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1. DA You can also hide the DragonBar by saying Switch to Tray Icon O nly Mode To make a hidden DragonBar reappear rightclick on the small microphone in the lower right corner of the screen From the menu that appears click Restore Previous DragonBar Mode Controlling Dragon with voice commands Y ou can operate D ragon with voice commands F or example to show the Extras toolbar say Show Extras Bar For alist of other voice commands that control Dragon see C ontrolling the DragonBar in the online help 43 Starting to Dictate Using QuickStart 44 TheD ragon QuickS tart taskbar tray icon gives you quick access to Dragon and recent users R ight clicking the QuickStart icon displays the QuickS tart menu EW This option is installed at the end of Dragon setup process When in QuickStart mode Dragon launches automatically at system startup time and adds the Dragon icon to the Windows taskbar To enable QuickStart T wo ways to enable QuickS tart mode are During C ustom installation If during the installation you choose to set Dragon options when the installation is complete By clicking the Dragon icon in the upper left corner of the DragonBar and selecting Tray Icon Only M ode See U sing QuickStart on page 45 for more information To shut off permanently disable QuickStart 1 Inthe DragonBar menu select Tools gt Options and click the M iscellaneous tab of the Options dialog box 2 Desele
2. met my friends apostrophe children children EA You can add sto a word by selecting it and then saying it again with apostrophe ess Dictating hyphenated words M any hyphenated words and phrases are already in the Dragon vocabulary T o dictate a word or phrase that is usually hyphenated just say it as you normally would long lasting long lasting up to date schedule up to date schedule 113 Dictating N umbes Punctuation and Special Characters Tokyo based company Tokyo based company nine year old boy nine year old boy Including hyphens as you dictate T o hyphenate words that D ragon doesn t hyphenate automatically just say hyphen wherever you want a hyphen TO ENTER SAY speech recognition speech hyphen recognition software software power sharing power hyphen sharing agreement agreement Elizabeth Walker Smith Elizabeth W alker hyphen Smith Y ou can hyphenate words you just dictated with the command H yphenate T hat Select the words you want to hyphenate and say H yphenate That If you say this command when no words are selected D ragon will usually hyphenate the last few words that you said Removing hyphens Y ou can remove a hyphen by selecting it and replacing it with a space To remove a hyphen 1 Say Select hyphen 2 Say Space Bar Preventing hyphens 114 Y ou can prevent Dragon from entering a hyphen by pausing
3. 87 Correcting and E diting To stop playback and correct a mistake To stop playback and correct a mistake do any of the following Click the C orrection button on the P layback toolbar Press the minus key on the numeric keypad T his stops playback and simultaneously opens the C orrection menu T here you can correct the text for the last phrase played back By default Dragon stores about 30 minutes of dictation 40 MB If you want to be able to store more dictation you can change the amount of disk space that s set aside for storing it O n the Tools menu click Options and then click the Data tab Increase the number in the Disk space reserved for playback box Dictate now correct later 88 When you dictate into the D ragonP ad you can save your dictation with your text so either you or someone else can correct it later Y ou must create and edit your file in the DragonP ad to be able to play back dictation T his feature is available in Dragon Professional and higher editions Y ou can save dictation with your document if you select the Saverecorded dictation with document box on the D ata tab of the Options dialog T he first time you save a document in D ragonP ad during an editing session Dragon asks you whether you want to save your speech data f you save your speech data you can reopen the document at a later time and play back your dictation If you do not save your speech data your dictation is st
4. In these situations you can use a special window called the Dictation Box Y ou use the D ictation B ox to dictate and edit text in these non standard windows without the difficulties you might otherwise experience 35 Starting to Dictate To start the Dictation B ox 1 Place you cursor where you want to put the text 2 Start the Dictation Box by either Saying Show Dictation Box Select Tools gt D ictation B ox from the D ragonB ar UsecTRL SHIFT D 3 When the Dictation B ox displays you can dictate and edit text inside the Dictation B ox using all Dragon commands 4 Once you are done dictating and editing the text say or click Transfer The text you dictated in the Dictation B ox is transferred to the application F or more information on using the Dictation Box with a non standard window see the online help Printing and saving your dictated text Printing F rom the File menu of your word processor use the mouse to choose P rint Or say C lick File pause and say P rint Y ou can also simply say P rint Document or Print File if the N atural L anguage Commands are enabled See the online help for more information Saving F rom the File menu choose Save Y ou can also say C lick File and then say Save Remember you have to pause between the C lick File and the Save commands to have Dragon recognize them as two separate commands If the N atural L a
5. When you install Dragon you can either do a complete typical installation or a custom installation N uance recommends you do a complete installation unless you are experienced with the product T he table below tells more about each installation type TYPE DESCRIPTION Typical Installs all options and speech profiles Requires the Complete maximum disk space Custom Lets you select particular options and vocabularies to install Can greatly reduce the disk space required During a custom installation in the Professional edi tion you can modify settings that are then applied to all user profiles created with this installation including W indows limited account users If you decide not to install some Dragon components by selecting Custom installation you can install them later by running the Setup program again and choosing Modify If you are installing the product for multiple users you should choose a C ustom installation rather than a T ypical C omplete installation To carry out a custom installation proceed to Installing software Custom Installation on page 10 User Guide Otherwise proceed with Installing software T ypical Installation on page 9 Installing software Typical Installation To install all features of Dragon 1 Insert the Dragon DVD into your DV D drive If the installation does not start automatically use Windows E xplorer to find and double click setup exe on the DVD
6. 48 User Guide F or example if Microsoft Word is running you can switch to it by saying S witch to M icrosoft word Y ou can also switch between open windows by saying S witch to Previous Window same as pressing ALT AB and Switch to N ext Window same as pressing ALT SHIFT AB SAY THIS TO Switch to N ext Switch to the next application W indow Switch to Previous Switch to the previous application W indow Switch to Microsoft Make Microsoft W ord the active W ord application Switch to name of Switch to the open application you say application Say the name of the application as it appears in the title bar of the application window F rom list_apps_dlg To switch between open programs or windows To list all open programs Say L ist Programs or L ist all windows T he L ist of Open A pplications window opens To list open windows of multi document applications Say L ist windows for lt program name gt F or example say L ist windows for Microsoft Word T he L ist of Windows opens T o switch to an open program or window Say Choosen where n is the number of the program or window you want to switch to or just say the number next to the word F or example say Choose 2 or 2 OR Choose the number of the program or window from the list and click OK 49 Working on Y our Desktop Opening and closing menus Y ou can activate any menu by saying the menu n
7. F or example to select a check box labeled Toolbar say Toolbar or Click Toolbar To clear the check box deselect it say its name again Say Toolbar or Click Toolbar to select check boxs Settings Say Wrap to window or Options Text Rich Text Click Wrap Word wep Toolbars to window O No wrap Toolbor Wrap to window C Eomet Bar C Buler wrap to ruler C Status Bar Y ou can select tabs by saying the name of the tab alone or preceded by C lick In the dialog box pictured you could say Options or Click Options to select the Options tab Y ou can also move between tabs by saying Go to N ext Tab and Goto Previous Tab In some programs you may not be able to select dialog box items by saying their names If this happens the following method of selecting items may work say Tab Key repeatedly to move to the item you want then say Press Space Bar to select it See also M oving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse on page 63 51 Working on Y our Desktop Using Windows Desktop commands Y ou can use voice commands to perform many actions on the Windows Desktop as shown in the table below TO DO THIS YOU CAN SAY O pen your My Computer window O pen My Computer O pen your My Documents folder O pen My Documents O pen your My Pictures folder O pen My Pictures Open your My Musi
8. R esume With followed immediately by the word or words to which you want to return T hen continue dictating Any text after the new position of the insertion point will be replaced with your new dictation DA W hen using the Resume W ith command remember not to pause in the middle Say Resume W ith and then immediately say the words to which you wantto return These words must be in the last three or four sentences 100 characters you said you can t use Resume W ith to return to an earlier part of your document To go back as you dictate 1 Suppose you dictate this sentence have a deadline this week but we could meet for lunch um er next Wednesday 2 Tocorrect the sentence return to the last correct words you remember dictating F or example say R esume With meet for lunch Remember not to pause in the middle 3 Then dictate the rest of the sentence F or example say next Wednesday at noon Deleting specific words Y ou can delete text by selecting it and saying D elete That To delete text 1 Select the text you want to delete 81 Correcting and E diting 2 Say Delete That Y ou can also say Scratch That to do the same thing Deleting the next or previous paragraph or line Y ou can delete the next or previous paragraph by saying D elete N ext Paragraph or Delete Previous Paragraph Y ou can delete the next or previous line by
9. Starting to Dictate Mycammands Vocabulary i ti y Icons to the top far right Command Editor er Mouse on Sidebar open various Browser Dragon Commands functions inside Dragon Help DRAGON SIDEVAR Home 5 For moreinformation see the online help Tutorial To start the T utorial choose Tutorial from the H elp menu on the DragonB ar TheT utorial includes a number of lessons covering the basics of Dragon Troubleshooting If you are having problems using Dragon or if you are getting unexpected results please refer to the R esolving P roblems and Tips sections of the online help The DragonBar The D ragonB ar gives you access to Dragon functions and features Menus Volume Display amp DragonBar Professional e Profile Tools Vocabulary Microphone Status Extras 40 User Guide Microphone button and volume display When the microphone is on the Volume D isplay shows the sound level Y ellow means silence or that you iD ee are speaking too softly Recognition Mode Green means that you are speaking at a proper level R ed means that you are speaking too loudly The Full Text Control indicator The DragonB ar includes a F ull Text C ontrol indicator that turns green when you arein an application or window where all of Dragon s functionality is supported Volume display DragonBar Professio Full Text Control indicator looks like check mark displays i
10. 5 Continue until all the text is correct Using the Correction menu The Correction menu shows Dragon s best guess of the alternatives to the words you dictated and selected correct that here is no time like the present 6 Correction Menu x Say Choose followed by a number Choose 1 Choose 2 Choose 3 Choose 4 Choose 5 Choose 6 Choose 7 Choose 8 Choose 9 There s no tirne like the present There is no time like the presence There is no Time like the present There s no tirne like the presence There is no time like the presents There s no time like the presents There is no time like to present There s no tirne like to present There is no time like a presence You can also say Spell that if you don t see your choice above Play that back All caps that Add that to Vocabulary Unselect that Don t recognize that word Make that a command Correction options To correct a word or phrase with the Correction menu 1 When you notice a mistake pause in your dictation and then say Select and the incorrect word or phrase If the error is 71 Correcting and E diting 72 in the last thing you said you can just say Select T hat Dragon highlights the word or phrase and the Correction menu appears 2 Ifthe correct word or phrase is on the list start spelling to choose it or say C hoose and the number of that choice F or example say C hoose 2 D o n
11. commands T o change the style of text you have already selected use the F ormat That command Changing the font as you dictate 96 While dictating you can change the font face size and style by saying S et F ont followed by the font attributes you want F or example you can say Set F ont Times or Set Font Arial 12 Bold When you continue dictating the new text appears with the font attributes you set User Guide Changing font face SAY THEN Set Font Arial Courier Courier N ew Garamond Helvetica Palatino Times Times New Roman Changing font size Say Set Size and then a size from 4 to 100 points F or example say Set Size 18 Then continue dictating Changing font style SAY THEN Set Font Bold Italics Bold Italics Underline Strikeout Plain or Plain Textor Normal or Regular Changing a combination of font face size and style Say Set F ont and then the attributes you want listed in the previous sections Y ou can specify any combination of font face size and style but you must specify these attributes in that 97 F ormatting order font face then size then style See the list of examples below Set Font Arial Set Font Arial 12 or Set Font Arial 12 Point Set Size 12 Bold Set Font Arial Bold Set F ont Bold If you re changing only the font size use the Set Size commands not the S
12. for example S pell b u o n space g i o r n o The word you spelled appears right in your document Y ou must say C ap if the word contains a capital letter F or example say S pell C ap R u m p e I s t i l s k i n to type R umpelstilskin 83 Correcting and E diting If you say S pell by itself without any letters after it the S pell dialog box opens Spelling Window Spell or type what you had said or say Choose and a number Pd You can also say gt Play that back Train Tell me more about this window Y ou can then speak the letters and D ragon will type them or you can correct any errors in the word you spelled When spelling you can say numbers and special characters as well as letters F or example to dictate an automobile license plate number you could say S pell y h m 6 0 9 Dragon would type yhm609 Say Spell C ap m a c m i l l a n trademark to get M acM illan in your document Spelling a word adds that word to the active vocabulary Words that contain numbers are not added to the vocabulary 84 User Guide E To dictate unusual text such as automobile license plate numbers or product codes you can also switch to Spell mode by saying Switch To Spell Mode and then dictate letters Y ou can make theS pell dialog box appear whenever you use the S pell command by setting the S pell commands bring up the S pell dialog box
13. parenthesis nine six five five two zero zero 1 212 555 1212 one two one two five five five one two one two Telephone numbers outside North America T o dictate other phone numbers including E uropean phone numbers you must say all the punctuation including the hyphens spaces and parentheses TO ENTER SAY 01628 894150 open parenthesis oh one six two eight close parenthesis eight nine four one five oh 027 629 8944 oh two seven space bar six two nine space bar eight nine four four 61 7 4695 2055 six one hyphen seven hyphen four six nine five hyphen two zero five five 65 2778590 open parenthesis six five close parenthe sis two seven seven eight five nine zero 105 Dictating N umbes Punctuation and Special Characters Fractions 106 In dialects other than US Canada you can say bracket instead of parenthesis See also A utomatic formatting of dates times telephone numbers on page 106 Automatic formatting of dates times telephone numbers To indicate how you want dates times telephone numbers and other numbers automatically formatted 1 On the D ragonB ar select Tools gt Auto F ormatting T he Auto F ormatting dialog box appears Click the check box labeled F or mat D ates and select the format you want from its drop down list F or instance select MonthD YYYY or D M YY Click the check box labeled F ormat times Dragon then formats times
14. where the hyphen would normally be F or example to type long lasting normally hyphenated say long then pause for a moment and then say lasting Or User Guide you can say long space bar lasting without pausing to insert a space in place of the hyphen Dictating compound words Dragon joins compound words such as note and book to form notebook automatically based on standard usage T o dictate a compound word just say it as you normally would Compounding words as you dictate T o compound words that D ragon doesn t join automatically just say N o Space between the words unitednations united No Space nations WorldWide Web Cap world No Space Cap wide Cap web Y ou can also dictate consecutive words without spaces by turning N o spaces on and then turning them off when you ve finished To dictate consecutive words without spaces 1 Say No Space On to turn spaces off 2 Dictate the words you want to appear without spaces 3 Say No Space Off to turn spacing back on Compounding words later Y ou can compound the last words you said or compound selected words by saying C ompound That This command removes all spaces between selected words Or if no words are selected it removes all spaces in the last utterance A ny tabs or line breaks are also removed 115 Dictating N umbes Punctuation and Special Characters To compoun
15. zero zero to enter 00 TO ENTER SAY 8 30 eight colon thirty or eight numeric colon thirty 7 45 AM seven forty five a m 10 22 PM ten twenty two p m 3 00 three o clock or three colon zero zero 5 00 PM five o clock p m Dragon will recognize times more accurately if you say numeric colon instead of colon when dictating times Other Dialects D ragon automatically types the point if you say a m or pm when dictating the time depending on the regional setting Say o clock or point zero zero to enter 00 TO ENTER SAY 8 30 eight point thirty 7 45 AM seven forty five a m 10 22 PM ten twenty two p m 3 00 three o clock 5 00 PM five o clock p m DA The format of a m and p m depends on your computer s regional W indows settings See also A utomatic formatting of dates times telephone numbers on page 106 104 User Guide Telephone numbers North American phone numbers Say US and Canadian phone numbers as you normally would pausing briefly between each group of numbers Y ou don t need to dictate hyphens for most phone numbers numbers that are 7 10 or 11 digits long Dragon will add them automatically TO ENTER SAY 965 5200 nine six five fifty two hundred 617 965 5200 six One seven nine six five fifty two oh oh 1 800 555 1212 one eight hundred five five five one two one two 617 965 5200 open parenthesis six one seven close
