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Contexts
Some rules apply only to Windows. Others apply only to Mac OS X. (In both cases, the rules control speech recognition; there are none for Linux.) You might want to have rules that apply to one project, but not to another, or to one location but not another. Yet keeping entirely separate sets of rules is inconvenient and problematic when data and work moves among people, machines, and locations.
In Synthia, you can assign contexts to rules . Rules that are valid in the current context are visible to queries such as rules about... and are used to parse what you ask Synthia to do. Rules that are not valid in the current context, such as OS X rules on a Windows machine, are not visible and not used to understand user input: they are hidden rules.
Context rules allow you to define the context of new rules, new locations and project, and even new categories of contexts.
Exercise: what are the rules for the os x context?
Exercise: what are synonyms for os x?
Exercise: create snarky rules for what's under the hood? for each
operating system.
Exercise: delete those three rules.
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