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1. Clean Up Selection Arrange By Name Arrange By Date Modified Arrange By Date Created Arrange By Size Arrange By Kind Arrange By Label Keep Arranged By Name Keep Arranged By Date Modified Keep Arranged By Date Created Keep Arranged By Size Keep Arranged By Kind Keep Arranged By Label Access or Show Path Bar Hide Path Bar Access or Show Status Bar Hide Status Bar Access or Show Toolbar Hide Toolbar Access or Show Customize Toolbar Folder or Window Cleans up the selected item s Arranges the view of the active window or desktop by name Arranges the view of the active window or desktop by date modified Arranges the view of the active window or desktop by date cre ated Arranges the view of the active window or desktop by size Arranges the view of the active window or desktop by kind Arranges the view of the active window or desktop by label Sets the view of the window or desktop to arrange by Name Sets the view of the window or desktop to arrange by Date Modified Sets the view of the window or desktop to arrange by Date Created Sets the view of the window or desktop to arrange by Size Sets the view of the window or desktop to arrange by Kind Sets the view of the window or desktop to arrange by Label Shows the Path Bar Hides the path Bar Shows the Status Bar Hides the status bar Shows the Toolbar Hides the Toolbar Opens the Customize Toolbar dialog box Dragon Dictate
2. ISO Code Displayed Currency Spoken Currency Symbol USD US Dollar CAD Canadian Dollar C EUR Euro JPY Yen Y GBP British Pound c CHF Swiss Franc Fr Units of Measure This option properly displays symbols and abbreviations for measurements For example Six Feet Three Inches will produce 6 3 and Two Kilometers will produce 2 km If you want to specify a format for a measurement open the Vocabulary Editor in the Tools menu click the word or abbreviation in the list and click the Information button at the bottom of the window Dragon Dictate Auto Formatting 90 Social Security Numbers Dragon Dictate will display properly formatted U S Social Security numbers when you say nine digit sequences For example speaking One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine produces 123 45 6789 All Other Numbers Numbers not covered elsewhere in this section are properly formatted when this option is checkmarked They include negative numbers numbers with punctuation fractions decimals and Roman numerals For example speaking Roman Numeral Twenty Four produces XXIV and Two Point Zero Three produces 2 03 Dragon Dictate Auto Formatting 91 Miscellaneous These final four options cover other common auto formatting needs Common Abbreviations Automatically converts words to their common abbreviations For example Versus will produce vs Expand Contractions If this box is checked spoken contractions will be expanded For e
3. All three Sterling Sign Sterling Spelling Pound Sterling Sign D Dictation US dialect Dictation Pound Sign E Non US dialects Spelling A Dictation Yen Sign Yen Spelling mode only x i Spelling f Dictation Euro Sign Euro Spelling mode only Spelling Dictation Guilder Sign Guilder Spelling mode only f Spelling Arithmetic What You Say Result Mode Comments Dictation Equals Sign Equal Spelling mode only Spelling Plus Sign Plus Spelling mode only All three Minus Sign All three Plus or Minus Sign Plus or Minus Spelling Dictation Bu mode only Spelling Dragon Dictate What You Say Plus Minus Sign Plus Minus Multiplication Sign Multiply Sign Multiply Times sign Times Division Sign Divide Sign Divide Less Than Sign Less Than Spelling mode only Greater Than Sign Greater Than Spelling mode only Percent Sign Percent Spelling mode only Point Logical Not Sign Logical Not Spelling mode only Not Sign Not Superscript One Superscript Two Squared Square Superscript Three Cubed Cube One Half Sign Half Sign Half One Half Result I Va Va Punctuation 66 Mode Spelling Dictation Spelling Dictation Spelling Spelling Dictation Spelling Dictation Spelling All three Dictation Spelling Dictation Spelling Spelling Dictation Spelling Dictation Spelling Spelling Dictation Spelling Spelling Dictation Sp
4. Dragon Dictate Commands 151 What You Say Comment Delete Deletes the selected text from the active note Minimize Minimizes the window containing the active note Print Prints the active note Check Document Now Checks the spelling and grammar in the active note Reminders Actions What You Say Comment New Reminder Creates a new reminder and makes it active Close Reminders Closes the reminders Select All Selects all text within the active reminder 1 Copies the selected text within the active reminder to the clip Copy Reminders board Paste Pastes the clipboard contents to the active reminder Delete Deletes the selected text from the active reminder Minimize Minimizes the window containing the active reminder Notifications Actions What You Say Comment Notifications Shows the notifications Messages Actions What You Say Comment Send Message Sends the contents of the message work area Dragon Dictate Windows 152 Windows Dragon Dictate s windows are Note Pad window Like a word processor that takes dictation Profiles window Different users different audio sources different profiles Commands window Manage what commands are available and create new ones Vocabulary Editor window Manage what individual words Dragon Dictate can recognize along with their automatic punctuation behavior Auto Formatting window Manage how Dragon Dictate automatically formats addresses dates numbers and mo
5. Someword where Someword is a word or series of words specified by the previous select command Insert Previous Someword where Someword is a word or series of words specified by the previous select command You can control the selection with these commands Select Someword Select Someword Through Otherword Select Someword to Otherword Select Next Select Previous Select the Next NN Words Select the Previous NN Words where NN is a number up to 100 Select Again Someword where Someword is a word already selected You can select and delete a phrase with these commands Delete Someword Delete Someword Through Otherword Dragon Dictate Dictation Mode 43 Delete Someword to Otherword Delete Next Someword where Someword is a word already selected Delete Previous Someword where Someword is a word already selected You can select and change the case of a phrase with these commands Capitalize Someword Capitalize Someword Through Otherword Capitalize Someword to Otherword Capitalize Next Someword where Someword is a word or series of words specified by the previous select command Capitalize Previous Someword where Someword is a word or series of words specified by the previous select command
6. Date amp Time x Dates Dates As Spoken M Times 3 20 AM Numbers M Use numerals starting with 0 0 1 2 vw Partially format illion numbers 5 million M Prices and currencies 1 30 ISO currency codes IM Units of measure 2 km _ Social Security numbers iM All other numbers First Miscellaneous Common abbreviations Expand contractions haven t M Insert two spaces after period word Word iM Allow pauses in formatted phrases Apply Dragon Dictate Auto Formatting 85 Smart Formatting Rules In addition to the Auto Formatting options explained below Dragon Dictate has a Smart Formatting feature that enables you to specify exactly how you want the software to handle certain text For example eoo Untitled E You dictate the words Mister Smith vou say Correct Mr and Mr becomes highlighted The Recognition window appears DO Recognition Spelling Alternatives Say Choose or Edit and a number 1 Mr Mister Mr See the Correction Process section to learn more about how this window works 2 3 4 mister S MR v Related Commands Spell that if you don t see your choice Say That to edit the first option Play that back All caps that Unselect that Say Choose two Mr turns into Mister in your document and the Smart Formatting Rules window automatically appears Dragon Dictate Auto Formatting 86 o Smart Format Rules Say Choose and a number to set
7. Preferences Window The Preferences window lets you set certain options for Dragon Dictate To show the Preferences window Choose Dictate gt Preferences To close the Preferences window Click the close button at the top left of the window General Preferences pane The General Preferences pane assembles some miscellaneous options having mostly to do with the state of things when Dragon Dictate is launched Dragon Dictate Windows 179 Startup Mode Use the radio button to determine what mode Dragon Dictate should be in when it starts up or whether the microphone should simply be off Startup Actions Check Check for Updates if you want Dragon Dictate to go online at launch time and automatically communicate over the Internet with Dragon to see whether your version of Dragon Dictate is the most recent If a newer version is available you will be offered a chance to download and install it You can also check for updates manually by choosing Dictate gt Check for Updates This checkbox does the same thing as the checkbox in the Profiles window If one is checked the other is automatically checked Check Show Profiles Window if you want Dragon Dictate to pause and display the Profiles window at launch time the main reason for doing this would be so that you can select a profile as the active profile If unchecked Dragon Dictate will automatically activate the profile you were using previously Check Show Status Window
8. Sets Dragon Dictate to Command Mode Numbers Mode Sets Dragon Dictate to Numbers Mode Go To Sleep Sets Dragon Dictate s microphone to Sleep Mode Sleep Mode Sets Dictate s microphone to Sleep Mode Switch To Sleep Mode Sets Dragon Dictate s microphone to Sleep Mode Wake Up Restores Dragon Dictate to its previous mode Turns the microphone off No further voice input is possible until Microphone Off i microphone is turned on by keyboard or menu item Dragon Dictate Dictation and Training What You Say Comment Deletes the utterance or portion of utterance immediately to the left of the Scratch That l l cursor or selection An utterance is a phrase that you spoke Scratch Word Deletes the word just prior to the cursor or left edge of the selection Dragon Dictate What You Say Commands 75 Comment Undo Dictation Redo Dictation Play the Selection Train Vocabulary from Selection Cache Document Cache Selection Purge Cache Reverses the effect of the last dictation or delete dictation command Delete Scratch Forget Use of this command removes the correction in formation from the text involved so if you Redo Dictation you will not be able to correct the replaced text If your last dictation replaced text that text is restored but no correction information is restored Redo Dictation reverses the effect of the Undo Dictation command Play the Selection Copies the current selection and opens
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10. The Application It lives wherever you put it when you installed Dragon Dictate typically in the top level Applications folder but it could be anywhere It s approximately 3OMB in size The Support Folders These are in Library Application Support Dragon and Library Application Support Dragon You access the former from the top level of your hard drive where the Applications System and Users folders are also found but to locate the latter you need to hold the Option key while clicking on the Go menu in the Finder since it is hidden by default The Library Application Support Dragon folder contains the Speech Engine Data file which is 2 25GB in size along with your license If you ever need to delete that folder you should set aside your license file which will be convenient to have on hand if you decide to install Dragon Dictate again The Library Application Support Dragon folder contains the Command Sets Commands Profiles and Troubleshooting folders The Dragon Dictate Preferences File This is in Library Preferences the folder you access by holding down the Option key while clicking on the Finder s Go menu and is called com Dragon dictate plist It maintains a record of the state of the application each time you quit It s very small The Dragon Dictate Internet Plug in File This is in Library Internet Plug Ins and is called noDDRia plugin Your Profile s Each profile is wherever you put it when you created the p
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12. applications Arrange in Front Option key version of the above Bring all Dragon Dictate windows in front of windows of other applications and arrange them neatly overlapping in the middle of the screen Show Hide Status Window Toggle the visibility of the Status window Dragon Dictate Menus 190 Show Hide Available Commands Toggle the visibility of the Available Commands window The preceding two menu items also appear in Dragon Dictate s Dock menu An advantage of the Dock menu is that it works even if Dragon Dictate is not frontmost Enter Exit Full Screen Enter or exit full screen mode Individual Windows Individual open windows not including the floating Status window Available Commands window and Recognition window are listed choose one to switch to it The active window is checked Note Pad windows containing unsaved changes are marked with a bullet Help Menu Dictate Help Summon the online help Contact Technical Support Open the Support for Dragon for Mac page on the Nuance web site in your default browser Dragon on the Web Open the Speech Recognition for Mac page on the Nuance web site in your default browser Interactive Tutorial Begin the Interactive Tutorial User Manual Display this PDF User Manual for Dragon Dictate Deactivate Activate Open the Activation dialog where you can enter a valid serial number If Dragon Dictate is already activated the Deactivate option lets you deactivate
13. as exported from or created for iListen Dragon s previous speech recognition application Dragon Dictate Menus 187 Edit Menu The Edit menu items are a subset of those that are standard and familiar in any OS X word processing application such as TextEdit Undo Undo the previous action Redo Redo the previously undone action Cut Remove selected text and place it on the clipboard Copy Place a duplicate of the selected text on the clipboard Paste Insert the contents of the clipboard at the selection point Paste and Match Style Insert the contents of the clipboard at the selection point ignoring any style information on the clipboard Delete Remove selected text without placing it on the clipboard Select All Expand the selection to including everything Find gt Find Summon the Find dialog Find gt Find Next Search forwards for the Find string Find gt Find Previous Search backwards for the Find string Find gt Use Selection for Find Copy the selected text to become the Find string Find gt Jump to Selection Scroll to reveal the selected text Spelling gt Show Spelling and Grammar Summon the Spelling and Grammar dialog Spelling gt Check Spelling Select the next misspelled word Spelling gt Check Spelling While Typing Toggle whether misspelled words are marked Start Dictation Activate the built in dictation feature found in OS X Special Characters Summon the Special Characters input pal
14. as it starts up will optionally generate additional global commands that let you launch applications or create an email message addressed to someone in your Contacts See Generated Commands Application based commands Some commands become available only when a certain application is frontmost For example you can say Send Message when Messages or Mail is frontmost Dragon Dictate comes with command sets for Finder TextEdit Safari Mail Messages Calendar Notes Reminders and Notifications See Application Based Commands If the command you want to say is not a mode based command then the way to be certain that Dragon Dictate understands your words as a command to be obeyed and not dictation to be typed is to switch to Command mode Dragon Dictate Commands 74 Global Commands These commands are available in every mode except Sleep mode Some of them control Dragon Dictate others control the computer as a whole or whatever application is frontmost Dragon Dictate has a lot of flexibility when recognizing commands words that are in parentheses are optional Dragon Dictate Modes and Microphone What You Say Comment Dictation Mode Sets Dragon Dictate to Dictation Mode Switch To Dictation Mode Sets Dragon Dictatee to Dictation Mode Spelling Mode Sets Dragon Dictate to Spelling Mode Switch To Spelling Mode Sets Dragon Dictate to Spelling Mode Command Mode Sets Dragon Dictate to Command Mode Switch To Command Mode
15. the software Register for Support Open the Support Product registration page on the Nuance web site You can register your copy of Dragon Dictate there if you haven t done so already Doing so will give you access to technical support Dragon Dictate Tips on Speaking 191 Tips on Speaking Speech recognition while it has become far faster and better over the past several years does not work like the human brain The speech recognition engine identifies the words you speak using its knowledge of how you pronounce sounds along with a rudimentary notion of grammatical and lexical context but it doesn t know the meaning of the words nor does it have the understanding of your speech that a person does Thus while the speech recognition engine s accuracy can be improved to respond to the unique characteristics of your voice you also need to let Dragon Dictate train you Your use of Dragon Dictate will be much more successful if you bear in mind and put into operation a few simple tips Train honestly When you create a profile you will use Microphone Setup to set your microphone input level and then you will use Voice Training to read a story Speak in the same manner and choose the same environment in which you will primarily use Dragon Dictate Be consistent This tip is a continuation of the previous one Having trained Dragon Dictate with Voice Training you should carry on speaking the same way as you proceed to use Dra
