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1. 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 Numbers Punctuation and Special Characters TO ENTER SAY 3 9 billion three point nine billion euros 45 forty five pounds 99 50 ninety nine pounds and fifty pence 2 20 two pounds twenty 5 million five million pounds Dragon uses the currency symbol and so on specified in your Windows Regional Settings as your default currency Dictate other currencies by first saying the currency symbol followed by the digits US Canada If your Regional Settings are set to the United 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 Regional Settings are set to the United 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 currenc
2. 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 Correct button on the DragonBar Extras toolbar The Correction menu appears with the selected text 8 Use the 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 Consult 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 on the DragonBar not possible in Cling mode mln 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 mCorrect command brings up Correction menu Automatic playback on correction box With 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 When you correct someone else s dictation be sure that the amount of disk space you have reserved for storing dictation is at least as large as the amount allocated for the user that created the text Y
3. 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 User Guide 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 Editing 72 in the last thing you said you can just say Select That Dragon highlights the word or phrase and the Correction menu appears 2 If the correct word or phrase is on the list start spelling to choose it or say Choose and the number of that choice For example say Choose 2 Do not say Choose Numeral Two or Dragon will transcribe the phrase as the text Choose Numeral Two or Choose 2 depending on how you set the number formatting options on the Auto formatting dialog box 3 If the word or phrase you want is not on the list spell the word or say Spell That or just say the word again correction_dialog_items The Correction menu contains the items listed below You 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 Choose and the number of that alternative For example Choose Two Do not say Choose Numeral Two or Dragon will transcribe the phrase as the text Choose Numeral Two or Choose 2 depending on
4. Eomet Bar oO Buler C Stetus Bar Wrap to window O wrap to ruler You can select tabs by saying the name of the tab alone or preceded by Click In the dialog box pictured you could say Options or Click Options to select the Options tab You can also move between tabs by saying Go to Next Tab and Go to 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 Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse on page 63 51 Working on Your Desktop Using Windows Desktop commands You can use voice commands to perform many actions on the Windows Desktop as shown in the table below TO DO THIS YOU CAN SAY Start a program by name Open your My Computer Open My Computer window Open your My Documents Open My Documents folder Open your My Pictures Open My Pictures folder Open your My Music folder Open My Music Open your My Videos folder Open My Videos Open lt program name gt 52 Open Windows Explorer Open Windows Explorer Open Windows Help and Open Windows Help Support Center Open the Windows Task Open Task Manager Manager Open the Windows Run dia Open Run dialog log box Use
5. and autopunctuation off Turning Natural Punctuation on and off by voice sets the option above in the Auto Formatting dialog box If you disable Natural Punctuation by voice it stays disabled until you enable it again Dictating Numbers Punctuation and Special Characters Dictating Punctuation You can enter the punctuation marks and symbols listed below in text you dictate For a list of all punctuation marks see the online help TO ENTER SAY comma period dot point each one has different spacing characteristics 2 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 3 hyphen minus sign double hyphen dash space bar 112 User Guide You can use the Vocabulary Editor to view or change the formatting properties of the punctuation Words that end with s To dictate a word ending with apostrophe S s just say it as you normally would Dragon will often add it If Dragon doesn t include the s you can add it later We took Mary s car We took Mary s car that s enough that s enough it s time to go it s time to go Includin
6. more details 9 Click Next 1O0Click Install to start the installation 1 1 When the installation completes proceed with any of the following sections that apply to your custom installation m Modifying application settings for all users on page 14 E Modifying administrative settings on page 14 E Modifying formatting options for all users on page 15 1 2When you are prompted to register the product select one of the registration options 13Click OK to register the product and click it again to proceed 14Check Yes check for program updates after the setup completes to download any updates after the setup completes and click Finish to complete the installation 1 5If 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 1 6 f you were told you need to reboot in order to complete the installation reboot your computer now 13 Installation and User Profile Creation 1 7Select Start gt All Programs gt Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 gt Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 or click on the Dragon desktop icon 18If you have users from Version 9 x or 10 x that you would like to upgrade before proceeding refer to Upgrading User Profiles from Versions 9 x and 10 x on page 26 Otherwise if you have no previously existing users the Profile Creation wizard star
7. speak Start talking As you speak Dragon 11 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 Results Box as in previous versions The traditional Results Box is still available from the View tab of the Options dialog box From 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 The Natural 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 Natural Punctuation inserts only periods and commas You have to dictate other punctuation marks Even with Natural Punctuation turned on you can still dictate periods and commas As 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 You can turn Natural 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 Drago
8. 51 teenage voices 18 telephone numbers 105 setting automatic formatting 106 text see also Formatting Text text to speech 91 times of day 104 setting automatic formatting 106 troubleshooting 40 typeface changing 96 UK English 12 Uncapitalize 96 Uncapitalize That 96 Underline That 98 unselecting text 76 Upgrading 27 30 directory structure 27 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 82 83 moving to next previous 80 placing insertion point before after 79 selecting 76 78 Y years 103 User Guide ZIP codes 108 125 126 User Guide Information Sales Services and Technical Support Please visit these sites E http support nuance com E http www nuance com help contact The Nuance website gives access to many resources including Frequently Asked Questions usage tips customer stories Customer Service information Technical Support content and a detailed comparison between Dragon editions It also lists Value Added Resellers who provide training and customization services for Dragon in person or remotely These Nuance 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 use
9. 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 Spell command in Dragon you can easily spell a word or phrase you want to dictate into your document This 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 for example Spell b u o n space g i o r n o The word you spelled appears right in your document You must say Cap if the word contains a capital letter For example say Spell Cap R u m p e l s t i l s k i n to type Rumpelstilskin 83 Correcting and Editing If you say Spell by itself without any letters after it the Spell dialog box opens 6 Spelling Window Spell or type what you had said or say Choose and a number a d You can also say gt Play that back w Train Tell me more about this window You can then speak the letters and Dragon 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 For example to dictate an automobile license plate number you could say Spell y h m 6 0 9 Dragon would type yhm609 Say Spell Cap m a c m i l l a n trademar
10. Next 3 When the Dragon will test the quality of your sound system page appears click Start Quality Check and then read aloud the text displayed in the box 4 The program beeps when it has finished evaluating the sound quality of your system If Dragon displays Passed click Next 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 Training 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 a user profile enhances your recognition accuracy In initial training you read aloud for several minutes from one of the available texts MA For information on training a mobile user see the online help If you skipped training earlier to open a user profile from the DragonBar menu select Profile gt Open User Profile and select your name in the list then click Open to proceed Since you have not completed training options for Training appear To train a new user 1 When the Read text al
11. and additional training the user executes Scheduling tuning processes helps Dragon learn from you and makes your dictation more accurate In the Let 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 Dragon initiates Acoustic tuning every Monday at 2 AM and Language Model tuning every day at 3 AM If you want to have Dragon tune your user profile at a different time or more or less often click the Change Schedule button and in the Select Time and Frequency dialog box set the schedules on both the Acoustics and Language Model tabs The schedules do not have to be the same As arule you should try to run these processes when you are not dictating and run the Language Model tuning more often Be sure that you check the Enable check box on both the Acoustics and Language Model tabs or the tuning processes occur on the default schedule rather than the schedule you set 4 Click Next to continue Scheduling data collection Help us improve Dragon 24 After 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 When you set Data Collection to run it collects up to 500 MB of acoustic data and text from your dictation sessions Once the data is collect
12. asks for region of the world you live in to help Dragon interpret your speech based on regional differences When the Help Dragon understand how your pronounce words page appears select your accent The accents you can choose from are E Standard Select if your accent is not covered by another choice or your are not sure which accent to select m Australian accented English E British accented English E Indian accented English E Inland Northern US Great Lakes area Upstate New York through the Chicago area E SEAsian accented English South East Asian E Southern US Most of Southern United States including Texas E Spanish accented English Determining your own accent can be difficult For example say you grew up in one part of the United 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 a specific accent in other words you select the Standard accent you may want to perform Acoustic Optimization after using the product for several hours Acoustic Optimization updates your user profile with accumulated acoustic data from any corrections and additional training you may have done Running Acoustic Optimization will increase your overall accuracy In the 17 Installation and User Profile Creation process of increasing your accuracy Acoustic Optimization
13. checking your work See Notes 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 After playback starts you can stop it as soon as you notice a mistake and automatically open the Correction menu The Playback toolbar is an extra section of the Dragon Bar that is normally hidden To see the Playback toolbar click the double chevron icon gon the DragonBar to open the Extras toolbar Stop k Playback Skip Forward Start Playbac Correction s 5 4 i F Transcribe Read Correction Skip Transcribe Button Back That Button User Guide To play back dictation To play back dictation do any of the following E Select the text you want to play back and say Play That Back E Click the Start Playback button on the Playback toolbar E Move 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 po
14. commands 4 Once you are done dictating and editing the text say or click Transfer The text you dictated in the Dictation Box is transferred to the application For more information on using the Dictation Box with a non standard window see the online help Printing and saving your dictated text Printing From the File menu of your word processor use the mouse to choose Print Or say Click File pause and say Print You can also simply say Print Document or Print File if the Natural Language Commands are enabled See the online help for more information Saving From the File menu choose Save You can also say Click File and then say Save Remember you have to pause between the Click File and the Save commands to have Dragon recognize them as two separate commands If the Natural Language Commands have been enabled you can say Save Document Getting Help 36 To access the online Help for Dragon click the Help menu on the DragonBar and choose Help Topics Alternatively you can say Give Me Help User Guide You can print individual Help topics with the Print button in the Help window To open the online Help links just say their names The 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 The online help includes the following information not found
