Import terms and phrases into project (Standalone mode)

Import multiple terms and phrases into the Phonetics Boosting project from an external file. Importing in bulk is an alternative to manually adding a single term or phrase at a time to the project. Terms and phrases you import are either out-of-vocabulary, or corrections for incorrectly transcribed terms and phrases, to be integrated into the language model.

Imported terms are added with the default probability of Medium, which is the recommended probability. Out-of-vocabulary terms are added without pronunciations.

Before you begin

Define project properties (Standalone mode)
Review Best practices for Phonetics Boosting
Make sure that you have access to the .pbxb file with the list of terms to import

Procedure

In the toolbar, click Import.
Browse to the .pbxb file, and click Open.
- The terms in the file are added to the list of Phrases, and appear at the top of the list in bold, and in alphabetical order.
- Phrases are added according to the first letter in the first term of the phrase, with the full phrase appearing below this term. If the phrase includes out-of-vocabulary terms, these terms are added individually to the list in alphabetical order.
- Each term is tagged as Imported to differentiate it from the terms and phrases in the project that were added manually.
- Terms and phrases without pronunciations are highlighted in red.
Select an imported term or phrase from the list.
Click Band Adjustment.
If the color graph shows that the existing band is higher, select Unchanged. Otherwise, select Medium.

Use the visualization of the popularity level in the color graph and the list of Best Practices as guidelines to select the band adjustment most appropriate to the term or phrase.

Impacting Phrases: Shows the impact of the new term or the phrase on the Speech Recognition engine’s vocabulary. The Band column reflects the probability of the term/phrase, as either (Boost), (Suppress), (Unchanged) and (Knockout, indicating lowest probability and will not appear in the transcription).
Impacted Phrases: Shows the phrases that will be boosted as a result of the new term/phrase.

Click Pronunciations.
To add pronunciations from the phoneme generator, do the following:
1. Click the icon next to the term.
  
  The pronunciation is added for the term, and is replaced by and .
2. To tweak the pronunciation, click .
3. To not use the pronunciation, click and then confirm the delete message. The pronunciation is removed from the list, and reappears with .
To add pronunciations from Similar terms (recommended), do the following:
1. In the Search for Phrase field, start typing letters in or similar to the term/phrase for which you want to create a pronunciation.
2. From the list of terms that appear, select the phoneme that best represents the new term/phrase and click to add it to the New Pronunciation field.
3. To add another phoneme to the string in the New Pronunciation field, press the space bar to add a space, and then select the phoneme from the list.
  
  If you select more than one term, on clicking , each term is appended to the string in the New Pronunciation field. Make sure that the different phonemes are separated by spaces.
To add pronunciations according to the phonemes that represent specific speech sounds, do the following:
1. From the list of Phonemes on the right, find the phoneme similar to the term or phrase, for which you want to create a pronunciation.
2. In the New Pronunciation field, type the phoneme as it appears in the Phoneme list on the right.
3. To add another phoneme, press the space bar and then repeat step a and step b.
4. Continue until you have the complete phonetic representation of the term or phrase.
  
  Make sure that the different phonemes are separated by spaces.
To add the new pronunciation, click Add.
Repeat step 3 through step 10 to select the probability and add pronunciations for other imported terms and phrases.

What to do next

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