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The folks at abletfactory ran a study to see what effect importing words into the Tablet User Dictionary has on recognition. The gist of it is, when they added 2000 medical terms, reco increased from 58.1% to 83.8%. When 42,000 words were added, reco increased to 91.5%.
That's pretty dammed impressive. I guess that makes a strong case for getting your hands on a Special Interest Dictionary, or spending some time entering all the words that aren't recognized. The later takes quite a bit of time though. I wonder if there are any freeware dictionaries out there? People must have been compiling these things for speech dictionaries a long time ago.