15. fast the mouse pointer moves when you use a mouse motion command The mouse motion commands Here 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 You can also say E Stop or Cancel to stop the mouse from moving E Up Down Left Right Upper Left Lower Left Upper Right or Lower Right to change the direction in which the mouse is moving E Faster Much Faster Slower or Much Slower to change the speed at which the mouse is moving gw Click Double Click Right Click or Left Click to click the mouse buttons E Go to Sleep Stop Listening or Microphone Off to turn the microphone off To specify which mouse button left right or center is being held down during mouse drags or if you want the SHIFT CTRL 67 Working on Your 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 E Left E Right E Right Shift E Middle requires E Shift E Right Control ues honon m Control m Right Alt mouse g Alt For exampl
16. how you set the number formatting options on the Auto formatting dialog box Spell That Saying Spell That opens the Spelling window where you can enter the correct word or phrase by spelling it or typing it Use 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 Note that if you enter a word in the Spelling window that is unknown to Dragon Dragon adds the word to its Vocabulary User Guide Play That Back Plays back recorded 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 Add Individual Word dialog so you can add the selected word or phrase to the vocabulary Adding the word or phrase will help Dragon recognize it in the future Unselect That Deselects the selected word or words Don t Recognize That Word Removes the selected word from your active Vocabulary so that Dragon won t recognize it again This can save you time if Dragon repeatedly replaces words you dictate with words you don t use For example if you dictate the name Cassity often and Dragon always hears Cassidy you could use Don t Recognize That Word from the Correction menu to turn off recognition of Cassidy If you decide later that you do need to use the wor
17. may select a different accent for you If you select a specific accent Acoustic 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 Version 11 lets you create and train users in multiple languages If you have purchased an edition with support for more than one language you can add languages by later choosing Custom during the installation and having the Dragon DVD available to install the language files during the process of creating user profiles When the How 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 Recorders In the Review your choices page be sure the information is correct before you proceed Dragon automatically chooses a speech model to use as the foundation for your individual user profile It also selects the vocabulary it uses to recognize words correctly based not only on their sound but also on their context However if you want to select a particular speech model and vocabulary you can click the Advanced button and in the Choose models page select a E 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 t
18. on the desktop You can use voice commands to select icons on the Windows desktop To select an icon on the desktop 1 Switch to the Windows desktop To do this by voice minimize all open applications and place the mouse pointer over the desktop icon Say Mouse Click to make the desktop active 54 User Guide 2 Say the name of the icon for example My Computer Dragon types the icon name and Windows selects it 3 To select another icon say Move and then the direction up down left right and number of icons up to 20 For example Say Move Right 1 Move Down 2 or Move Up 3 Say My Computer to select the My Computer icon Say Move Down 2 to select Recycle Bin Recycle Bin After you select an icon you can say Press Enter to start or open the program and Press Shift F10 to display its right click menu as if you had right clicked the icon with the mouse You can also use voice commands for these actions See Marking and dragging objects on page 65 Resizing and closing windows To resize and close windows say Click and then one of the following window commands SAY THIS ire Click Minimize or Minimize the active window Click Control Menu pause Minimize Click Maximize or Maximize the active window Click Control Menu pause Maximize 55 Working on Your Desktop SAY THIS TO Click Restore or R
19. your writing style to increase your overall recognition accuracy This tool scans documents in your My Documents directory Microsoft Word Corel WordPerfect text files html files and rich text files rtf Adapting to your writing style can add 5 to 30 minutes to user training Close all other programs when you run this step 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 Inthe Let 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 Sent E mails check box To have Dragon search your word processing and text files select the My Documents 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 you to click Next to continue and proceed with Let Dragon automatically improve your accuracy on page 24 23 Installation and User Profile Creation Let Dragon automatically improve your accuracy After it adapts to your writing style the Accuracy wizard gives you the option of setting up a schedule to automatically run Acoustic and Language Model tuning processes Acoustic and Language Model tuning processes add commonly used word sequences the user dictates as well as acoustic data from any corrections
20. 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 For example say the end and Dragon types THE 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 No Caps and then the word For example say No Caps Jennifer 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 Formatting turn it off when you are finished This is usually easier than saying No Caps before each word To dictate consecutive words in all lowercase letters 1 Say No Caps On to turn no capitals on 2 Dictate the words you want to appear in all lowercase 3 Say No Caps Off to turn no capitals off Capitalizing or uncapitalizing text already in your document You can change the capitalization of text already in your document by selecting it and then saying Capitalize That Cap That or All Caps That or Uncapitalize That Uncap That or No Caps That To capitalize or uncapitalize text 1 Select the text you want to c
21. 6 To indicate how you want dates times telephone numbers and other numbers automatically formatted 2 On the DragonBar select Tools gt Auto Formatting The Auto Formatting dialog box appears Click the check box labeled Format Dates and select the format you want from its drop down list For instance select Month D YYYY or D M YY Click the check box labeled Format times Dragon then formats times based on your Regional Settings in Windows To have hyphens added to a phone number automatically click the check box labeled Phone numbers all other editions You can also click the check box for Prefer 5 million over 5 000 000 Other formats you can click check boxes for on this tab include United Kingdom and Canadian postal codes and several non numeric formats that involve using common abbreviations expanded contractions abbreviations of units of measure and titles such as Mr Ms 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 You can dictate most common fractions the way you would normally say them To 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 37 8 ls and seven eighths or three and seve
22. 85 playing back dictation 85 correcting mistakes 88 in the Correction dialog box 85 ina document 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 or time 103 programs opening See opening 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 113 saving dictation 88 storage space for 90 Scratch That 77 81 scrolling 57 searching while selecting 75 Select Again 75 Select All 77 Select Document 77 Select text 75 Select and Say Select and Say Indicator 41 selecting text 75 again 75 characters 78 adocument 77 lines 77 paragraphs 77 punctuation 75 specific words 76 78 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 plugging in 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 Tabkey 51 tabs dialog box selecting
23. Bar The Tutorial 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 Resolving Problems and Tips sections of the online help The DragonBar The DragonBar gives you access to Dragon functions and features Menus Volume Display amp DragonBar Professional e Profile Tools Vocabulary Dragon s microphone is off you can press its hotkey or click its icon to tura Microphone Status Extras 40 User Guide Microphone button and volume display When the microphone is on the Volume Display shows the sound level Volume display amp D Bar Professi LABODA ER IESEES w Yellow means silence or that you i A Vc are speaking too softly mGreen means that you are speaking at a proper level Recognition Mode E Red means that you are speaking too loudly The Full Text Control indicator The DragonBar includes a Full Text Control indicator that turns green when you are in an application or window where all of Dragon s functionality is supported Full Text Control indicator looks like check mark displays in green to show that you can dictate G DragonBar Profesional th a v e Profile Tools Yocabulary Modes Audio Help Recognition Mode Normal Normally you can dictate and use Dragon voice commands in any text window of any applica
24. DRAGON NATURALLY SPEAKING Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 11 E NUANCE Dragon User Guide Version 11 Nuance Communications Inc has patents or pending patent applications covering the subject matter contained in this document The furnishing of this document does not give you any license to such patents 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 Nuance Communications Inc Specifications are subject to change without notice Copyright 2002 2010 Nuance Communications Inc All rights reserved Nuance ScanSoft the Nuance logo the Dragon logo Dragon DragonBar NaturallySpeaking NaturallyMobile RealSpeak Nothing But Speech NBS Natural Language Technology Full Text Control MouseGrid and Vocabulary Editor are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nuance Communications Inc in the United States or other countries All other names and trademarks referenced herein are trademarks of Nuance Communications or their respective owners Designations used by third party manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products may be claimed as trademarks by those third parties Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation Adobe and Acrobat are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorp
25. EN Move Up a Paragraph or 1 Paragraph Back 2 20 Paragraphs Down a Line or 1 Line Forward 2 20 Lines 79 Correcting and Editing Moving right or left a word or character Copying You can move to the right or left of a word by saying Move Right a Word or Move Left a Word You can also move right or left a number of words up to 20 For example you can say Move Right 3 Words You can move to the next or previous character by saying Move Right a Character or Move Left a Character You can also move forward and backward a number of characters up to 20 For example you can say Move Left 4 Characters or Move 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 You can move text from one place to another by using the Copy That Cut That and Paste 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 Move the insertion point to where you want to paste the text 4 Say Paste That Deleting text Deleting the last words you dictated You can erase the last words you dictated by saying Scratch That When you say this command Dragon deletes the last User Guide thing it typed into your document This ma
26. Grid You can move the pointer relative to the full screen or the active window To use MouseGrid 1 Say MouseGrid to place the MouseGrid over the full screen as shown below or say MouseGrid Window to place it over the active window For example iV Microsoft Word Documenti tila 7 File Edt View Insert Format Tools Table Window Help locke 6 tedlyo Bad uo Normal Book Antiqua vil z BZU 22 E Intenet Explorer Q Recycle Bi E HRAD 227P 2 Say a grid number from 1 to 9 to position the pointer in that numbered area In this example to position the pointer over 63 Working on Your Desktop the Recycle Bin say 4 A smaller MouseGrid will appear in the chosen grid square a My Computel Foai 4 Microsoft Word Document1 F Eie Edt view Insert Format Tools Table Window Help Oeus hely nae o g Normal Book Antiqua zu BZU 22 E i tee Intepyt Exp r Say 4 to place a smaller MouseGrid over grid square number 4 Ini Colt REG RK ExT OR WPA 3 To zoom in over the desired area say another grid number In this example say 4 to place the pointer over the Recycle Bin icon 4 Continue to say the respective grid number to zoom in until the mouse pointer is over an icon or other object You can use voice commands to click the mouse or mark and
27. N Paragraph 2 20 Paragraphs Line 2 20 Lines Selecting a word or character You can select the current word by saying Select Word To select a character say Select Next Character or Select Previous Character You can also select a number of words or characters up to 20 For example say Select Previous 2 Words SAY THEN Select Next Previous Forward Back Last THEN Word 2 20 Words Character 2 20 Characters 77 Correcting and Editing Moving around in a document When you re editing a document you can move around in it by voice After 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 You can move to the top or bottom of the current page by saying Page Up equivalent to pressing the PAGE UP key or Page Down equivalent to pressing the PAGE DOWN key You can move to the top or bottom of your document by saying Go to Top or Go to 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 You 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 En
28. Numbers Mode say Numeral before you say the digit for example say Numeral Three to get 3 When dictating numbers E You can use or omit the word and as part of a number For example say one hundred fifty instead of one hundred and fifty to get the number 150 E You can use oh and zero interchangeably to get 0 E If you want a comma in a four digit number you must speak it explicitly Numbers with five or more digits automatically include commas with the exception of US ZIP codes E For a decimal point say point 101 Dictating Numbers Punctuation and Special Characters If you want to dictate only numbers you can switch to Numbers Mode See Switching recognition modes on page 119 for more information TO ENTER SAY 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 12 537 twelve thousand five hundred and thirty seven 142 015 one hundred and forty two thousand and fifteen 35 23 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 23 4 two and three fourths 11 32 eleven over thirty two 99 50 ninety nine dollars an