16. Arrow Left Arrow Home Key End Key Page Up Page Down Insert Key Delete Key Control Key Shift Key Alt Key Print Screen Scroll Lock Pause Key Num Lock Caps Lock 62 User Guide Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse D ragon provides hands free mouse control with M ouseGrid and the mouse motion voice commands Y ou can use these features to position the mouse pointer anywhere on the screen click the mouse buttons and drag obj ects all by voice Moving the mouse pointer with MouseGrid Y ou can position the mouse pointer anywhere on the screen by using M ouseGrid Y ou can move the pointer relative to the full screen or the active window To use MouseGrid 1 Say M ouseGrid to place the M ouseGrid over the full screen as shown below or say M ouseGrid Window to place it over the active window F or example is ord Docume 5 x PP Ble Edt view Insert Format Tools Table Window Help 218 x EATE E 102 0 e F 3 Normal Book Antiqua yu B of u E 4E F mark Index Entry hbo a cr ee EE ee EE g g 5 6 4 Page 1 Sec 1 ai Ei ind ai REG E E OR rr Le a lell A Start amp Microsoft Photo Editor WY Microsol Word Docu DragonBar Moude Grid CIM BOP 3 27PM 2 Say agrid number from 1 to 9 to position the pointer in that numbered area In this example to position the pointer over 63 Wo
17. DA Windows Vista W hen you start the installation on W indows Vista you may see the message saying A program needs your permission to continue Click Continue to start the installation 2 After the Windows Installer begins it installs two software packages if they are not already installed Visual C V ersion 9 0 R untime 3 After the Wizard begins click N ext to proceed to the License Agreement page R ead the text and select accept the terms then click N ext 4 Enter your U ser N ame and Organization and the Serial N umber supplied to your installation 5 Optional When the Setup T ype page appears click the C hange button and choose where to install the product Typical Complete 13 All program features will be installed Requires the most disk space If no earlier versions of D ragon are installed on your system the default directory is C Program F iles N uance N aturallySpeaking11 F or a list of directories created by installation see V ersion 11 5 F ile Structure on page 28 6 While you are still on the Setup T ype page select T ypi cal 7 profileC lick Install to start the installation Installation and U s Profile Creation 8 When prompted click Finish to complete the installation If you are prompted to restart your computer restart it now 9 Select Start gt All Programs gt Dragon N aturallyS peaking 11 5 gt Dragon N aturallyS peaking 11 5 The DragonB ar appears on your deskto
18. N ew paragraph Paragraph 34 User Guide Saying N ew Paragraph presses the ENTER key twice and capitalizes the next word you dictate Tips for dictating text To erase the last thing you said say Scratch That Y ou can repeat Scratch That to undo a sequence of phrases To undo the effects of a command say U ndo That If Undo That fails to undo an action try repeating the command until you completely undo the operation T o stop a recognition in progress and turn the microphone off click the small red button inside the R esults B ox Y ou can change the very last phrase you spoke by saying Bold That Cap That Correct That and so on you do not have to select the text first To remove a trailing space after a word you can say D elete Previous C haracter Y ou can create a spoken form for words you prefer not to say aloud F or example you can create a command that types Snookums whenever you say M ary s nickname To clear deselect your last selection say U nselect That F or information on correcting any mistakes see C hapter 5 Correcting and E diting on page 69 Using the Dictation Box N ormally you can dictate and use Dragon voice commands in any text window of any application H owever you may occasionally find an application or a specific window in an application where some voice commands won t work or won t work consistently
19. Start Scrolling Down Stop automatic scrolling Stop Scrolling Increase the speed of automatic scrolling Scroll Faster 56 User Guide Reduce the speed of automatic scrolling Scroll Slower Move the visible page up one line Scroll Up Move the visible page down one line Scroll Down Move up one line in the text Line Up Move down one line in the text Line Down Move the page up by a screen Page Up Move the page down by a screen Page Down Scrolling in windows and list boxes Opening Y ou can scroll vertically in a window for example an online H elp window or list box by saying M ove Down and M ove U p and then a number of scroll bar arrow clicks up to 20 F or example say M ove D own 4 or M ove U p 10 Y ou can scroll horizontally by saying M ove Left and M ove Right and then a number of scroll bar arrow clicks up to 20 F or example say M ove Left 10 or M ove Right 5 lists and making selections Y ou can activate any list box by saying the list box name To open a list box 1 Say the name of the list box you want to open 2 Say Show Choices Drop List or Open List Thelist box opens to show all the choices available in the list To make a selection from an open list 1 Say the full name of the selection 2 Say M ove Down or M ove U p and the number of places your selection is from t
20. Y ou can also use voice commands for these actions See M arking and dragging objects on page 65 Resizing and closing windows To resize and close windows say C lick and then one of the following window commands SAY THIS TO Click Minimize or Minimize the active window Click Control M enu pause Minimize Click Maximize or Maximize the active window Click Control M enu pause Maximize 55 Working on Y our Desktop SAY THIS TO Click Restore or Restore window to previous size Click Control M enu pause Restore Click Close or Close the active program Press ALT F4 Press CTRL F4 Close the active document not the whole program works in many programs Click Start M enu or O pen the W indows Start M enu Click Start or Press CTRL ESC Click is required for the Control menu commands If you have trouble getting Dragon to recognize any of the window commands you can first open the Control menu by saying Click Control Menu then say the command Scrolling in popular programs Y ou can use the following commands in many programs to scroll and move the view through the program s work area T hese voice scrolling commands work with Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 programs including Word Outlook E xcel PowerPoint and I nfoP ath F rom scroll_in_programs TO SAY Start automatic upward scrolling Start Scrolling Up Start automatic downward scrolling
21. a user profile enhances your recognition accuracy In initial training you read aloud for several minutes from one of the available texts For information on training a mobile user see the online help If you skipped training earlier to open a user profile from the D ragonB ar menu select P rofile gt O pen U ser P rofile and select your name in the list then click O pen to proceed Since you have not completed training options for Training appear To train a new user 1 When theR ead text aloud to train Dragon page of the wizard appears choose from these training options Show text with prompting Show text without prompting Skip training not recommended 2 IntheR ead Training Text page of the wizard click Go 3 If you chose the first training option Show text with prompting A yellow arrow showing you where to start reading appears Click Go and begin reading the text T o take breaks while you re training the program click P ause Welcome to general training DA To advance through the first two screens you must say the sentences without pausing For the rest of the screens it s okay to pause in the middle of a sentence When the words change color it means the computer has heard and recognized them 21 Installation and U s ProfileCreation 22 If you need to reread the same words click R edo then re read them f the computer still doesn t get it just click Skip Otherwise click N ext to con
22. also press the numeric plus key to turn on off the microphone User Guide Starting to dictate To begin dictating start a word processor such as Microsoft Word or Corel WordP erfect and begin a new document M ake sure your text insertion point is at the start of the new document DragonPad You can use the DragonPad a simple word processor included with Dragon To open the DragonPad from the Tools menu on the DragonBar click DragonPad Remember to click in the window you want to talk to before you speak Start talking As you speak Dragon 11 5 indicates that it is processing by displaying a small Dragon logo at your insertion point and when you pause your dictated words appear in your document Our research shows that this enables many users to dictate better without being distracted by seeing the preliminary results accumulating in the R esults B ox as in previous versions T he traditional R esults B ox is still available from the V iew tab of the Options dialog box F rom What s new Don t worry about mistakes at this point Dragon improves as you use it Using Natural Punctuation Dragon can automatically add periods and commas at the appropriate places in your dictation without you having to explicitly speak that punctuation T he N atural Punctuation feature can be useful in helping you get used to dictation by focusing on what you are saying rather than how your speech
23. as the program learns from your corrections M ake it a habit to correct mistakes to continue to improve the accuracy of the program M ake sure you save your speech files when prompted to preserve the adjustments the program makes EA You must select a word before typing over it Using the backspace key and retyping or saying Scratch That will not enable the software to learn from corrections and improve recognition accuracy For accuracy to improve you must first select text and then correct it or overwrite it with the words you said Correcting mistakes T here are a number of ways you can correct the misrecognitions in a document T he following techniques describe the most basic methods but you can combine these techniques in any manner that suits your working style To correct text with the keyboard 1 Move the insertion point to the beginning of the dictation you want to correct 2 Press the correction hot key to display the C orrection menu By default this is the minus key on the numeric keypad 69 Correcting and E diting 70 3 4 Y ou can change the hot key assignment on the H ot keys tab of the Options dialog box Y ou can also click the C orrection button on the E xtras toolbar of the D ragonBar If one of the alternatives is correct press the D own Arrow key to highlight that choice and then press ENTER to accept it If no alternative is correct just type or say the correct text C
24. based on your R egional Settings in Windows To have hyphens added to a phone number automatically click the check box labeled P hone numbers all other editions Y ou can also click the check box for P refer 5 million over 5 000 000 Other formats you can click check boxes for on this tab include U nited Kingdom and C anadian postal codes and several non numeric formats that involve using common abbreviations expanded contractions abbreviations of units of measure and titles such as M r M s Dr and formats for web and email addresses as well as street addresses If you have any edition click OK to save the settings and close the dialog box Y ou can dictate most common fractions the way you would normally say them T o dictate 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 5 1 6 1 7 1 8 1 9 User Guide 1 10 and 1 16 or a multiple of these fractions just say the fraction normally TO ENTER SAY 1 2 one half 1 4 one fourth or one quarter 15 16 fifteen sixteenths or fifteen over sixteen 3 7 8 m and seven eighths or three and seven over eight If the denominator bottom number in the fraction is greater than 10 you can enter the fraction by saying slash or over between the two numbers 9 12 nine slash twelve or nine over twelve 53 56 five space bar three slash fifty six 130 70 one thirty over seventy A few common fractions can also be displayed on your computer as special characters such as Y4 Y2 o
25. check box on both the Acoustics and Language M odel tabs or the tuning processes occur on the default schedule rather than the schedule you Set 4 Click N ext to continue Scheduling data collection Help us improve Dragon A fter it lets you set the schedule for accuracy tuning the Accuracy wizard lets you set whether or not to collect data and schedule when it should be collected DA W hen you set Data Collection to run it collects up to 500 MB of acoustic data and text from your dictation sessions O nce the data is collected you have the option of sending it to N uance to help improve 24 User Guide the accuracy of future versions of Dragon No personal information is ever sent to Nuance and participation in data collection is completely voluntary 1 IntheH elp us improve Dragon page you can choose Run Data Collection Don t run Data Collection but remind about this later Don t run Data Collection 2 If you choose R un Data Collection click C hange Schedule and set what time and how often the data is sent to N uance intheS elect Time and F requency dialog box D aily W eekly or M onthly If you do collect data by default D ragon initiates the process every Wednesday at 12 30AM 3 Besurethat you check the E nable check box in theS elect Time and Frequency dialog box or the collected data is sent to N uance on the default schedule rather than on the schedule you set 4 Click N ext to continue 5 When theC o
26. computer now 13 Installation and U ser Profile Creation 17 Select Start gt All Programs gt D ragon N aturallyS peaking 11 5 gt Dragon N aturallyS peaking 11 5 or click on the D ragon desktop icon 181f you have users from V ersion 9 x 10 x or 11 0 that you would like to upgrade before proceeding refer to U pgrading U ser Profiles on page 26 Otherwise if you have no previously existing users the P rofile Creation wizard starts immediately and you can create a user profile as explained under Creating your user profile on page 16 Modifying application settings for all users If you checked off M odify the application s settings for all users during a custom installation the Options dialog box opens immediately after the installation completes If you did a typical installation open the Options dialog box by running Dragon and selecting Tools gt Options In the Options dialog box you see several tabs you can use to set up various aspects of dictating with the product Correction H ot keys M iscellaneous Commands P layback Data View T ext to speech F or more information on each tab see the online H elp Modifying administrative settings If you checked M odify the administrative settings during a custom installation the Administrative Settings dialog box opens immediately after the installation ends If you did a typical installation open the Administrative Settings dialog box by running Dragon without
27. consecutive words 1 Say Caps On to turn capitals on DA W hen Caps On is active Dragon uses title case This means it capitalizes the first letters all words except for articles and prepositions such as the and to 94 User Guide 2 Dictate the words you want capitalized F or example say success is a journey colon seven steps to achieving success in the business of life D ragon types Success Is a J ourney Seven Steps to A chieving Success in the Business of L ife 3 Say Caps Off to turn capitals off Dictating next word in all capital letters When you re dictating you can enter a word in all capital letters by saying All C aps and then the word F or example say All Caps please to gt PLEASE Dictating consecutive words in all capital letters When you want to dictate consecutive words in all capitals you can turn all capitals on and then turn them off when you ve finished To dictate consecutive words in all capitals 1 Say All Caps On to turn all capitals on like pressing the CAPS LOCK key 2 Dictate the words that you want to appear in all caps F or example say the end and Dragon types TH E END 3 Say All Caps Off to turn all capitals off Dictating next word in all lowercase letters When you re dictating you can enter a word in all lowercase letters by saying N o C aps and then the word F or example say N o Caps J enni
28. opening a user and selecting Tools gt Administrative Settings Inthe Administrative Settings dialog box you see these tabs R oaming T o set up roaming users M iscellaneous T o create backup distribution directories and control who can modify custom commands 14 User Guide Scheduled T asks T o schedule voice recognition optimization and data collection for improved accuracy and let users modify the schedule F or details refer to the H elp by clicking the H elp button Modifying formatting options for all users If you chose to modify formatting options on the C ustom S etup page during a custom installation the A uto F or matting dialog box opens after the installation completes If you did not do a custom installation to set up formatting Run Dragon open a user and select Tools gt Formatting T he Auto F ormatting dialog box for all versions of Dragon N aturallyS peaking appears as shown below E Auto Formatting Automatically format text Web and e mail addresses Street addresses Abbreviate titles Dates Dates As Spoken Common abbreviations Expand contractions Prefer 5 million over 5 000 000 C Insert two spaces after period V Allow pauses in formatted phrases Numbers if greater than or equalto 10 v Units of measure ISO currency codes Phone numbers Prices Times C UK and Canadian postcodes Other numbers J US So
29. to bring it up C orrect or Select Correcting Punctuation N ote the following when correcting punctuation When you select a phrase more than one word that has punctuation be sure to dictate that punctuation F or example say you initially dictated Today is Thursday havea meeting at 11 o clock and the text was transcribed as T oday is Thursday havea meeting at 11 o clock If you want to change the comma to a period say S elect Thursday comma If the correct punctuation appears in the C orrection menu select it Otherwise you can dictate over the selection by for example saying Thursday period When you select punctuation the C orrection menu might list alternate punctuation If N atural Punctuation is turned on when you select a phrase that D ragon has added punctuation to the choices will include punctuation changes W hen you select a word that has adjacent punctuation the Natural Punctuation feature added the selection will extend to include that punctuation Selecting text by voice Using Full Text Controle Y ou can revise your dictation without correcting it by selecting the text using the S elect command and then saying new words to replace the selected text To use Full Text Controle 1 Dictate the sentence below 74 US Canada L et s meet for lunch on Tuesday period O ther Dialects L et s meet for lunch on Tuesday full stop User Guid