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18. In Dashboard Window Access Import Bookmarks Window Access Export Bookmarks Window Print This Document Opens a new browser window Makes a new untitled tab in the current window Allows you to open a file typically a web page stored locally on any attached storage device Selects contents of URL field in the current window TIP use spelling mode to enter complex URLs Closes the front window in Safari Closes all open Safari windows Closes the current tab Closes all tabs except the current one Opens the Save As dialog box Mails the contents of the current web page using your pre ferred email client Mails a link to the current web page using your preferred email client Allows you to open a portion of the current web page in Dashboard Allows you to import bookmarks from a file Allows you to export your bookmarks to an XML file Prints the current web page Dragon Dictate Safari Edit Menu Actions What You Say Commands 130 Comment Undo Last Action Redo Last Action Cut This or The Selection Copy This or The Selection Paste From Clipboard Delete This or The Selection Select All Auto Fill This or The Form Do Web Search Show Find Toolbar Find Next Find Previous Hide or Close Find Banner Use Selection for Find Jump to Selection Check Spelling And Grammar Of This Document Turn Check Spelling While Typing Off Turn Check Spelling While Typing On Turn Check Grammar Wit
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20. Lowercase Someword Lowercase Someword Through Otherword Lowercase Someword to Otherword Lowercase Next Someword where Someword is a word or series of words specified by the previous select command Lowercase Previous Someword where Someword is a word or series of words specified by the previous select command Uppercase Someword Uppercase Someword Through Otherword Uppercase Someword to Otherword Uppercase Next Someword where Someword is a word or series of words specified by the previous select command Uppercase Previous Someword where Someword is a word or series of words specified by the previous select command In the above commands where you specify the words to select if those words appear more than once in the document Dragon Dictate selects the nearest instance Position Dragon Dictate Dictation Mode 44 the insertion point near the desired words beforehand to ensure that they will be selected If you speak to delete or alter text and then change your mind perhaps because Dragon Dictate selected the wrong stretch of text say Undo Dictation To remove the word last dictated or to the left of the cursor Say Scratch Word To remove the phrase last dictated or to the left of the cursor Say Scratch That or Delete That Dragon Dictate s notion of a phrase depends upon how it dete
21. Modes and the Microphone 37 Choose Microphone On from the Dock menu Click the microphone icon in the Status window so that it appears with a green go button Click the optional status menu item in the menu bar so that it appears with a green go button Press the keyboard shortcut for toggling the microphone Tap the icon in the Dragon Remote Microphone app on your iOS or Android device To learn whether the microphone is on or off Look at the Status window The microphone icon displays the microphone s status Lock at the optional status menu item in the menu bar It is a miniature version of the Status window microphone icon and displays the microphone status Look at the Dock icon for Dragon Dictate It appears optionally with a microphone icon displaying the microphones status Look in the Speech menu If the microphone is on the first menu item will read Microphone Off if the microphone is off the first menu item will read Microphone On Look in the Dock menu It contains menu items that work just like the Speech menu Look at the icon in the Dragon Remote Microphone app on your iOS or Android device If it s green the microphone is on if it s red the microphone is off Sleep Mode To pause your work temporarily switch to Sleep mode In Sleep mode Dragon Dictate is listening but it is in a special state where it responds only to a very limited set of com
22. New New File File Open Open File File Close Close File Selects the New menu item on the File Menu Selects the Open menu item on the File Menu Selects the Close menu item on the File Menu Dragon Dictate What You Say Commands 79 Comment Undo Last Action Redo Last Action About this Application Access Find Window Access Force Quit Window Show This or The Date and Time Undoes the last action This is the same as pressing Command Z undo You can also say Scratch That or Undo Dictation Redo last action reverses the effect of the Undo Last Action command Displays information about the frontmost application Opens the Find window This window will look different depending on what version of OS X you are using Opens the Force Quit window Displays a dialog box with the date and time stamp Also allows you to put the date stamp on the clipboard Spaces Expos and Screen Capture What You Say Comment Expose All Windows Expose Application Windows Expose Desktop Capture Screen Capture Selection Uses Mission Control to expose all windows Uses Mission Control to expose windows for the active applica tion Uses Mission Control to expose the Desktop Takes a snapshot of the entire screen and saves it on the desk top Allows you to capture a snapshot of a selection Application and Window Navigation What You Say Comment Hide This or The Application Hide
23. Off The indicator light will go out Spaces To prevent automatic insertion of a space before the next word Say No Space In the Status window the second indicator light will glow yellow When you say the next word it will be typed without a preceding space and the indicator light will go out automatically To prevent automatic insertion of spaces while saying a series of words Say No Space On In the Status window the second indicator light will glow green Say the series of words which will be typed without intervening spaces Finally say No Space Off The indicator light will go out To insert a space Say Space Bar In general you should not need to suppress or control spacing merely because of punctuation For example to hyphenate two words say the first word then Hyphen then the second word There will be no space on either side of the hyphen because there is a built in rule governing how automatic spacing works next to a hyphen Numbers To force the next word to be interpreted as an Arabic digit 1 2 etc Say Numeral or switch to Numbers mode Dragon Dictate Dictation Mode 47 In the Status window the third indicator light will glow yellow and will read 123 Say the digit The digit will be typed and the indicator light will go out automatically Tip To type 0 say Oh or Zero To force the next word to be interpreted as a Roman numeral I Il etc Sa
24. Tip If there is text in the search field the list of commands is filtered to display only commands containing that text To be certain that all commands are displayed empty the search field a quick way is to click in the search field and press Esc To issue a command Say the command For a global or application based command double click the command s name in the Available Commands window Hover the mouse over a command s name in the Available Commands window to see a tooltip displaying its description To hide the Available Commands window Say Hide Available Commands Window Choose Window gt Hide Available Commands Choose Hide Available Commands from the Dock menu Click the close button at the top left of the Available Commands window Recognition Window The Recognition window is your interface for refining Dragon Dictate s voice model by telling it about recognition errors it has made This is called training the voice model When the Recognition window is showing it floats over all applications Dragon Dictate Windows 175 When Dragon Dictate has typed what you said in Dictation mode and has made a mistake use the Recognition window to correct Dragon Dictate s interpretation of what you said as well as to correct what Dragon Dictate typed There are thus two ways to modify the existing dictated content of a document you can use Dictation mode commands or you can use the Recognition wi
25. You Say Hides the Spelling and Grammar window Allows you to check the spelling and grammar of the active document Turns off the Check Spelling While Typing feature Turns on the Check Spelling While Typing feature Turns off the Check Grammar with Spelling feature Turns on the Check Grammar with Spelling feature Turns off the Smart Copy and Paste feature Turns on the Smart Copy and Paste feature Turns off the Smart Links feature Turns on the Smart Links feature Turns off the Smart Quotes feature Turns on the Smart Quotes feature Displays the Special Characters palette Comment Show or Display Fonts Palette Shows the Fonts Palette Dragon Dictate What You Say Commands 126 Comment Hide This or The Fonts Palette Make This or The Selection Bold Make This or The Selection Italic Make This or The Selection Outline Make This or The Selection Underlined Make This or The Selection Plain Text Make This or The Selection Bigger Make This or The Selection Smaller Show Colors Palette Hide Colors Palette Align This or The Text Center Align This or The Text Left Align This or The Text Right Justify This or The Selection Change Text Writing Direction Show or Display Text Ruler Hide Text Ruler Copy Text Ruler Hides the Fonts Palette Makes the selection bold Makes the selection italic Makes the selection outlined Makes the selection underlined Makes the
26. also say January 5 2011 to display the same result From the dropdown you can select a variety of other ways to display dates depending on your preference For example setting it to 1 5 2011 produces exactly that when you say January 5th 2011 Tip Omitting the year when you speak produces the month and day as a word and a number despite the formatting you ve selected For example January 5 or 5th produces January 5 When you say a time it s properly formatted if that option is enabled For example Three Twenty A M produces 3 20 AM Without auto formatting it would read 320 a m Dragon Dictate Auto Formatting 89 Numbers The Use Numerals Starting With option has a dropdown that spells out all numbers equal to or less than the selected value which is set at 10 as the default The other choices in the dropdown menu are 2 10 and 100 For example if you choose 10 say ing Three will produce three and saying Eleven will produce 11 If you choose to Partially Format illion Numbers Dragon Dictate will display a combination of numbers and text when you speak numbers higher than 999 999 For example saying Eight Million will produce 8 million instead of 8 000 000 Prices and Currencies This option properly displays money amounts For example One Dollar and Thirty Cents will produce 1 30 If the ISO Currency Codes option is checked Dragon Dictate will display the proper three letter code rather than the currency symbol
27. becoming too long since application based commands effectively go out of existence temporarily when that application is not frontmost You can access them in the Commands window to edit them but you can t use them This is good for you because the Available Commands window remains manageable It s also good for Dragon Dictate because it limits the number of possible commands against which Dragon Dictate must try to match what you say Dragon Dictate comes with command sets for the following applications Dragon Dictate Finder TextEdit Safari Mail Messages Calendar Notes Reminders 114 You can create your own application based commands in the Commands window The rest of this section lists the application based commands that ship with Dragon Dictate You can find this same information in the Available Commands window Dragon Dictate Commands 112 Dragon Dictate Commands These commands are available when Dragon Dictate is frontmost Dragon Dictate Application Menu Actions What You Say Comment About This or The Application Displays information about Dragon Dictate Access or Show Check For i Opens the Check For Updates window Updates Window Access or Show Preferences Window Hide This or The Application Hides Dictate Opens the Preferences window Hide All Other Applications Hides other applications Show All Applications Shows all open applications Show
28. creating a new document in any application File New or New File you probably know that its key combination is Command N so you can say Press the Key Combo Command N When Dragon Dictate types in response to a key command the typing is directed just as real keyboard typing would be So for example Press the Key Combo Command N is directed to the frontmost application typically to create a new document but Press the Key Combo Command Tab is directed to the system and brings the second application to the front because that s how Command Tab is treated when you type it manually Dragon Dictate Commands 108 How to Say a Key Command What you say depends on whether you want to press a single key or a key combination involving modifier keys Single key Say Press the Key KEYNAME where KEYNAME is the name of the key Key combination Say Press the Key Combo MODIFIER KEYNAME or Press the Keys MODIFIER KEYNAME where KEYNAME is the name of the key and MODIFIER is any combination of modifier key names Key names and modifier key names are shown later in this section So for example To press the Page Down key in many applications this scrolls a document down one screenful say Press the Key Page Down To press the key combination Command Shift 4 by default this is the system command for letting you select an area of the screen and take a screenshot of it say Press the Key Combo Command Shift Four Modifier key n
29. example Move Mouse Right and Down Two Inches Say Faster or Slower to change the mouse speed you can repeat the command to make it move even faster or slower Mouse movement has three levels of speed Say Stop to end mouse movement When you have your mouse pointer in the desired spot you can say Mouse Click Mouse Double Click or Mouse Triple Click Before those words you can also say any combination of Command Option Shift Control or Caps Lock enabling you to use those keys in conjunction with a single double or triple mouse click Say Hold Mouse when you want to click and hold the mouse pointer a flashing circle appears around it to indicate that status Say Release Mouse to disengage the mouse By issuing voice commands to click and hold the mouse and then move it you can highlight sections of text drag and drop files and folders and more You can change the mouse grid s appearance in the Appearance Preferences pane under the Dictate menu You can modify its level of transparency and change its color along with the color displayed when you say Hold Mouse In addition you can decide whether Dragon Dictate automatically switches to Command mode when you invoke the MouseGrid and you can enable or disable zoom which turns on and off the Dragon Dictate Mouse Control 99 magnification window that appears when the mouse grid becomes too small to display numbers Mouse Commands Open MouseGrid Open Small MouseGrid C
30. frequently executed tasks the more useful Dragon Dictate will be as a speech driven assistant Vocabulary Editor Window The Vocabulary Editor window is your interface for viewing and editing the list of words phrases and symbols that Dragon Dictate can type for you in Dictation mode To summon the Vocabulary Editor window choose Tools gt Vocabulary Editor The very first time you open the Vocabulary Editor window when a given profile is active there will be a brief delay while Dragon Dictate generates an initial list of the built in dictation vocabulary for that profile Once this initial list is generated subsequent access to the Vocabulary Editor window is rapid The list is long though over 150 000 words so there can still be a brief delay when you perform certain actions in the window To switch among vocabulary lists Click All Built In or User User vocabulary can come from vocabulary training analysis of written text see Vocabulary Training Window or from direct editing in this window An icon distinguishes built in vocabulary from user vocabulary To filter the displayed list Type in the search field and press Return The pop up menu in the search field lets you determine whether the filter operation is Contains Begins With or Ends With Both the written and spoken forms are searched For example a Contains search on dash lists balderdash because its written form contains dash
31. icon in the Status window so that it appears with a green go button Click the optional status menu item so it appears with a green go button Press the keyboard shortcut for toggling the microphone Dragon Dictate Modes and the Microphone 39 Learning and Switching Modes The four non sleep modes Dictation mode Spelling mode Command mode and Numbers mode form a group You can switch from one to another and learn which mode Dragon Dictate is in in a consistent manner To switch between modes Say one of the following Dictation Mode Spelling Mode Command Mode Numbers Mode Choose from the Status window mode menu The mode menu appears when you click the mode button in the Status window Choose from the Speech menu Choose from the Dock menu Press the keyboard shortcut for cycling between modes as found in the Shortcuts preference pane By default Command F10 is the shortcut you can change it in the preference pane To learn what mode you are in Look at the Status window The mode button s icon represents the current mode and in the mode menu which appears when you click the mode button the current mode is checked Look in the Speech menu The current mode is checked Look in the Dock menu It contains menu items that work just like the Soeech menu Dragon Dictate Dictation Mode 40 Dictation Mode In Dictation mode you can both dictate text to be typed and
32. if you want the Status window to be visible at launch time When Activating a Profile Check Open a New Note Pad Window if you want a new empty Note Pad window to open when a profile is activated This includes opening a Note Pad window at launch time because a profile is always activated at launch time Feedback Check Show Recognized Text if you want the Status window to display the text of each phrase that Dragon Dictate understands you to have uttered Appearance Preferences pane The Appearance Preferences pane assembles some miscellaneous options having to do with microphone icons and the Status window Dragon Dictate Windows 180 Notepad Window Size Fill in the fields next to Width and Height to change the default size of a new Note Pad window when you create one Click the Default button to return those numbers to their original state which is a width of 80 characters and a height of 25 lines Show Microphone Status Check In the menu bar if you want the Dragon Dictate status menu item to appear in the menu bar This status menu item is an icon that displays whether the microphone is on or off or asleep plus you can click it to toggle the microphone on or off Check In the Dock if you want Dragon Dictate s Dock icon and its Command Tab application switcher icon to be badged with a microphone icon showing whether the the microphone is on or off or asleep Status Transparency Use the slider to govern how opaque or