29. SHIFT TAB SAY THIS ite Switch to Next Switch to the next application Window Switch to Previous Switch to the previous application Window Switch to Microsoft Make Microsoft Word the active Word 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 From list_apps_dlg To switch between open programs or windows To list all open programs Say List Programs or List all windows The List of Open Applications window opens To list open windows of multi document applications Say List windows for lt program name gt For example say List windows for Microsoft Word The List of Windows opens To switch to an open program or window Say Choose n where n is the number of the program or window you want to switch to or just say the number next to the word For example say Choose 2 or 2 OR Choose the number of the program or window from the list and click OK 49 Working on Your Desktop Opening and closing menus You can activate any menu by saying the menu name 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 File If the command does not work try saying Click and then the name of the menu you want to open for example say Click File Do
30. Scrolling in windows and list boxes You can scroll vertically in a window for example an online Help window or list box by saying Move Down and Move Up and then a number of scroll bar arrow clicks up to 20 For example say Move Down 4 or Move Up 10 You can scroll horizontally by saying Move Left and Move Right and then a number of scroll bar arrow clicks up to 20 For example say Move Left 10 or Move Right 5 Opening lists and making selections You 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 The list 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 Move Down or Move Up and the number of places your selection is from the current selection 57 Working on Your Desktop Pressing keyboard keys You can activate Windows menus and controls by pressing keys With Dragon you can press any key on your keyboard by voice You can press letters numbers modifier keys SHIFT CTRL and ALT and so on You can say Press Press Key or Type 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 mo
31. Windows 7 directory structure 28 Dragon Program directory You can specify this location during the installation C Program Files Nuance NaturallyS peaking 11 Ereg Help Program Tutorial optional Data and user directories User Guide You cannot change this location Dragon always installs these directories to your Document and Settings directory C ProgramData Nuance NaturallySpeaking1I Data Data Training results Roaming Users Users C Users lt username gt AppData Roaming Nuance NaturallySpeaking1I Results Cleaning up after uninstalling The following files remain on your machine after you uninstall Windows Speech VText dll Xlisten dll speech hlp Vdict dll Xvoice dll veauto tlb WrapSAPI dll spchtel dll vemd exe XTel Dil speech cnt vemshl dll Xcommand dll speech dll vtxtauto tlb Dragon installs these files for Microsoft SAPI4 support You do not need these files if you do not have other speech applications that require SAPI4 If you do have applications that require SAPI4 support you might need to re install those applications if you remove these files Accessing log files samples and tools You can open log files and samples from the desktop E NaturallySpeaking log file dragon log Select Start gt Programs gt Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 0 gt Show Dragon Log E NaturallySpeaking setup files dgnsetup log Select Start gt Programs gt Dragon NaturallySpeakin
32. a recording of your dictation A yellow arrow displays on your screen during playback following what you said Click the Stop Playback button to stop the recorded speech playback Read That When you select text and click the Read That button Dragon reads the text to you Skip Back and Skip Forward Use these buttons to skip backward or forward one utterance To Dragon an utterance is a group of words said together without pausing You can display the Extras menu items in the main Dragon Bar See the online help for more information User Guide Changing the DragonBar position To change the position of the DragonBar click the Dragon icon at the far left of the DragonBar A menu displays that lets you move the DragonBar 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 Windows task bar You can also hide the DragonBar by saying Switch to Tray Icon Only Mode To make a hidden DragonBar reappear right click on the small microphone in the lower right corner of the screen From the menu that appears click Restore Previous DragonBar Mode Control
33. able QuickStart To temporarily disable QuickStart right click the QuickStart taskbar tray icon and select Exit This action exists Dragon and removes the QuickStart tray icon from the Windows taskbar When you re start Windows the QuickStart taskbar tray icon re displays Using QuickStart User Guide You access QuickStart by right clicking the Dragon QuickStart taskbar tray icon This action displays QuickStart menus that parallel the menus in the DragonBar Profile SELECT Turn Dragon s Micro phone On Off Profile gt Tools gt Vocabulary gt Modes gt Audio gt Help gt Close DragonBar Close DragonBar bo Turn Dragon s Microphone On New User Profile Tools gt coe Add audio source to current User Profile Vocabulary gt Add vocabulary to current User Profile b Modes Open User Profile i b Audio Open Recent User Profile Help d Close User Profile Save User Profile Manage User Profiles E Backup User Profile Restore User Profile TO Turn on or off the microphone 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 Open any option from the Tools menu Open any option from the Vocabulary menu Open any option from the Modes menu Open any option from the Audio menu Open any option from the Help menu Shut down Dragon if it is
34. ad say Press Keypad and then the name of the key For example you can say Press Keypad Minus 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 Num Lock to turn Num Lock on 61 Working on Your Desktop Pressing other keys Here s a list of other keys you can press by voice SAY THEN Press Up Arrow Down Arrow Right 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 Dragon provides hands free mouse control with MouseGrid and the mouse motion voice commands You can use these features to position the mouse pointer anywhere on the screen click the mouse buttons and drag objects all by voice Moving the mouse pointer with MouseGrid You can position the mouse pointer anywhere on the screen by using Mouse
35. al and ZIP Codes Dragon can automatically formats postal codes This feature is controlled from the Auto Formatting tab of the Options dialog box For more information see the online help US ZIP Codes You can dictate US 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 nine four seven oh four hyphen one one five oh UK and Canadian Postal Codes You can dictate UK postcodes by saying Postcode followed by the letters and numbers that make up the postcode For Canadian postal codes say Postal code followed by the letters User Guide and numbers that make up the postal code Spacing and formatting will happen automatically TO ENTER SAY NG3 2HX Postcode n g three two h x E10 7BD Postcode e ten seven b d EC2Y ALK Postcode e c two y four k KIAOM5 Postal code k one a zero m five XOA OHO Postal code x oh a ohh oh Currency and coin You 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
36. an install them later by running the Setup program again and choosing Modify 7 Click Next 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 E Install now on local hard drive E Install now with all subfeatures on local hard drive E Install when it is needed on a just in time basis These options are particularly useful for installing multiple languages and or multiple vocabularies Installation and User Profile Creation For example see the selections for the Southeast Asian English vocabulary shown in the illustration below Click an an icon in the ist below to change how a Feature is mstalied feeture Desorphon a y UK Evagish ON The Engish speech fies US Ersh necessary for dictation using I Speech Fies Asien pronuncistion speling en l Engish word usage Australan Engish 2 jesh This feature requires 205MB on Be Ganera Dite your hard ceive US Eevish 29 Indian Engish r lt SS The Feature vl be installed on local hard drive Install to C lPocunerts at The Feature wall be installed when requred 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
37. and that machine has Version 9 x or 10 x of Dragon installed that version of Dragon will not work after upgrading to Windows Vista All your user profiles from these previous versions remain intact and can be upgraded when you install Dragon Version 11 or higher User Guide Coexistence with other Dragon products Coexistence with previous versions of Dragon You can have only one version of Dragon installed on your system Running Version 9 x or 10 x concurrently with Version 11 is not supported Coexistence with the Dragon SDK Client Edition You can install Dragon SDK Client Edition 11 on the same machine where Dragon 11 is installed In addition Dragon 11 and Dragon SDK Client Edition 11 can share users and vocabularies You can only run one product at a time For example if you are running Dragon you cannot run any of the SDK Client tools or samples Coexistence of Version 11 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 You must have Administrator rights to install or uninstall Dragon on Windows XP Windows Vista or Windows 7 Administrator rights are not required to create a user profile or use the software after installation On Windows XP Professional Windows Vis
38. ast words you said or compound selected words by saying Compound That This command removes all spaces between selected words Or if no words are selected it removes all spaces in the last utterance Any tabs or line breaks are also removed 115 Dictating Numbers Punctuation and Special Characters Dictating To compound words 1 Select the text you want to join For example if you want to join the words Web TV say Select Web TV 2 Say Compound That names Many names of people places and events are already in the Dragon vocabulary For example you can dictate Martin Luther King New York Times and Boston 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 Editing 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 116 Dragon knows many common abbreviations such as NYC 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 R S VP say each letter HTML HTML say each letter 8 cm ei
39. ate the rest of the sentence For example say next Wednesday at noon Deleting specific words You can delete text by selecting it and saying Delete That To delete text 1 Select the text you want to delete Correcting and Editing 2 Say Delete That You can also say Scratch That to do the same thing Deleting the next or previous paragraph or line You can delete the next or previous paragraph by saying Delete Next Paragraph or Delete Previous Paragraph You can delete the next or previous line by saying Delete Next Line or Delete Previous Line You can also delete a number of paragraphs or lines up to 20 For example you can say Delete Previous 5 Paragraphs 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 82 You can delete the next or previous word by saying Delete Next Word or Delete Previous Word You can delete the next or previous character by saying Delete Next Character or Delete Previous Character You can also delete a number of words or characters up to 20 For example you can say Delete Previous 5 Words See the complete list below SAY THEN THEN Delete Next Word Forward 2 20 Words Previous Character Back 2 20 Characters User Guide Last 2 20 Characters
40. by Jeffrey J Mayer published by McGraw Hill Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Copyright 1972 by Roald Dahl published by Alfred A Knopf Inc and Penguin Books r di The Captain of Battery Park Copyright 1978 by Eugene Pool published by Addison Wesley FLASH ENABLED Contents CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1 About this guide 2 What should I expect from Dragon 3 CHAPTER 2 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 Typical 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 How Dragon automatically configures user profile 25 Upgrading User Profiles from Versions 9 x and 10 x 26 Version 11 File Structure 27 Accessing log files samples and tools 29 CHAPTER 3 Starting to Dictate 31 Starting Dragon 31 Turning on the microphone 32 Starting to dictate 33 Getting Help 36 Troubleshooting 40 The DragonBar 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 Using Windows Desktop
41. commands 51 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 Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse 63 CHAPTER 5 Correcting and Editing 69 Correcting mistakes 69 Selecting text by voice 75 Moving around in a document 78 Copying cutting and pasting text 81 Deleting text 81 Spelling as you dictate 83 Playing back your dictation 85 Using text to speech 91 CHAPTER 6 Formatting 93 Capitalizing text 94 Formatting text 96 CHAPTER 7 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 e mail and Web addresses 117 Dictating special characters 118 Switching recognition modes 119 Information Sales Services and Technical Support 127 CHAPTER Introduction agon NaturallySpeaking let you talk to your computer instead of typing As you talk your words are transcribed onto your screen and into your documents or e mail messages Talking to a computer while it types what you say is called dictating You can dictate rather than type into any program that accepts text You can use Dragon to E Compose letters memos and send e mail messages Cut and paste inside y
42. cond the 1980s the nineteen eighties See also Automatic formatting of dates times telephone numbers on page 106 103 Dictating Numbers Punctuation and Special Characters Times of day 104 Dictate the time of day the way you would normally say it US Canada Dragon automatically types the colon if you say a m or p m when dictating the time Say o clock or colon 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 Dragon automatically types the point if you say a m or p m when dictating the time depending on the e 9 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 The format of a m and p m depends on your computer s regional Windows settings See also Automatic formatting of dates times telephone numbers on page 106 User Guide Telephone numbers North American phone numbers Say US and Canadian phone numbers as you normally wou
