I am running LyX on my Windows XP system through Cygwin and XFree86. I have attempted to dictate directly into LyX while using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred, version 5. To my surprise, this almost works, but for the severe limitation that words with a repeated letter get truncated along with any words that immediately follow, so that "see the bird" becomes "se", "This better work" becomes "This bet", and so on. LyX also will not finish words with apostrophes in them.
I have found that I can actually dictate 'repeated letter words' directly into Cygwin without any problems, but apostrophes are ignored there. There was another problem that prevented LyX from starting a new sentence on the same line, but I solved that by changing the settings in Dragon NaturallySpeaking so that it would place only one space after a sentence instead of two spaces. Does anyone have a suggestion for how to fix this? Or is there a way to copy words from a Windows program to the clipboard in LyX? I haven't been able to do this either. Importing a file does not strike me as a very efficient solution. I'll be most grateful for any help you can offer. Thanks, Kurt Crowder
