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"riverman" wrote in message
In this particular one, however, I was too distracted by determining
when they chose to use the spelled-out numbers "three" or when they
chose to use the digital representation "3". Sometimes they even used
both in one sentence: "three in 10".

I recently started trying to use voice recognition software (Dragon) for
writing reports. It's actually quite good, but that number thing can be
annoying. It seems to be programmed to use the spelled out version for
anything less than ten, so if I dictate "three in ten", it will transcribe
it exactly as you wrote it, "three in 10".

Joe F.

"rb608" wrote in message
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I recently started trying to use voice recognition software (Dragon) for
writing reports. It's actually quite good, but that number thing can be
annoying. It seems to be programmed to use the spelled out version for
anything less than ten, so if I dictate "three in ten", it will transcribe
it exactly as you wrote it, "three in 10".

This follows the style rule The Associated Press
promulgated (not necessarily first) before 1940.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

On Jan 23, 3:24 pm, "Don Phillipson"
wrote:
This follows the style rule The Associated Press
promulgated (not necessarily first) before 1940.

Yeah, it's generally the convention I use in normal writing; but when
dictating an engineering report with a lot of numerical references,
it's inconveniently inconsistent.

Joe F.