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31. you dictate is not in Dragon s vocabulary the software cannot transcribe it Properly correcting Dragon s errors will also help it learn The more you use Dragon the more opportunities the software will have to adapt to you both in terms of acoustics and in terms of language Introduction Do I still need my keyboard and mouse Although you can use Dragon to do almost everything on your computer by voice some things are still easier to do using the mouse or keyboard If using a mouse and keyboard is an option for you try experimenting with using your voice and using your hands for different tasks to see what works best What if can t use a keyboard and mouse If using a mouse and keyboard is not an option Chapter 4 Working on Y our Desktop on page 47 CHAPTER 2 Installation and User Profile Creation Plugging his chapter presents how to install and set up Dragon and then how to train Dragon to understand your voice T he installation process checks to make sure your system meets the minimum system requirements needed for Dragon T hese system requirements are listed in the information that came with your copy of Dragon If your system does not meet these requirements Dragon will not be installed Multiple users on one computer D ragon is licensed on a per individual basis Y ou are permitted to install the software on more than one computer such as on a desktop and a laptop computer or o
32. DRAGON NATURALLYSPEAKING MANUAL CS Boundless SUPPORT EDGE PROGRAM DRAGON NATURALLY SPEAKING Dragon N aturallySpeaking Version 11 5 g NUANCE Dragon User Guide Version 11 5 Nuance Communications Inc has patents or pending patent applications covering the subject matter contained in this document T he furnishing of this document does not give you any license to such patents T his software is protected under the following patents among others 5231670 5526463 5715367 5765132 5794189 5799279 5818423 5822730 5850627 5915236 5920836 5949886 5960394 5983179 6064959 6088671 6092043 6125342 6138098 6151575 6163768 6167377 6212498 6292779 6424943 6601027 7315818 7058573 7584102 6308151 6871179 6125347 No part of this manual or software may be reproduced in any form or by any means including without limitation electronic or mechanical such as photocopying or recording or by any information storage and retrieval systems without the express written consent of N uance Communications Inc Specifications are subject o change without notice Copyright 2002 2011 N uance Communications Inc All rights reserved Nuance ScanSoft the N uance logo the D ragon logo D ragon D ragonBar N aturallySpeaking N aturallyM obile R ealSpeak N othing But Speech N BS N atural Language T echnology F ull T ext Control M ouseG rid and Vocabulary E ditor are registered trademarks or trademarks of N
33. Dragon tries to interpret everything you say as a number If you dictate words the results will be unpredictable However you can still navigate menus and switch between programs by voice when Numbers Mode is on W hat should expect from Dragon Onereason to use D ragon is to boost your productivity A nother is to reduce the strain using a computer puts on hands eyes shoulders etc Maybe you like the idea of being able to lean back in your chair put your feet up on the desk and still get work done Dragon works by using sophisticated acoustic and statistical models it can quickly adapt to you in various ways becoming familiar with the sound of your voice as well as the particular words you use in your dictations F or best results you should develop simple habits such as positioning your microphone consistently dictating punctuation speaking clearly and evenly pausing briefly before and after voice commands and taking advantage of the easy tools Dragon offers to optimize accuracy for instance adding to Dragon s vocabulary your own jargon acronyms phrases or words for which you want a special pronunciation or spelling Dragon lets you import lists of vocabulary entries all at once you can even point Dragon to texts that are similar to what you plan to dictate and it will quickly study them Personalizing Dragon s vocabulary is easy and very important for productivity since it preempts recognition errors If a word
34. a specific accent in other words you select the Standard accent you may want to perform A coustic Optimization after using the product for several hours A coustic Optimization updates your user profile with accumulated acoustic data from any corrections and additional training you may have done R unning A coustic Optimization will increase your overall accuracy In the 17 Installation and U s ProfileCreation 18 process of increasing your accuracy A coustic Optimization may select a different accent for you If you select a specific accent A coustic Optimization will still increase your overall accuracy but will not change your accent Once you have selected a specific accent for a user you cannot change it later Dragon V ersion 11 5 lets you create and train users in multiple languages f you have purchased an edition with support for more than one language you can add languages by later choosing C ustom during the installation and having the Dragon DV D available to install the language files during the process of creating user profiles When the H ow do you talk to your computer page appears select your type of microphone from the list of Microphones If you record your speech using a recording device select a recorder from the list of R ecorders In the R eview your choices page be sure the information is correct before you proceed Dragon automatically chooses a speech model to use as the foundation for y
35. acromedia Inc DaveBarry in Cyberspace Copyright 1996 by D ave Barry published by Crown Publishers 3001 TheF inal Odyssey Copyright 1997 by Arthur C Clarke published by H arperC ollins Publishers Dogbet s Top S re Management H andbook Copyright 1996 by United F eature Syndicate Inc published by H arperBusiness a division of HarperCollins Publishers macromedia Success Isa J ourney 7 Steps to Achieving Success in the B usiness of Life Copyright 1999 by Jeffrey J M ayer published by M cGraw Hill FLASH Charlieand the Great Glass E levator Copyright 1972 by Roald D ahl published by Alfred A Knopf Inc and Penguin Books ENABLED The Captain of Battery Park Copyright 1978 by Eugene Pool published by Addison Wesley CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 Contents Introduction 1 About this guide 2 What should expect from Dragon 3 Installation and User Profile Creation 5 Plugging in the microphone 5 What you should know before installing 6 Before installing the software 7 Choosing type of installation 8 Installing software T ypical Installation 9 Installing software Custom Installation 10 Modifying application settings for all users 14 Modifying administrative settings 14 Modifying formatting options for all users 15 Creating your user profile 16 Training a new user profile 21 Adapting to your writing style scheduling tuning 23 H ow Dragon automatically configures user profile 25 U
36. ame To open a menu 1 Open a program window for example Microsoft Word and make it active Say the name of the menu you want to open for example say F ile If the command does not work try saying C lick and then the name of the menu you want to open for example say Click File Document Microsoft Word Say File or File Edit view Insert Format Tools Table Window Help Click File Ctri O Ctrl s Save As 2 In this example the F ile menu should open If the command doesn t work for example if the word click is typed into your document you may have paused in the middle of the command 3 Say thename of a menu item to activate it for example say Save 4 Toclosea menu say Cancel EA To open the Start menu say Click Start or Click Start M enu If commands are often typed into your document instead of recognized as commands you can make Dragon recognize commands only when they are preceded by saying Click To do this select the Require Click to select menus and controls check box on the Commands tab of the Options dialog box For more information see the online help 50 User Guide Selecting buttons tabs and options When Dragon is running you can select any button check box text box or other dialog box option you see by saying its name If that doesn t work say C lick and then its name
37. ant to change the font or the way text is aligned When you want to copy all the text in a document to another window the easiest way to do itis with the C opy All to Clipboard command W hen a lot of text is selected the Scratch That and Cut That commands don t work nor can you overwrite the selection by dictating new text This prevents you from accidentally deleting a large part of User Guide your document To remove a large selection you can say Delete That instead Selecting an entire paragraph or line Y ou can select the current paragraph by saying S elect Paragraph To select the current line say Select Line Y ou can also select a number of paragraphs or lines up to 20 F or example you can say Select Previous 5 Paragraphs SAY THEN THEN Select Next Paragraph Previous 2 20 Paragraphs Forward Line Back 2 20 Lines Last Selecting a word or character Y ou can select the current word by saying Select Word To select a character say Select N ext C haracter or Select Previous Character Y ou can also select a number of words or characters up to 20 F or example say Select Previous 2 Words SAY THEN THEN Select N ext W ord Previous 2 20 Words Forward Character Back 2 20 Characters Last 77 Correcting and E diting Moving around in a document When you re editing a document you can move around in it by v
38. apting to your voice User Guide 7 Proceed to A dapting to your writing style scheduling tuning on page 23 Adapting to your writing style scheduling tuning A fter it adapts to your voice Dragon s Accuracy wizard appears and prompts you to first adapt Dragon to your writing style then schedule regular A coustic and L anguage M odel tuning and optionally schedule D ata C ollection Adapting to your writing style Let Dragon search for words and add them now Dragon can analyze your writing style to increase your overall recognition accuracy T his tool scans documents in your M y D ocuments directory M icrosoft Word C orel WordP erfect text files html files and rich text files rtf A dapting to your writing style can add 5 to 30 minutes to user training Close all other programs when you run this step XEN Though we recommend that you run this part of the New User Wizard if you plan to skip this step select Skip this step rather than Cancel 1 IntheLet Dragon search for words and add them now page of the Accuracy wizard to have Dragon search for words and phrases you use in your email messages select the S ent E mails check box To have Dragon search your word processing and text files select the M y D ocuments check box 2 Click Start to initiate the search for words While scanning your files the dialog box displays the process s status When Dragon finishes searching it displays a message telling yo
39. athy Carl Charlie d as in David daughter delta e as in Edgar enter echo SAY THEN f as in Frank fancy foxtrot g as in George gopher golf h asin Henry helmet hotel i as in lris Ireland India j as in John justice Juliet k as in Karen kitchen kilo l as in Larry lemon lima m as in Mickey magic Mike n asin Nancy nobody November o as in O tto over Oscar p asin Paul people papa q as in Quentin question Q uebec r asin Robert Rachel Romeo s as in Sam Singapore sierra tas in Terry Tyler tango u as in Ursula unit uniform v as in Valerie visit Victor w asin W endy wake whiskey X as in Xavier Xerxes xray y as in Yolanda Yvonne yankee z as in Zachary zookeeper zulu you can also say for instead of as in User Guide M You can say Press c or Press Charlie but you cannot say Press Cathy or Press Carl Capitalizing a letter Y ou can capitalize a letter by saying Press Cap then the letter 59 Working on Y our Desktop F or example to enter 28K say twenty eight and then Press Cap kK or Press Cap K for Karen Pressing numbers Y ou can press numbers 0 to 9 by saying P ress and then the number F or example say P ress 8 Pressing key combinations When you re pressing keys you can press any combination of the modifier keys SHIFT CTRL and ALT at the same time as ano
40. bols listed below in text you dictate F or a list of all punctuation marks see the online help TO ENTER SAY comma period dot point each one has different spacing characteristics question mark exclamation mark All Dialects exclamation point US Canada open quote close quote open single quote close single quote open paren US Canada left paren US Canada left parenthesis All Dialects open parenthesis All Dialects close paren US Canada right paren US Canada right parenthesis All Dialects close parenthesis All Dialects apostrophe S apostrophe ess hyphen minus sign double hyphen dash space bar 112 User Guide Y ou can use the Vocabulary E ditor to view or change the formatting properties of the punctuation Words that end with s T o dictate a word ending with apostrophe S s just say it as you normally would Dragon will often add it I f Dragon doesn t include the s you can add it later W e took Mary scar We took Mary s car that s enough that s enough it s time to go it s time to go Including s as you dictate When you want to make sure that Dragon types a word with s say apostrophe ess after saying the word F or words that already end in s say apostrophe after the word asin the second example shown here W e took my brother s We took my brother apostro car phe ess car met my friends
41. c folder Open My Music O pen your My Videos folder Starta program by name O pen My Videos O pen lt program name gt O pen W indows Explorer O pen W indows Explorer O pen W indows Help and Support Center O pen W indows Help O pen the W indows Task Manager O pen Task Manager O pen the W indows Run dia log box 52 O pen Run dialog User Guide Open the W indows System Configuration Utility msconfig O pen System Configuration Utility O pen the W indows Control Panel O pen Control Panel O pen the W indows Print M anager O pen Print Manager Add a printer to your W in dows system Add a new printer Add or remove programs to your W indows system O pen Add or Remove Programs window Change the W indows Dis play Settings Change Display Settings Change the W indows screen resolution Change screen resolution Change W indows Power Settings Change power settings Switch between windows Choose n where n is the number of the window you want to switch to For example say Choose 2 OR Switch to previous window OR Switch to next window 53 Working on Y our Desktop Switch to a specific program Switch to lt program name gt For example or document say Switch to Microsoft W ord OR Switch to lt document name gt OR List windows for lt p
42. ced and click Stop P layback R eading Right click in your document and click Stop P layback R eading from the shortcut menu Press the ESC key Y ou can control the speed pitch volume and other text to speech settings F rom the menu click Tools gt O ptions and select the T ext to S peech tab 92 CHAPTER 6 Formatting ou can bold text change font sizes and styles capitalize text and apply other formatting by voice Many Dragon N aturallyS peaking formatting commands work for text that is selected highlighted in your document T o select text by voice say S electjm plus the words you want to select See Selecting text by voice on page 74 for information Types of commands Most of the commands listed in this chapter are global they are available in virtually every application In addition to the global commands listed here Dragon includes many commands for editing and formatting that work in common applications For more information on finding these commands see the online help DA You can change the formatting properties of a word such as whether Dragon should type a space before or after the word or whether the word is capitalized in a title by using the Word Properties dialog box See the online help for more information 93 F ormatting Capitalizing text Capitalizing first letter of next word you dictate Dragon capitalizes many words automatically such a
43. ch as space bar or backspace key Spell mode is also useful for dictating internet or Web addresses Command mode T he software interprets everything you say as a command and nothing is interpreted as dictated text Dictation mode T he software interprets everything you say as dictation and nothing is interpreted as a command except for a few commands such as N ew Line and N ew Paragraph 119 Dictating N umbes Punctuation and Special Characters T o changes modes you can 1 Select the Words menu on the DragonB ar and click the name of the mode you want 2 Switch modes by voice by saying one of these commands MODE TO TURN ON SAY Numbers mode N umbers mode On or Start N umbers Mode or Switch to Numbers mode Spell mode Spell mode On or Start Spell mode or Switch to Spell mode Command mode Command mode On or Start Command mode or Switch to Command mode Dictation mode Dictation mode On or Start Dictation mode or Switch to Dictation mode TO TURN OFF SAY N umbers mode O ff or Stop Numbers mode or Switch to Normal mode Spell Mode O ff or Stop Spell Mode or Switch to Normal mode Command mode O ff or Stop Command mode or Switch to Normal mode Dictation mode O ff or Stop Dictation mode or Switch to Normal mode Turning a mode off by voice is the same as switching back to N ormal mode DA You cannot dictate fractions in N umber mode 120 A abbreviations 116 ac
44. cial Security Numbers Caps Lock key overrides capitalization commands Restore defaults Cora Cre Choose the options to apply to your dictated documents 15 Installation and U s Profile Creation Creating your user profile Before you can begin using Dragon you must let D ragon create a user profile for each person who is dictating Y our user profile stores acoustic information about your voice that Dragon uses to recognize what you say T his profile also stores any changes you make to the standard vocabulary any special words names acronyms and abbreviations you add When you launch the software for the first time the P rofile Creation wizard starts and leads you through creating your user profile Profile Creation Creating a user profile Before you can begin using Dragon you must create a user profile that is unique to you Your profile contains information about the sound of your voice your writing style and the type of audio device that you use On the pages that follow we will guide you through this process DRAGON NATURALLYSPEAKING To see more information on creating a new user profile click here or Select Next to begin C Don t show this screen again If you upgraded a single user from an earlier version Dragon opens that user s profile If you upgraded multiple users it displays profiles for all upgraded users in the Open User dialog box To create a