33. in the Network pane of System Preferences in OS X ignore the port number field as it can t be changed You can find your Mac s name in System Prefer ences Sharing pane it s shown at the top of the window 4 49 PM Settings Settings Find Computer Done Profile Computer Find Computer gt Tap Eind Computer Brad Cook Brad s iMac to locate your Mac or Locating a Dragon Dragon Dictate profile Dictate profile and the Mac it is running on Dragon Dictate Interface 30 Locating the name of the target computer in the Sharing pane of System Preferences 4 52 PM Manual Entry Cancel Dragon Profile Name Computer Name or IP Address Computer Port The Manual Entry screen uu 1 Use a barcode Barcode feature only supported in Dragon Dictate for Mac On either iOS or Android you can also tap the Use a barcode button to connect with your profile All iPhones have cameras but not all iPod touch and iPad models do nor do all Android smartphones On your Mac click the Dragon Dictate icon at the top of Dragon Dictate Interface 31 the screen a pop out window will display a barcode Tap the Use a barcode button in the Remote Microphone app and line up the barcode on your Mac s screen with the box shown on the display of your iOS device Computer 192 165 1 163 Generating a barcode on your Mac s dis play after clicking the Dragon Dictate icon at the top of th
34. is using the mouse or keyboard Microphone On Dragon Dictate is listening and how it responds to your speech depends on what mode it is in The Five Modes Dictation Mode If Dragon Dictate can interpret your words as a command it obeys the command Otherwise Dragon Dictate interprets your words as dictation and types those words at the insertion point in the frontmost application Spelling Mode If Dragon Dictate can interpret your words as a command it obeys the command Otherwise Dragon Dictate tries to interpret your words as a limited set of letters and punctuation and types those letters and punctuation at the insertion point in the frontmost document If Dragon Dictate can t interpret your words as a command or as letters and punctuation nothing happens Command Mode If Dragon Dictate can interpret your words as a command it obeys the command Otherwise nothing happens You can give commands in Dictation mode and Spelling mode as well but Command mode can be an advantage because Dragon Dictate doesn t have to decide whether what you re saying is something to be typed or a command to be obeyed You might switch to Command mode when you are about to issue a command or a series of commands and you want to make certain that nothing you say is interpreted as dictation and typed accidentally into your document Dragon Dictate Modes and the Microphone 36 Numbers Mode If Dragon Dictate can interpret your words as a number it
35. issue commands to be obeyed Dragon Dictate will tyoe what you say interpreting your words as dictation unless it recognizes what you say as a command In general if you speak smoothly and continuously Dragon Dictate will interpret your words as dictation even if they include words that might be a command If you pause before and after a phrase on the other hand Dragon Dictate will consider that phrase as a possible command For example Go To Sleep is a command it switches to Sleep mode So If you say Go To sleep Dragon Dictate types Go to sleep If you say Don t go to sleep in the middle of the lecture Dragon Dictate types those words But if you say Don t Go to sleep Dragon Dictate types Don t and then switches to Sleep mode So to ensure that a phrase is recognized as a command pause before and after the command but speak the command itself smoothly and continuously This might be a good time to review the Tips on Speaking section What You Can Say in Dictation Mode Words and phrases to be typed You can use the Vocabulary Editor window to view and edit the list of words that Dragon Dictate knows about You should try not to make any extraneous noises but Dragon Dictate will do its best to ignore the well known hesitation noises ah er uh and um In fact you may have to use Spelling mode to type such items Instructions for spacing and capitalization In general there should be no need for t
36. it in Dictation mode see Vocabulary Editor Window In Spelling mode no automatic spaces are inserted Contrast Dictation mode where automatic spaces are inserted before or after punctuation as appropriate and between words In Spelling mode you must insert any desired spaces yourself To insert a space Say Space Bar To remove the letter last typed or to the left of the cursor Say Scratch Word or Delete Word or Scratch That or Delete Word If you scratch and then change your mind say Undo Dictation What You Can Say in Spelling Mode The names of letters and numerals For letter names see the next section Letter Names in Spelling Mode To capitalize a letter Say Cap followed by the name of the letter Punctuation See Punctuation Dragon Dictate Spelling Mode 56 Commands All global key generated and application based commands are available Navigation commands You can control the insertion point with these Spelling mode commands Move Backward s NN Letter s and Move Forward s NN Letter s where NN is a number up to 99 Letter Names in Spelling Mode These are the names of letters and numerals that you can say in Spelling mode Letters Letters are lowercase by default To capitalize a letter Say Cap followed by the name of the letter To type a letter in Spelling mode Say the name of the letter e g A B etc Or say the International Radio Alphabet n
37. lets you listen to the flow of your writing SO you can decide where to make changes during editing Say Read Document or Read Selection to have Dragon Dictate read the entire document or the text you ve selected by highlighting it with your mouse You can also say Read the Words text to text to tell Dragon Dictate to read all the text from one word through another You can substitute Proofread for Read and Through for To For example if a sentence says The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog you can say Read the Words brown to over You can also instruct Dragon Dictate to read a selection that spans multiple sentences Say Wake Up pause for the mic to respond and then say Stop Reading to halt the speech synthesis Dragon Dictate uses the text to speech capabilities that are built into OS X so if you want to change the voice you hear click on Speech in System Preferences and select Text to Speech You ll see a few male and female voices to choose from but if you select Show More Voices the list will expand You will probably want to stick with one of the standard voices but if you want to have some fun OS X offers several novelty voices too such as Bad News and Zarvox Click the Play button to hear a sample You can also change your preferred voice s speaking rate in the Speech preference pane Dragon Dictate Numbers Mode 95 Numbers Mode In Numbers mode Dragon Dictate will type Arabic numerals when you say them s
38. mysterious Behind the scenes Dragon Dictate interprets the words you speak using a powerful and highly accurate speech recognition engine with an extensive flexible vocabulary To obey your commands or type your dictation Dragon Dictate uses a combination of technologies built into OS X such as Accessibility and AppleScript You can get up and running with Dragon Dictate very quickly but you will have some preparation to do beforehand and you will have some learning to do as you go along Preparation Before Dragon Dictate can interpret your speech you must provide a sample of your speech so that Dragon Dictate knows what your voice sounds like and how you pronounce your words Learning Dragon Dictate can t obey just any old commands When you start out you won t know Dragon Dictate s built in commands you ll learn them as you go Dragon Dictate Introduction 2 along especially the ones you use most frequently When dictating you won t always know Dragon Dictate s terms for punctuation that you want to use these too you ll learn as you go along Of course you ll have plenty of assistance along the way Dragon Dictate has a window listing its commands and punctuation plus you can consult this manual and the online help You ll also learn to speak more clearly and smoothly speaking to a computer program takes practice With time you ll become more experienced and most of the things you do with Dragon Dictate will become
39. second nature You may even customize Dragon Dictate s abilities to suit your needs For example you might add to its repertory of commands Dragon Dictate comes with built in specialized commands for controlling itself plus a number of commonly used applications along with a set of general commands for use with any application You can write your own commands for inserting text running a script choosing a menu and so forth And you ll almost certainly customize Dragon Dictate s understanding of your speech You can add to Dragon Dictate s vocabulary in case you use words that it doesn t already know And when Dragon Dictate types what you dictate and gets it wrong you can train Dragon Dictate to understand you better telling it the right interpretation of what you said and improving its ability to interpret your speech correctly in the future Installation Before you can use Dragon Dictate you must have two kinds of hardware that conform to its requirements your computer and an audio source a microphone for dicating and a device for recording audio to be transcribed if you wish to use that feature You can transcribe audio from files in the mp3 mp4 wav aif aiff m4v and m4a formats Minimum System Requirements OSX 10 8 3 or 10 9 AGB of RAM 83GB of disk space Dragon Dictate Introduction 3 big abies Requirements You can use a USB or Bluetooth microphone the internal microphone of your Mac or an iOS or And
40. still be able to give Dragon Dictate would like to control this a umen Golan ecules fences Dragon Dictate control of your Mac by opening Grant access to this application in Security amp Privacy System Preferences Click on it in the Dock or preferences located in System Preferences choose the Apple menu at the top left of the screen and click System Preferences Open System Preferences Deny System Preferences will open and display the Security amp Privacy pane Click the lock in the bottom left and enter your adminstrator password Then click the checkbox next to Dragon Dictate as shown Dragon Dictate Introduction 7 After you have enabled accessibility in either OS X 10 8 or 10 9 you will proceed to the Profiles window where you may need to create a profile as explained in the next section Creating a Profile In order to use Dragon Dictate you need a profile If you have installed the software for the first time you will have no profile Therefore Dragon Dictate immediately offers to create one after you have registered the software A profile is a complete set of data on how you speak what your voice sounds like and what vocabulary you use In order to speak into Dragon Dictate you must have at least one profile In many cases one profile is all you ll need But you ll need multiple profiles if different people are using Dragon Dictate Each person will need to train their pr
41. the Bookmark Bar Jumps to the seventh bookmark in the Bookmark Bar Jumps to the Eighth bookmark in the Bookmark Bar Jumps to the ninth bookmark in the Bookmark Bar Show All History Clears the history of locations visited What You Say Comment Show All Bookmarks Shows the Bookmark Manager Hide All Bookmarks Hides the Bookmark manager Dragon Dictate What You Say Commands 133 Comment Access Add Bookmark Window Add Bookmark For These Tabs Add Bookmark Folder Bookmark This or The Page Access Save As Window Move To Next Cell Open Selected Bookmark Delete Selected Bookmarks Safari Window Menu Actions What You Say Adds a bookmark to the current page allowing you to rename it Add Bookmark For These Tabs Adds a Bookmark Folder to the Bookmark collection Adds the current page to the Bookmark menu without asking to rename it Opens the Save As dialog box Moves to the next editable cell while in Bookmarks view Opens the selected bookmark when in Bookmark view Deletes the selected Bookmarks when in Bookmarks view Comment Minimize This or The Window Minimize All Windows Zoom This or The Window Select Next Tab Select Previous Tab Merge All Windows Move Tab To New Window Open Downloads Window Bring All Windows To Front Minimizes the current window Minimizes all windows Zooms the current window Selects the next tab in the current window Selects the Previous Tab in the
42. the Vocabulary Training window and uses the copied text as input Tells Dragon Dictate to record the contents of the current window as user typed text All prior Knowledge of the window contents is replaced dicta tion information spelled letters This is useful when opening and working with an existing document Tells Dragon Dictate to record the selection of the current window as user typed text All prior Knowledge of the window contents is replaced dicta tion information spelled letters This is useful when opening and working with an existing document Removes all cached information regarding the active window s contents This does not delete the text appearing in the active window but Dragon Dictate now assumes that the window is blank except for Note Pad win dows When Purge Cache is applied to a Note Pad window a Cache Document command is automatically generated as well because Dragon Dictate always knows about the contents of its own windows This is use ful when opening and working with an existing document Dragon Dictate Dragon Dictate Windows What You Say Commands 76 Comment Show This or The Status Window Hide or Close Status Window Show Available Commands Window Hide or Close Available Commands Window Show This or The Recognition Window Bring Dictate to the Front Show or Open Express Editor Close or Hide Express Editor Transfer the Text Nav
43. the app It provides a simple and convenient way to turn the microphone on or off no matter what application is frontmost and even if the Status window is not present If you d prefer not to see the status menu item uncheck In The Menu Bar in the Appearance Preferences pane to The status menu item controls the microphone Keyboard Shortcuts Dragon Dictate lets you define global keyboard shortcuts hot keys to perform each of the following tasks Turn the microphone on or off Switch between Dictation mode Spelling mode Command mode and Numbers mode Show or hide the Recognition window Dragon Dictate Interface 27 Dismiss the MouseGrid a aan The Shortcuts Preferences pane Click E uin 25 the X to delete the current shortcut and Toggle Microphone C xri record a new one After recording a new a shortcut click the curved arrow to revert DEGA Sr 2 to the original one These are all tasks that you can perform in other ways such as using your voice or clicking in the Status window the keyboard shortcuts are an optional convenience and many users happily ignore them or even disable them Important note When changing a keyboard shortcut you should never assign a key sequence that is the same as the one used to invoke Apple s built in dictation capabilities found in OS X 10 8 and later You should also not assign Apple s built in dictation capability with a key sequence that inclu
44. the rule 1 Never abbreviate titles 2 Always use the alternate written for Y More Info Dragon noticed that you made a correction that changes a Smart Formatting Rule for auto formatting text or word properties If you say Choose and a number You can say choose plus the number Dragon will remember that associated with an item in this box Doing so will enable or disable the corresponding options formatting choice In the future on the Auto Formatting dialog box If you don t want to change the rule now you can ignore this box When you resume dictating the box will close For details say Search Dragon Help for Smart Format Rules If you don t want to use any of the smart formatting rule choices you can click the X in the top left corner of the window or simply resume dictating text and the window will disappear Smart Formatting rules are turned on by default when you install Dragon Dic tate but you can turn them off in the Recognition pane in the Preferences window which is accessible in the Dictate menu Addresses Street Addresses Dragon Dictate will automatically format postal addresses when this option is enabled For example speaking 49 Orchard Lane Boston Massachusetts Oh Two Four Four Six will produce 49 Orchard Lane Boston MA 02446 A separate option enables automatic formatting of UK and Canadian postcodes such as W2 4RJ which would be spoken as W Two Four H J Dragon Dicta
45. transparent the Status window should be When Starting MouseGrid Check Switch to Command mode if you want Dragon Dictate to switch to Command mode when you invoke the MouseGrid Check Enable zoom if you want MouseGrid to display the magnification window when you focus on an area too small to show the grid Both of those options are checked by default Obscure Transparency Use the slider to determine how light or dark the MouseGrid should be The lighter it is the easier you will be able to see what s under it This is set to Lighter by default Below the slider you can choose what color the grid should be as well as what color is used when you invoke the Hold Mouse command Click the box next to the option to summon a color wheel where you can make changes Dragon Dictate Windows 181 Dictation Preferences pane The Dictation Preferences pane allows the Auto Cache Document feature to be enabled or disabled for certain applications It s also where you can enter a port number for the Dragon Remote Microphone app although you shouldn t change it from the default 51001 unless you have a reason to do so TextEdit By default Auto Cache Document is enabled for TextEdit To disable uncheck the box next to TextEdit Microsoft Word By default Auto Cache Document is disabled for Microsoft Word To enable uncheck the box next to Microsoft Word Recognition Preferences pane The Recognition Preferences pane governs some behavior