43. ctating consecutive words in all lowercase letters on page 95 117 Dictating Numbers Punctuation and Special Characters You can create Text and Graphics custom commands for e mail and Web addresses you use often See the online help for more information Dictating special characters Dictating common special characters The 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 at sign backquote copyright sign A caret degree sign dollar sign or dollar euros or euro sign percent sign registered sign section sign TM 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 User Guide smiley face frowny face z winky face For complete lists of special characters see the online Help 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 E Numbers mode The software recognizes only numbers commands and punctuation If you are dictating only numbers including cu
44. cumenti Microsoft Word Say File or 3 View Insert Format Tools Table Window Help Click File Ctrl 0 Ctrl S 2 In this example the File 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 the name of a menu item to activate it for example say Save 4 To close a menu say Cancel To open the Start menu say Click Start or Click Start Menu 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 Click and then its name For 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 box Settings Say Wrap to T window or Options Text Rich Text Click Wrap ilala Toolbars to window O No wrap Toolbar C
45. currency formats We recommend US English for Canadian users since this dialect formats numbers including times telephone numbers and currency in North American formats All other dialects use UK 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 For example You can also correct a longer phrase by saying Correct text Through text US Canada or Correct text To text Other Dialects 4 This guide uses US spelling and punctuation for consistency User Guide 5 This guide also includes tips and notes to help you use the software more effectively Tips 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 cri key With Numbers Mode on 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 What should expect from Dragon One reason to use Dragon is to boost your productivity Another 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 stil
46. currently running If the QuickStart icon becomes unavailable for any reason you can always start Dragon from the Windows Start menu 45 CHAPTER ma Working on Your Desktop his chapter describes how to control almost everything on your computer with Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice commands Programs documents and folders Using voice commands you can start programs and open documents and folders that appear in your Start menu or desktop You can t start Dragon by voice However you can have Dragon automatically start in Sleep mode whenever you start Windows by selecting Microphone on asleep option in the Miscellaneous 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 You can also say the name displayed below the icon on your desktop For example to start Microsoft Internet Explorer say Start Internet Explorer Shorter names for popular programs From start_and_exit_programs For the popular Windows programs 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 Desktop For other programs you ll need to say the standard program label 47 Working on Your Desktop m MS Word Microsoft Word Microsoft Off
47. d you can add it back using the Vocabulary Editor Make That a Command Displays the MyCommands Editor 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 That 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 Editing specify which command is used to bring it up Correct or Select Correcting Punctuation Note the following when correcting punctuation m When you select a phrase more than one word that has punctuation be sure to dictate that punctuation For example say you initially dictated Today is Thursday I have a meeting at 11 o clock and the text was transcribed as Today is Thursday I have a meeting at 11 o clock If you want to change the comma to a period say Select Thursday comma If the correct punctuation appears in the Correction menu select it Otherwise you can dictate over the selection by for example saying Thursday period When you select punctuation the Correction menu might list alternate punctuation If Natural Punctuation is turned on when you select a phrase that Dragon has added punctuation to the choices will inc
48. d 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 not want Dragon to recognize them as words you can turn on Numbers Mode This could be useful for example if you are dictating in a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel To turn on Numbers Mode say Start Numbers Mode or Numbers Mode On To turn off Numbers Mode say Stop Numbers Mode or Numbers Mode Off or Switch to Normal Mode For more information on Numbers Mode and more ways to turn Numbers Mode on and off see the section Switching recognition modes on page 119 You can dictate most dates the way you would normally say them Say oh or zero to enter 0 In dialects other than US Canada you can also say nought TO ENTER SAY 22 January twenty two January nineteen ninety nine 1999 April 9 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 se
49. d of Line 78 User Guide Placing the insertion point before or after a specific word You can place the insertion point before a specific word by saying Insert Before and then the word or words You can place the insertion point after a word by saying Insert After and then the word or words After 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 lets 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 Insert After talk or Insert After lets me talk Dragon lets me talk instead of type Moving up or down a paragraph or line You can move up or down a paragraph by saying Move Up a Paragraph or Move Down a Paragraph You can also move up and down a number of paragraphs up to 20 For example you can say Move Up 3 Paragraphs You can move up or down a line by saying Move Up a Line or Move Down a Line You can also move up and down a number of lines up to 20 For example you can say Move Down 3 Lines as delineated in the table below SAY THEN TH
50. drag the object See the following sections for instructions You can undo the last MouseGrid action by saying Undo That To close MouseGrid say Cancel Moving the pointer with the Mouse command You can move the mouse pointer up down left or right a short distance a few millimeters by using the mouse pointer commands You can combine moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse in a single voice command For example you can say Mouse Up 3 Click or Mouse Right 2 Double Click 64 User Guide To move the pointer 1 Say Mouse followed by the direction and number of times to move it up to 10 For example say Mouse Up 5 or Mouse Left 10 2 When the 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 You 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 MouseGrid 9 1 or Mouse 2 2 Say Mouse Click Mouse Double Click Mouse Left Click or Mouse Right Click When an object is selected you can mark and drag the object as described in the next section Marking and dragging objects You 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 ico
51. e icon on the DragonBar You can click this icon Profile Tools again to turn it off G DragonBar Professional Dragon s microphone is off you ca E 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 E Click the microphone icon in the Windows task bar The button and the volume meter on the DragonBar change to show if the microphone is off or on Shows that the microphone is gt on Shows that the microphone is Mee Once the microphone is off you cannot turn it on again by voice Sleeping and waking up To make Dragon stop listening temporarily 1 Say Go to Sleep or Stop Listening Then Dragon ignores everything except the Wake Up or Listen To Me commands 2 To reactivate the microphone say Wake Up or Listen To Me You can also press the numeric plus key to turn on off the microphone 32 User Guide Starting to dictate To begin dictating start a word processor such as Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect and begin a new document Make 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
52. e to drag with the SHIFT key held down you could say Shift Mouse Drag Up To drag with the right ALT key held down the ALT key on the right side of the keyboard you could say Right Alt Drag Mouse Upper Left CHAPTER Correcting and Editing W Dragon NaturallySpeaking types the wrong words y ou should correct these mistakes By 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 You ll probably need to correct mistakes often when you first start dictating and then less frequently as the program learns from your corrections Make it a habit to correct mistakes to continue to improve the accuracy of the program Make sure you save your speech files when prompted to preserve the adjustments the program makes 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 There are a number of ways you can correct the misrecognitions in a document The following techniques describe the most basic methods but you can combine these techniques in any manner that suits your work
53. ead back the current line Read Paragraph Read back the current paragraph Read Document Read back the whole document Read Window Read back the text in view Read to Here Read back from the top of the docu ment window to the insertion point Read from Here Read back from the insertion point to the bottom of the document window 91 Correcting and Editing 92 To stop text to speech do one of the following E From the NaturallySpeaking menu point to Advanced and click Stop Playback Reading E Right click in your document and click Stop Playback Reading from the shortcut menu E Press the ESC key You can control the speed pitch volume and other text to speech settings From the menu click Jools gt Options and select the Text to Speech tab CHAPTER Formatting Y can bold text change font sizes and styles capitalize text and apply other formatting by voice Many Dragon NaturallySpeaking formatting commands work for text that is selected highlighted in your document To select text by voice say Selectjm plus the words you want to select See Selecting text by voice on page 75 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 informatio
54. eature is available in Dragon Professional and higher editions You can save dictation with your document if you select the Save recorded dictation with document box on the Data tab of the Options dialog The first time you save a document in DragonPad during an editing session Dragon asks you whether you want to save your speech data If 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 stored 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 You can play back someone else s dictation and correct the text to match the dictation You can do this in two ways E Correct the dictation using your own user files m Correct the dictation using the document author s user files User Guide Correcting with your own user files You 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 Even though you are correcting someone else s dictation
55. ed you have the option of sending it to Nuance to help improve 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 Inthe Help us improve Dragon page you can choose E Run Data Collection E Don t run Data Collection but remind about this later E Don t run Data Collection 2 If you choose Run Data Collection click Change Schedule and set what time and how often the data is sent to Nuance in the Select Time and Frequency dialog box Daily Weekly or Monthly If you do collect data by default Dragon initiates the process every Wednesday at 12 30 AM 3 Be sure that you check the Enable check box in the Select Time and Frequency dialog box or the collected data is sent to Nuance on the default schedule rather than on the schedule you set 4 Click Next to continue 5 When the Congratulations your profile is ready to use page appears you can now m Choose to run the tutorial E Learn about the many improvements in Version 11 m Modify how Dragon presents itself to you E Begin dictating 6 Click Finish to close the wizard To upgrade existing user profiles before dictating proceed to Upgrading User Profiles from Versions 9 x and 10 x on page 26 Or to begin dictating proceed to the next chapter Starting to Dictate on page 31 How Dragon automatically configures user profile After you create a us
56. er Dragon automatically analyzes your hardware and changes the default settings of your users to optimize performance 25 Installation and User 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 from Versions 9 x and 10 x 26 If you chose to upgrade existing users during the installation the User Upgrade Wizard appears the first time you run Version 11 If you do not want to upgrade users right now you can exit from the wizard and do it later Otherwise you can start the User Upgrade Wizard from the Windows Start menu at any time To upgrade existing users Select Users to Upgrade Specify which user files you would like to upgrade Click Add to add user files to the list 1 To start the User User fles to Upgrade Wizard eee _ select Start gt All Programs gt Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 0 gt Dragon NaturallySpeaking aneeriof tsen Tools gt Upgrade Users The User Upgrade Wizard appears 2 On the Select Users to Upgrade page modify the list of users to include users that you want to upgrade The wizard starts by including all users in the current folder as candidates to upgrade You add users to the list by clicking the Add button and browsing for addit
