements

Define how the system writes measurements. A measurement combines a number or number range with a unit. Settings that define how the system writes units only apply to units that are part of a measurement (following a number).

Areas and volumes

Define how the system writes areas and volumes.

  • Write metric square and cubic units.
    • With a baseline digit
    • With a superscript digit
    • Abbreviated
  • Write cubic centimetres.
    • The same as other cubic units
    • As "cc"
  • Write litres.
    • As "L"
    • As "l"

Micro prefix

Define how the system writes units with the micro prefix.

  • Write micrograms.
    • As spoken
    • As "mcg"
    • As "µg"
  • Write microlitres.
    • As spoken
    • As "mcl" or "mcL"
    • As "µl" or "µL"
  • Write the micro prefix for other units.
    • As spoken
    • As "mc"
    • As "µ"
    • As "u"

Time units

Define how the system writes time units.

  • Write hours.
    • As spoken
    • As "/h"
  • Write minutes.
    • As spoken
    • As "/min"
  • Write seconds.
    • As spoken
    • As "/s"
    • As "/sec"

Imperial units

Define how the system writes imperial units.

  • Write imperial units.
    • As spoken
    • Abbreviated without full stop
    • Abbreviated with full stop
  • Write imperial square and cubic units.
    • As spoken
    • Without full stop, with superscript digit
    • With full stop, with superscript digit
    • Without full stop, with baseline digit
    • With full stop, with baseline digit
    • Abbreviated without full stop
    • Abbreviated with full stop

Other units

Define how the system writes other common units.

  • Write degrees.
    • As spoken
    • With the degree symbol
  • Write degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.
    • As spoken
    • As " °F" and " °C"
    • As "°F" and "°C"
    • As "degrees F" and "degrees C"
  • Write percent.
    • As spoken
    • As " %"
    • As "%"

Vertebrae

Define how the system writes vertebra expressions. To avoid ambiguity, we recommend saying the comma in lists of vertebrae or spinal nerves.

  • Write the vertebra number.
    • As an Arabic numeral
    • As a Roman numeral
  • Write vertebra ranges.
    • With "-", unless you say "through"
    • With "-"
  • Write adjacent vertebrae.
    • With "-"
    • With "/"
  • Write the right side of the vertebra range.
    • As spoken
    • Expanded

Numbered lists

Define how the system writes numbered lists.

  • Enable numbered list formatting.
    • No
    • Yes
  • Insert before numbered list items.
    • New paragraph
    • New line
    • Do not insert anything
  • Write numbered list items.
    • Not indented, with "#"
    • Indented, without "#"
    • Indented, with "#"
    • Not indented, without "#"

Words and sentences

Define the general writing style for words and sentences.

  • Start new lines with a capital letter.
    • No
    • Yes
  • Write the word after a colon.
    • With standard capitalisation
    • With a capital letter
  • Number of spaces after punctuation marks.
    • 1
    • 2
  • Expand contractions.
    • No
    • Yes