45. ck the double chevron icon on the DragonB ar to open the E xtras toolbar Stop Playback Skip ie Forward ee X i A 5 E Transcribe Correction Button Skip R ad EE ebay Back That utton User Guide To play back dictation To play back dictation do any of the following Select the text you want to play back and say P lay That Back Click the Start P layback button on the P layback toolbar M ove the insertion point to the text you want to play back and say any of the following commands SAY TO Play Back Line Play back dictation for the current line Play Back Play back dictation for the current Paragraph paragraph Play Back Document Play back dictation for the whole document Play Back Window Play back dictation for the text in view Play Back to Here Play back dictation from the top of the document window to the insertion point Play Back from Here Play back dictation from the insertion point to the bottom of the document window To stop playback To stop playback do any of the following Click the Stop P layback button on the P layback toolbar Click anywhere in the document window Press the ESC key It s not possible to stop playback by voice because the computer cannot hear speech input when it is playing back dictation To skip backward or forward Y ou can skip backward or forward in your document by a few words by clicking the Skip Backward and Skip F orward buttons
46. ct Launch in QuickStart mode on Windows startup To Redisplay the DragonBar To display the D ragonB ar while the product is running in QuickStart mode right click on the microphone icon in the QuickStart taskbar tray and select R estore P revious D ragonB ar M ode To Temporarily Disable QuickStart To temporarily disable QuickStart right click the QuickStart taskbar tray icon and select E xit T his action exists Dragon and removes the QuickS tart tray icon from the Windows taskbar When you re start Windows the QuickStart taskbar tray icon re displays User Guide Using QuickStart Y ou access QuickStart by right clicking the Dragon QuickStart taskbar tray icon This action displays QuickStart menus that parallel the menus in the DragonBar Bg Turn Dragon s Microphone On Profile gt New User Profile Tools gt e Add audio source to current User Profile Vocabulary gt Add vocabulary to current User Profile Modes Open User Profile i b Audio Open Recent User Profile Help il Close User Profile Close DragonBar Save User Profile Manage User Profiles Profile For Use E Backup User Profile Restore User Profile SELECT TOs Turn Dragon s Micro Turn on or off the microphone phone O n O ff Profile gt Take any action you would otherwise takefrom the Profile menu Add an audio source add a vocabulary open close save manage back up or restore a user profile Tools
47. ct it in your document by voice or by keyboard e mail and Web addresses Dictate email and Web addresses as you would normally say them Dragon automatically formats them for you TO ENTER SAY Virginia aol com Virginia ata o dotcom info samplecom No Caps On info atsample pany com company dotcom No Caps off http No CapsOn http www www nuance com dot nuance dot com No Caps O ff H ere are some guidelines for dictating email and Web addresses When you say h tt p or w w w Dragon knows to format the next words you say as a Web address Say the following abbreviations by pronouncing them as words co com u gov a mil net and a org Say the following abbreviations by saying each letter 9 Cc b n c a a d u ie H k j d j n j p m y p h s g i h and u k U sethe N o Caps On and N o Caps Off commands to enter an e mail or Web address in all lowercase letters F or more information about controlling capitalization see D ictating consecutive words in all lowercase letters on page 95 117 Dictating N umbes Punctuation and Special Characters You can create Text and Graphics custom commands for e mail and W eb addresses you use often See the online help for more information Dictating special characters Dictating common special characters T h
48. d words 1 Select the text you want to join F or example if you want to join the words WebTV say Select WebTV 2 Say Compound That Dictating names Many names of people places and events are already in the Dragon vocabulary F or example you can dictate M artin Luther King N ew York Times and B oston To dictate a name first try dictating the name Dragon automatically capitalizes the names it knows If Dragon incorrectly types the name correct it by keyboard or by voice see Correcting and E diting on page 69 If the program continues to type a name incorrectly after you ve corrected it several times train the word individually using the Train Word dialog box See the online help for more information Dictating abbreviations and acronyms Dragon knows many common abbreviations such as N Y C and BBC and acronyms such as NATO To dictate an abbreviation or acronym just say it as you normally would TO ENTER SAY US Canada Dr Doctor Other Dialects Dr UK U K say each letter RSVP RS V P say each letter HTML H TM L say each letter 8 cm eight centimeters US Canada pp 27 33 pages 27 hyphen 33 Other Dialects pp 27 33 NATO NATO say as one word NASDAQ NASDAQ say as one word 116 Dictating User Guide If Dragon types the full word instead of the abbreviation or acronym enters the wrong word or includes incorrect punctuation just corre
49. document Using text to speech Y ou can use text to speech to have text displaying on your screen not your current dictation read aloud in a computer voice Y ou can use this feature to have the product read back a document that you or someone else dictated while you listen for mistakes and make note of sections you might want to revise T ext to speech is available only in the DragonP ad Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect Y ou can however copy and paste text from other programs and then use text to speech To start text to speech do one of the following Select the text you want to hear a line a paragraph and so on and then say R ead T hat Select the text you want to hear and then select R ead That from the Advanced submenu or right click in your document and click R ead That from the shortcut menu M ove the insertion point to the text you want to hear and say any of the following commands SAY Read Line Read Paragraph Read Document Read W indow Read to Here Read from Here TO Read back the current line Read back the current paragraph Read back the whole document Read back the text in view Read back from the top of the docu ment window to the insertion point Read back from the insertion point to the bottom of the document window 91 Correcting and E diting To stop text to speech do one of the following F rom the N aturallyS peaking menu point to Advan
50. e 2 Say Select lunch on Tuesday The words lunch on Tuesday should be highlighted on the screen 3 Say dinner on Wednesday These words should replace lunch on Tuesday Since Tuesday and Wednesday sound completely different Dragon will know you are not correcting a recognition mistake but rather revising your dictated text You can also select punctuation marks 4 Say Select period US Canada or Select full stop O ther Dialects If there s more than one period or full stop you can say Select Again to select a different one 5 Toreplace the period or full stop with an exclamation mark say exclamation mark Itis often easier for Dragon to find the matching textif you select a short phrase rather than individual words If you select some words that are already correct just say them again along with the ones you want to change Selecting the same text again If the words you re trying to select appear more than once on the screen and Dragon selects the wrong ones just say S elect Again The program then looks for another instance of the same word or words Y ou can also say Select Again if Dragon selects a word that sounds like the word you want but is not the correct one for example two instead of too Unselecting words If the wrong text is selected say U nselect That Y ou can also unselect words by moving your insertion point by
51. e N aturallyS peakingl1 Ereg H elp P rogram T utorial optional Data and user directories Y ou cannot change this location D ragon always installs these directories to your D ocument and Settings directory C D ocuments and Settings All U sers A pplication D ata N uance N aturallyS peaking11 Data Data Training results Roaming U sers U sers C D ocuments and Settings lt username gt A pplication D ata N uance N aturallyS peaking11 R esults Windows Vista and Windows 7 directory structure 28 Dragon Program directory Y ou can specify this location during the installation C Program F iles N uance N aturallyS peakingl1 Ereg H elp User Guide P rogram T utorial optional D ata and user directories Y ou cannot change this location D ragon always installs these directories to your D ocument and Settings directory C ProgramD ata N uance N aturallyS peakingl1 D ata D ata Training results Roaming U sers U sers C U sers lt username gt A ppD ata R oaming N uance N aturallyS peaking11 R esults Cleaning up after uninstalling T he following files remain on your machine after you uninstall W indows S peech VT ext dll X listen dll speech hlp V dict dll X voice dll vcauto tlb WrapSAP I dll spchtel dll vcemd exe X Tel D II speech cnt vemshl dll X command dll speech dll vtxtauto tlb D ragon installs these files for Microsoft SA P I 4 support Y ou do not need these fi
52. e a list of the users being upgraded F or each user you see the user name old location vocabulary and one or more acoustic models When you click on the location line of a user in the list the N ew Location text box below the list becomes available Y ou can click Browse and select a new location When you click on the vocabulary line of a user in thelist the N ew Base V ocabulary text box below the list becomes available Y ou can choose a new base vocabulary from the drop down list When you click on the acoustic mode line of a user in the list the N ew Acoustic M odel text box below the list becomes available Y ou can choose a new combination language language model and accent from the drop down list 6 Click OK toreturn to the wizard 7 Click N ext to proceed to the U pgrade U sers page where you click B egin to begin the upgrade process E xpect to wait approximately 5 minutes for each user being upgraded 8 When the upgrade process is complete click Finish 27 Installation and U ser Profile Creation Version 11 5 File Structure File locations shown apply to installations in the default location T he next two sections tell you where Dragon places files on your computer T he locations vary depending on your operating system Windows XP Pro XP Home Windows Server 2003 2008 directory structure Dragon Program directory Y ou can specify this location during the installation C Program F iles N uanc
53. e following special characters are in the Dragon vocabulary To dictate these characters just say their names TO ENTER SAY amp ampersand or and sign asterisk atsign i backquote copyright sign S caret E degree sign dollar sign or dollar euros or euro sign percent sign registered sign section sign i trademark sign plus sign minus sign open euro quote close euro quote All Dialects hash sign or sharp sign US Canada number sign or pound sign US Canada pound sterling sign Other Dialects pound sign or pound 118 User Guide smiley face frowny face winky face F or complete lists of special characters see the online H elp Switching recognition modes Dragon lets you use different recognition modes in your dictation Dragon uses normal mode by default In normal mode the program distinguishes between words numbers and commands In addition to normal mode there are other modes N umbers mode T he software recognizes only numbers commands and punctuation If you are dictating only numbers including currencies working in this mode increases recognition accuracy S pell mode T he software recognizes only letters numbers commands and punctuation In Spell mode Dragon allows you to say any combination of letters digits or symbols you might need dictate part numbers or license plate numbers Y ou can also say keystrokes su
54. et Font command Changing the font later Y ou can go back and change the font face size or style of text by selecting it and then using the F ormat That commands Format That works on selected text with the same combinations of font face size and style as the S et F ont commands see the tables in the previous section To change the font 1 Select the text you want to change 2 Say Format That and then the font attributes you want to apply as described in the previous section F or example say Format that Arial 18 Bold italics and underlining Y ou can apply formatting to text in your document by selecting it and then saying B old That Italicize That or U nderline That Y ou can also say Strikeout That 98 User Guide To add bold italics and underlining 1 Select the text you want to change 2 Say Bold That Italicize That Underline That or Strikeout That To remove formatting 1 Select the text you want to change 2 Say Restore That to remove formatting Aligning text Y ou can change how text is aligned by placing your insertion point in the text and saying C enter That Left Align That or Right Align That To align text 1 Move the insertion point to the text you want to align 2 Say Center That Left Align That or Right Align That Y ou can also use the following commands on
55. f commands next to the window you are working in The contents of the Dragon Sidebar change depending on the application thatis active For example when you switch between Microsoft O utlook and the DragonBar the contents of the Dragon Sidebar change accordingly DRAGON SIDEBAR DragonBar A Get help me help DragonBar commands Search Dragon Help for the DragonBar A Control the Mic Go to sleep Wake up Microphone off A Switching Recognition Modes Start Normal Mode Start Dictation Start Spell Start Numbers Mode A Controlling the DragonBar Switch to Floating Mode DRAGON SIDEBAR BR x Home Microsoft Outlook Get help Give me help Search Dragon Help for Outlook Reading and Sending e mail Go To Inbox Check for new mail Open Mail Message iew Next Unread Message Go to body field Send Message Forward mail Reply to all MS Outlook commands D a A Calendar Switch to the calendar folder Create a new appointment lt DA Commands marked with an asterisk are available only if you selected the Enable N atural Language Commands check box on the Commands tab of the O ptions dialog box 3 To see commands for the Windows Desktop click on the desktop and watch the commands in the D ragon Sidebar change 38 User Guide DA A list of Global commands available everywhere appears if there are no Dragon commands available for the active program W indows Des
56. f characters up to 20 F or example you can say M ove Left 4 C haracters or M ove Back 6 Characters as delineated in the next table SAY THEN THEN Move Right a Word or 1 Word Forward 2 20 Words Left a Character or 1 Character Back 2 20 Characters cutting and pasting text Y ou can move text from one place to another by using the C opy That Cut That and P aste That commands To copy cut or paste text 1 Select the text you want to copy or cut 2 Say Copy That or Cut That 3 Movetheinsertion point to where you want to paste the text 4 Say Paste That Deleting text Deleting the last words you dictated 80 Y ou can erase the last words you dictated by saying Scratch That When you say this command D ragon deletes the last User Guide thing it typed into your document T his may be a full sentence a phrase or just one word if that s all you said before pausing Y ou can say Scratch That up to 10 times to delete the last few things you said If you repeat the command you must pause before saying it again Y ou can also say for example Scratch That 5 Times Going back as you dictate When you re dictating sometimes you may hesitate or think of a better way to say something right after you ve said it When this happens you can use the R esume With command to return to where you were before the mistake J ust say
57. fer to get jennifer Dragon normally capitalizes this and other proper names Dictating consecutive words in all lowercase letters When you want to dictate consecutive words in lowercase letters for example names of computer files or e mail addresses you can turn the no capitals feature on and then 95 F ormatting turn it off when you are finished T his is usually easier than saying N o Caps before each word To dictate consecutive words in all lowercase letters 1 Say NoCaps On to turn no capitals on 2 Dictate the words you want to appear in all lowercase 3 Say NoCaps Off to turn no capitals off Capitalizing or uncapitalizing text already in your document Y ou can change the capitalization of text already in your document by selecting it and then saying C apitalize That Cap That or All Caps That or U ncapitalize That Uncap That or NoCaps That To capitalize or uncapitalize text 1 Select the text you want to change 2 Say CapitalizeThat Cap That or All Caps That or U ncapitalize That U ncap That or No Caps That Formatting text Y ou can use voice commands to specify any combination of font name size and style in that order These commands change text you dictate from then on or text you have selected To set a new style for text you are about to dictate use the S et Font and Set Size
58. g and E diting on page 69 Transcribe U se this button to transcribe your speech from a handheld recorder See the online help for more information Start Playback and Stop Playback When you select text and click the Start P layback button you hear a recording of your dictation A yellow arrow displays on your screen during playback following what you said Click the Stop P layback button to stop the recorded speech playback Read That When you select text and click the R ead T hat button Dragon reads the text to you Skip Back and Skip Forward U se these buttons to skip backward or forward one utterance To Dragon an utterance is a group of words said together without pausing Y ou can display the E xtras menu items in the main DragonBar See the online help for more information User Guide Changing the DragonBar position T o change the position of the D ragonB ar click the Dragon icon at the far left of the D ragonBar A menu displays that lets you move the D ragonB ar to various positions on your display SELECT TO Docked to Top lock the DragonBar to the top of the screen default mode Docked to Bottom lock the DragonBar to the bottom of the mode screen Floating mode freely position the DragonBar Cling mode make the DragonBar appear just above the window you are dictating into Tray Icon Only mode hide the DragonBar completely and display the Microphone icon only in the W indows task bar
59. grams listed here you can use shorter program names in addition to the standard program label shown on the Start menu or under the program icon on the D esktop F or other programs you ll need to say the standard program label 47 Working on Y our Desktop MS Word Microsoft Word Microsoft Office Word MS Excel Microsoft E xcel MS Outlook Microsoft Outlook Outlook E xpress MS PowerPoint Microsoft PowerP oint MS Access Microsoft A ccess MS InfoPath Microsoft nfoP ath I nternet E xplorer Microsoft nternet E xplorer F irefox M ozilla F irefox Corel WordP erfect WordP erfect A crobat R eader L otus N otes O pening documents and folders from the Start menu T o open a document or folder from the S tart menu say Start and then the name of the document or folder exactly as it appears on the menu F or example to open a document named sales doc you could say Start Sales dot doc To open a document named journal wpd you could say Start journal dot w p d T o open a document or folder from your Windows desktop just say Start and then the name below the icon F or example to open a folder named P rojects say Start Projects Say Start Projects to open the folder Switching between open windows Y ou can switch between the windows you have open by saying Switch to and then say the name of the program or document window exactly as it appears in the title bar