46. Apostrophe Spelling ceding space Dictation Apostrophe Ess S Straight apostrophe Spelling Open Single Quote Begin Single Spelling Left curly single quote Quote Close Single Quote End Single Spelling Hight curly single quote Quote Single Quote Spelling Straight single quote Open Single Quote Begin Single THE Straight single quote preceding Quote space Close Single Quote End Single l isio Straight single quote no pre Quote ceding space like apostrophe Open Quote Begin Quote Spelling Left curly double quote Close Quote End Quote Spelling Right curly double quote Dragon Dictate Punctuation 63 What You Say Result Mode Comments Quote Quotation Marks i Spelling Straight double quote Open Quote Open Quotes Begin Quote Begin Quotes Open Double s Dictation Quote Open Double Quotes Begin ing space Double Quote Begin Double Quotes Straight double quote preced Close Quote Close Quotes End Quote End Quotes Close Double Straight double quote no pre j Dictation Quote Close Double Quotes End ceding space Double Quote End Double Quotes Open Euro Quote Open Euro Dictation Quotes Spelling Close Euro Quote Close Euro Dictation Quotes Spelling Begin Angle Quote Begin Angle Quotes Open Angle Quote Open Spelling Angle Quotes End Angle Quote End Angle Quotes Close Angle Quote Close Angle Spelling Quotes Enclosures What You Say Result Mode Comme
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48. Commands 105 ee ER ee Click the dropdown next to each web site to eren choose from Ask Block Allow Always Allow or Run in Unsafe Mode EI a To apply a global setting click the dropdown Boris next to When visiting other websites at the bottom of the window For example selecting SE l AuDeM Always Allow there will stop the trust warning from abt Dent appearing on all future websites that you visit If you want to turn off the Safari extension for Dragon Dictate you can do so in the Extensions preference Click the checkbox next to Enable Dragon Dictate to turn the extension on or off In Firefox click Add ons in the Tools menu to see the extensions installed in that brows er including Dragon Dictate Dragon Dictate Commands 106 You can disable and enable extensions as well as remove them in the Add ons Manager To tell Firefox how to use the Dragon Dictate extension with web sites click the Plugins pane in Add ons Manager Click the dropdown next to an extension to choose from Always Activate Never Activate or Ask to Activate The last option prompts Firefox to ask on a site by site basis if you want to use Dragon Dictate like Safari does When you visit a web site with the Dragon Dictate extension enabled in either Safari or Firefox you can say Click X where X is the name of the link Depending on the web page and the number of links it contains you may be a
49. Commands 120 What You Say Comment Access or Show View Options Shows the View Options window Hide View Options Hides the View Options window View or Display Using view SIE Changes the view style for the frontmost Finder window y Finder Go Menu Actions What You Say Comment Go Back or Previous Goes back to the previous view in the active window Go Forward or Next Goes to the next view in the active window Go To Enclosing Folder Opens the Enclosing folder for the selected item Go To The Computer Folder i Switches to the main Computer view or Window Go To The Home Folder or oe Switches the view in the active window to your home folder Window Go To Desktop Goes to the Desktop Go To The Network Folder or m Switches the view in the active window to the Network view Window Go To My iDisk Switches the view in the current window to your iDisk Access or Show Other Users a l Allows you to access another user s iDisk public folder Public Folder Go To The Applications EERE Goes to the Applications folder Folder Go To The Utilities Folder or Goes to the Utilities folder Window Clear Recent Folders Menu Clears the Recent Folders menu Dragon Dictate Commands 121 What You Say Comment Access or Show Go To Folder Window Access or Show Connect to Server Window Opens the Go To Folder dialog box Opens the Connect to Server window Finder Window Menu Actions What You S
50. Dictate will probably be both faster and more accurate so you can then afford to move the slider to the right a bit Auto Sleep Use the slider to set the length of time before the microphone goes to sleep and no longer recognizes input While you can use the Go To Sleep or Microphone Off commands to accomplish the same thing the Auto Sleep feature is useful if you are frequently interrupted or simply prefer not to use those commands You can set the length of time for Auto Sleep at anywhere from 30 seconds to five minutes or never eoo Recognition t Gea Y 1 E23 f EM ud Lo Q General Appearance Dictation Recognition Command Shortcuts Sharing Always Show Recognition Window When Dictating b M Close Recognition Window After Each Choice Notice that when you click and hold the Auto M Show Smart Format Rules Sleep slider the time is displayed on the right Maximum Number of Recognition Alternatives 5 7 It changes as you move the slider when you Speed a Accuracy release the slider the time disappears Recognition Auto Sleep 1 Y f 1 1 1 i i i 30 sec 5 min Never D Dragon Dictate Windows 183 Command Preferences pane The Command Preferences pane affects the behavior and contents of the Available Commands window as well as what commands are actually available Available Commands Window Check Show Global Commands above Application Commands to make the global commands appear above
51. Interactive Tutorial window Click Next to begin Click Next to get started Basics Dictating Recognition Spelling Editing Dragon Dictate Introduction 19 The Interactive Tutorial provides simulations that get you familiar with the basic functions found in Dragon Dictate including good dictation habits how to make corrections with your voice how to add words to the software s vocabulary with Spelling mode and more We strongly recommend that you complete all the exercises so you are ready to begin using Dragon Dictate when you are done After you complete the Interactive Tutorial you return to your working active profile You are ready to speak to Dragon Dictate and have it type what you say and obey your commands If you have just installed Dragon Dictate for the first time and are curious about where its parts were installed read What s Installed Where Any time you want to view your available profiles you can do so by selecting Profiles under the Tools menu While you re there you can add an audio source to a profile by clicking the plus sign in the Audio Sources box You can also change the images associated with your profiles In the Profiles window click the image to the left of a profile name to bring up a new dialog box Click the down arrow next to Recent Pictures at the top of the dialog box to view images to choose from they include recent iChat or Messages user images as well as images associated wi
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53. Other Applications Shows other open applications Dragon Dictate File Menu Actions What You Say Comment Make or Create New Note Pad Opens a new Note Pad window Make or Create New Opens Commands window and creates a new command Command Access or Show Open Displays the Open window Window Clears the files listed when the cursor is placed on the arrow Clear Recent Menu next to Open Recent Close This or The Window Closes the active window Close All Closes all open Dictate windows Save This or The Document Saves the active document Dragon Dictate What You Say Commands 113 Comment Access or Show Save As Window Revert to Last Saved Version Access or Show Print Window Save This or The Profile Access or Show Command Export Window Opens the Save As dialog box Reverts to the last saved version of the current document Access Print window Saves the current Profile Opens the Command Export window Dragon Dictate Edit Menu Actions What You Say Comment Undo Last Action Redo Last Action Cut This or The Selection Copy This or The Selection Paste From Clipboard Paste and Match Style Delete This or The Selection Select All Access or Show This or The Find Window Search This or The Document Find Next Search This or The Document For Dictation Undoes the last action This is the same as pressing Command Z undo Redoes the last action Cuts the selection to t
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55. Running a shell script does not open the Terminal Dragon Dictate Windows 162 and there is no means of viewing output a shell script to be run from within Dragon Dictate should generally be created and tested elsewhere Text Macro The command inserts specified text at the insertion point of the frontmost document This is a good way to store and enter boilerplate text hunks of named text or any frequently used text that is awkward to dictate or that needs to be formatted without regard to Dragon Dictate s automatic capitalization and punctuation rules Automator Workflow The command executes an Automator workflow specified by the pathname of the workflow file Keystroke The command executes the simulated pressing of a specific key or group of keys as defined by you Creating a Command In creating a command consider the following Context Should this command be available everywhere Global or only in the context of some specific application Name The name of the command is the phrase that you will speak to trigger the command What should this phrase be Implementation How will you implement this command Which of the above command types should it be To create the command click the button A workspace appears in the righthand column Edit each setting Command Name This is the name of the command the phrase you will speak to trigger the command Click in that window to edit it Command Description This i
56. Show B C C Address Field Hide Reply To Address Field Show Reply To Address Field Select All Messages or Emails In This or The Thread Select Next Messages or Emails In This or The Thread Select Previous Message or Emails In This or The Thread Go To Next Message or Email In Thread Go To Previous Message or Email In Thread Show Long Headers Show Default Headers 139 Dragon Dictate Commands What You Say Access or Show Plain Text Alternative Access or Show Next Alternative Access or Show Previous Alternative Access or Show Best Alternative For Selected Message Access or Show Raw Source For Selection View Original Content For Selection Access or Show Selected Messages Only Display All Messages or Email Hide Mailboxes Show Mailboxes Hide Deleted Messages or Emails Access or Show Deleted Messages Hide Toolbar Access or Show Toolbar Access Customize Toolbar Window Use Large Mailbox Icons Use Small Mailbox Icons Mail Mailbox Menu Actions What You Say Go Offline Go Online Get All New Mail 140 Dragon Dictate Commands What You Say Synchronize All Accounts Erase Deleted Messages or Email In All Accounts Erase Deleted Messages or Email On My Mac Erase Junk Mail Make or Create New Mailbox Make or Create New Smart Mailbox Edit Selected Smart Mailbox Make or Create New Smart Mailbox Folder Rename Selected Mailbox Delete This or The Mailbox Access or Show In Box Access or Show Ou
57. Single return character New Paragraph Next Paragraph All three Double return character Tab Key All three Tab character Dragon Dictate Stops What You Say Result Mode Punctuation 61 Comments Period Full Stop Dot Period Paragraph Exclamation Mark Exclamation Point Inverted Exclamation Point Inverted Exclamation Mark Question Mark Inverted Question Mark Pauses and Joins What You Say Hyphen Soft Hyphen Comma Semicolon Colon Colon Mark Dictation and Numbers modes only All three All three Dictation Numbers All three All three Dictation Spelling i Spelling fi All three Dictation Spelling Result Mode All three Spelling All three All three All three US dialect only UK dialect only Full stop or period followed by double return character US dialect only Comments No space before or after in Dictation mode Unicode 173 optional hyphen not every application interprets this cor rectly Dragon Dictate Punctuation 62 What You Say Result Mode Comments Center Dot Middle Dot Dictation Spelling mode only l Spelling Dash ik Two hyphens Spelling Em Dash Dictation Three hyphens En Dash Dictation Two hyphens Em Dash Spelling Unicode 8212 a true em dash En Dash Spelling Unicode 8211 a true en dash Apostrophe and Quotes What You Say Result Mode Comments Dictation Straight apostrophe no pre
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61. This is why you need a different profile for each different person Dragon Dictate Introduction 14 Dragon Dictate presents the Voice Training window containing a description of what s about to happen Click the right arrow button at the lower right to proceed When you do voice training in an existing profile you are shown a window where you can select from among four stories to read from stories you ve previously read are marked with a green circle icon But when you first create a profile the first story is automatically selected for you e 0 6 Voice Training Voice Training helps Dragon Dictate adapt to the way you speak During this process you will be asked to read a story including punctuation This should take you five minutes or less The training process will stop when enough speech has been collected usually before you reach the end of the story Text will turn green as it is recognized If the text turns red pause then begin reading again If you cannot turn the text green click the Skip Word button and start with the next word The progress bar on the panel will show how far along you are in the story Click the right arrow to continue The Voice Training window before reading a story To proceed click the right arrow button at lower right of the window Next Dragon Dictate presents a window in which you can choose one of four training stories to read Each is geared toward diff
62. US telephone numbers may be spoken normally digit by digit and punctuation will be automatic for other telephone number formats say the punctuation you might like to experiment a bit What You Say Result Three Five Zero Zero Nine Zero Three 350 0903 Six Oh Three Three Five Oh Oh Nine Oh Three 603 350 0903 One Eight Hundred Five Five Five One Two One Two 1 800 555 1212 Open Parenthesis Six Zero Three Close Parenthesis Three Five Zero Zero Nine Zero Three One Two One Two Five Five Five Twelve Twelve 1 212 555 1212 603 350 0903 Dragon Dictate Dictation Mode 50 What You Say Result Open Parenthesis Oh One Six Two Eight Close et 01628 894150 Parenthesis Eight Nine Four One Five Oh Oh Two Seven Space Bar Six Two Nine Space Bar 7 027 629 8944 Eight Nine Four Four Six One Hyphen Seven Hyphen Four Six Nine Five Hyphen Two Zero Five Five 61 7 4695 2055 Dates and times may mostly be spoken normally For times the separator is a colon and this is entered automatically if you say AM or PM Alternatively say punctuation explicitly What You Say Result Twenty Two January Nineteen Ninety Nine 22 January 1999 April Nine Comma Two Thousand And One April 9 2001 Fourteen Slash Oh Seven Slash Eighty Five 14 07 85 Three Slash Eleven Slash Zero Two 3 11 02 Three Slash Eleven Slash Two Thousand And Two 3 11 2002 April First April 1 March Twenty Second March 22 The Nineteen Eighties the 1980s The Nineteen Eig
63. Windows 167 file User vocabulary when created belongs to the current profile so this is a way to copy user vocabulary from one profile to another Microphone Setup Window The Microphone Setup window is where you adjust the sound input level Tip Optimal sound input level is crucial to speech recognition It s a good idea to summon the Microphone Setup window and adjust the sound input level each time you begin a session using Dragon Dictate If you use a headset it s a good idea to also do that each time you take it off and put it back on because the microphone position or the background noise conditions may have changed To show the Microphone Setup window Choose Tools Microphone Setup The Microphone Setup window will also appear automatically when you create a profile eno Microphone Setup Volume Adjustment _ Manual Gain Q 50 5 The Microphone Setup window is where you adjust your sound input level To begin click the microphone icon with the red stop sign Enable the microphone by clicking the icon Le 1C To adjust the sound input level automatically Click the microphone button at the lower left of the window and read aloud the text that appears in the middle of the window until the window informs you that the Dragon Dictate Windows 168 level is adjusted You might have to read the entire text two or three times before the adjustment is completed When adjust
64. Written fox Next word Natural capitalization s Lower case in titles Fox FOX Insert 1 spaces before Fox s Foxboro Foxborough Foxcroft Foxe foxes Insert 1 spaces after Numbers Format preceding normally Format following normally window demonstrates that this vocabulary item is indeed working the user has said the spoken form and llle Foxfire Alternate Forms foxglove diri Dragon Dictate has typed the written J Foxhi dene form Foxhollow Reset defaults NM 33 words 2 The Vocabulary Editor window info area also displays features of the selected vocabulary item having to do with Dragon Dictate s intelligent automatic capitalization and spacing You can edit these features for user vocabulary items and for most built in vocabulary items although some built in vocabulary items have complex automatic capitalization and spacing rules which can t be fully displayed or edited Dragon Dictate Windows 166 Spaces before and after Normal words will have one space before and one space after But a punctuation mark might follow a different rule Next word How should the word following this item be capitalized In most cases Natural capitalization the default will be the right choice Lower case in titles A title is a phrase dictated while title casing is turned on Caps On You might prefer that small words
