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I think putting some math vocabulary in with dictation is very useful so we don't have to pause or use "say <dictation>" all the time.
Here's what I tried so far (including some of Mike's old code). Capturing dictation and then replacing some words with a dictionary (would be in a separate grammar that would be disabled unless you are doing math).

math_replacement_dictionary = {"math gamma": r"$\gamma$",
    "math gamma below beta": r"$\gamma_\beta$"}
def math_replace(dictation, dictionary):
    input_list = str(dictation).split(" ")
    output_list = []
    for i in range(len(input_list)):
        if input_list[i] == "cap":
            input_list[i+1] = input_list[i+1].title()
        else:
            output_list.append(input_list[i])
    pre_math_string = " ".join(output_list)

    output_string = copy.copy(pre_math_string)
    for k, v in sorted(dictionary.items(), key=lambda pair: len(pair[0]), reverse=True):
        output_string = output_string.replace(k, v)
    Text(output_string).execute()

"<dictation>": Function(math_replace, dictionary=math_replacement_dictionary),

The first part of the function is just to getcapitalization for regular dictation. The reason I did the sorting stuff is because I want to make sure I am replacing the largestthing first. e.g. replacing "math gamma below beta" before "math gamma" since otherwise that would cause problems.
We can generate a dictionary for the math replacement dictionary. Let me know what people think. David zurow said he had some thoughts about a better way to do this sort of thing am hoping he will share.

I still need to get it to put in spaces at the beginning of each utterance unless there already is aspace which I guess is something that Dragon does automatically but is not done by this. A variety of things seem kind of clunky when all of your dictation is passed through this. e.g. scratch that doesn't work.
@annakirkpatrick you can have backslashes in the Dragon vocabulary word if you put them in the printed form which is in preferences under a word in the Vocabulary Editor. However, if you are using the approach above if you pass everything through that command, the printed form will be lost it will just write out the written form; in other words you can't do both approaches at the same time.