60. gt O pen any option from the Tools menu Vocabulary gt O pen any option from the Vocabulary menu Modes gt O pen any option from the Modes menu Audio gt O pen any option from the Audio menu Help gt O pen any option from the Help menu Close DragonBar Shut down Dragon if itis currently running If the QuickStart icon becomes unavailable for any reason you can always start Dragon from the Windows Start menu 45 CHAPTER 4 Working on Your Desktop his chapter describes how to control almost everything on your computer with D ragon N aturallySpeaking voice commands Programs documents and folders U sing voice commands you can start programs and open documents and folders that appear in your Start menu or desktop Y ou can t start D ragon by voice H owever you can have D ragon automatically start in Sleep mode whenever you start Windows by selecting M icrophone on asleep option in the M iscellaneous tab of the Options dialog box See the online help for more information Starting a program To start a program from the Start menu say Start and then the name of the program exactly as it appears on the menu or submenu of the Start menu Y ou can also say the name displayed below the icon on your desktop F or example to start M icrosofte nternet E xplorer say Start Internet E xplorer Shorter names for popular programs F rom start_and_exit_programs F or the popular Windows pro
61. hange button and choose where to install the product If no earlier versions of Dragon are installed on your system the default directory is C Program F iles N uance N aturallyS peakingl1 F or a list of directories created by installation see V ersion 11 5 F ile Structure on page 28 6 While you are still on the Setup T ype page select C ustom for the type of installation Choose which program features you want installed and where they will be installed Recommended for advanced users If you decide not to install some Dragon components by selecting Custom installation you can install them later by running the Setup program again and choosing Modify 7 Click N ext and you see a tree where you can select any particular feature of the product and click the down arrow to its left to choose where when to install it Install now on local hard drive Install now with all subfeatures on local hard drive Install when it is needed on a just in time basis T hese options are particularly useful for installing multiple languages and or multiple vocabularies 11 Installation and U s Profile Creation F or example see the selections for the S outheast Asian English vocabulary shown in the illustration below Cikk on an kon in the ist below to change how a Feature is installed Feste Desaiption l E UK Engish A The Engish speech fles E rj US Esh necessary for dictation using y Speech Fies Asien promunciston
62. he current selection 57 Working on Y our Desktop Pressing keyboard keys Y ou can activate Windows menus and controls by pressing keys With Dragon you can press any key on your keyboard by voice Y ou can press letters numbers modifier keys SHIFT CTRL andALT and so on Y ou can say P ress Press Key or T ype all three voice commands work the same way Scratch That will not erase keystrokes dictated with the Press Key commands You must select the text by voice or mouse and delete it or say Press Delete Pressing letters 58 Y ou can press any letter on your keyboard by saying P ress and then the letter When you re pressing letters you must say Press before each one F or example to enter txt say Press t Press x Press t pausing between letters HA You can also spell words using Spell mode See Switching recognition modes on page 119 for more information F or similar sounding letters such as B D and V you can use the International Communications A Iphabet to spell the letter keys for example P ress alpha or Press bravo or say Pressd asin David or Press d for David and so on as if you were spelling to another person over the phone SAY THEN Press a b any letter a z or any international alphabet word alpha through zulu a asin Albert Alice alpha b as in Bill Buffalo bravo c as in C
63. he pointer is over an icon or other object you can use voice commands to click the mouse or mark and drag the object Clicking the mouse Y ou can click double click left click and right click the mouse buttons by voice To click the mouse 1 Position the mouse pointer over the object you want to select for example say M ouseGrid 9 1 or M ouse 2 2 Say M ouse Click M ouse D ouble Click M ouse L eft Click or M ouse Right Click When an object is selected you can mark and drag the object as described in the next section Marking and dragging objects Y ou can mark an object and drag it to a different location by voice To mark and drag an object 1 Position the mouse over the icon or object you want to drag and then say M ark for example say M ouseGrid 9 1 M ark 2 Movethe mouse pointer to where you want to drag the obj ect and then say D rag for example say M ouseGrid 6 3 Drag Instead of Drag you can also say Control Drag and Shift Drag to drag while holding down the CTRL or SHIFT key 65 Working on Y our Desktop Dragging the mouse Y ou can use the following movement commands if you select the Enable mouse motion commands check box on the C ommands tab of the Options dialog box THEN A THEN A SPEED DIRECTION OPTIONAL Drag Mouse to move Up Faster Mouse Drag to move Down Very Fast Contro
64. ine four seven oh four hyphen one one five oh UK and Canadian Postal Codes Y ou can dictate U K postcodes by saying P ostcode followed by the letters and numbers that make up the postcode F or Canadian postal codes say P ostal code followed by the letters User Guide and numbers that make up the postal code Spacing and formatting will happen automatically TO ENTER SAY NG32HX Postcode ng three two h x E10 7BD Postcode e ten seven b d EC2Y 4LK Postcode e c two y four I k K1A 0M5 Postal code k one a zero m five XOA OHO Postal code x oh a oh h oh Currency and coin Y ou dictate your own currency as you would normally say it Currency in US Canada US English dialect TO ENTER SAY 58 00 fifty eight dollars and zero cents 1 75 one dollar and seventy five cents 5 25 five dollars and twenty five cents 3 9 billion three point nine billion dollars 45 forty five euros 99 50 ninety nine euros and five cents 2 20 pound sterling sign two point two oh 5 million pound sterling sign five million Currency in Other Dialects UK Australian Indian and Southeast Asian English 58 00 dollar sign fifty eight 1 75 dollar sign one point seventy five 4 25 four euros and twenty five cents 109 Dictating N umbes Punctuation and Special Characters 110 TO ENTER SAY 3 9 billion three point nine billion euros 45 forty five pounds 99 50 ninety nine pou
65. ining the latest technical information on the Dragon product family including versions predating Version 11 It also includes documentation U ser Guides R eference Card and listings of microphones digital voice recorders tablet PCs and other compatible hardware devices tested by N uance and approved for use with Dragon 127 Boundless SUPPORT EDGE PROGRAM SALES BOUNDLESSAT COM 8S66 606 8551
66. is punctuated N atural Punctuation inserts only periods and commas Y ou have to dictate other punctuation marks E ven with N atural Punctuation turned on you can still dictate periods and commas A s you become more adept at dictation and want more 33 Starting to Dictate control over where punctuation appears you may want to explicitly dictate all your punctuation DA You can turn N atural Punctuation on and off by voice by saying autopunctuation on and autopunctuation off or by selecting Tools gt Auto Formatting Options from the menu of the DragonBar and clicking Automatically add commas and periods F or more information on N atural Punctuation see U sing N atural Punctuation on page 111 Dictating punctuation Y ou can dictate punctuation at any time while you are using Dragon even when N atural Punctuation is enabled U se the following list as a guide to dictating the most common punctuation marks F or a complete list of punctuation see the online help TO ENTER SAY US Canada SAY O ther Dialects comma comma period full stop exclamation point or exclamation mark exclamation mark question mark question mark hyphen hyphen colon colon Starting new lines and paragraph While you are dictating you can use the following commands to duplicate the action of pressing the ENT ER key once to adda new line or twice to add a new paragraph Add a new line N ew Line Add anew
67. ktop commands available on the desktop and Global commands available in all windows DRAGON SIDEBAR Home Desktop A Get help Give me help Search Dragon Help for desktop commands A Start and exit programs pr me gt Start Mail Close Window A Work with windows Switch to next window Maximize window Minimize window Show Desktop Restore windows Press escape A Opening Windows special folders Open My Computer 0 ents Desktop commands Bo x DRAGON SIDEBAR Home Global A Get help Give me help Search Dragon Help for lt xyz gt Show Dragon Sidebar help A Control the Mic Go to sleep Wake up Microphone off A Searching the web Find a website about lt xyz gt Search the web for lt xy Search Wikipedia fo Search news for lt x Search maps for xyz gt A Search computer for lt xyz gt Search documents for lt xyz gt Search email for lt xyz gt A Selecting text Select that Select lt xyz gt Global commands Select next 5 characters Select again Select next paragraph Select all Unselect that A Editing text Scratch that Delete line Delete last lt n gt words Delete 4 To see additional commands for the current program click the M ouse or M yC ommands tab along the top of the D ragon Sidebar Or click one of the icons to the upper right see next illustration to open Command Browser V ocabulary E ditor Options dialog box Dragon H elp 39
68. l Mouse Drag to Right Much Faster copy or Control Drag Mouse Left Slower Upper Right Very Slow Upper Left Much Slower Lower Right Lower Left Moving the pointer with the mouse motion commands In addition to the mouse movement methods described above you can also move the mouse by using the mouse motion commands Say for example M ove M ouse Right T he mouse pointer begins moving to the right and keeps moving until you say Stop 66 User Guide Enabling the mouse motion commands T o use the mouse motion commands 1 From theTools menu on the DragonB ar choose Options and then the C ommands tab 2 Select Enable mouse motion commands and click OK 3 Click the Speed button to choose how fast the mouse pointer moves when you use a mouse motion command The mouse motion commands H ere is a summary of the available mouse motion commands SAY THEN A DIRECTION THEN A SPEED OPTIONAL Move Mouse Up Fast Mouse Move Down Faster Drag Mouse Right Much Faster Mouse Drag Left Very Fast Upper Left Slow Lower Left Slower Upper Right Much Slower Lower Right Very Slow While the mouse is moving you can say any of the commands above Y ou can also say S top or Cancel to stop the mouse from moving Up Down Left Right U pper Left L ower Left U pper Right or Lower Right to change the di
69. les if you do not have other speech applications that require SA P14 If you do have applications that require SA P I4 support you might need to re install those applications if you remove these files Accessing log files samples and tools Y ou can open log files and samples from the desktop N aturallyS peaking log file dragon log Select Start gt Programs gt Dragon N aturallyS peaking 11 5 gt Show Dragon L og N aturallyS peaking setup files dgnsetup log Select Start gt Programs gt Dragon N aturallyS peaking 11 5 gt S how Setup L og 29 Installation and U ser Profile Creation 30 Structured command samples Select Start gt P rograms gt Dragon N aturallyS peaking 11 5 gt M yC ommands S amples Professional edition only T ools Select Start gt All Programs gt D ragon N aturallyS peaking 11 5 gt Dragon N aturallyS peaking T ools Professional edition only CHAPTER 3 Starting to Dictate ow that you ve installed the software and completed training you re ready to dictate your first sentence Starting Dragon If Dragon N aturallySpeaking is not already running you can start it by D ouble clicking the D ragon icon on the KS desktop tl Selecting Start gt P rograms gt D ragon N aturallyS peaking 11 5 gt D ragon N aturallyS peaking 11 5 If the QuickStart option is enabled right clicking the QuickStart taskbar tray icon and selecting Start Dragon F or more on using
70. ly facing the array within at least 15 feet 9 After you have positioned the microphone click N ext to continue with Checking microphone volume sound quality on page 20 Checking microphone volume sound quality A fter you have positioned the microphone and clicked N ext you see the D ragon will adjust your volume page 1 Click the Start Volume C heck button and then read aloud the text displayed in the box 2 When the program beeps to indicate it has finished checking the volume click N ext 3 When theD ragon will test the quality of your sound system page appears click Start Quality C heck and then read aloud the text displayed in the box 4 Theprogram beeps when it has finished evaluating the sound quality of your system If Dragon displays P assed click N ext to continue Windows Vista or XP If you get a Sound level is too low error while creating a Dragon user profile to boost the microphone s volume 1 Select Start gt Control Panel gt Sound and Audio Devices 2 On the Voice tab click the Volume button under Voice recording to open the Recording Control dialog box 3 Set the volume level for the appropriate input device type 20 User Guide 5 Continue with T raining a new user profile on page 21 Training a new user profile Immediately after you create your profile before you begin dictating you train Dragon to understand your voice Performing training either during or after creating
71. mouse or voice to another part of your document F or example say Goto End of Line or click somewhere else in your document 75 Correcting and E diting Selecting a longer phrase Y ou can select a longer phrase by saying S elect text Through text US Canada or Select text To text Other Dialects F or text substitute the actual word or words at the beginning and the end of the range of wrong words F or example you could correct the underlined words in the following sentence With a little practice who will develop a habit of dictating an unclear steady voice and the computer will understand you better by saying US Canada Select who Through unclear or Select who will Through an unclear O ther Dialects Select who To unclear or Select who will To an unclear Then dictate the correct text you will develop the habit of dictating in a clear The final corrected sentence reads With a little practice you will develop the habit of dictating in a clear steady voice and the computer will understand you better If you re correcting more than one word the words must all be in sequence next to each other You can t use a single command to correct words that are in different parts of your document Selecting your whole document 76 To select all the text in your document say S elect D ocument or Select All This command is useful when you w
72. n a work anda home computer but you cannot use the software concurrently on more than one computer Y ou are permitted to create multiple voice profiles so long as each voice profile is for you If someone else wants to create a voice profile that person must purchase a separate D ragon license V olume license agreements are available in the microphone To use Dragon you will need to plugin your microphone If you are not sure how to plugin your microphone consult the documentation that came with your microphone If you already have speakers for your computer you can also use these to playback recorded speech instead of your headphones 5 Installation and U s Profile Creation W hat you should know before installing Installing Dragon to a custom location T he default installation directory for Dragon is C Program F iles N uance N aturallyS peaking11 During the installation procedure you can choose to install Dragon to a different directory or drive on your machine Choosing a different directory during installation only installs the Dragon program files to that location Regardless of where you install the D ragon program files Dragon always installs the languages and vocabularies that you selected during the installation to the C drive as well as creating the location where your users profiles will be created T hese profiles can consume a large amount of disk space on your C drive F or more informati
73. n green to show that you can dictate G DragonBar Profesional th m v e Profile Tools Yocabulary Modes Audio Help Recognition Mode Normal N ormally you can dictate and use D ragon voice commands in any text window of any application H owever you may occasionally find an application or a particular window in an application where some voice commands won t work or won t work consistently When you arein a non standard window the F ull Text C ontrol indicator goes out indicating that you may have some difficulty selecting and editing dictated text A Iso when you start dictating into a non standard window the DragonBar will display D ictatinginto a non standard window If you have difficulty in dictating or correcting in one of these non standard windows use the Dictation B ox See the online help for more information on using the Dictation B ox 41 Starting to Dictate Extras toolbar 42 If the button is in your edition of Dragon you can click the Extras button on the far right of the D ragonB ar to open the Extras toolbar The Extras toolbar displays buttons for transcribing hand held recorder audio and playing back your dictation Stop Start Playback Skip da Forward vocal fare i A 5 Fy Transcribe Correction l Button Skip R ad ia Back That utton Correction Clicking the C orrection button opens the C orrection menu to teach the computer what you said See C hapter 5 Correctin
74. n say when using Dragon T hese examples appear in italics with quotation marks for example F ormat That Bold 2 Some procedures also include sample text for you to dictate Sample text appears in a different typeface with punctuation in square brackets 3 This guide applies to the all English dialects that ship with Dragon US English UK English Australian English Indian English Southeast A sian English US English uses U S spelling punctuation and time and currency formats We recommend U S English for C anadian users since this dialect formats numbers including times telephone numbers and currency in N orth A merican formats A II other dialects use U K spelling punctuation and time and currency formats some number settings depend on your Windows Regional Settings Where multiple dialects are used in dictation examples those dialects appear in a different font style F or example Y ou can also correct a longer phrase by saying C orrect text Through text US Canada or C orrect text To text Other Dialects 4 This guide uses U S spelling and punctuation for consistency User Guide 5 This guide also includes tips and notes to help you use the software more effectively T ips and notes appear like this If you pause correctly but Dragon still types a command as dictation you can force it to recognize what you say as a command by holding down the cra key W ith Numbers Mode on