65. a Note Pad window select the text and choose Tools gt Train Vocabulary From Selection If the text contains unknown words the Vocabulary Training window will now present two columns of words Included and Excluded Manipulate the contents of these columns by selecting words and then clicking Exclude or Include so that the Included column contains only words that you actually use and which you want Dragon Dictate to incorporate into its vocabulary To incorporate words in the Include column into Dragon Dictate s vocabulary Dragon Dictate Windows 171 Click the right arrow at the lower right 3 em ee ees ee ee ee CTI a r You canna escape tha falertioss pursut cl fe Thive Toed Snonit og t snila pou out E098 you up a mahas you wile bad checks Mares the whole mais o3 you Ma wrih ela eon Vocabulary Trang Included Excluded word Coure wand Cours Snortiblog 1 ya 1 The Vocabulary Training window after analyzing a text file Shown behind ready to add a previously unknown word to this profile s vocabulary Status Window The Status window is Dragon Dictate s compact control center When the Status window is showing it floats over all applications Use the Status window to toggle the microphone on or off to bring Dragon Dictate to the front and to summon the Recognition window using the mouse instead of your voice Look at the Status window to learn what your sound input level is what mode Dragon D
66. aining window is where you provide Dragon Dictate with written text so that it can learn unknown words Learned words are added to Dragon Dictate s recognition vocabulary for your profile so you can use them while dictating To open the Vocabulary Training window Choose Tools Vocabulary Training Dragon Dictate Windows 170 e o e Vocabulary Training Dragon Dictate can analyze documents to determine your writing style This improves accuracy by helping Dragon Dictate learn about the way you put words together For this reason it is important that Dragon Dictate analyzes documents written by you not someone else To have Dragon Dictate analyze documents click the Add button in below and choose documents from the Open File Dialog Box You can also drag files directly into this window Learn from text in files The Vocabulary Training window ready to add files for analysis Remove To feed text files to the Vocabulary Training window 1 Click the right arrow at the lower right 2 Click Add to select files to add to the list of files to be analyzed Dragon Dictate can read the same standard formats as TextEdit such as text files rtf doc and odt files 3 Click the right arrow at the lower right once again Alternatively to feed selected text from an already open document to the Vocabulary Training window Select the text and issue the command Train Vocabulary from Selection Or in
67. also go directly to the Share on Facebook or Share on Twitter dialog box by speaking Post to Facebook More Snow or Post to Twitter More Snow or by simply saying Post to Facebook or Post to Twitter which will bring up an empty dialog win dow There are other variations on the Facebook and Twitter commands Saying That with a command uses the currently selected text or the last recognized text What You Say Post That To Facebook Post That To My Facebook Page Post That To My Facebook Wall Facebook That Post That To Twitter Post That To My Twitter Page Twitter That Tweet That If you want to speak a Facebook or Twitter command and then dictate the text you want to use or simply Summon an empty dialog window you can use one of these variations What You Say Post To Facebook Update My Facebook Page Update My Facebook Wall Post To My Facebook Wall Post To My Facebook Page Post To Twitter Post To My Twitter Page Update My Twitter Page Dragon Dictate Windows 161 When you select Command Import a dialog window asks you to find the commandstext file that you want to import you will then be prompted to find the file s associated Terms dynamictext file A confirmation will also appear Command Types Every command is of one of the following types as listed in the Type drop down menu in the right hand column of the Commands window AppleScript The command executes a script written in AppleScript The Source field in t
68. ame of the letter listed below When saying a plain letter name as opposed to a diacritical letter discussed below you may precede the name of the letter by Letter e g Letter A Letter B Letter Alpha Letter Bravo This can help disambiguate To repeat a letter that is to say a letter that appears twice in succession You may say the letter name preceded by Double e g Double A Double Alpha In case of u say Double Letter U to disambiguate from w Here are the International Radio Alphabet letter names What You Say Alpha Bravo Dragon Dictate What You Say Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliet Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu Spelling Mode 57 Dragon Dictate Spelling Mode 58 Diacritical Letters A diacritical letter is a letter with a marking above or below it To type a diacritical letter in Spelling mode Say the name of the letter normal or International Radio Alphabet followed by the name of the diacritical A Acute Alpha Acute Optionally in most cases you may say Accent between the name of the letter and the diacritical even when strictly soeaking the diacritical is not an accent for example A Accent Acute Alpha Accent Acute But you cannot do this for Dieresis or Ring Not every diacritical is possible even for every European language You cannot for exampl
69. ames What You Say Command Shift Option Control Caps Lock Key names Normal letter and digit names So for example A B C and so forth as well as One Two Three and so forth International Radio Alphabet letter names These names are listed in the discussion of Spelling mode commands Dragon Dictate Commands F Key names These consist of the letter F followed by a number from 1 to 20 So for example F One F Two and so on through F Twenty Named keys These are as follows What You Say Left Arrow Right Arrow Up Arrow Down Arrow Home End Page Up Page Down Return Enter Tab Space Escape Forward Delete Help Generated Commands Dragon Dictate as it starts up will optionally generate global commands that let you launch an application or create an email message addressed to someone in your Contacts Launching Applications To generate commands for launching applications Dragon Dictate Commands 110 Check Generate Application Launch Commands in the Command Preferences pane Nothing will happen immediately you need to quit Dragon Dictate and start it up again When you do as it starts up Dragon Dictate will look through all the applications on your computer and generate commands of the form Activate XXX where XXX is the name of the application So for example if you have Automator on your computer a command Activate Automator will be generated and you ll be able to say Acti
70. an turn the microphone on and off change modes and more For details see Status Window Dragon Dictate Interface 25 New Profile The Status window floats over all applications The Available Commands Window The Available Commands window lists the commands you can say to Dragon at the moment Any custom commands you ve added are shown there too It floats over the windows of all other applications For details see Available Commands Window x Available Commands Q gt Dictation gt Global The Available Commands window tells you what you can say at the moment To reveal the actual commands click a triangle The Dock Menu The Dragon Dictate Dock menu provides commands for showing and hiding Dragon Dictate s windows and for controlling modes and microphone state The Dock menu is available no matter what application is frontmost Dragon Dictate Interface 26 E Untitled Hide Status Window Hide Available Commands Microphone On Dictation Canara The Dock Menu lets you control Dragon Spelling Dictate no matter what application is Numbers Sleep frontmost Options Show All Windows Hide Quit The Status Menu Item The Dragon Dictate status menu item indicates whether the microphone is on or off and clicking it toggles the microphone state unless you are using the Dragon Remote Microphone app in which case clicking it displays the barcode you can use to connect your profile to
71. ancel Modifer s Press Mouse or Hold Mouse Modifier s Mouse Click or Modifier s Mouse Double Click or Modifier s Mouse Triple Click Release Mouse Move Mouse Direction 1 100 Points Centimeters Inches Stop Slower Faster Dragon Dictate Transcription 100 Transcription You can dictate text into an iPhone 8G or later iPod touch 4th generation or later iPad Android or other smartphone or any other digital recording device or into a computer microphone if you find yourself at a computer other than yours for example and ask Dragon Dictate to produce a transcript of what you said The software recog nizes these file formats mov wav aif aiff m4v and m4a Since you can have multiple transcription audio sources Dragon uses the one you ve selected with your currently active speech profile to analyze the audio so the file needs to contain your voice and should have preferably been dictated under circumstances similar to the ones in which you use Dragon on your Mac So for example if you normally use Dragon Dictate in a quiet environment but you tend to dictate into a digital recording device in a noisy atmosphere you may want to train a new transcription audio source in Dragon Dictate and use it for producing transcripts As with Dragon Dictate s other speech recognition functions its ability to produce an accurate transcript of your file depends on how well you ve trained the audio source in us
72. and Singapore The selected region determines spellings and word usage along with some auto formatting Choose from American American Inland Northern American Southern American Teens Australian British Indian Latino and Southest Asian Your selection helps Dragon Dictate improve its accuracy Click Next after making each selection You will then be prompted to save your new profile By default it s saved in the Documents folder You can click the dropdown next to Where to select another location click the down arrow to the right of the Save As field to navigate to a folder if it doesn t show up in the dropdown list Dragon Dictate Introduction 10 Finding a place to save a profile after clicking the Fro i m down arrow to the right of the Save As field After you finish setting up your profile Dragon Dictate creates it a progress dialog shows you that the software is working on it Dragon Dictate aking Profile rofile Meng rote 3 Prot While creating a profile Dragon Dialog SSSSSSSSSSSSSS puts up a progress dialog After you create a profile Dragon Dictate automatically proceeds to microphone setup unless you chose a transcription audio source instead of a dictation microphone in which case you should skip ahead to Transcription Training for an explanation of the process Tip You are about to begin speaking to Dragon Dictate It might be a good idea to read the Tips on Speaking sectio
73. ands in the Preference window s Command pane If you click Don t Allow you won t be able to use those commands If you decide later that you want to allow Dragon access to your email contacts open System Preferences Dragon Dictate Introduction in OS X and click on Security amp Privacy Click on the Privacy tab and grant access to Dragon there 23 Dragon Dictate Interface 24 Interface Dragon Dictate s basic interface is extremely simple This chapter will tour its key features details on some of these features appear in later chapters You can use Dragon Dictate while working in any application so the purpose of Dragon Dictate s interface is to be present So that you can control Dragon Dictate s behavior without being in your way The Profiles Window When you start up Dragon Dictate you might see the Profiles window Choose your profile and click Continue If you d like to avoid seeing the Profiles window at startup uncheck Show Profiles Window in the General Preferences pane Dragon Dictate will then automatically load when it starts up the profile you were using when you previously quit the application jeoe Profiles Microphone Dragon Remote Microphone The Profiles window If you see this window at startup choose your profile and click Continue The Status Window The Status window is your control center for Dragon Dictate It floats over the windows of all other applications Here you c
74. ateprofile It is found in the Documents folder in the Finder We do not recommend you move it The first time you use Dragon Dictate there will be no profile and you will be prompted to create one To create a profile Inthe Profiles window click the button The Profile Enrollment process begins Give the profile a name and click Next Then select an audio source give it a name and click Next Choose your Region and Accent in the next two steps clicking Next after each option Choose a place to save your profile and wait while Dragon Dictate creates it You then go through the Microphone Setup and Voice Training processes For a full discussion of the profile creation process see Installation and Making a Profile To delete a profile Select the profile s listing in the Profiles window and click the button You can t do this if there is only one profile You can t delete the active profile To set which profile should be the active profile Select the profile s listing in the Profiles window and click Make Active Double click the profile s listing in the Profiles window Profiles for this version of Dragon Dictate are incompatible with earlier versions of Dragon Dictate Profiles from an earlier version of Dragon Dictate are marked in the Profiles window with a special icon amp You can make such a profile active when you do it is updated for use with this version of Dragon Dictate and will no longe
75. ation Smilies What You Say Result Mode Comments Smiley Face ae Dictation Smiley Frowny Face DM Dictation Frowny Winky Face Winky Dictation Surround the Word What You Say Result Mode Comments Put Quotes Around the Word Selection text Dictation Words X Through Y Put Double Quotes Around the Word Selection Words X Through Y text Dictation Dragon Dictate What You Say Put Quotation Marks Around the Word Selection Words X Through Y Put Single Quotes Around the Word Selection Words X Through Y Put Straight Quotes Around the Word Selection Words X Through Y Put Single Straight Quotes Around the Word Selection Words X Through Y Put Parentheses Around the Word Selection Words X Through Y Put Curly Brackets Around the Word Selection Words X Through Y Put Braces Around the Word Selection Words X Through Y Result text text text text text text text Mode Dictation Dictation Dictation Dictation Dictation Dictation Dictation Comments Punctuation 71 Dragon Dictate What You Say Put Curly Braces Around the Word Selection Words X Through Y Put Square Brackets Around the Word Selection Words X Through Y Put Brackets Around the Word Selection Words X Through Y Put Angle Brackets Around the Word Selection Words X Through Y Put Spanish Exclamation Marks Around the Word Se
76. ay Comment Minimize This or The Window _ Minimizes the active window Minimize All Windows Minimizes all open Finder windows Zoom This or The Window Zooms the active Finder window Cycle Through Windows Cycles through open windows Bring All To Front Brings all Finder windows to the front Finder Help Menu Actions What You Say Comment Access or Show or Display Displays Mac Help in the Apple Help Viewer Mac Help Finder Action Menu Actions What You Say Comment Access or Show Package Shows the contents of the selected package Contents Of Selection Dragon Dictate Commands 122 Finder Button Pressing What You Say Comment Press Cancel Button Press the Cancel Button Click Cancel Press Connect Button Press the Connect Button Press Done Button Press the Done Button Finder Selection What You Say Comment Select Name Of Selection Selects the name of the selected icon Select Next Name Selects the next item alphabetically Select Previous Name Selects the previous named item alphabetically TextEdit Commands These commands are available when TextEdit is frontmost What You Say Comment About This Command Set Displays information about this command set TextEdit Application Menu Actions What You Say Comment About This Application Displays information about TextEdit Access or Show Preferences Window Hide This Application Hides TextEdit Hide Other Applications Hides ot
77. ble to use just a word or two with the command to click the link For example if you are using browser based email and a link on the page says You have new messages in your in box you will likely be able to say Click You to click it However on a web site like Wikipedia where pages can have many links you will prob ably need to use more words Dragon Dictate also offers a simpler way to navigate Dragon Dictate Commands 107 link filled pages with the Show Links command which places a number on each link on the page T a a og X i Portal Portal m i n EREEREER E Say Choose N where N is the number of the LE Tu e link you want to click Say Cancel to dismiss the ees t B EB numbers 3 CHE REUS Rect een e o TREE aad RIA and Browser Based Email You can use Dragon Dictate s browser extensions with Google Gmail Make sure you are logged in before dictating text and using commands Say Click Compose to start a new email You can then dictate text into the body of the email Key Commands Key commands are global commands that let you tell Dragon Dictate to enter a keystroke as if you had typed that keystroke manually Key commands can help you in situations where you might otherwise have to use the keyboard when there is no built in command that lets you say what you want done And even when there is a built in command key commands may be easier to remember for example even if you forget the global command for
78. bols These names are listed also in the Available Commands window and for Dictation mode in the Vocabulary Editor window There are some broad differences between saying a punctuation mark in Dictation mode and saying it in Spelling or Numbers mode In Dictation mode Dragon Dictate will attempt to insert intelligent automatic spacing For example it will probably put a space before open quote and after close quote You may be able to prevent this by switching No Space on But for finest control use Spelling mode In Spelling and Numbers modes on the other hand Dragon Dictate types the symbol and that s all Also Spelling mode has a larger repertory of punctuation marks and of other things you can say to type them such as the names of letters and numbers After you ve dictated text you can go back and add punctuation around a word or group of words with a feature called Surround the Word You can specify a single word selected text or a specific series of words such as and of things you can say to type them For example you can say Put Double Quotes Around the Words open quote or Put Parentheses Around the Words and Through them With Surround the Word you can add quotes double quotes parentheses brackets curly brackets angle brackets braces Spanish exclamation marks and Spanish question marks Spaces What You Say Result Mode Comments Space Bar All three Space character New Line Next Line All three
