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Intelligent Translation

Some words will always be new to you. Intelligent Phonetics and Intelligent Prefix/Suffix Addition mean translation power without huge dictionaries.

Phonetics

For any steno stroke that’s not defined in your steno dictionary, Total Eclipse offers two methods of phonetic translation: Basic or Intelligent.
Both are user-definable.

It’s one more tool to make even your rough draft more readable.

What about Prefixes and Suffixes?

When Eclipse attaches a prefix or suffix to a root word, it automatically checks the spelling dictionary to make the appropriate adjustments. If your steno dictionary contains prefix and suffix entries, you’ll notice they work much better with Eclipse. There’s also a free kit with a dictionary of over 300 prefixes and suffixes that are designed to translate uncommon words. A video tutorial (.3 NCRA CEU) is available to help you take advantage of Eclipse intelligent translation. More than one person has said this kit made all the difference in passing NCRA’s Certified Realtime Reporter examination.

Intelligent Conflict Resolution has been part of Eclipse for more than 15 years.

Eclipse resolves conflicts so intelligently that even longtime realtime writers and captioners find that it is a reliable tool for improving translation. Conflict resolution can also be used to improve punctuation and capitalization during translation. It can make sense of “stacked” or “shadowed” steno strokes.

How does Total Eclipse resolve dictionary conflicts more accurately than other CAT systems?

There’s no difference in the pronunciation of there, their, or they’re.

Here’s an example: “Is it \there\their\they’re yet?” To help resolve such conflicts, other CAT systems MEMORIZE phrases, for example, the two words preceding a conflict. Memorizing “is it there” just does NOT help if the sentence asks “is it their opinion.” Typically, other systems must memorize a huge number of phrases in order to resolve conflicts to some degree.

Eclipse does not memorize phrases; it LEARNS grammatical context. It understands that the word that comes AFTER a conflict is often decisive. Typically you only have to resolve a conflict in just a handful of contexts for Eclipse to reliably pick the right choice in the future. Conflicts can even contain prefixes or suffixes. No wonder Eclipse users speak so enthusiastically about intelligent conflict resolution.

The “Translation Magic” tutorial contains a Conflicts Kit to help you take advantage of Eclipse artificial intelligence. Here are some examples from the Conflicts Kit:
Punctuation: \yes\yes,\, yes,\, yes
Capitalization: \exhibit number\Exhibit No.
Hyphenation: \up to date\up-to-date
Stacking/Shadowing: \understand\{^ed}in

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