75. nd E diting Y ou can set up Dragon to play back dictation automatically whenever you open the C orrection menu On the Dragon menu select Tools gt Options gt C orrection tab On the Correction tab select Automatic playback on correction Sometimes there s no dictation to play back F or example you cannot play back text that wasn t entered by voice such as words you typed or pasted into your document Even when you have entered text by voice you cannot play it back after you have cutit copied it pasted it or otherwise moved it around in the document If you have Dragon N aturally Speaking Professional or a higher edition you can save your dictation with your document for later playback see Dictate now correct later on page 88 Otherwise you cannot play back dictation after closinga document If dictation is not available the P lay Back button is dimmed grayed out When playback is not available you may find text to speech useful for checking your work See N otes on correcting with another author s user files on page 90 Playing back dictation in a document 86 To help you check your work for mistakes you can play back a line a paragraph a selection or the whole document A fter playback starts you can stop it as soon as you notice a mistake and automatically open the C orrection menu The Playback toolbar is an extra section of the DragonB ar that is normally hidden To see the P layback toolbar cli
76. nds and fifty pence 2 20 two pounds twenty 5 million five million pounds Dragon uses the currency symbol and so on specified in your W indows Regional Settings as your default currency D ictate other currencies by first saying the currency symbol followed by the digits US Canada If your R egional Settings are set to the U nited States or Canada your default currency is dollar If you want to dictate a dollar currency amount dictate it the way you normally do If you want to dictate a pound sterling currency amount say for example pound sterling sign fifty eight to enter 58 and so on In US Canada you must say pound sterling sign to enter since pound sign means in the U S vocabulary In all other dialects you can say pound sign to type Other Dialects If your R egional Settings are set to the U nited Kingdom your default currency is pound sterling If you want to dictate a pound sterling currency amount dictate it the way you normally do If you want to dictate a dollar currency amount say for example dollar sign fifty eight to enter 58 and so on DA Australian users can say fifty eight dollars to dictate 58 since the Australian default currency is in W indows Regional Settings User Guide Punctuation Using Natural Punctuation Dragon can automatically add commas and periods at the appropriate places in your dictation
77. ng 50 microphone pluggingin 5 proper positioning 19 sleep mode 32 turning on and off 32 minus key 88 modes 119 money 109 mouse clicking 65 moving the pointer 63 64 66 MouseGrid 63 Move to Bottom 78 Moveto Top 78 moving around a document before after specific words 79 to beginning end of line 78 by paragraphs orlines 79 scrolling 57 to top bottom of page 78 by words or characters 80 names dictating 116 Natural Punctuation 33 111 navigating between windows 53 new user creating 16 NoCaps Off 96 117 NoCapsOn 96 117 NoCapsThat 96 No Caps text 95 NoSpace 115 No Space Off 115 NoSpaceOn 115 numbers 101 currency 102 109 dates 103 fractions 106 Roman numerals 107 setting formats 15 telephone numbers 105 times of day 104 Numbers Mode 103 O opening folders 47 opening applications 47 options selecting 51 User Guide P Page Down 78 Page Up 78 pages Seemoving around a document paragraphs deleting 82 moving up down 79 selecting 77 Paste That 80 pasting text 80 periods automatically adding 111 phone numbers 105 see T elephone N umbers Play That Back 87 playback controls 85 playing back dictation 85 correcting mistakes 88 in the Correction dialog box 85 inadocument 86 skipping backward 87 skipping forward 87 stopping 87 88 storage space for 88 possessives See apostrophe s postal and ZIP codes 108 pound sterling 109 problems dictating currency ortime 103 programs opening See o
78. ngratulations your profile is ready to use page appears you can now Choose to run the tutorial L earn about the many improvements in Version 11 5 Modify how Dragon presents itself to you Begin dictating 6 Click Finish to close the wizard T o upgrade existing user profiles before dictating proceed to U pgrading U ser Profiles on page 26 Or to begin dictating proceed to the next chapter Starting to Dictate on page 31 How Dragon automatically configures user profile A fter you create a user Dragon automatically analyzes your hardware and changes the default settings of your users to optimize performance 25 Installation and U s Profile Creation Depending on your hardware you might receive a message that the amount of RAM memory on your computer is relatively low for the operating system When you use Dragon on such a computer try not to have more than one or two applications open Upgrading User Profiles 26 If you chose to upgrade existing users during the installation the U ser U pgrade Wizard appears the first time you run V ersion 11 5 If you do notwantto upgrade users right now you can exit from the wizard and do it later Otherwise you can start the U ser U pgrade Wizard from the Windows Start menu at any time To upgrade existing users Select Users to Upgrade A O KI ear Ae OSIE 1 To start the U ser Ler fies to U pgrade Wizard eet select Start gt All Programs gt D rag
79. nguage Commands have been enabled you can say Save Document Getting Help 36 To access the online H elp for Dragon click the H elp menu on the DragonBar and choose H elp T opics Alternatively you can say Give M eH elp User Guide Y ou can print individual H elp topics with the P rint button in the H elp window To open the online H elp links just say their names T he links display next to the application window and give you examples of the most common commands that work in the application you are currently using T he online help includes the following information not found in this user guide Creating and M anaging U sers Dictation Guidelines Dictating using a Portable R ecorder Dictating with a Roaming U ser Correcting R ecognition Errors Revising T ext Improving R ecognition A ccuracy Working on Y our Desktop Working in Programs Creating Commands with M yC ommands Dragon T ools W hat Can Say Saying What Can Say brings up the Dragon Sidebar with Dragon Tips displaying below it The Dragon Sidebar displays a selection of useful commands that D ragon recognizes for the current context whether itis a particular program you are using or the Windows desktop To open the Dragon Sidebar 1 Choose Dragon Sidebar from the H elp menu on the DragonBar or say either What can say or Show SideBar 37 Starting to Dictate 2 TheDragon Sidebar opens displaying a selection o
80. not want Dragon to recognize them as words you can turn on N umbers M ode T his could be useful for example if you are dictating in a spreadsheet program such as M icrosoft E xcel To turn on N umbers Mode say Start N umbers M ode or N umbers M ode On To turn off N umbers M ode say Stop N umbers M ode or N umbers M ode Off or Switch to N ormal M ode F or more information on N umbers M ode and more ways to turn N umbers M ode on and off see the section Switching recognition modes on page 119 Y ou can dictate most dates the way you would normally say them Say oh or zero to enter 0 In dialects other than U S Canada you can also say nought TO ENTER SAY 22 January twenty two January nineteen ninety nine 1999 April9 2001 April 9 comma two thousand and one 14 07 85 fourteen slash oh seven slash eighty five 3 11 02 three slash eleven slash zero two 3 11 2002 three slash eleven slash two thousand and two April 1st April first March 22nd March twenty second the 1980s the nineteen eighties See also A utomatic formatting of dates times telephone numbers on page 106 103 Dictating N umbes Punctuation and Special Characters Times of day Dictate the time of day the way you would normally say it US Canada Dragon automatically types the colon if you say am or p m when dictating the time Say o clock or colon
81. oice A fter you place the insertion point where you want it you can dictate more text select text copy and paste or apply formatting Going to the top or bottom of a page or document Y ou can move to the top or bottom of the current page by saying P age U p equivalent to pressing the PAGE UP key or Page D own equivalent to pressing the PAGE DOWN key Y ou can move to the top or bottom of your document by saying GotoTop or Goto Bottom SAY THEN Go to Top Move to Bottom Top of Document Beginning of Document Start of Document Bottom of Document End of Document Going to the beginning or end of a line Y ou can move to the beginning or end of the current line by saying Go to Beginning of Line or Go to End of Line Go to Beginning of Line Move to Start of Line End of Line 78 User Guide Placing the insertion point before or after a specific word Y ou can place the insertion point before a specific word by saying Insert Before and then the word or words Y ou can place the insertion point after a word by saying Insert After and then the word or words A fter you move the insertion point where you want it you can dictate more text paste text add punctuation and so on To place the insertion point before a specific word To move the insertion point before the word lets in the sentence below say Insert Before lets or Insert Before le
82. on N aturallyS peaking 11 5 gt D ragon L z N aturallyS peaking meet sore o 7 Claudia Duncan Tools gt U pgrade U sers The U ser U pgrade Wizard appears 2 On the Select U serstoU pgrade page modify the list of users to include users that you want to upgrade T he wizard starts by including all users in the current folder as candidates to upgrade Y ou add users to the list by clicking the Add button and browsing for additional users in other locations Y ou remove users from the list by selecting them and clicking the R emove button A fter the list contains only the users you want to upgrade click N ext User Guide 3 Click N ext and choose the location for the upgraded user profiles As the U ser U pgrade Wizard modifies your user files to work with the newest version it can place the upgraded user in another location while keeping the old files untouched in case you need them again 4 Click the Browse button in the Choose D estination page of the wizard to select the location for the upgraded user profiles f you do not set a location Dragon places the profiles in the default location see V ersion 11 5 F ile Structure on page 28 5 Optional If you want to make changes to the user locations base vocabularies and or acoustic models click the Advanced button and the Advanced Options dialog box opens In this dialog box you can make finer adjustments to how the wizard upgrades particular users Y ou se
83. on on the Dragon installation directories see V ersion 11 5 F ile Structure on page 28 Y ou can customize your installation to reduce the amount of disk space used on your C drive by not installing unwanted languages and vocabularies F or more information see Installing software Custom Installation on page 10 Installing on Windows Vista Windows 7 Dragon V ersion 11 5 is compatible with all editions of Windows V ista If you upgrade a machine from a previous version of Windows to Windows V ista Windows 7 and that machine has V ersion 9 x 10 x or 11 0 of D ragon installed that version of D ragon will not work after upgrading to Windows V ista A II your user profiles from these previous versions remain intact and can be upgraded when you install D ragon V ersion 11 5 or higher User Guide Coexistence with other Dragon products Coexistence with previous versions of Dragon Y ou can have only one version of Dragon installed on your system Running Version 9 x 10 x or 11 0 concurrently with Version 11 5 is not supported Coexistence with the Dragon SDK Client Edition Y ou can install Dragon SDK Client E dition 11 on the same machine where Dragon 11 is installed In addition Dragon 11 and Dragon SDK Client E dition 11 can share users and vocabularies Y ou can only run one product at a time F or example if you are running Dragon you cannot run any of the SDK Client tools or samples Coexistence of Version 11 5
84. ontinue until all the text is correct Correcting text using voice commands 1 Say Select or Correct and the text that is incorrect the Correction menu appears with a number of alternatives If one alternative is correct say C hoose and the number of that alternative If none of the alternatives is correct say S pell That spell the correct word or words into the S pell dialog box and then say OK Selecting a large amount of text or an entire document and then saying S pell That can produce unpredictable results V erify that the correct text appears in the document in place of the misrecognized text and continue to the next misrecognition Correcting text while playing back dictation 1 Move the insertion point to the beginning of the dictation you want to correct Click P lay That Back on the Sound menu of the D ragonB ar or click the Start Playback button on the E xtras toolbar Y ou can also say P lay that back When the playback of your dictation reaches a recognition error press the correction hot key By default this is the minus key on the numeric keypad If one of the alternatives is correct press the D own Arrow key to highlight that choice and then press ENTER to accept it If no alternative is correct just type or say the correct text and User Guide press the Correction hot key again Playback continues automatically from the point where you stopped
85. option on the Correction tab in the Options dialog box See the online help for more information Y ou can also access the S pell dialog box when usingtheS elect or C orrect commands F or a list of how to spell special characters see the S pelling topic in the online H elp Playing back your dictation Playback commands work in the DragonP ad Microsoft Word Versions 97 2000 2002 2003 and 2007 Corel WordPerfect Versions 8 9 10 and 12 and L otus N otes A Ithough Dragon never makes a spelling mistake the mistakes it does make can be challenging to find and fix Sometimes what the program types looks very different from what you actually said To make correcting mistakes easier Dragon records your voice as you dictate Y ou can play back your voice whenever you cannot tell by looking at your document what you originally said Unless you have Dragon Professional or a higher edition playback is available only until you close a document After you close a document Dragon deletes the recorded dictation for that document See page 88 for information on saving dictation for later correction Professional and higher editions Playing back dictation from the Correction menu When you re working in the C orrection menu click the P lay Back button or say P lay That Back to play the dictation that goes with the words you re correcting T hen edit the text to match what you said 85 Correcting a
86. ored only during the current editing session Correcting your own dictation If you save your dictation you can open your file later and play back and correct the text as if you had just dictated it Correcting someone else s dictation Y ou can play back someone else s dictation and correct the text to match the dictation Y ou can do this in two ways Correct the dictation using your own user files Correct the dictation using the document author s user files User Guide Correcting with your own user files Y ou should use this correction technique if you regularly correct another person s text by voice and it is not important to maximize the author s recognition accuracy When you use your own user files to correct someone else s text you can correct the dictation just as you would correct your own dictation using any combination of voice commands and keyboard typing E ven though you are correcting someone else s dictation your work won t reduce recognition accuracy for either you or the person who dictated the text But your corrections to the other person s dictation won t improve his or her recognition either Correcting with the document author s user files Y ou should use this correction technique if you do not need to correct by voice and it is important to maximize the author s recognition accuracy E This technique works if all work is done ona single computer Consult your Dragon reseller abou
87. ot say C hoose N umeral T wo or Dragon will transcribe the phrase as the text C hoose N umeral T wo or C hoose 2 depending on how you set the number formatting options on the A uto formatting dialog box 3 If the word or phrase you want is not on the list spell the word or say Spell T hat or just say the word again correction_dialog_ items The Correction menu contains the items listed below Y ou can choose them by voice mouse or using the down arrow and pressing Enter Numbered list of alternative recognitions Lists alternatives to what Dragon thinks it heard If one alternative is correct say C hoose and the number of that alternative F or example C hoose T wo Do not say Choose N umeral T wo or Dragon will transcribe the phrase as the text C hoose N umeral T wo or Choose 2 depending on how you set the number formatting options on the A uto formatting dialog box Spell That Saying Spell T hat opens the Spelling window where you can enter the correct word or phrase by spelling it or typing it U se the Spelling window to play back a segment of dictation modify an alternative that is almost correct or provide acoustic training so that Dragon better hears the difference between what you said and what it had originally transcribed N ote that if you enter a word in the Spelling window that is unknown to Dragon Dragon adds the word to its V ocabulary User Guide Play That Back Plays back reco
88. our individual user profile t also selects the vocabulary it uses to recognize words correctly based not only on their sound but also on their context H owever if you want to select a particular speech model and vocabulary you can click the Advanced button and in the C hoose models page select a Speech model from the drop down list for Speech model Dragon uses the speech model to adapt to your voice during training Dragon automatically recommends the type of speech model and vocabulary that is appropriate for your computer s speed memory U sually you should follow Dragon s recommendation T ype of vocabulary from the V ocabulary type list M edium R equires at least 512 MB of RAM Large R equires at least 1 GB of RAM User Guide E mpty D ictation Professional edition only V ocabulary with a language model but without any words designed for experienced users or resellers who want to create highly specialized vocabularies 7 Click OK to save your selections in the C hoose models page and return to the Profile C reation wizard 8 Click the Create button in the lower right corner of the page to create your user profile When Dragon finishes creating your user profile it takes you through the next part of the process Proceed to Setting up positioning your microphone on page 19 Setting up positioning your microphone When Dragon finishes creating your user profile it displays the P osition your microphone p