79. book Twitter Commands You can use Dragon Dictate to post updates to your Facebook and or Twitter account To get started open the Mail Contacts amp Calendar pane in OS X 10 8 or the Inter net Accounts pane in OS X 10 9 in System Preferences and click Twitter and or Face book to log in 15 iCloud Exchange Gmail The Mail Contacts amp Calendars pane in OS X Twitter s 10 8 facebook YAHOO Ant ve with Mall Cortos Calera B iCloud de Exchange Google The Internet Accounts pane in OS X 10 9 Twitter s facebook Linked f YAHOO If you dictate text such as This Is a Test and then speak the command Post That to Facebook a dialog window appears You can continue dictating text before speaking the command Press Share If you don t want to post that text to Facebook say Press Cancel or Click Cancel Dragon Dictate Windows 159 moo This is a test Or you can say Post That to Twitter to bring up the Twitter dialog box Say Press Tweet to send the tweet through your Twitter account or say Press Cancel or Click Cancel to rescind the post The Facebook and Twitter functions also allow you to select part of a piece of text and share or tweet it as shown below You can say Select This Is A Test and then speak a Twitter or Facebook command eoo Untitled j This is a test of the emergency broadcast system This is a test Dragon Dictate Windows 160 You can
80. but also because its spoken form is em dash To empty the search field and stop filtering the list displaying the entire list click the x in the search field or press Esc when the search field has focus If you do a search and no match is found and if you re in the All category Dragon Dictate will offer to add the term to your user vocabulary To add it click Yes You can edit this new vocabulary item later To decline click No Dragon Dictate Windows 165 To edit a vocabulary item Select the item and use the info area at the bottom of the window If the info area is not present click the info button to summon it You can t edit the written form of a vocabulary item You can edit the spoken form of a user vocabulary item but not of a built in vocabulary item you should do this if the item s written form differs from its pronunciation For best results train the item s pronunciation as described below To edit the spoken form of a user vocabulary item Type the spoken form an English spelling equivalent to how the word is pronounced and press Return You should see a dialog warning that any recorded training for this word will be erased Untitled The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog eoo Vocabulary Editor UL The Vocabulary Editor window pee Spoken sane showing a user vocabulary item eC whose spoken form differs from its written form Behind a Note Pad
81. ce on your Mac for a specific word or phrase ex Voice Shortcuts Given the amount of data we store on our Macs and the sheer volume of information available on the Internet odds are you perform frequent searches Dragon Dictate lets you easily scour your Mac or the Internet for what you need You can search in Spotlight or a Finder window s search field on your Mac or you can open a web browser and tell Dragon Dictate to check the Google Yahoo or Bing search engines for a text string You can also open Mail and search your emails both the messages subject headers and content will be included What You Say Search Spotlight or Mac or Computer for text string Search Google or Yahoo or Bing for text string Search Mail for text string Dragon Dictate Commands 104 The Web 100 Commands The Web 100 commands are global commands that take you in your browser to any of a hundred commonly used web sites For example you can say Jump to Bartleby to go to the bartleby com Great Books Online site These commands are enabled as a group if you have checked Enable Web Site Commands in the Command Preferences pane If enabled they will appear in the Available Commands window in the Web 100 subgroup of the Global group Rich Internet Application Extensions When you installed Dragon Dictate the Web Plug In package was installed by default It enables Dragon Dictate to work with the Rich Internet Application Extensions for Safari and Fire
82. click Open The Transcription Training window will open a transcription of the audio will begin appearing and a progress bar at the bottom will let you know when it is done When it s finished you can click anywhere in the text which will cause the phrase to become highlighted with a dialog box pointing at it In that dialog box you can choose to ignore or accept the text with the option to click the triangular play button to hear it played back You can also type in the text box to change the text if it was analyzed incorrectly doing so helps train Dragon Dictate for future transcriptions Dragon Dictate Introduction 21 Notice that as you accept text for transcription training Dragon Dictate keeps track of the 60 seconds of accepted text that it needs to perform the necessary training The text turns green as you accept it the same way the text turns green as you read the initial training story when you set up your profile and when you have accepted enough text the bottom of the training window says You can Train at any time with a Train button to the right You will see the following progress bar after you click the Train button eo00 Transcription Training Calibrating b WR S S S Wo WO r When Dragon Dictate has finished training it begins transcribing the file into a new Note Pad window When transcription has finished a
83. creen mode if possible Exits full screen mode if possible Dragon Dictate Correction Process 81 Correction Process When you need to correct text with Dragon Dictate the software offers you several options for making changes Let s use the following example Untitled _ E o8 The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog You dictate the text The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog PERIOD Recognition Spelling Alternatives Say Choose or Edit and a number 1 dog Dawg mus Note that you click the ear button in the upper right corner to have Dragon Dictate play back how you said the word you want to correct Spell that if you don t see your choice Say That to edit the first option Play that back All caps that Unselect that Say Correct dog The word dog is highlighted and the Recognition window with spell ing alternatives appears Dragon Dictate Correction Process 82 Od Recognition Spelling Alternatives Say Choose or Edit and a number Dawg Dogg You can say cow to enter it next to number one or type the word v Related Commands Spell that if you don t see your choice Say That to edit the first option Play that back All caps that Unselect that You can say Edit with the corresponding number to change the text to that selection When the Recognition window with your spelling alternatives first appears the list under Related Commands
84. ct enter it in the document in place of the alternative that s already there To do so Say Pick 2 or Choose 2 or whatever the actual number at the left of the correct alternative is but most of the time it probably will be 2 Click the numbered button at the left of the correct alternative Dragon Dictate Windows 178 You have now performed recognition training Internally Dragon Dictate will modify its speech model and will save this information into your profile the next time your profile is saved If none of the Recognition window s alternatives is correct you can edit one of the alternatives so that it is correct and then enter the edited correct alternative as in the previous step It doesn t matter which of the alternatives you edit edit whichever is most convenient To edit an alternative Say Edit 1 or whatever the actual number at the left of the desired alternative is Click once to select the alternative pause and then click once inside the text of the alternative The alternative you are editing is now the target for dictation and commands You can edit using Dictation mode or Spelling mode and it is also fine to use your fingers to type in the Recognition window The only standard command that doesn t work is Scratch that instead use Scratch Word To exit editing mode without entering the corrected phrase into your document Say Cancel Edit or click elsewhere
85. ctate Introduction 13 In the next window click the left arrow button at the lower right to return to the previous window if you think there might have been a problem with your microphone and you would like to train it again See Sound Input Troubleshooting for tips on diagnosing sound input problems Otherwise click Voice Training to continue eoq Microphone Setup Finished Your microphone s volume has been adjusted Dragon Dictate has adjusted your microphone sound input level If you re creating a profile click Voice Training to proceed The next step in creating a profile is to do a session of voice training This is where you read aloud a little story so that Dragon Dictate can learn how your voice sounds and how you pronounce your words Click Voice Training to proceed You ll be taken to the Voice Training window Voice Training Voice training is a process where you read aloud a little story It takes place in the Voice Training window Tip This would be a really good time to read the Tips on Speaking section if you haven t done so already Or maybe read it again If your microphone is a headset put it on Position the microphone correctly During voice training Dragon Dictate listens to your speech matching it up with the words of the story In this way Dragon Dictate learns how your voice sounds and how you pronounce your words Voice training is the most important step in creating a profile
86. cts pauses in your speech If you scratch or forget and then change your mind perhaps because Dragon Dictate removed more than you wanted say Undo Dictation Capitalization Spacing and Numbers In Dictation mode you can say commands that apply special rules for capitalization spacing and interpretation of numbers This gives you finer control when Dictation mode s intelligent automatic behavior needs assistance For finest possible control though use Spelling mode Tip Dragon Dictate comes with a large repertory of built in words with correct capitalization and spacing So before using these commands try saying your word or look it up in the Vocabulary Editor window to see what Dragon Dictate does For example Dragon Dictate handles correctly such terms as CD ROM and FreeBSD without your having to worry about spacing hyphenation or capitalization Title Case To capitalize title case the next word Say Cap To type the word cap you may need to switch to Spelling mode and spell it out Dragon Dictate Dictation Mode 45 In the Status window the first indicator light will glow yellow and will read Abc When you say the next word it will be typed capitalized and the indicator light will go out automatically To capitalize title case a series of words you may prefer to turn on title casing say the series of words and turn off title casing To do so Say Caps On In t
87. current window Merges all windows Moves the current tab to a new window Opens the Downloads window Brings all Safari windows to the front Dragon Dictate Commands 134 Safari Help Menu Actions What You Say Comment Display Safari Help Displays Safari s Help file in a new window Access or Show Displays the Acknowledgments document in a new window Acknowledgments Display Installed Plug ins Displays the installed plug ins in a new window Display License Displays the license agreement in a new window Safari Links and Navigation What You Say Comment Create or Create a command Creates a command for this page for this page Jump To This or The Link Takes you to the web page for the selected link Move To Next Link Moves to the next link while in normal view Move To Previous Link Moves to the previous link while in normal view Move To Next Text Field Moves to the next editable text field while in normal view Move To Previous Text Field Moves to the previous editable text field while in normal view Scrolls the page up by a small amount but more than clicking on Scroll Up the scroll bar up arrow Scrolls the page down by a little but more than by clicking the Scroll Down Scroll down arrow Scroll To Top Scrolls to the top of the current page Scroll To Bottom Scrolls to the bottom of the current page Scrolls the page left by a little but more than by clicking the Scroll Left dl dead iE scr
88. d with 17 Consent to Use Of Speech Data The Software has a feature by which you may enable Nuance to collect Speech Data as defined below By turning on the feature to provide Nuance with Speech Data you acknowledge consent and agree that Nuance may collect and use the Speech Data as provided hereunder The parties agree that Speech Data shall only be used by Nuance or third parties acting under the direction of Nuance pursuant to confidentiality agreements to tune enhance and improve the speech recognition and other components of the Software and other Nuance services and products Nuance will not use the information elements in any Speech Data for any purpose except as set forth above Speech Data means the audio files associated transcriptions and log files provided by you hereunder or generated in connection with the Software 18 Export Restrictions The Software is subject to United States export laws and regulations You must comply with all domestic and international export laws and regulations that apply to the Software 19 Country Unique Terms For licenses granted outside of the United States or Canada the following terms are in addition to or replace or modify the referenced terms above All terms above that are not changed by these amendments remain unchanged and in effect 19 1 Governing Law The phrase This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is replaced as follows
89. des Command F9 Command F1 0 Command F1 1 or Command F12 In addition before using F key keyboard shortcuts in Dragon Dictate you should double check your settings in the OS X Keyboard preference pane Dragon Dictate Interface 28 Using the Dragon or Android Remote App as a Microphone You can use your iPhone 3G or later iPod touch 4th generation or later or iPad or Android smartphone as a microphone by downloading the Dragon Remote Microphone app from Apple s App Store or Google Play formerly called the Android Market iOS 4 2 or Android OS 2 2 or higher is required Download and install the app on your device Dragon Dictate will recognize it as a micro phone like any other You can add it to your existing profile by clicking the plus sign next to Dictation under Audio Sources or you can create a new profile and choose it as your microphone enn Click the dropdown next to Microphone and select Dragon Remote Microphone After you have selected the Dragon Remote app as your microphone in Dragon Dictate you need to set it up on your device The iOS app supports Bonjour networking technol ogy from Apple that allows supported devices on a network to see each other you can use that method to quickly and easily set up your iOS device Make sure your device is connected to your home or office network before continuing You can t use the app over a 3G cellular connection If you re in a location such as a coff
90. dialog appears asking if you want to go to the Profiles window to select another profile or audio source transcribe another audio file or edit your transcription results If you decide to open the Profiles window or transcribe another audipo file your transcription results will still be in the open Note Pad window so you can return to work with it further or copy and paste it into another application Dragon Dictate Introduction 22 What do you want to Go ment Vere cat tre rhe anthesin Fie OPH Neher etm inm R peePie wr wef Profs T m in 4 Your audio source is now trained to work with the current profile You can add more transcription audio sources any time through the Profiles window Giving Dragon Access to Your Email Contacts The first time you launch Dragon Dictate a dialog will appear that says Dragon Dictate would like to access your contacts Click OK to allow Dragon to access your email contacts for use with such generated commands as Send an Email To XXX or Create a Note For XXX where XXX is the primary addressee See Generated Commands to learn more Dragon Dictate would like to access n gt your contacts Dragon Dictate needs ac to your contacts so that cess commands can be generated if Commands option is enabled in Preferences y the Generate Email under the Commands Don tAllow ok After clicking OK you still need to check the box next to Generate Email Comm
91. displays Arabic numerals The software also recognizes commands and punctuation in this mode Sleep Mode If Dragon Dictate can interpret your words as one of the commands Wake Up or Turn the Microphone On it returns to one of the four preceding modes Otherwise nothing happens Microphone Off and On To pause your work completely turn the microphone off entirely The implications of turning off the microphone are best understood by contrast with those of Sleep mode The advantage of turning the microphone off as opposed to Sleep mode is that no voice input can be interpreted even accidentally as a command to turn the microphone on All voice input is ignored The disadvantage of turning the microphone off is that you can t turn it on again using your voice you must use your hands Sleep mode on the other hand lets you speak to resume work To turn the microphone off Say Microphone Off Choose Speech gt Microphone Off Choose Microphone Off from the Dock menu Click the microphone icon in the Status window so that it appears with a red stop sign Click the optional status menu item in the menu bar so that it appears with a red stop sign Press the keyboard shortcut for toggling the microphone Tap the icon in the Dragon Remote Microphone app on your iOS or Android device To turn the microphone on when the microphone is off Choose Speech gt Microphone On Dragon Dictate