57. estore window to previous size Click Control Menu 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 Menu or Open the Windows Start Menu Click Start or Press CTRL ESC Click is required for the Control menu commands lf 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 You can use the following commands in many programs to scroll and move the view through the program s work area These voice scrolling commands work with Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 programs including Word Outlook Excel PowerPoint and InfoPath From scroll_in_programs TO SAY Start automatic upward scrolling Start Scrolling Up Start automatic downward scrolling 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
58. f Dragon or to install it for multiple user profiles 1 Insert the Dragon DVD into your DVD drive If the installation does not start automatically use Windows Explorer to find and double click setup exe on the DVD Windows Vista When you start the installation on Windows 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 E Visual C Version 9 0 Runtime 3 After the Wizard begins click Next to proceed to the License Agreement page Read the text and select I accept the terms then click Next 4 Enter your User Name and Organization and the Serial Number supplied to your installation User Guide 5 Optional When the Setup Type page appears click the Change 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 Files Nuance NaturallySpeaking 11 For a list of directories created by installation see Version 11 File Structure on page 27 6 While you are still on the Setup Type page select Custom for the type of installation Custom fs 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 c
59. g s as you dictate When you want to make sure that Dragon types a word with s say apostrophe ess after saying the word For words that already end in s say apostrophe after the word as in the second example shown here We took my brothers We took my brother apostro car phe ess car met my friends met my friends apostrophe children children You can add s to a word by selecting it and then saying it again with apostrophe ess Dictating hyphenated words Many hyphenated words and phrases are already in the Dragon vocabulary To dictate a word or phrase that is usually hyphenated just say it as you normally would TO ENTER SAY long lasting long lasting up to date schedule up to date schedule 113 Dictating Numbers Punctuation and Special Characters Tokyo based company Tokyo based company nine year old boy nine year old boy Including hyphens as you dictate To hyphenate words that Dragon 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 Walker hyphen Smith You can hyphenate words you just dictated with the command Hyphenate That Select the words you want to hyphenate and say Hyphenate That If you say this command when no
60. g 11 0 gt Show Setup Log E Structured command samples Select Start gt Programs gt Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 0 gt MyCommands Samples Professional edition only 29 Installation and User Profile Creation m Tools Select Start gt All Programs gt Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 0 gt Dragon NaturallySpeaking Tools Professional edition only 30 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 NaturallySpeaking is not already running you can start it by m Double clicking the Dragon icon on the amp desktop td E Selecting Start gt Programs gt Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 0 gt Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 0 E If the QuickStart option is enabled right clicking the QuickStart taskbar tray icon and selecting Start Dragon For more on using the QuickStart option see Using QuickStart on page 44 You can start Dragon over a Remote Desktop connection Windows XP Professional and Windows 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 To turn on the microphone you E Click the microphon
61. ght 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 User Guide If Dragon types the full word instead of the abbreviation or acronym enters the wrong word or includes incorrect punctuation just correct it in your document by voice or by keyboard Dictating e mail and Web addresses Dictate e mail and Web addresses as you would normally say them Dragon automatically formats them for you TO ENTER SAY Virginia aol com Virginia at a o dot com info samplecom No Caps On info at sample pany com company dot com No Caps Off http No Caps On http www www nuance com dot nuance dot com No Caps Off Here are some guidelines for dictating e mail and Web addresses m When you say h t t p or w w w Dragon knows to format the next words you say as a Web address E Say the following abbreviations by pronouncing them as words 13 99 66 99 66 99 66 co com gov 99 mil net and org E Say the following abbreviations by saying each letter a c 99 h n c a e d u 99 ie 99 h k 9 i d i n 99 j p m y p h s g t h and u k 99 E Use the No Caps On and No Caps Off commands to enter an e mail or Web address in all lowercase letters For more information about controlling capitalization see Di
62. hange 2 Say Capitalize That Cap That or All Caps That or Uncapitalize That Uncap That or No Caps That Formatting text You 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 Set Font and Set Size commands To change the style of text you have already selected use the Format That command Changing the font as you dictate 96 While dictating you can change the font face size and style by saying Set Font followed by the font attributes you want For example you can say Set Font 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 New Garamond Helvetica Palatino Times Times New Roman Changing font size Say Set Size and then a size from 4 to 100 points For example say Set Size 18 Then continue dictating Changing font style SAY THEN Set Font Bold Italics Bold Italics Underline Strikeout Plain or Plain Text or Normal or Regular Changing a combination of font face size and style Say Set Font and then the attributes you want listed in the previous sectio
63. hat is appropriate for your computer s speed memory Usually you should follow Dragon s recommendation m Type of vocabulary from the Vocabulary type list E Medium Requires at least 512 MB of RAM E Large Requires at least 1 GB of RAM User Guide E Empty Dictation Professional edition only Vocabulary 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 Choose models page and return to the Profile Creation 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 Position your microphone properly page where it begins to lead you through the process of setting up your microphone Following 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 Make sure that you position the microphone the same way each time you dictate Here are some tips on using particular types of microphones Using a
64. he text you want to change 2 Say Restore That to remove formatting Aligning text You can change how text is aligned by placing your insertion point in the text and saying Center 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 You can also use the following commands on selected text Format That Centered Format That Left Aligned and Format That Right Aligned Bulleted text To add bullets to text place your insertion point in the text and say Format that Bullet Style To remove bullets say Format that Bullet Style again 99 CHAPTER 7 Dictating Numbers Punctuation and Special Characters his chapter describes how to dictate numbers punctuation Web addresses and a few other special items For 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 Dictating 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 To force recognition of digits as numerals instead of text without using the
65. headset microphone E 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 E 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 m Hold the microphone one to three inches from your mouth and a little off to the side 19 Installation and User Profile Creation E If the volume display on the DragonBar turns red try holding the microphone slightly farther from your mouth Using an array microphone E Position the array 18 to 30 inches from pointed at your mouth E Avoid blocking the path between your mouth and the array for example by holding a book or paper in front of your face E Avoid having any source of noise or signal other than your voice directly facing the array within at least 15 feet 9 After you have positioned the microphone click Next to continue with Checking microphone volume sound quality on page 20 Checking microphone volume sound quality After you have positioned the microphone and clicked Next you see the Dragon will adjust your volume page 1 Click the Start Volume Check 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
66. hen the Setup Type page appears click the Change 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 Dragon are installed on your system the default directory is C Program Files Nuance NaturallySpeaking11 For a list of directories created by installation see Version 11 File Structure on page 27 6 While you are still on the Setup Type page select Typical 7 profileClick Install to start the installation Installation and User 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 NaturallySpeaking 11 gt Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 The DragonBar appears on your desktop 1 O optional If you have users from Version 9 x or 10 x that you would like to upgrade before proceeding refer to Upgrading User Profiles from Versions 9 x and 10 x on page 26 1 1If you have no previously existing users the Profile Creation 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 You 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 o
67. ice Word m MS Excel Microsoft Excel m MS Outlook Microsoft Outlook E Outlook Express m MS PowerPoint Microsoft PowerPoint m MS Access Microsoft Access m MS InfoPath Microsoft InfoPath E Internet Explorer Microsoft Internet Explorer E Firefox Mozilla Firefox E Corel WordPerfect WordPerfect m Acrobat Reader E Lotus Notes Opening documents and folders from the Start menu To open a document or folder from the Start menu say Start and then the name of the document or folder exactly as it appears on the menu For 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 To open a document or folder from your Windows desktop just say Start and then the name below the icon For example to open a folder named Projects say Start Projects a ON Say Start Projects to open the folder Switching between open windows You 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 48 User Guide For example if Microsoft Word is running you can switch to it by saying Switch to Microsoft word You can also switch between open windows by saying Switch to Previous Window same as pressing ALT TAB and Switch to Next Window same as pressing ALT
68. in this user guide E Creating and Managing Users E Dictation Guidelines E Dictating using a Portable Recorder E Dictating with a Roaming User E Correcting Recognition Errors E Revising Text E Improving Recognition Accuracy m Working on Your Desktop m Working in Programs E Creating Commands with MyCommands E Dragon Tools What Can Say Saying What Can I Say brings up the Dragon Sidebar with Dragon Tips displaying below it The Dragon Sidebar displays a selection of useful commands that Dragon recognizes for the current context whether it is a particular program you are using or the Windows desktop To open the Dragon Sidebar 1 Choose Dragon Sidebar from the Help menu on the DragonBar or say either What can I say or Show SideBar 37 Starting to Dictate 2 The Dragon Sidebar opens displaying a selection of commands next to the window you are working in The contents of the Dragon Sidebar change depending on the application that is active For example when you switch between Microsoft Outlook and the DragonBar the contents of the Dragon Sidebar change accordingly DRAGON SIDEBAR Beh x Home DragonBar A Get help Give me help 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 1 Start Spell Mac Start Numbers commands A Controlling the DragonBar Swi
69. ing 98 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 79 moving up down 80 selecting 77 list boxes 57 lowercase applying 95 making selections list boxes 57 measurements See abbreviations menus opening and closing 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 Move to Top 78 moving around a document before after specific words 79 to beginning end of line 79 by paragraphs or lines 80 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 No Caps Off 6 117 No Caps On 96 117 No Caps That 96 No Caps text 95 No Space 115 No Space Off 115 No Space On 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 Page Down 78 Page Up 78 pages See moving around a document paragraphs deleting 82 moving up down 80 selecting 77 Paste That 81 pasting text 81 periods automatically adding 111 phone numbers 105 see Telephone Numbers Play That Back 87 playback controls
70. ing 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 Correction menu By default this is the minus key on the numeric keypad 69 Correcting and Editing 70 You can change the hot key assignment on the Hot keys tab of the Options dialog box You can also click the Correction button on the Extras toolbar of the Dragon Bar 3 If one of the alternatives is correct press the Down 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 4 Continue until all the text is correct Correcting text using voice commands Say Select or Correct and the text that is incorrect the Correction menu appears with a number of alternatives E If one alternative is correct say Choose and the number of that alternative E If none of the alternatives is correct say Spell That spell the correct word or words into the Spell dialog box and then say OK Selecting a large amount of text or an entire document and then saying Spell That can produce unpredictable results Verify 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 2 Move the insertion point to the beginning of the dictat