89. p 10 optional If you have users from V ersion 9 x or 10 x that you would like to upgrade before proceeding refer to U pgrading U ser Profiles on page 26 111f you have no previously existing users the P rofile C reation wizard starts immediately after you run the product Proceed to Creating your user profile on page 16 to set up a user profile then continue as instructed to train that user profile Y ou are now ready to create a user profile as explained under Creating your user profile on page 16 Installing software Custom Installation 10 To install portions of Dragon or to install it for multiple user profiles 1 Insert the Dragon DV D into your DV D drive If the installation does not start automatically use Windows E xplorer to find and double click setup exe on the DVD W indows Vista W hen you start the installation on W indows Vista if you see a message saying A program needs your permission to continue click Continue to start the installation 2 After the Windows Installer begins it installs two software packages if they are not already installed Visual C Version 9 0 Runtime 3 After the Wizard begins click N ext to proceed to the License Agreement page R ead the text and select accept the terms then click N ext 4 Enter your U ser N ame and Organization and the Serial N umber supplied to your installation User Guide 5 Optional When the Setup T ype page appears click the C
90. pening applications proper names dictating 116 punctuation 33 111 automatic 111 Q QuickStart 44 R Read That 91 Regional Settings control panel 103 Restore That 99 Resume With 81 revising text See Select and Say Right Align That 99 Roman numerals 107 123 Index S Ss 113 saving dictation 88 storage space for 90 Scratch That 76 80 scrolling 57 searching while selecting 75 Select Again 75 Select All 76 Select Document 76 Select text 74 Select and Say Select and Say Indicator 41 selecting text 74 again 75 characters 77 adocument 76 lines 77 paragraphs 77 punctuation 75 specific words 76 77 Set Font 96 97 Set Size 97 Setup Log 29 Skip Backward 87 Skip Forward 87 Skip Word button 22 sleeping 32 software installation 7 Southeast Asian English 12 speakers pluggingin 5 special characters 118 special folders opening 52 Spell Mode 119 Spell That 70 Spell text 83 spelling as you dictate 83 errors 85 starting applications See opening applications Stop Listening 32 Strikeout That 98 student voice models 18 124 switching windows 48 T Tab key 51 tabs dialog box selecting 51 teenage voices 18 telephone numbers 105 setting automatic formatting 106 text see also F ormatting T ext text to speech 91 times of day 104 setting automatic formatting 106 troubleshooting 40 typeface changing 96 U UK English 12 Uncapitalize 96 Uncapitalize That 96 Underline That 98 unselecting tex
91. pgrading U ser Profiles 26 Version 11 5 F ile Structure 28 Accessing log files samples and tools 29 Starting to Dictate 31 StartingDragon 31 Turningon the microphone 32 Starting to dictate 33 GettingHelp 36 Troubleshooting 40 TheDragonBar 40 Using QuickStart 44 CHAPTER 4 Working on Your Desktop 47 Programs documents and folders 47 Switching between open windows 48 Opening and closing menus 50 Selecting buttons tabs and options 51 U sing Windows Desktop commands 52 Selecting icons on the desktop 54 Resizing and closing windows 55 Scrolling in popular programs 56 Scrolling in windows and list boxes 57 Opening lists and making selections 57 Contents Pressing keyboard keys 58 M oving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse 63 CHAPTER 5 Correcting and Editing 69 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 Correcting mistakes 69 Selecting text by voice 74 Moving around in a document 78 Copying cutting and pasting text 80 Deletingtext 80 Spelling as you dictate 83 Playing back your dictation 85 U sing text to speech 91 Formatting 93 Capitalizingtext 94 F ormatting text 96 Dictating Numbers Punctuation and Special Characters 101 Dictating numbers 101 Punctuation 111 Dictating hyphenated words 113 Dictating compound words 115 Dictating names 116 Dictating abbreviations and acronyms 116 Dictating email and Web addresses 117 Dictating special characters 118 Switching recognition modes 119 Information Sales Ser
92. r 3 4 instead of two numbers separated by a slash character such as 1 4 1 2 or 3 4 F or information about dictating fraction characters see Switching recognition modes on page 119 Roman numerals Y ou can dictate R oman numerals by saying R oman numeral and the number F or large numbers say the number in small combinations as in the examples shown here TO ENTER SAY Roman Numeral one IV Roman Numeral four Roman Numeral five X Roman N umeral ten 107 Dictating N umbes Punctuation and Special Characters TO ENTER SAY L Roman N umeral fifty C Roman N umeral one hundred D Roman N umeral five hundred M Roman N umeral one thousand XXIV Roman N umeral twenty our XXXI Roman N umeral thirty one MCMXCVII Roman N umeral one thousand Roman N umeral nine hundred Roman N umeral ninety Roman N umeral seven Don t pause after the word Roman N umeral when you re dictating a Roman numeral If you pause Dragon may enter for example Roman numeral three instead of IIl Postal and ZIP Codes 108 Dragon can automatically formats postal codes T his feature is controlled from the Auto F or matting tab of the Options dialog box F or more information see the online help US ZIP Codes Y ou can dictate U S five digit ZIP codes just as you dictate any group of numbers When dictating nine digit ZIP codes you must say the hyphen 01886 oh one eight eight six 94704 1150 n
93. r later playback 88 documents moving to top bottom 78 opening 47 48 selecting all textin 76 121 Index dollar sign 109 DragonLog 29 DragonBar 32 40 Extras toolbaron 42 DragonPad 33 E e mail addresses dictating 117 ESC key 87 92 Extras toolbar 42 90 F folders opening 52 folders opening 47 48 fonts changing 96 Format That 98 Format That Centered 99 Format That Left Aligned 99 Format That Right Aligned 99 formatting text 96 applying bold 98 applying italics 98 applying underlining 98 changing font face size and style 96 removing formatting 99 fractions 106 G GiveMeHelp 36 Go to Beginning of Line 78 Go to Bottom 78 Goto End of Line 78 Go to Sleep 32 Go to Top 78 H help online 36 homophones tips for selecting 75 Hyphenate That 114 hyphenated words 113 dictating 114 122 hyphens 114 preventing 114 removing 114 l icons selecting 54 Indian English 12 Insert After text 79 Insert Before text 79 installation 7 International Communications Alphabet 58 Internet addresses 117 introduction 1 Italicize That 98 italics adding or removing 98 K keyboard shortcuts stopping playback 87 88 92 keyboard pressing keys 58 62 L Left Align That 99 lines deleting 82 moving to beginning end of 78 moving up down 79 selecting 77 list boxes 57 lowercase applying 95 M making selections list boxes 57 measurements See abbreviations menus opening and closi
94. rded dictation of the selected word or phrase All Caps That Capitalizes the initial letter in the selected word or words Add that to Vocabulary Displays the A dd I ndividual Word dialog so you can add the selected word or phrase to the vocabulary A dding the word or phrase will help Dragon recognize it in the future Unselect That D eselects the selected word or words Don t Recognize That Word Removes the selected word from your active V ocabulary so that Dragon won t recognize it again T his can save you time if Dragon repeatedly replaces words you dictate with words you don t use F or example if you dictate the name C assity often and Dragon always hears Cassidy you could use D on t R ecognize T hat Word from the Correction menu to turn off recognition of Cassidy f you decide later that you do need to use the word you can add it back using the V ocabulary E ditor Make That a Command Displays the MyC ommands E ditor to make the currently selected word or phrase a Dragon Command With this option you can associate up to 70 characters of dictation that you reuse frequently with a single command T hat way you don t need to retype it or retrieve it from a file location on your computer when you want to reuse it Correction Options Opens the Correction tab of the Dragon Options dialog box where you can modify the behavior of the Correction menu and 73 Correcting and E diting specify which command is used
95. rection in which the mouse is moving Faster M uch Faster Slower or M uch Slower to change the speed at which the mouse is moving Click D ouble Click Right Click or Left Click to click the mouse buttons Goto Sleep Stop Listening or M icrophone Off to turn the microphone off T o specify which mouse button left right or center is being held down during mouse drags or if you want theSHIFT CTRL 67 Working on Y our Desktop 68 or ALT key held down during the mouse drag use one of these commands before saying one of the drag commands in the preceding table Left Right Right Shift M iddle requires Shift Right Control three button mouse Control Right Alt Alt F or example to drag with the SHIFT key held down you could say Shift M ouse Drag U p To drag with theright ALT key held down the ALT key on the right side of the keyboard you could say Right Alt Drag M ouse U pper Left CHAPTER 5 Correcting and Editing hen Dragon N aturallySpeaking types the wrong words you should correct these mistakes B y giving the program the right word you actually teach the program not to make the same mistakes again Correcting mistakes requires some extra effort but it saves you time in the long run by making Dragon more accurate Y ou ll probably need to correct mistakes often when you first start dictating and then less frequently
96. rking on Y our Desktop the Recycle Bin say 4 A smaller MouseGrid will appear in the chosen grid square kia File Edit view Insert Format Tools Table Window Help DSha 4 sel o gt Biba wu Normal Book Antiqua 1 B Fa B i Say 4 to place a smaller MouseG rid over grid square number 4 lni Col 1 JREG RK ET love eR 3 To zoom in over the desired area say another grid number In this example say 4 to place the pointer over the R ecycle Bin icon 4 Continue to say the respective grid number to zoom in until the mouse pointer is over an icon or other object Y ou can use voice commands to click the mouse or mark and drag the object See the following sections for instructions EA You can undo the last MouseG rid action by saying U ndo That To close M ouseGrid say C ancel Moving the pointer with the Mouse command 64 Y ou can move the mouse pointer up down left or right a short distance a few millimeters by using the mouse pointer commands Y ou can combine moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse in a single voice command F or example you can say M ouse U p 3 Click or M ouse Right 2 D ouble Click User Guide To move the pointer 1 Say M ouse followed by the direction and number of times to move it up to 10 F or example say M ouse U p 5 or M ouse L eft 10 2 When t
97. rogram name gt Enlarge the active window to Maximize window the size of your monitor s screen Minimize the active window Minimize window Close the active window Close window Minimize all windows and Show Desktop display the W indows Minimize all windows Desktop Return a maximized window Restore window to its original size Restore all minimized Restore all windows windows Selecting icons on the desktop Y ou can use voice commands to select icons on the Windows desktop To select an icon on the desktop 1 Switch to the Windows desktop T o do this by voice minimize all open applications and place the mouse pointer over the desktop icon Say M ouse C lick to make the desktop active 54 User Guide 2 Say the name of the icon for example M y Computer Dragon types the icon name and Windows selects it 3 To select another icon say M ove and then the direction up down left right and number of icons up to 20 F or example Say M ove Right 1 M ove D own 2 or M ove U p 3 Say My Computer to select the My Computer icon gt My Computer My Documents fi Say Move Down 2 to select Recycle Bin A fter you select an icon you can say P ress E nter to start or open the program and P ress Shift F 10 to display its right click menu as if you had right clicked the icon with the mouse
98. ronyms 116 AllCaps Off 95 AllCapsOn 95 AllCaps That 96 All Caps text 95 American English 12 apostrophe s 113 applications opening 47 starting and utilities 52 switching 48 Audio Setup Wizard 19 Australian English 12 B BACKSPACE key 83 Bold That 98 British English 12 bulleted text 99 buttons selecting 51 C Cap That 96 Cap word 94 Capitalize That 96 Capitalize That 96 capitalizing text already in a document 96 applying lowercase 95 consecutive words 94 95 nextword 94 CapsOff 95 CapsOn 94 Center That 99 characters deleting 82 83 moving to next previous 80 selecting 77 check boxes selecting 51 clicking the mouse 65 Index Coexistence with previous versions 7 Command Mode 119 commas automatically adding 111 Compound That 115 compound words 115 contractions See apostrophe s Copy That 80 copying text 80 Correct text Through text 2 76 Correct text To text 2 76 Correction menu 69 creating anew user 16 currency 109 Cut That 76 80 cutting text 80 D dates 103 setting automatic formatting 106 deferred correction 88 Delete That 81 deleting text backing up and resuming dictation 81 characters 82 83 last words dictated 80 lines 82 paragraphs 82 specific words 77 81 82 deselecting text 75 dialects dictating currency 109 dictating times of day 104 spelling and punctuation conventions 2 dictate now correct later 88 Dictation Box 35 DictationMode 119 dictation saving fo
99. roperly page where it begins to lead you through the process of setting up your microphone F ollowing the wizard s instructions position your microphone Positioning the microphone correctly is important If the microphone is out of place Dragon might not be able to hear you clearly and make mistakes Consistent positioning is also important M ake sure that you position the microphone the same way each time you dictate H ere aresome tips on using particular types of microphones Using a headset microphone Position the microphone about a half inch approximately the width of your thumb from your mouth and a little off to the side The microphone should not touch your mouth but it can be almost touching your lips If you need to move the microphone out of the way lift the boom up and over your head rather than bending it out of position or removing the headset Using a handheld microphone H old the microphone one to three inches from your mouth and a little off to the side 19 Installation and U s Profile Creation If the volume display on the D ragonB ar turns red try holding the microphone slightly farther from your mouth Using an array microphone Position the array 18 to 30 inches from pointed at your mouth A void blocking the path between your mouth and the array for example by holding a book or paper in front of your face A void having any source of noise or signal other than your voice direct
100. rs with five or more digits automatically include commas with the exception of US ZIP codes F or a decimal point say point 101 Dictating N umbes Punctuation and Special Characters If you want to dictate only numbers you can switch to N umbers Mode See Switching recognition modes on page 119 for more information TO ENTER SAY 1 one numeral one 5 five numeral five 17 seventeen 23 twenty three 179 one hundred seventy nine one seventy nine 5423 five thousand four hundred and twenty three 5 423 five comma four twenty three 12 5S7 twelve thousand five hundred and thirty seven 142 015 one hundred and forty two thousand and fifteen 3525 thirty five point two three 0 03 All Dialects zero point zero three Outside US Canada nought point nought three 43 28 forty three point twenty eight percent sign 02460 oh two four six zero 02460 1458 oh two four six zero hyphen one four five eight 2 3 4 two and three fourths 11 32 eleven over thirty two 99 50 ninety nine dollars and fifty cents 45 35 45 Euros and thirty five cents 120 35 pound sterling sign one hundred and twenty point thirty five All Dialects 102 User Guide If you are having problems dictating numbers currency times or dates make sure that your Regional Settings match the language dialect you selected when you created your user Using Numbers mode Dates Any time you need to dictate a series of numbers and do
101. s the first word in a sentence following a period question mark or exclamation mark It capitalizes the first word after you say N ew Paragraph not when you say N ew Line andit capitalizes proper names when these words are already in the Dragon vocabulary in capitalized form DA You can change the spacing and capitalization rules for a word in the W ord Properties dialog box See the online help for more information When you re dictating you can capitalize words that aren t automatically capitalized by saying C ap and then the word F or example say Cap zelda to get Zelda If saying Cap lt word gt doesn t work try say Cap Next lt word gt EA To dictate the word cap for example in this sentence The company is putting a cap on salary increases you must say the company is putting a then say Spell c a p and then say on salary increases In this way Dragon knows that you do not want to capitalize any of the words within the sentence Capitalizing consecutive words When you want to capitalize consecutive words for example if you re dictating a book title you can turn capitals on and then turn them off when you re finished T his is usually easier than saying C ap before each word A nother way to do consecutive capitalization is to dictate the words pause and then say Capitalize That or Cap That To capitalize the first letters of
102. saying D elete N ext Line or D elete Previous Line Y ou can also delete a number of paragraphs or lines up to 20 F or example you can say D elete Previous 5 P aragraphs See the complete list below SAY THEN THEN Delete Next Paragraph Previous 2 20 Paragraphs Forward Line Back 2 20 Lines Last Deleting the next or previous word or character Y ou can delete the next or previous word by saying D elete N ext Word or D elete Previous Word Y ou can delete the next or previous character by saying D elete N ext Character or D elete Previous Character Y ou can also delete a number of words or characters up to 20 F or example you can say D elete Previous 5 Words See the complete list below SAY THEN THEN Delete N ext W ord Forward 2 20 Words Previous Character Back 2 20 Characters 2 User Guide Last 2 20 Characters Another way to delete the previous character is by saying Backspace This is equivalent to pressing the BACKSPACE key You can press it multiple times up to 20 by saying for example Backspace 5 Spelling as you dictate With the S pell command in Dragon you can easily spell a word or phrase you want to dictate into your document T his can be useful if you are dictating a word that is not likely to be in the Dragon vocabulary such as a proprietary term a proper name or a non English word Say
103. selected text Format That Centered Format That Left Aligned and Format That Right Aligned Bulleted text T o add bullets to text place your insertion point in the text and say F ormat that Bullet Style To remove bullets say Format that Bullet Style again 99 CHAPTER 7 Dictatng Numbers Punctuation and Special Characters Dictating his chapter describes how to dictate numbers punctuation Web addresses and a few other special items F or complete information on this topic see the online help If Dragon is not formatting a word as you would like you can change the formatting properties of the word by using the Word Properties dialog box See the online help for more information numbers In most cases you can dictate numbers including postal codes as you normally say them Dragon will display either a numeral 3 or the word three based on the context T o force recognition of digits as numerals instead of text without using the N umbers M ode say N umeral before you say the digit for example say N umeral Three to get 3 When dictating numbers Y ou can use or omit the word and as part of a number F or example say one hundred fifty instead of one hundred and fifty to get the number 150 Y ou can use oh and zero interchangeably to get 0 If you want a comma in a four digit number you must speak it explicitly Numbe