92. e say the fourth letter of Dvorak The best way to type Dvorak s name with Dragon Dictate would be through a Text Macro command see Commands Window Letter Diacriticals A Acute Circumflex Grave Tilde Umlaut Dieresis Ring C Cedilla E Acute Circumflex Grave Umlaut Dieresis Acute Circumflex Grave Umlaut Dieresis N Tilde Acute Circumflex Grave Tilde Umlaut Dieresis Ring U Acute Circumflex Grave Umlaut Dieresis if Acute Umlaut Dieresis Ligatures and Non Latin Letters You can say the following ligatures and non Latin letters in Spelling mode What You Say Result A E Diphthong A E Ligature Ligature A E ee O Slash Dragon Dictate Spelling Mode 59 What You Say Result O E Diphthong O E Ligature Ligature O E ce Eszet Sharp S German Sharp German Sharp 8 S S Wedge Icelandic Eth 6 Icelandic Thorn b Numerals Numerals are individual digits To type a digit in Spelling mode Say the name of the digit e 9 Zero One etc Or say Numeral followed by the name of the digit e g Numeral Zero Numeral One etc Do not say Number which signifies the hash sign Some numeric symbols are discussed as punctuation see Punctuation Dragon Dictate Punctuation 60 Punctuation In Dictation mode Spelling mode and Numbers mode you can say the names of punctuation marks that Dragon Dictate should type This chapter lists the names of these sym
93. e Menu 185 Edit Menu 187 Speech Menu 187 Tools Menu 188 Format Menu 188 Window Menu 189 Help Menu 190 Dragon Dictate Introduction 1 Introduction Dragon Dictate is a speech recognition application You can use your voice to create content and control your computer It can interpret your words as a command in which case it will obey the command For example you can tell Safari to select a link in the text of a page you re viewing by saying Move to Next Link then you can tell Safari to go to the linked page as if you had clicked that link with the mouse by saying Jump to This Link or Mouse Click It can interpret your words as dictation in which case it will type what you said at the insertion point or selection in the frontmost application For example you can place the insertion point at the start of a new empty word processing document and say Good morning period and Dragon Dictate will type Good morning You can also ask Dragon Dictate to read your words back to you by saying Read Document by selecting text and saying Read Selection or by telling Dragon Dictate to read from one word through another It can transcribe the speech in an audio file and produce a text document containing what was said For example you can speak ideas or notes into a digital audio recorder or smartphone while away from your Mac and transcribe the recording with Dragon Dictate when you return How does Dragon Dictate work It isn t magic or
94. e Voice Profiles under this license Voice Profiles can be stored on one or more computers or on a server to allow the speaker to move from computer to computer and still maintain a consistent dictation experience across computers A separate license however must be purchased for each additional speaker whose Voice Profile or Voice Profiles is or are being used by the Software Licensee may authorize a third party to use the Software in connection with any of Licensee s Voice Profiles solely for the purpose of performing editing or correcting functions for Licensee however such third party must purchase a separate License to create his or her own Voice Profile This license permits the Licensee to install the Software Package on an additional machine to use the Software for the transcription of audio files from many licensed users provided that the Licensee has purchased a license of the Software Package for this purpose This license for the Software Package does not allow Licensee to use the Software as a Run time Engine 2 Nuance s Rights Licensee acknowledges that the Software Package consists of proprietary information and products of Nuance or other third parties protected under United States or other patent copyright or trade secret laws Licensee further acknowledges and agrees that all right title and interest in and to the Software Package and each component thereof are and shall remain with Nuance This Agreement does not convey to
95. e screen Place a barcode inside the viewtinder rectangle to scan it HEAR SL dc Man LL AD LS 2l A Lining up the barcode in the Use a barcode feature After you establish a connection with your Dragon Dictate profile through the Remote Microphone app through any setup method on iOS or Android you will be prompted to confirm that you want to allow it to occur Dragon Dictate Interface 32 gt Do you want to allow a connection from the Dragon Remote Microphone Brad s iPhone Don t Allow Allow Tap Back in the app to return to the main screen If the microphone icon shown in the bottom half of the screen is red tap it to turn it green which means it is active and ready to accept input To turn off the microphone tap the icon to turn it red Dragon Dictate Interface 33 Should you exit the Remote Microphone app or if the connection with your Mac is John Appleseed lost somehow you will see the message to lien Cur cM o Eos cado aT TTE the right Tap the microphone icon in the not connected It must be app to re establish the connection active to use this profile I I More Info Pme Deme E NONE ace You will see the message to the left if the Dragon ease laune ragon Remote Microphone Tap the flame to begin Remote Microphone app has not been launched when you begin voice training a As with any other microphone you set up with Dragon Dictate you will need to c
96. e with your current speech profile The first time you use the Transcription feature you ll need to train a transcription audio source follow the process described in Transcription Training This is similar to the same method the software uses to learn your voice when you first set up a profile and go through voice training After you ve trained a transcription audio source click the Tools menu and select Transcription to produce a new transcript Tools Format Window Help c Profiles Commands 3K Vocabulary Editor TEV Auto Formatting Microphone Setup Voice Training Vocabulary Training r n Vocabulary from Selectior mp In the resulting dialog box select the file you want to use and click Open Transcription Dragon Dictate Mouse Control 101 0 0 0 Open Please choose an audio file that is at least 32 seconds long Supported file types are aif aiff m4a m4v mp4 and wav l gt e Ey m m m amp oseap j a FAVORITES Name D a 3 20120422 154049 m4a Today 3 40 PM E All My Files uL uo ram Select Transcribe in Speech menu Today 3 34 PM Applications smart format rules rtf Today 2 52 PM z Desktop smart formatting rule Today 2 50 PM m Documents smart formatting e correction option Today 2 49 PM o Downloads smart formatting select text Today 2 48 PM acd auto sleep preference Today 2 14 PM Movies windows Vocab Train 2 Today 2 11 PM J Mu
97. eads up display for the selection Shows a slideshow of the selected items Shows the original of the selected alias es Adds the selection to the Sidebar Moves the selected item s to the trash Ejects the selected item Dragon Dictate Commands 118 What You Say Comment Access or Show Burn Disc Window Access or Show Find Window Opens the Find dialog box Allows you to access the Burn Disc window Finder Edit Menu Actions What You Say Comment TEMP PE last action This is the same as pressing Command Cut This or The Selection Cuts the selection to the clipboard Copy This or The Selection Copies the selection to the clipboard Paste From Clipboard Pastes the contents of the clipboard at the insertion point Select All Selects everything Deselect All Deselects everything Access or Show Clipboard Shows the clipboard Display Special Characters i Displays the Special Characters window Window Finder View Menu Actions What You Say Comment View As Icons Switches the view of the current window to Icon view View As List Switches the view of the active window to List view View As Columns Switches the view for the active window to Column view View as Cover Flow Switches the view of the current window to Cover Flow view Clean Up This or The Folder or Cleans up the active window If no window is active then it Window cleans up the desktop Dragon Dictate What You Say Commands 119 Comment
98. ee shop with a public Wi Fi network you can use the Dragon Remote app over an open router that doesn t require a password If the router is secure and requires a pass word which is often the case at places like Starbucks the Dragon Remote app won t work because it will be blocked from connecting with your computer If you re attempt ing to use the Dragon Remote app at work and have trouble contact your network Dragon Dictate Interface 29 administrator for assistance it s possible your workplace network has multiple subnets set up for security reasons in which case you will have difficulty connecting the app and your Mac Setting Up the Dragon Remote App Launch the Dragon Remote app on your device On an iOS device tap the gears icon in the bottom right corner on an Android device tap the Menu button and then tap the gears icon On an iOS device you can tap Find computer to see a list of found Dragon Dictate profiles and computers on your network The easiest way to connect the app with Dragon Dictate is to find the applicable profile and tap it the app should talk to your Mac and establish a link If the list is too long to easily navigate tap in the search field and type in the name of the profile or Mac you re looking for Should you need to manually establish the connection on either an iOS or Android de vice tap Manual Entry and enter the necessary information You can find the com puter s IP address
99. eing trained Usually this will be as soon as you dictate anything Note The Recognition window and voice model training in general operates on dictated utterances Dragon Dictate has its own ideas about what constitutes an utterance based partly on where you paused while dictating Therefore the phrase that is selected when you say Train the Word s or the phrase that appears in the Recognition window and is selected when you summon the Recognition window might be longer or shorter than what you initially specified To close the Recognition window Say Hide Recognition Window Say Cancel Training Say Cancel Recognition Click the close button at the top left of the Recognition window Press the Recognition window keyboard shortcut If Close Recognition Window after each choice is checked in the Recognition Preferences pane the Recognition window will close automatically as soon as you use it to replace a dictated phrase with its correct version Try different Recognition Preferences pane settings and different ways of summoning and closing the Recognition window as you train your dictation You ll soon settle on a favorite way of working which might depend on external factors such as the size of your Screen Dragon Dictate Windows 177 How to Train The Recognition window presents alternative interpretations of the phrase containing the current selection or insertion point in the dictation document The first alterna
100. elling Spelling Comments Dragon Dictate Punctuation 67 What You Say Result Mode Comments Dictation One Quarter Sign v l Spelling Quarter Sign Quarter One Quarter Va Spelling Dictation Three Quarters Sign 34 Spelling Three Quarters 3 4 Spelling Octothorpe What You Say Result Mode Comments Pound Sign Pound Spelling mode Dictation US dialect only only Spelling Number Sign Number Spelling mode Dictation US dialect only only Spelling Hash Sign Hash Spelling mode only Dictation In Dictation mode works Hash Mark Spelling mode only Spelling only in non US dialects i Dictation In Dictation mode works Sharp Sign Sharp Spelling mode only Spelling only in non US dialects Other Common Symbols What You Say Result Mode Comments Ampersand And Sign Ampersand Sign amp Dictation Spelling mode only Spelling Asterisk Star Spelling mode only All three Dictation At Sign At Spelling mode only Spelling Dragon Dictate What You Say Backslash Backquote Backtick Dictation mode only Caret Hat Spelling mode only Copyright Sign Copyright Spelling mode only Degree Sign Degree Spelling mode only Ellipsis Dot Dot Dot Ellipsis Forward Slash Slash Large Center Dot Logical And Logical Or Optional Ess Paragraph Sign Paragraph Spelling mode only Registered Sign Registered Spelling mode only Registered Trademark Si
101. ere is that the source line on the Twitter page will say your app name rather than from web This includes source taken from several other open frameworks listed below Most of the heavy lifting was all done by them just synthesized it into a hopefully easily digestible chunk decided not to do the whole thing as a static library since most developers are already using Matt Gemmell s MGTwitterEngine and there was no reason to duplicate code It adds about 200k to the final size of your project mainly due to the OAuth library Enjoy and please let me know if you have any feedback Ben Gottlieb ben standalone com BGHUDAppkKit BGHUDAppkit Copyright c 2008 Tim Davis BinaryMethod com binary godG gmail com All rights reserved Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documenta tion and or other materials provided with the distribution Dragon Dictate Credits 197 Neither the name of BinaryMethod com nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission THIS SOFTWARE
102. erent types of users Click the one that best suits your needs and click the right arrow to continue 9 0 0 Voice Training The program needs to hear your voice to give you the best recognition results Please choose one of the following stories to read Welcome Easier Reading Instructional Children s Stories Reading for Children Stage Fright Medium Reading Humor Sales E mail Messages Medium Reading Business Click the right arrow to continue The Voice Training window in which you select the story that best suits your needs Dragon Dictate Introduction 15 In the next window the microphone is off as signified by a red stop sign icon and training will not begin until you click the icon moo Voice Training e VN J The Voice Training window ready for ai iil you to start reading a story Click the microphone icon with the red stop sign to begin Lel Here s what s going to happen when you click the microphone icon Dragon Dictate will turn on the microphone the icon will change to a green circle and will present you with a short page of text to read aloud usually just a sentence or two You must read all the text including punctuation because that s what you do when you dictate To help you with this punctuation is printed in capital letters but you don t read it any special voice You should read in fairly brief utterances pausing after each uttera
103. es pane Preferences Summon the Preferences window Services Click Services Preferences to open the Keyboard Shortcuts pane in System Preferences Hide Dictate Hide Others Quit Dictate Those are all self explanatory File Menu New Note Pad Open a new empty Note Pad window New Command Open the Commands window in the same state as if you had pressed the button to start creating a new command Open Summon a standard File Open dialog where you can open an existing rtf file as a Note Pad window Open Recent Open a document recently edited as a Note Pad window Close Close the active window offering a chance to save if necessary Save Save the current Note Pad window as an rtf file or plain text document Duplicate Creates a duplicate of the current Note Pad window To replicate the Save As command that was found in earlier versions of OS X create a duplicate of a Note Pad and enter a new name in the document s title bar and assign it a tag and change Dragon Dictate Menus 186 the file location if you want Or you can choose Save you will be prompted to enter a file name when you save the document You can also hover the cursor next to the file name and click the down arrow that appears a dialog box will pop up and allow you to enter a file name click anywhere in the Note Pad to dismiss it when you re done Rename Save the current Note Pad window under a new name Move To Move the current N
104. ette Speech Menu The menu items of the Speech menu also appear in Dragon Dictate s Dock menu An advantage of the Dock menu is that it works even if Dragon Dictate is not frontmost Dragon Dictate Menus 188 Microphone On Off Toggle the microphone on or off Dictation Switch to Dictation mode If it s checked Dragon Dictate is already in Dictation mode Command Switch to Command mode If it s checked Dragon Dictate is already in Command mode Spelling Switch to Spelling mode If it s checked Dragon Dictate is already in Spelling mode Numbers Switch to Numbers mode If it s checked Dragon Dictate is already in Numbers mode Sleep Wake Up Switch into or out of Sleep mode Tools Menu Profiles Summon the Profiles window Commands Summon the Commands window Vocabulary Editor Summon the Vocabulary Editor window Auto Formatting Summon the Auto Formatting window Microphone Setup Summon the Microphone Setup window Voice Training Summon the Voice Training window Vocabulary Training Summon the Vocabulary Training window Train Vocabulary from Selection Analyze the text selected in the current Note Pad window and then if the text contains unknown words summon the Vocabulary Training window displaying Included and Excluded columns Transcription Open a dialog box where you can open a supported audio file for Dragon Dictate to transcribe to text Format Menu The Format menu items are a subset of
105. fox The first time you launch Safari or Firefox you will be prompted to download and install the extension for that browser follow the prompt in the dialog The extensions are part of Dragon Dictate s Rich Internet Application RIA functionality which lets you dictate text and perform commands in many web pages as well as in Google Gmail When you visit a new web site with RIA active in Safari a dialog will appear W en wikipedia org Do you want to trust the website en wikipedia org to use the Dragon Dictate Web Plugin plug in age which websites you trust to use this plug in in the View history e Tak ou C anas Security pane of Safari preferences nuana o com Never for this Website Trust Not Now From Wicped On RST 5 article needs additional citations for verification Pio heip improvo thes article by adding citaton y bo challenged anc Y0ved June 2008 Nuance Communications 6 a mu mputer software technology corporation headquartered in Burlington Ni Click Trust to always use the Dragon Dictate extension for Safari with that web site If you click Not Now the dialog will reappear the next time you visit that web site If you select Never for this Website the Dragon Dictate extension will be disabled for that website Should you wish to later change which web sites you allow Dragon Dictate to use you can do so by clicking Manage Website Settings in Safari s Security preference Dragon Dictate
