Clicking the Practice button in the Practice tab of the toolbar (or selecting Practice->Select Practice)will bring up the Practice Exercises window, where you can practice words and characters that have given you trouble, random words or characters, or pieces of prose and poetry. Alternatively, you can bring up a list of your custom designed practice exercises by selecting Practice->Select Practice Text... Revision Use the "Problem words" exercise to practice words that you've had trouble with in the past. The source text is generated from words that were mistyped in previously attempted exercises. Use the "Problem characters" exercise to practice words containing characters that are troublesome for you. These exercises are not available unless mistakes have been made in one or more of the other exercises. Drills Use these exercises to increase your response time to unfamiliar texts. The source texts are generated from random collections of words, letters and / or numbers. Prose / Poetry Use these exercises to practice typing natural English texts. Professional Select a professional exercise to practice typing emails, letters, reports and transcriptions. Custom If you have imported custom exercises (see the Custom Exercises section of this manual for more info), you can select them here to practice typing. Dictation You may practice taking dictation against a prerecorded sound file. - Select the "Practice" tab and click the "Select Dictation" toolbar button.
- Choose from the list of available dictations in the dialog. If the sound file has not already been downloaded, KeyBlaze will attempt to download it from the NCH website.
- Click "Start" - this will start the playback of the sound file.
- You may start typing at any time - there is no time limit and results are not tracked for dictations.
- You will be asked whether you wish to compare your typing with a text transcription when the recording finishes, and whether you want to keep displaying the prompt dialog..
- When you stop the dictation, you may also choose to do a comparison by clicking the "Compare" toolbar button.
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