Here is a script that may be useful for anyone who dictates in Trados Studio using Dragon Naturally Speaking or a similar program.

The use-case is as follows: You are translating by dictation. Frequently, you come across non-translatables that just have to be copied over, such as company names. By default, there is no convenient or quick way to do this. You have to highlight the text in the source segment, copy it, move the cursor to the end of the target segment and paste. This operation might have to be repeated hundreds of times in a single translation. This script makes this process much faster. Just highlight the source text, hit the keyboard shortcut and the highlighted source text will be copied to the end of the target segment and added as a placeable non-translatable, so that the next time you come across this text, in this or any future translation, it will be underlined in blue and can be brought across with the standard Studio method of entering placeables (Ctrl+Left click)

This script is invoked by Ctrl+R and it uses F7 to add the non-translatable into the Word Bird plugin, which you will have to download and install from the SDL App store.
You will need to make sure that both of these keyboard shortcuts are not already assigned (they are by default) and either delete them or use different shortcuts.

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; This script enables highlighted text to be copied from the source to the end of the target segment in Trados Studio.
; Just highlight the text to transfer and click "Ctrl+R" and the text will be carried over
; It will then be added as a non-translatable in WordBird (it is necessary to add F7 or some other keyboard shortcut
; to the "Add non-translatable" function of the WordBird plugin).

^R::
Send ^c
Sleep 50
Send {F6}
Sleep 50
Send ^{PgDn}
Sleep 50
Send ^v
Send {F7}
return
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I hope some of you find this useful.

Neil