71. int to the bottom of the document window To stop playback To stop playback do any of the following E Click the Stop Playback button on the Playback toolbar E Click anywhere in the document window E 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 You can skip backward or forward in your document by a few words by clicking the Skip Backward and Skip Forward buttons 87 Correcting and Editing To stop playback and correct a mistake To stop playback and correct a mistake do any of the following E Click the Correction button on the Playback toolbar E Press the minus key on the numeric keypad This stops playback and simultaneously opens the Correction menu There 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 On 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 When you dictate into the DragonPad you can save your dictation with your text so either you or someone else can correct it later You must create and edit your file in the DragonPad to be able to play back dictation This f
72. ion you want to correct Click Play That Back on the Sound menu of the DragonBar or click the Start Playback button on the Extras toolbar You can also say Play 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 Down 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 press the Correction hot key again Playback continues automatically from the point where you stopped 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
73. ional users in other locations You remove users from the list by selecting them and clicking the Remove button After the list contains only the users you want to upgrade click Next 3 Click Next and choose the location for the upgraded user profiles As the User Upgrade Wizard modifies your user files User Guide 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 Destination page of the wizard to select the location for the upgraded user profiles If you do not set a location Dragon places the profiles in the default location see Version 11 File Structure on page 27 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 You see a list of the users being upgraded For 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 New Location text box below the list becomes available You can click Browse and select a new location When you click on the vocabulary line of a user in the list the New Base Vocabulary text box below the list becomes available You can choose a new base vocab
74. k to get MacMillan 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 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 You can make the Spell dialog box appear whenever you use the Spell command by setting the Spell commands bring up the Spell dialog box option on the Correction tab in the Options dialog box See the online help for more information You can also access the Spell dialog box when using the Select or Correct commands For a list of how to spell special characters see the Spelling topic in the online Help Playing back your dictation Playback commands work in the DragonPad Microsoft Word Versions 97 2000 2002 2003 and 2007 Corel WordPerfect Versions 8 9 10 and 12 and Lotus Notes Although 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 You 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 y
75. l 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 For 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 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 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 a
76. ld pausing briefly between each group of numbers You 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 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 To dictate other phone numbers including European 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 Numbers Punctuation and Special Characters In dialects other than US Canada you can say bracket instead of parenthesis See also Automatic formatting of dates times telephone numbers on page 106 Automatic formatting of dates times telephone numbers Fractions 10
77. ling Dragon with voice commands You can operate Dragon with voice commands For example to show the Extras toolbar say Show Extras Bar For a list of other voice commands that control Dragon see Controlling the DragonBar in the online help 43 Starting to Dictate Using QuickStart 4 The Dragon QuickStart taskbar tray icon gives you quick access to Dragon and recent users Right clicking the QuickStart icon displays the QuickStart menu 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 Two ways to enable QuickStart mode are E During Custom installation If during the installation you choose to set Dragon options when the installation is complete E By clicking the Dragon icon in the upper left corner of the DragonBar and selecting Tray Icon Only Mode See Using QuickStart on page 45 for more information To shut off permanently disable QuickStart 1 In the DragonBar menu select Tools gt Options and click the Miscellaneous tab of the Options dialog box 2 De select Launch in QuickStart mode on Windows startup To Redisplay the DragonBar To display the DragonBar while the product is running in QuickStart mode right click on the microphone icon in the QuickStart taskbar tray and select Restore Previous DragonBar Mode To Temporarily Dis
78. long 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 Select Again The program then looks for another instance of the same word or words You 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 Unselect That You can also unselect words by moving your insertion point by mouse or voice to another part of your document For example say Go to End of Line or click somewhere else in your document 75 Correcting and Editing Selecting a longer phrase You can select a longer phrase by saying Select text Through text US Canada or Select text To text Other Dialects For text substitute the actual word or words at the beginning and the end of the range of wrong words For 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 Other Dialects Select who To unclear or Select who will To an unclear Then dictate the co
79. lts Box E You 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 E To remove a trailing space after a word you can say Delete Previous Character E You can create a spoken form for words you prefer not to say aloud For example you can create a command that types Snookums whenever you say Mary s nickname m To clear deselect your last selection say Unselect That For information on correcting any mistakes see Chapter 5 Correcting and Editing on page 69 Using the Dictation Box Normally you can dictate and use Dragon voice commands in any text window of any application However 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 In these situations you can use a special window called the Dictation Box You use the Dictation Box 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 Box 1 Place you cursor where you want to put the text 2 Start the Dictation Box by either E Saying Show Dictation Box E Select Tools gt Dictation Box from the DragonBar E Use CTRL SHIFT D 3 When the Dictation Box displays you can dictate and edit text inside the Dictation Box using all Dragon
80. lude punctuation changes When 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 You can revise your dictation without correcting it by selecting the text using the Select command and then saying new words to replace the selected text To use Full Text Controle 74 Dictate the sentence below US Canada Let s meet for lunch on Tuesday period Other Dialects Let s meet for lunch on Tuesday full stop User Guide 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 Other Dialects If there s more than one period or full stop you can say Select Again to select a different one 5 To replace the period or full stop with an exclamation mark say exclamation mark It is often easier for Dragon to find the matching text if you select a short phrase rather than individual words If you select some words that are already correct just say them again a
81. n on finding these commands see the online help 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 Formatting Capitalizing text Capitalizing first letter of next word you dictate Dragon capitalizes many words automatically such as the first word in a sentence following a period question mark or exclamation mark It capitalizes the first word after you say New Paragraph not when you say New Line and it capitalizes proper names when these words are already in the Dragon vocabulary in capitalized form You can change the spacing and capitalization rules for a word in the Word 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 Cap and then the word For example say Cap zelda to get Zelda If saying Cap lt word gt doesn t work try say Cap Next lt word gt 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 w
82. n or object you want to drag and then say Mark for example say MouseGrid 9 1 Mark 2 Move the mouse pointer to where you want to drag the object and then say Drag for example say MouseGrid 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 Your Desktop Dragging the mouse You can use the following movement commands if you select the Enable mouse motion commands check box on the Commands 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 Control 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 Move Mouse Right The mouse pointer begins moving to the right and keeps moving until you say Stop 66 User Guide Enabling the mouse motion commands To use the mouse motion commands 1 From the Tools menu on the DragonBar choose Options and then the Commands tab 2 Select Enable mouse motion commands and click OK 3 Click the Speed button to choose how
83. n 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 5 3 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 1 4 1 2 or 3 4 instead of two numbers separated by a slash character such as 1 4 1 2 or 3 4 For information about dictating fraction characters see Switching recognition modes on page 119 Roman numerals You can dictate Roman numerals by saying Roman numeral and the number For large numbers say the number in small combinations as in the examples shown here TO ENTER SAY Roman Numeral one IV Roman Numeral four V Roman Numeral five X Roman Numeral ten 107 Dictating Numbers Punctuation and Special Characters TO ENTER SAY L Roman Numeral fifty C Roman Numeral one hundred D Roman Numeral five hundred M Roman Numeral one thousand XXIV Roman Numeral twenty our XXXI Roman Numeral thirty one MCMXCVII Roman Numeral one thousand Roman Numeral nine hundred Roman Numeral ninety Roman Numeral seven Don t pause after the word Roman Numeral when you re dictating a Roman numeral If you pause Dragon may enter for example Roman numeral three instead of Ill Post
84. nBar and clicking Automatically add commas and periods For more information on Natural Punctuation see Using Natural Punctuation on page 111 Dictating punctuation You can dictate punctuation at any time while you are using Dragon even when Natural Punctuation is enabled Use the following list as a guide to dictating the most common punctuation marks For a complete list of punctuation see the online help TO ENTER SAY US Canada SAY Other Dialects comma comma period full stop exclamation point or exclamation mark exclamation mark 2 question mark question mark hyphen hyphen colon colon Starting new lines and paragraph 34 While you are dictating you can use the following commands to duplicate the action of pressing the ENTER key once to add a new line or twice to add a new paragraph Add a new line New Line Add a new New paragraph Paragraph User Guide Saying New Paragraph presses the ENTER key twice and capitalizes the next word you dictate Tips for dictating text E To erase the last thing you said say Scratch That E You can repeat Scratch That to undo a sequence of phrases m To undo the effects of a command say Undo That If Undo That fails to undo an action try repeating the command until you completely undo the operation Em To stop a recognition in progress and turn the microphone off click the small red button inside the Resu
85. nd 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 Your 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 The installation process checks to make sure your system meets the minimum system requirements needed for Dragon These 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 Dragon is licensed on a per individual basis You are permitted to install the software on more than one computer such as on a desktop and a laptop computer or on a work and a home computer but you cannot use the software concurrently on more than one computer You 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 Dragon license Volume license agreements are available in the microphone To use Dragon you will need to plug in your microphone If you are not sure how to plug in your microphone consult the documentation tha
86. ngs that are then applied to all user profiles created with this installation including Windows 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 Custom installation rather than a Typical Complete installation To carry out a custom installation proceed to Installing software Custom Installation on page 10 User Guide Otherwise proceed with Installing software Typical Installation on page 9 Installing software Typical Installation To install all features of Dragon Insert the Dragon DVD into your DVD drive If the installation does not start automatically use Windows Explorer to find and double click setup exe on the DVD Windows Vista When you start the installation on Windows Vista you may see the message saying A program needs your permission to continue Click Continue to start the installation After the Windows Installer begins it installs two software packages if they are not already installed E Visual C Version 9 0 Runtime After the Wizard begins click Next to proceed to the License Agreement page Read the text and select I accept the terms then click Next Enter your User Name and Organization and the Serial Number supplied to your installation Optional W
87. ns You can specify any combination of font face size and style but you must specify these attributes in that 97 Formatting order font face then size then style See the list of examples below E Set Font Arial m Set Font Arial 12 or Set Font Arial 12 Point E Set Size 12 Bold mg Set Font Arial Bold E Set Font Bold If you re changing only the font size use the Set Size commands not the Set Font command Changing the font later You can go back and change the font face size or style of text by selecting it and then using the Format That commands Format That works on selected text with the same combinations of font face size and style as the Set Font 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 For example say Format that Arial 18 Bold italics and underlining 98 You can apply formatting to text in your document by selecting it and then saying Bold That Italicize That or Underline That You can also say Strikeout That 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 t