104. speling S gee Engh word usage E Australan Engish a EJN Esh This feature requires 205MB on Er arera Dite your hard drive m lt Installing other languages dialects and specialized vocabularies To install user files for the other languages or dialects supplied with your edition choose Custom on the Setup Type page The user files for each language or dialect contain both spellings and pronunciations specific to that region For example users who wish to dictate US English spellings including users with accents should install the US American English user files 8 Click N ext again and if you do not have the Professional edition skip to the next step Otherwise choose any check boxes under A dditional options to have additional dialog boxes pop up at the end of the installation where you can make changes that affect all users dictating on this computer OPTION DESCRIPTION Modify the application s settings for all users Displays the Options dialog box at the end of the instal lation here you set several options for all user profiles at once see online Help for details Useful for an installa tion in a shared area for example in a conference room where multiple professionals could dictate Modify the administrative settings 12 User Guide OPTION DESCRIPTION Displays the Administrative Settings dialog box at the end of the installation where you set
105. t 75 Upgrading 28 30 directory structure 28 user files creating 16 utilities starting 52 WwW Web addresses 117 What Can I Say 37 Windows open special folders 52 windows navigating between 53 switching between 48 words deleting 77 81 82 moving to next previous 80 placing insertion point before after 79 selecting 76 77 Y years 103 User Guide ZIP codes 108 125 Index 126 User Guide Information Sales Services and Technical Support P lease visit these sites http support nuance com http www nuance com help contact T he N uance website gives access to many resources including F requently A sked Questions usage tips customer stories Customer Service information T echnical Support content and a detailed comparison between Dragon editions It also lists V alue A dded Resellers who provide training and customization services for D ragon in person or remotely T hese N uance partners can help with individualized recommendations and coaching for special equipment environments workflows goals and needs enlisting their services is particularly efficient for very busy users very young users users who are new to computers and in case of issues with hearing vision mobility or dyslexia for instance If you purchased your software from a V alue A dded Reseller contact them directly for technical support T he Support area of the N uance website offers a Knowledge Base of T ech N otes conta
106. t ways to dictate on one computer and correct on another If you correct dictation using the author s user files you must not correct by voice or you may reduce that person s recognition accuracy Y ou can however improve the author s recognition accuracy if you make corrections by using the keyboard and mouse with the C orrection menu as in the following procedure To correct using someone else s user files 1 Makesure you are not wearing the microphone headset or that the microphone is not turned on or plugged in T his action ensures that you don t accidentally reduce the accuracy of someone else s user files by using your voice 2 BesuretheDragonP ad Extras toolbar is displayed so you can see the playback command buttons 3 Open the user files of the person whose text you will correct 4 InDragonP ad open the document to correct 89 Correcting and E diting 5 Usethe buttons on the E xtras toolbar to play back dictation 6 Select the text you want to correct by mouse or keyboard 7 Press the correction hot key normally the minus key on the numeric key pad or click the C orrect button on the DragonB ar E xtras toolbar T heC orrection menu appears with the selected text 8 Usethe keyboard to correct the text 9 When you finish save the text and the user s speech files Notes on correcting with another author s user files This technique is effective if all work is done on a single computer Cons
107. the QuickStart option see U sing QuickStart on page 44 DA You can start Dragon over a Remote Desktop connection W indows XP Professional and W indows XP Home but interactive dictation is not supported Using a Remote Desktop connection you can access the DragonBar and transcribe dictation but you cannot use a microphone attached to the remote machine to dictate 31 Starting to Dictate Turning on the microphone Before you can dictate you need to turn on the microphone T o turn on the microphone you Click the microphone icon on the DragonBar Y ou can click this icon again to turn it off amp DragonBar Professional e Profile Tools Dragon s microphone is off you ca Press the plus key on the numeric keypad to Microphone icon turn the microphone on and then press it again to turn the microphone off Click the microphone icon in the Windows task bar T he button and the volume meter on the D ragonB ar change to show if the microphone is off or on Shows that the microphone is off g Shows that the microphone is on O nce the microphone is off you cannot turn iton again by voice Sleeping and waking up 32 To make Dragon stop listening temporarily 1 Say Goto Sleep or Stop Listening Then Dragon ignores everything except the Wake U p or Listen ToM e commands 2 Toreactivate the microphone say Wake U p or Listen To M e Y ou can
108. ther key such as a letter F or example you can say Press Control Z undoes last action Press Alt F opens F ile menu Press Shift Tab moves backward through dialog box options Dragon ignores the command Press Control Alt Delete the keyboard shortcut for restarting a computer 60 Use Guide Pressing function and numeric keypad keys To press a function key F1 to F 12 say Press Function and then the name of the key F or example say P ress F unction 1 to bring up the online H elp T o press the keys on the numeric keypad say P ress Keypad and then the name of the key F or example you can say P ress Keypad M inus to press the keyboard shortcut that opens the Correction menu See the complete list below SAY THEN Press Keypad 1 Keypad 9 you can say any number from 0 to 9 All Dialects Keypad Point US Canada Keypad Period Other Dialects Keypad Full Stop Keypad Slash Keypad Asterisk Keypad Minus opens the Correction menu Keypad Plus turns the microphone on or off Keypad Star opens the Dragon menu on the DragonBar Keypad Enter Num Lock must be on for the Press Keypad commands to work You can say Press N um Lock to turn Num Lock on 61 Working on Y our Desktop Pressing other keys H ere s a list of other keys you can press by voice SAY THEN Press Up Arrow Down Arrow Right
109. tinue 4 Ifyou chose the second training option Show text without prompting In theR ead Training T ext page under C hoosing text to read choose a text to read aloud and click N ext When theT ext Display page appears choose how you want to read the text from the screen or from a printed page If you choose to read from a printed page click P rint to print the text Click N ext to continue If you chose to read the text from the screen the S peaking to the computer page appears and advises you to position your microphone A fter you position your microphone click Train to begin In the S peaking to the C omputer popup click Begin Training and read the text in the box Click N ext page to proceed from page to page 5 When thelist pops up choose a text to read aloud and click OK Y ou need to read for only about 5 minutes to train Dragon to recognize your voice Y ou can take breaks during this training by clicking P ause Don t worry if you make mistakes or laugh Y ou should try to read exactly what you see on the screen but it s okay if you read something incorrectly The computer either ignores the mistake or positions the yellow arrow at the beginning of the text for you to reread it T he progress bar shows how much text is left to dictate During training dictating punctuation is not necessary 6 When you ve read enough the Training wizard displays a congratulations message Click OK and Dragon starts ad
110. ts me talk Remember not to pause between any of the words Dragon lets me talk instead of type To place the insertion point after a specific word To move the insertion point after the word talk in the sentence below say I nsert After talk or I nsert After lets me talk Dragon lets me talk instead of type Moving up or down a paragraph or line Y ou can move up or down a paragraph by saying M ove Up a Paragraph or M ove Down a Paragraph Y ou can also move up and down a number of paragraphs up to 20 F or example you can say M ove U p 3 Paragraphs Y ou can move up or down a line by saying M ove U pa Line or M ove D own a Line Y ou can also move up and down a number of lines up to 20 F or example you can say M ove D own 3 Lines as delineated in the table below SAY THEN THEN Move Up a Paragraph or 1 Paragraph Back 2 20 Paragraphs Down a Line or 1 Line Forward 2 20 Lines 79 Correcting and E diting Moving right or left a word or character Copying Y ou can move to the right or left of a word by saying M ove Right a Word or M oveL eft a Word Y ou can also moveright or left a number of words up to 20 F or example you can say M ove Right 3 Words Y ou can move to the next or previous character by saying M ove Right a Character or M ove Left a Character Y ou can also move forward and backward a number o
111. u to click N ext to continue and proceed with L et Dragon automatically improve your accuracy on page 24 23 Installation and U s Profile Creation Let Dragon automatically improve your accuracy A fter it adapts to your writing style the Accuracy wizard gives you the option of setting up a schedule to automatically run Acoustic and L anguage M odel tuning processes DAA Acoustic and Language Model tuning processes add commonly used word sequences the user dictates as well as acoustic data from any corrections and additional training the user executes Scheduling tuning processes helps Dragon learn from you and makes your dictation more accurate 1 IntheLet Dragon automatically improve your accuracy page to have Dragon periodically tune your user profile to improve your accuracy be sure to check the Automatically improve accuracy check box If you do not change the schedules by default D ragon initiates A coustic tuning every Monday at 2 AM and L anguage M odel tuning every day at 3 AM 2 If you want to have Dragon tune your user profile at a different time or more or less often click the C hange Schedule button and in the Select Time and Frequency dialog box set the schedules on both the A coustics and Language M odel tabs T he schedules do not have to be the same A s a rule you should try to run these processes when you are not dictating and run the L anguage M odel tuning more often 3 Besure that you check the E nable
112. ult your Dragon reseller about ways to dictate on one computer and correct on another Display the DragonBar Extras toolbar by clicking the double chevron icon jg on the DragonBar not possible in Cling mode In the Correction menu you can use the mouse or keyboard to select any of the commands displayed below the correction choices For example you can click Spell That to open the Spell dialog box and spell the word You may want to select the following on the Correction tab of the Options dialog box Correct command brings up Correction menu Automatic playback on correction box W ith these settings Dragon automatically plays back the author s dictation for each selection of text you correct The Correction menu does not play back dictation W hen you correct someone else s dictation be sure that the amount of disk space you have reserved for storing dictation is atleastas large as the amount allocated for the user that created the text You allocate the disk space on the Data tab of the Options dialog box Saving dictation with documents can take up more than a megabyte of disk space per minute of dictation To save this space delete any dictation audio you no longer need Dragon saves dictation audio in a file with the same name as the document but with the dra extension For example for a document 90 User Guide called MyDoc rtf Dragon saves your dictation in a file called MyDoc dra in the same directory as your
113. up the Roaming User feature where to backup your files and who can modify commands vocabularies Modify the formatting options Displays Auto Formatting dialog box at end of installa tion where you apply uniform formatting to all documents dictated at this installation for example for mats for dates times and phone numbers You also set whether to expand contractions apply abbreviations and insert commas automatically See online Help for more details 9 Click N ext 10Click Install to start the installation 11 When the installation completes proceed with any of the following sections that apply to your custom installation M odifying application settings for all users on page 14 M odifying administrative settings on page 14 M odifying formatting options for all users on page 15 12 When you are prompted to register the product select one of the registration options 13 Click OK to register the product and click it again to proceed 14 Check Y es check for program updates after the setup completes to download any updates after the setup completes and click Finish to complete the installation 151f you chose to upgrade user profiles earlier when the message about upgrading your user profiles pops up click OK The message might tell you that the installation will not be complete until after your system is restarted 161f you were told you need to reboot in order to complete the installation reboot your
114. user profile 1 Inthe Creating a user profile page click N ext in the lower right corner to proceed 2 Proceed through the wizard filling in the information it requests and clicking N ext to proceed 16 User Guide When the wizard asks for your name you can enter your first name only a nickname or your first and last name T he wizard asks for your age to help Dragon work with vocal differences it associates with different age ranges T he wizard also asks for region of the world you live in to help Dragon interpret your speech based on regional differences When the H elp D ragon understand how your pronounce words page appears select your accent T he accents you can choose from are Standard Select if your accent is not covered by another choice or your are not sure which accent to select Australian accented E nglish British accented E nglish Indian accented E nglish Inland N orthern U S Great L akes area U pstate N ew Y ork through the Chicago area SE Asian accented E nglish South E ast A sian Southern U S M ost of Southern U nited States including T exas Spanish accented E nglish Determining your own accent can be difficult F or example say you grew up in one part of the U nited States but have lived long enough in another part to lessen your original regional accent If you have any doubt about picking an accent select Standard and allow Dragon to learn your accent If you do not select
115. vices and T echnical Support 127 CHAPTER 1 Introduction Dee N aturallySpeaking let you talk to your computer instead of typing A s you talk your words are transcribed onto your screen and into your documents or email messages T alking to a computer while it types what you say is called dictating Y ou can dictate rather than type into any program that accepts text Y ou can use Dragon to Compose letters memos and send e mail messages C ut and paste inside your documents as well as revise and format text J ust think about what you want to say and then say it into the microphone E nter data into forms or spreadsheets A vailable in Professional and higher editions M ost people can dictate numbers faster than they can type U sing D ragon Professional or higher editions you can create custom voice commands to let you move from field to field on your form by voice Work on the Web Search the Web access information and navigate Web pages by speaking U RL s and links Start programs and open menus U se handheld recorders to dictate while you are away from your computer D ragon can then transcribe what you said Introduction About this guide T his guide covers all editions of Dragon M ost information presented applies to all the editions and the manua notes any differences between the editions Conventions used in this guide 1 This guide contains many examples of words and phrases you ca
116. with Dragon SDK Client Edition Version 9 x or 10 x is not supported Before installing the software Before installing modifying or upgrading Dragon 1 Close all open applications 2 Turn off or disable antivirus software the installation process can sometimes trigger a false virus report M You must have Administrator rights to install or uninstall Dragon on W indows XP W indows Vista or W indows 7 Administrator rights are not required to create a user profile or use the software after installation On Windows XP Professional W indows Vista and W indows 7 systems if as an administrator you want to create a Dragon user profile for a W indows limited user user with restricted privileges you must log on using that W indows limited user account before creating the Dragon user profile Installation and U s Profile Creation If you create a Dragon user profile for a limited user while logged in as a W indows administrator the limited user will not be able to access that user profile These restrictions also apply to an upgrade installation 3 Choose the type of installation to carry out Choose Installation Type Choose whether to install the entire product or only particular features of the product as explained in the next section You can also carry out an MSI installation Refer to the online Dragon System Administrator G uide PDF or Help file for details Choosing type of installation
117. without your having to explicitly speak that punctuation T his N atural Punctuation feature can be useful in helping you get used to dictation by focusing on what you are saying rather than how your speech is punctuated N atural Punctuation only inserts periods and commas Y ou still have to dictate other punctuation marks E ven with N atural Punctuation turned on you can still dictate periods and commas A s you become more adept at dictation and want more control over where punctuation appears you may want to explicitly dictate all your punctuation F or information on correcting punctuation see Correcting Punctuation on page 74 Periods will only appear at the end of a sentence once you have started the next utterance or said N ew Line or N ew Paragraph Enabling and disabling automatic punctuation N atural Punctuation is turned on by default T here are two ways of turning N atural Punctuation on and off Select A uto F ormatting O ptions from the T ools menu of the DragonBar and click Automatically add commas and periods By saying autopunctuation on and autopunctuation off Turning N atural Punctuation on and off by voice sets the option above in the A uto F or matting dialog box If you disable N atural Punctuation by voice it stays disabled until you enable it again 111 Dictating N umbes Punctuation and Special Characters Dictating Punctuation Y ou can enter the punctuation marks and sym

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