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You can perform interpretation by having Voice Editing convert speech from an IC recorder or a
microphone to text for translation and reciting in another language.
Connect a microphone to the computer. ( page 64)
Click .
<Dictation Pad> screen opens.
On the “Source Text” side,
select a user name and a
voice recognition engine for
the language to be dictated.
Set the “Microphone” in the <Dictation Pad> screen to ON.
Click . It changes to .
On the “Translation” side,
select a target language for
translation in “Language” and
a voice for reciting in “Voice.”
Dictate into the microphone.
The sentence you dictate is converted to text and displayed in the “Source Text” field.
Next, it is translated and displayed in the “Translation” field. After this, the displayed sentence is
recited.
Click the “Interpretation” tab.
Turn the microphone on.
Interpretation
Converting sound to text (Voice Recognition)
“Interpretation” function is not available unless you have installed a translation engine.
The process of interpretation involves a combination of steps, specifically, voice recognition → translation →
text-to-speech conversion.
Interpretation results may not be as expected in some cases, depending on the content of the source text for
interpretation.