88. or details refer to the Help by clicking the Help button Modifying formatting options for all users If you chose to modify formatting options on the Custom Setup page during a custom installation the Auto Formatting 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 The Auto Formatting dialog box for all versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking appears as shown below E Auto Formatting Choose the Automatically format text option s to Web and e mail addresses v Units of measure apply to your Street addresses J1SO currency codes dictated Abbreviate titles Phone numbers document S Dates Prices Dates As Spoken i et Common abbreviations C UK and Canadian postcodes Expand contractions Other numbers Prefer 5 million over 5 000 000 US Social Security Numbers Numbers if greater than or equalto 10 v _ Insert two spaces after period F Allow pauses in formatted phrases Caps Lock key overrides capitalization commands Restore defaults F Cancel Help 15 Installation and User Profile Creation Creating your user profile Before you can begin using Dragon you must let Dragon create a user profile for each person who is dictating Your user profile stores acoustic information about your voice that Dragon uses to recognize wha
89. orated Corel and WordPerfect are registered trademarks of Corel Corporation Lotus and Lotus Notes are registered trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation Microsoft Outlook Windows Windows NT Visual Basic and PowerPoint are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Mozilla Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation Voice It the Voice It logo and Voice It Link are trademarks or registered trademarks of VXI Corporation AMD is a trademark of Advanced Micro Devices Inc America Online is a registered trademark of America Online Inc a division of AOL Time Warner Sony and Memory Stick are regitered trademarks of the Sony Corporation Panasonic is a registered trademark of the Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd iPAQ is a registered trademark of the Hewlett Packard Company Palm OS is a registered trademark of of PalmSource Inc or its affiliates Macromedia Flash is a trademark of Macromedia Inc Dave Barry in Cyberspace Copyright 1996 by Dave Barry published by Crown Publishers 3001 The Final Odyssey Copyright 1997 by Arthur C Clarke published by HarperCollins Publishers Dogbert s Top Secret Management Handbook Copyright 1996 by United Feature Syndicate Inc published by HarperBusiness a division of HarperCollins Publishers Success Is a Journey 7 Steps to Achieving Success in the Business of Life Copyright 1999
90. ords 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 This is usually easier than saying Cap before each word Another 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 consecutive words 1 Say Caps On to turn capitals on When 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 For example say success is a journey colon seven steps to achieving success in the business of life Dragon types Success Is a Journey Seven Steps to Achieving Success in the Business of Life 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 Caps and then the word For example say All Caps please to get 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
91. ou allocate the disk space on the Data tab of the Options dialog box mSaving 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 mDragon 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 MyDoe rtf Dragon saves your dictation in a file called MyDoc dra in the same directory as your document Using text to speech You can use text to speech to have text displaying on your screen not your current dictation read aloud in a computer voice You 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 Text to speech is available only in the DragonPad Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect You 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 E Select the text you want to hear a line a paragraph and so on and then say Read That E Select the text you want to hear and then select Read That from the Advanced submenu or right click in your document and click Read That from the shortcut menu E Move the insertion point to the text you want to hear and say any of the following commands SAY TO Read Line R
92. ou 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 Correction menu click the Play Back button or say Play That Back to play the dictation that goes with the words you re correcting Then edit the text to match what you said 85 Correcting and Editing You can set up Dragon to play back dictation automatically whenever you open the Correction menu On the Dragon menu select Tools gt Options gt Correction tab On the Correction tab select Automatic playback on correction Sometimes there s no dictation to play back For 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 cut it copied it pasted it or otherwise moved it around in the document If you have Dragon Naturally 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 closing a document If dictation is not available the Play Back button is dimmed grayed out When playback is not available you may find text to speech useful for
93. oud to train Dragon page of the wizard appears choose from these training options E Show text with prompting E Show text without prompting E Skip training not recommended 2 Inthe Read Training Text page of the wizard click Go 3 If you chose the first training option Show text with prompting E A yellow arrow showing you where to start reading appears E Click Go and begin reading the text To take breaks while you re training the program click Pause Welcome to general training 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 E When the words change color it means the computer has heard and recognized them 21 Installation and User Profile Creation 22 E If you need to re read the same words click Redo then re read them If the computer still doesn t get it just click Skip Otherwise click Next to continue 4 If you chose the second training option Show text without prompting E In the Read Training Text page under Choosing text to read choose a text to read aloud and click Next m When the Text 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 Print to print the text E Click Next to continue E If you chose to read the text from the screen the Speaking to the computer page ap
94. our documents as well as revise and format text Just think about what you want to say and then say it into the microphone E Enter data into forms or spreadsheets Available in Professional and higher editions Most people can dictate numbers faster than they can type Using Dragon Professional or higher editions you can create custom voice commands to let you move from field to field on your form by voice m Work on the Web Search the Web access information and navigate Web pages by speaking URLs and links E Start programs and open menus E Use handheld recorders to dictate while you are away from your computer Dragon can then transcribe what you said Introduction About this guide This guide covers all editions of Dragon Most 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 can say when using Dragon These examples appear in italics with quotation marks for example Format That Bold Some procedures also include sample text for you to dictate Sample text appears in a different typeface with punctuation in square brackets This guide applies to the all English dialects that ship with Dragon Em US English m UK English E Australian English E Indian English E Southeast Asian English US English uses US spelling punctuation and time and
95. p and resuming dictation 81 characters 83 last words dictated 81 lines 82 paragraphs 82 specific words 77 82 83 deselecting text 76 dialects dictating currency 109 dictating times of day 104 spelling and punctuation conventions 2 dictate now correct later 88 Dictation Box 35 Dictation Mode 119 dictation saving for later playback 88 documents moving to top bottom 78 opening 47 48 selecting all textin 77 121 Index dollar sign 109 Dragon Log 29 DragonBar 32 40 Extras toolbar on 42 DragonPad 33 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 Give Me Help 36 Go to Beginning of Line 79 Go to Bottom 78 Go to End of Line 79 Go to Sleep 32 GotoTop 78 H help online 36 homophones tips for selecting 75 76 Hyphenate That 114 hyphenated words 113 dictating 114 122 hyphens 114 preventing 114 removing 114 I 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 ltalicize That 98 italics adding or remov
96. pears and advises you to position your microphone E After you position your microphone click Train to begin E In the Speaking to the Computer popup click Begin Training and read the text in the box E Click Next page to proceed from page to page When the list pops up choose a text to read aloud and click OK You need to read for only about 5 minutes to train Dragon to recognize your voice You can take breaks during this training by clicking Pause Don t worry if you make mistakes or laugh You 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 The progress bar shows how much text is left to dictate During training dictating punctuation is not necessary When you ve read enough the Training wizard displays a congratulations message Click OK and Dragon starts adapting to your voice User Guide 7 Proceed to Adapting to your writing style scheduling tuning on page 23 Adapting to your writing style scheduling tuning After it adapts to your voice Dragon s Accuracy wizard appears and prompts you to first adapt Dragon to your writing style then schedule regular Acoustic and Language Model tuning and optionally schedule Data Collection Adapting to your writing style Let Dragon search for words and add them now Dragon can analyze
97. pell Mode or Switch to Normal mode Command mode Off or Stop Command mode or Switch to Normal mode Dictation mode Off or Stop Dictation mode or Switch to Normal mode Turning a mode off by voice is the same as switching back to Normal mode v You cannot dictate fractions in Number mode A abbreviations 116 acronyms 116 All Caps Off 95 AllCaps On 95 All Caps 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 Cap That 96 Cap word 94 Capitalize That 96 Capitalize That 96 capitalizing text already inadocument 96 applying lowercase 95 consecutive words 94 95 next word 94 Caps Off 95 CapsOn 94 Center That 99 characters deleting 83 moving to next previous 80 selecting 78 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 81 copying text 81 Correct text Through text 2 76 Correct text To text 2 76 Correction menu 69 creating a new user 16 currency 109 Cut That 77 81 cutting text 81 D dates 103 setting automatic formatting 106 deferred correction 88 Delete That 82 deleting text backing u
98. r Guide Open the Windows System Open System Configuration Utility Configuration Utility msconfig Open the Windows Control Open Control Panel Panel Open the Windows Print Open Print Manager Manager Add a printer to your Win Add a new printer dows system Add or remove programs to Open Add or Remove Programs window your Windows system Change the Windows Dis Change Display Settings play Settings Change the Windows screen Change screen resolution resolution Change Windows Power Change power settings 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 Your Desktop Switch to a specific program Switch to lt program name gt For example or document say Switch to Microsoft Word OR Switch to lt document name gt OR List windows for lt program 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 Windows Minimize all windows Desktop Return a maximized window Restore window to its original size Restore all minimized Restore all windows windows Selecting icons
99. rrect 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 Select Document or Select All This command is useful when you want 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 it is with the Copy All to Clipboard command When 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 You can select the current paragraph by saying Select Paragraph To select the current line say Select Line You can also select a number of paragraphs or lines up to 20 For example you can say Select Previous 5 Paragraphs SAY THEN Select Next Previous Forward Back Last THE
100. rrencies working in this mode increases recognition accuracy E Spell mode The 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 You can also say keystrokes such as space bar or backspace key Spell mode is also useful for dictating internet or Web addresses E Command mode tThe software interprets everything you say as a command and nothing is interpreted as dictated text E Dictation mode The software interprets everything you say as dictation and nothing is interpreted as a command except for a few commands such as New Line and New Paragraph 119 Dictating Numbers Punctuation and Special Characters 120 To changes modes you can 1 Select the Words menu on the DragonBar and click the name of the mode you want 2 Switch modes by voice by saying one of these commands MODE Numbers mode Spell mode Command mode Dictation mode TO TURN ON SAY Numbers mode On or Start Numbers Mode or Switch to Numbers mode Spell mode On or Start Spell mode or Switch to Spell mode Command mode On or Start Command mode or Switch to Command mode Dictation mode On or Start Dictation mode or Switch to Dictation mode TO TURN OFF SAY Numbers mode Off or Stop Numbers mode or Switch to Normal mode Spell Mode Off or Stop S
101. rs 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 Value Added Reseller contact them directly for technical support The Support area of the Nuance website offers a Knowledge Base of Tech Notes containing the latest technical information on the Dragon product family including versions predating Version 11 It also includes documentation User Guides Reference Card and listings of microphones digital voice recorders tablet PCs and other compatible hardware devices tested by Nuance and approved for use with Dragon 127
