Teach Dictation to recognize words

I must use MacOS Dictation capability extensively. There are a number of terms and place names that Dictation gets wrong. Is there any way to teach the software specific words it apparently doesn't know?

MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

Posted on Sep 21, 2018 9:55 AM

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dialabrain

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Sep 21, 2018 10:02 AM in response to Tom Gleason

You can't train Dictation. You would have to use something like Dragon for Mac. Don't know how well it works.

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