102. t 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 User Profile Creation What you should know before installing Installing Dragon to a custom location The default installation directory for Dragon is C Program Files Nuance NaturallySpeaking11 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 Dragon 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 These profiles can consume a large amount of disk space on your C drive For more information on the Dragon installation directories see Version 11 File Structure on page 27 You can customize your installation to reduce the amount of disk space used on your C drive by not installing unwanted languages and vocabularies For more information see Installing software Custom Installation on page 10 Installing on Windows Vista Windows 7 Dragon Version 11 is compatible with all editions of Windows Vista If you upgrade a machine from a previous version of Windows to Windows Vista Windows 7
103. t you say This 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 Profile 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 4 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 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 user profile 1 In the Creating a user profile page click Next in the lower right corner to proceed 2 Proceed through the wizard filling in the information it requests and clicking Next 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 The wizard asks for your age to help Dragon work with vocal differences it associates with different age ranges The wizard also
104. ta and Windows 7 systems if as an administrator you want to create a Dragon user profile for a Windows limited user user with restricted privileges you must log on using that Windows limited user account before creating the Dragon user profile Installation and User Profile Creation If you create a Dragon user profile for a limited user while logged in as a Windows 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 Guide PDF or Help file for details Choosing type of installation When you install Dragon you can either do a complete typical installation or a custom installation Nuance recommends you do a complete installation unless you are experienced with the product The 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 setti
105. tch to Floating Mode DragonBar DRAGON SIDEBAR Home Microsoft Outlook A Get help Give me help Search Dragon Help for Outlook A Reading and Sending e mail Go To Inbox Check for new mail Open Mail Message View Next Unread Message Send mail Send an email to Send an email Find an email about lt te A Address Book and Contacts iew Address Book Create Ne Delete contac A Calendar Switch to the calendar folder view month Create a new appointment MS Outlook commands Commands marked with an asterisk are available only if you selected the Enable Natural Language Commands check box on the Commands tab of the Options dialog box 3 To see commands for the Windows Desktop click on the desktop and watch the commands in the Dragon Sidebar change 38 User Guide A list of Global commands available everywhere appears if there are no Dragon commands available for the active program Windows Desktop commands available on the desktop and Global commands available in all windows DRAGON SIDEBAR Home Desktop A Get help Search Dragon Help for desktop commands A Start and exit programs Start lt pr e gt Start Mici Word Open Microsoft 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 en My Documents en My Pic
106. 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 Next again and if you do not have the Professional edition skip to the next step Otherwise choose any check boxes under Additional 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 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
107. tion However 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 are in a non standard window the Full Text Control indicator goes out indicating that you may have some difficulty selecting and editing dictated text Also when you start dictating into a non standard window the DragonBar will display Dictating into a non standard window If you have difficulty in dictating or correcting in one of these non standard windows use the Dictation Box See the online help for more information on using the Dictation Box 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 DragonBar to open the Extras toolbar The Extras toolbar displays buttons for transcribing hand held recorder audio and playing back your dictation Stop ha aa Playback Skip y Forward Correction n 5 A i F Transcribe peer Tr ib Sk ranscribe Button ice Sar Button Correction Clicking the Correction button opens the Correction menu to teach the computer what you said See Chapter 5 Correcting and Editing on page 69 Transcribe Use 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 Playback button you hear
108. ts 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 Modify 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 E Correction E Hot keys m Miscellaneous E Commands E Playback E Data E View Text to speech For more information on each tab see the online Help Modifying administrative settings 14 If you checked Modify 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 opening a user and selecting Tools gt Administrative Settings In the Administrative Settings dialog box you see these tabs E Roaming To set up roaming users mE Miscellaneous To create backup distribution directories and control who can modify custom commands User Guide E Scheduled Tasks To schedule voice recognition optimization and data collection for improved accuracy and let users modify the schedule F
109. tures Open Wind lt Desktop commands BA x DRAGON SIDEBAR Home Global A Get help Give me help Search Dragon Help for xyz 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 Search the web for Search Wikipedia fc Search news for lt x Search maps for xyz gt 4 Searching the computer Search computer for lt xyz gt Search documents for xyz gt Search email for lt xyz gt A Selecting text Select that ect lt xyz gt ect next 5 characters ect again ect next paragraph ectall select that A Editing text Scratch that Delete line Delete last lt n gt words Delete that Backspace lt n gt Global commands e 9 9 S S 500o ee ty lt 4 To see additional commands for the current program click the Mouse or MyCommands tab along the top of the Dragon Sidebar Or click one of the icons to the upper right see next illustration to open Command Browser E Vocabulary Editor E Options dialog box E Dragon Help 39 Starting to Dictate nee d Vocabulary 6 ommands i ti Icons to the top far right Command Editor dialo bax Mouse on Sidebar open various Browser E Dragon Commands functions inside Dragon Help DRAGON SIDEBAR Home 5 For more information see the online help Tutorial To start the Tutorial choose Tutorial from the Help menu on the Dragon
110. ula unit uniform v as in Valerie visit Victor w as in Wendy 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 MA You can say Press c or Press Charlie but you cannot say Press Cathy or Press Carl Capitalizing a letter You can capitalize a letter by saying Press Cap then the letter 59 Working on Your Desktop For example to enter 28K say twenty eight and then Press Cap K or Press Cap K for Karen Pressing numbers You can press numbers 0 to 9 by saying Press and then the number For example say Press 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 another key such as a letter For example you can say E Press Control Z undoes last action m Press Alt F opens File menu m 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 User Guide Pressing function and numeric keypad keys To press a function key F1 to F12 say Press Function and then the name of the key For example say Press Function 1 to bring up the online Help To press the keys on the numeric keyp
111. ulary from the drop down list When you click on the acoustic model line of a user in the list the New Acoustic Model text box below the list becomes available You can choose a new combination language language model and accent from the drop down list 6 Click OK to return to the wizard 7 Click Next to proceed to the Upgrade Users page where you click Begin to begin the upgrade process Expect to wait approximately 5 minutes for each user being upgraded 8 When the upgrade process is complete click Finish Version 11 File Structure File locations shown apply to installations in the default location 27 Installation and User Profile Creation The next two sections tell you where Dragon places files on your computer The locations vary depending on your operating system Windows XP Pro XP Home Windows Server 2003 2008 directory structure Dragon Program directory You can specify this location during the installation C Program Files Nuance NaturallyS peaking 11 Ereg Help Program Tutorial optional Data and user directories You cannot change this location Dragon always installs these directories to your Document and Settings directory C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data Nuance NaturallyS peaking 11 Data Data Training results Roaming Users Users C Documents and Settings lt username gt Application Data Nuance NaturallySpeaking1I Results Windows Vista and
112. use and delete it or say Press Delete Pressing letters 58 You can press any letter on your keyboard by saying Press and then the letter When you re pressing letters you must say Press before each one For example to enter txt say Press t Press x Press t pausing between letters You can also spell words using Spell mode See Switching recognition modes on page 1 19 for more information For similar sounding letters such as B D and V you can use the International Communications Alphabet to spell the letter keys for example Press alpha or Press bravo or say Press d as in 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 as in Albert Alice alpha b as in Bill Buffalo bravo c as in Cathy 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 as in Henry helmet hotel i as in Iris lreland 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 as in Nancy nobody November o as in Otto over Oscar p as in Paul people papa q as in Quentin question Quebec r as in Robert Rachel Romeo s as in Sam Singapore sierra tas in Terry Tyler tango u as in Urs
113. words are selected Dragon will usually hyphenate the last few words that you said Removing hyphens You 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 You can prevent Dragon from entering a hyphen by pausing where the hyphen would normally be For 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 To dictate a compound word just say it as you normally would Compounding words as you dictate To compound words that Dragon doesn t join automatically just say No Space between the words unitednations united No Space nations WorldWide Web Cap world No Space Cap wide Cap web You can also dictate consecutive words without spaces by turning No 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 You can compound the l
114. y amount say for example dollar sign fifty eight to enter 58 and so on Australian users can say fifty eight dollars to dictate 58 since the Australian default currency is in Windows Regional Settings User Guide Punctuation Using Natural Punctuation Dragon can automatically add commas and periods at the appropriate places in your dictation without your having to explicitly speak that punctuation This Natural 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 Natural Punctuation only inserts periods and commas You still have to dictate other punctuation marks Even with Natural Punctuation turned on you can still dictate periods and commas As you become more adept at dictation and want more control over where punctuation appears you may want to explicitly dictate all your punctuation For 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 New Line or New Paragraph Enabling and disabling automatic punctuation Natural Punctuation is turned on by default There are two ways of turning Natural Punctuation on and off E Select Auto Formatting Options from the Tools menu of the DragonBar and click Automatically add commas and periods E By saying autopunctuation on
115. y be a full sentence a phrase or just one word if that s all you said before pausing You 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 You 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 Resume With command to return to where you were before the mistake Just say Resume With followed immediately by the word or words to which you want to return Then continue dictating Any text after the new position of the insertion point will be replaced with your new dictation When using the Resume With command remember not to pause in the middle Say Resume With and then immediately say the words to which you want to return These words must be in the last three or four sentences 100 characters you said you can t use Resume With to return to an earlier part of your document To go back as you dictate 1 Suppose you dictate this sentence I have a deadline this week but we could meet for lunch um er next Wednesday 2 To correct the sentence return to the last correct words you remember dictating For example say Resume With meet for lunch Remember not to pause in the middle 3 Then dict
116. 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 You 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 This technique works if all work is done on a single computer Consult your Dragon reseller about 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 You can however improve the author s recognition accuracy if you make corrections by using the keyboard and mouse with the Correction menu as in the following procedure To correct using someone else s user files 1 Make sure you are not wearing the microphone headset or that the microphone is not turned on or plugged in This action ensures that you don t accidentally reduce the accuracy of someone else s user files by using your voice 2 Be sure the DragonPad 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 In DragonPad open the document to correct 89 Correcting and Editing 5 Use the buttons on the Extras toolbar to play back dictation

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