106. fter speaking one of these commands issue one of the cache commands documented on previous pages What You Say Comment Mimics the Command C keypress which copies whatever is selected to the Copy Selection m clipboard in most applications Mimics the Command X keypress which cuts whatever is selected to the Cut Selection ZAN clipboard in most applications Paste from Pastes the contents of the clipboard at the insertion point Clipboard Mimics a Command A keypress Specifically this command is intended to Select All select all text within a text document or object or all objects in the frontmost document All spaces are removed before the word immediately after the cursor or left No Leading Space edge of the selection Does not apply to words that have not been dictated yet Use No Space for those Button and Keyboard Pressing What You Say Comment Press Cancel Click Cancel Press the Cancel Button Dragon Dictate What You Say Commands 78 Comment Press Don t Save Click Don t Save Press OK Press Enter Press Return Click OK Click Enter Click Return Press Continue Click Continue Cancel This Operation Save This Document Menus What You Say Press the Don t Save Button Press the OK Button Press the Continue button Cancels the current operation Mimics a Command S keypress This command will save the frontmost document in most applications Comment File
107. g Show Definition For Someword The Dictionary application built into OS X will launch and display the definition of the requested word This command is also available in Command Numbers and Spelling modes Document Search In addition you can search any document for a word or phrase by saying Search Document For Someword or Search Document For Somephrase If you want to just bring up the Find dialog you can simply say Search Document You can insert the word The or This between Search and Document These commands are also available in Command Numbers and Spelling modes Dragon Dictate Spelling Mode 55 Spelling Mode In Spelling mode you can both spell and give commands Dragon Dictate will type individual letters numbers and punctuation that you say unless it recognizes what you say as a command If Dragon Dictate doesn t recognize what you say as a letter number punctuation or command nothing happens Tip Spelling mode enables a slightly different set of punctuation marks from Dictation mode which can be useful Spelling mode is also good for typing words that Dictation mode will misinterpret such as cap or uh It is helpful too when you want to type a word that Dragon Dictate doesn t know or when you want to enter an abbreviation or acronym or URL but Dictation mode also has ways of entering acronyms and if you frequently use a word you should consider adding it to your profile s vocabulary so that you can say
108. ght One Character Access or Show Drafts Mailbox Access or Show In Box 145 Dragon Dictate Commands 146 What You Say Access or Show Out Box Access or Show Sent Mailbox Access or Show Trash Mailbox Messages Commands This command is available when Messages is frontmost What You Say Comment Send Message Sends the message currently being dictated Calendar Commands These commands are available when Calendar is frontmost What You Say About This Command Set Calendar Application Menu Actions What You Say About This Application Access Preferences Window Hide This Application Hide Other Applications Show All Applications Quit This Application Dragon Dictate Calendar File Menu Actions What You Say Make New Event Make New To Do Make New Calendar Make New Calendar Group Show Info Hide Info Access Import Window Access Export Window Close This Window Access Back Up Window Access Restore Window Print This Document Calendar Edit Menu Actions What You Say Undo Last Action Redo Last Action Cut Selection Copy Selection Paste Selection Delete Selection Select All Duplicate Selection Put Focus In Find Field Commands 147 Dragon Dictate Commands What You Say Display Special Characters Palette Calendar Calendar Menu Actions What You Say Access Subscribe Window Publish This Calendar Unpublish This Calendar Access Send Publish Email Window Refresh This Calendar Refresh All Calendar
109. ght away click Trial You can launch Dragon Dictate up to 5 additional times after the initial launch before you must enter a serial number The Trial button keeps track of your remaining launches Dragon Dictate Introduction 5 The Registration dialog Dragon Dictate s installation is now complete but you may need to tell OS X to allow the software to control your Mac as explained in the next section Enabling Accessibility The first time you launch Dragon Dictate you may see a dialog box with one of these messages depending on the version of OS X you re using Dragon Dictate requires Accessibility to be enabled Select Enable access for assistive devices in the You ll see this in OS X 1 0 8 Accessibility preferences More Info Open System Preferences Dragon Dictate Introduction Dragon Dictate requires Accessibility to be enabled Allow Dragon Dictate to control your computer in the Privacy pane of Security amp Privacy preferences You ll see this in OS X 10 9 Moreinfo Open System Preferences _ In OS X 10 8 click Open System Preferences and open the Accessibility pane Click the checkbox next to Enable access for assistive devices as shown Note You will be asked for your administrator password In OS X 10 9 click Quit You will see this dialog box under the first one Click Open System Preferences If you click Deny you will
110. gn Registered Trademark Section Sign Section Spelling mode only Result Mode Dictation Spelling Dictation Spelling Dictation Spelling Dictation Spelling Dictation Spelling Dictation Numbers Spelling All three Dictation Dictation Dictation Dictation Dictation Spelling Dictation Spelling Spelling Dictation Spelling Punctuation 68 Comments Three dots Unicode 8230 true ellipsis mark Unicode 8226 bullet Dragon Dictate Punctuation 69 What You Say Result Mode Comments Dictati Tilde B ICtation Spelling Trademark Sign Trademark Spelling mode Dictation only Spelling Underscore E All three Dictation Vertical Bar Bar Spelling mode only Spelling Rarities What You Say Result Mode Comments Alternate Comma Spelling Unicode 8218 lowered single quote Angstrom a Spelling Broken Vertical Bar i Spelling Dagger T Spelling Single Dagger Sign T Dictation Double Comma e Unicode 8222 lowered double quote Spelling Double Dagger F Spelling Double Dagger Sign I Dictation Feminine Ordinal j Spelling Feminine Ordinal Sign d Dictation Macron Sign Macron Dictation Spelling mode only Spelling Masculine Ordinal i Spelling Greek Mu ji Dictation Spelling Dragon Dictate Punctuation 70 What You Say Result Mode Comments Micro V Spelling Micron Micro Sign u Dictation Per Thousand Permille o Spelling Permille Sign Yo Dict
111. gon Dictate Stressing your words or speaking expressively is apt to alter your pronunciation and mislead the speech recognition engine Pause Dragon Dictate hears and thinks in utterances which are stretches of speech with pauses in between When you say Scratch That Dragon Dictate deletes the previous utterance The Recognition window displays complete utterances Utterances can be phrases or even complete sentences Since Dragon Dictate thinks in utterances you should speak in utterances Pause fairly often Speak clearly Don t mumble Imagine you re speaking over a radio connection from the International Space Station that the signal is undependable and static prone and that you re calmly explaining to a disbelieving ground crew at Houston that a large green alien monster is trying to break in Clarity is key Speak naturally Speak clearly but soeak calmly and naturally Don t over emphasize any sounds Don t over emphasize the divisions between words Don t pronounce fat cat as ffatt uh catt uh run words and sounds together in a linguistically natural way Don t pronounce the as thee or a as aye unless Dragon Dictate Tips on Speaking 192 that s how you actually speak Dragon Dictate needs to hear sounds and words in their natural linguistic context Speak in utterances but make each utterance natural and smooth Dictate don t talk Talking and dictating are differe
112. gon Dictate Commands What You Say Access or Show Add Hyperlink Window Include Original Attachments in Reply Exclude Original Attachments in Reply Access Find Window Find In Selected Mailboxes Use Selection for Find Find Next Find Previous Jump to Selection Access or Show Spelling Window Check Spelling Turn Check Spelling As You Type Off Turn Check Spelling As You Type On Turn Check Spelling When You Click Send On Access or Show Special Characters Window Mail View Menu Actions What You Say Show Attachments Column Show Buddy Availability Column Show Date Received Column Show Date Sent Column Show Flags Column 137 Dragon Dictate Commands 138 What You Say Show From Column Show Mailbox Column Show Number Column Show Size Column Show To Column Hide Attachments Column Hide Buddy Availability Column Hide Date Received Column Hide Date Sent Column Hide Flags Column Hide From Column Hide Mailbox Column Hide Number Column Hide Size Column Hide To Column Sort By Attachments Sort By Buddy Availability Sort By Color Sort By Date Received Sort By Date Sent Sort By Flags Sort By From Sort By Mailbox Sort By Message Status Dragon Dictate Commands What You Say Sort By Number Sort By Size Sort By Subject Sort By To Turn Organize by Thread Off Turn Organize by Thread On Collapse All Threads Collapse This or The Thread Expand All Threads Expand This Thread Hide B C C Address Field
113. gs all non minimized TextEdit windows to the front Minimizes the active window Minimizes all TextEdit windows Zooms the front most window Dragon Dictate Commands 128 TextEdit Help Menu Actions What You Say Comment Display Help Displays Help about TextEdit Safari Commands These commands are available when Safari is frontmost What You Say Comment About This or The Command Set Opens a dialog box describing this command set Safari Application Menu Actions What You Say Comment About This or The Application Displays information about Safari Access or Show Preferences Access Preferences window Window Turn Private Browsing Off Turns off the Private Browsing feature in Safari Turn Private Browsing On Turns on the Private Browsing feature in Safari Reset Safari Allows you to completely reset Safari Hide This or The Application Hides Safari Hide Other Applications Hide Other Applications Show All Applications Shows all applications Quit This or The Application Quits Safari Dragon Dictate Safari File Menu Actions What You Say Commands 129 Comment Make or Create New Browser Window Make or Create A New Tab Access or Show Open File Window Access or Show Open Location Window Close This or The Window Close All Windows Close This or The Tab Hide or Close Other Tabs Access or Show Save As Window Mail Contents Of This or The Page Mail Link To This or The Page Open
114. h Spelling Off Undoes the last action This is the same as pressing Command Z undo Redoes the last action Cut Selection Copy Selection Paste the contents of the clipboard at the insertion point Deletes the selection Selects everything AutoFills the Current Form Puts the cursor in the Search field Opens the Find window Finds the next instance of the Find string Finds the previous occurrence of the Find string Hides the Find Banner Uses the current selection as the Find string Jumps to the selection in the current window Allows you to check the spelling and grammar of the active document Turns off the Check Spelling While Typing feature Turns on the Check Spelling While Typing feature Turns off the Check Grammar with Spelling feature Dragon Dictate Commands 131 What You Say Comment Turn Check Grammar With Spelling On Show Special Characters Window Displays the Special Characters palette Turns on the Check Grammar with Spelling feature Safari View Menu Actions What You Say Comment Show Bookmarks Bar Shows the Bookmarks Bar Hide or Close Bookmarks Bar Hides the Bookmarks Bar Show Status Bar Shows the Status Bar Hide or Close Status Bar Hides the Status Bar Access or Show Tab Bar Shows the Tab Bar Hide or Close Tab Bar Hides the tab bar Access or Show Toolbar Shows the Toolbar Hide or Close Toolbar Hides the Toolbar Access Customize Toolbar Window Opens the Customi
115. he Commands window is an AppleScript script editing environment you can compile and run a script and view its result toggle between the Source and Result buttons above the editing environment Many built in Dragon Dictate commands are AppleScript commands Even commands directed at Dragon Dictate itself such as Dictation Mode are AppleScript commands Dragon Dictate is itself scriptable with AppleScript Application The command launches a specified application Dragon Dictate can generate launch commands for all your applications see Generated Commands but if you didn t want to activate that option an Application command would be useful for launching a particular frequently used application Bookmark The command jumps to a URL in your default browser The Web 100 commands are Bookmark commands see The Web 100 Commands Listed in the command list as a URL type File or Folder The command opens a specified file or folder in the Finder and activates the Finder Listed in the command list as an Alias type Menu Item The command chooses a menu item specified by menu and menu item name A Menu Item command must be created and edited in a specific application context though it may later be changed to Global context if desired Shell Script The command executes a shell script The Shell Script text field in the Commands window is a script editing environment The script should begin with a shebang line e g bin sh
116. he Status window the first indicator light will glow green and will read Abc Say the series of words which will be typed capitalized Finally say Caps Off The indicator light will go out Uppercase To uppercase all caps the next word Say All Caps In the Status window the first indicator light will glow yellow and will read ABC When you say the next word it will be tyoed uppercased and the indicator light will go out automatically To uppercase all caps a series of words you may prefer to turn on uppercasing say the series of words and turn off uppercasing To do so Say All Caps On In the Status window the first indicator light will glow green and will read ABC Say the series of words which will be typed uppercased Finally say All Caps Off The indicator light will go out Lowercase To lowercase no caps the next word Say No Caps In the Status window the first indicator light will glow yellow and will read abc When you say the next word it will be typed lowercased and the indicator light will go out automatically Dragon Dictate Dictation Mode 46 To lowercase no caps a series of words you may prefer to turn on lowercasing say the series of words and turn off lowercasing To do so Say No Caps On In the Status window the first indicator light will glow green and will read abc Say the series of words which will be typed lowercased Finally say No Caps
117. he clipboard Copies the selection to the clipboard Pastes the contents of the clipboard at the insertion point Matches the style at the insertion point when pasting the con tents of the clipboard Deletes the selection Selects everything Opens the Find window Finds the next occurrence of the current find string Opens the Find window and searches for the specified word or phrase Dragon Dictate What You Say Commands 114 Comment Search Again Find Previous Use Selection For Find Jump to Selection Toggle This or The Spelling and Grammar Window Check Spelling Access or Show Special Characters Window Repeats the previously performed search Finds the previous occurrence of the current find string Uses the current selection for the find string Jumps to the currently selected find string Shows the Spelling and Grammar window Speak this com mand again to hide it Check the spelling of the current Note Pad document Displays the Special Characters palette Dragon Dictate Tools Menu Actions What You Say Comment Access or Show This or The Profiles Window Access or Show Commands Window Access or Show Vocabulary Editor Window Access or Show This or The Microphone Setup Window Access or Show Voice Training Window Access or Show Vocabulary Training Window Opens the Profiles window Opens the Commands window Opens the Vocabulary Editor window Opens the Microphone Se
118. her applications Opens the Preferences window Dragon Dictate What You Say Commands 123 Comment Show All Applications Quit This or The Application TextEdit File Menu Actions What You Say Shows all applications Quits TextEdit Comment Make or Create A New Document Open A Document Clear Recent Menu Close All Windows Close This or The Window Save This or The Document Save All Documents Access or Show Save As Window Revert To Last Saved Version Show Properties Window Hide Properties Window Access or Show Page Setup Window Print This or The Document Makes a new document Allows you to open an existing document Clears the recent menu Closes all TextEdit windows Closes the active window Saves the active document Saves all the documents Opens the Save As dialog box Reverts to the last saved version of the current document Shows the Properties window Hides the Properties window Opens the Page Setup window Prints the active document Dragon Dictate TextEdit Edit Menu Actions What You Say Commands 124 Comment Undo Last Action Redo Last Action Copy This or The Selection Cut This or The Selection Paste From Clipboard Paste And Match Style Delete This or The Selection Complete This or The Selection Select All Insert Line Break Insert Page Break Insert Paragraph Break Access or Show Find Window Find Next Find Previous Use Selection for F
119. hese Dragon Dictate will perform intelligent automatic spacing and capitalization But if you do need finer control over capitalization and spacing you have it See Capitalization Spacing and Numbers To insert a space say Space Bar Dragon Dictate Dictation Mode 41 In many cases it will be simpler to let Dragon Dictate perform its automatic capitalization right or wrong and then correct it after the fact with the capitalization editing commands discussed below Punctuation Unlike spacing and capitalization you must explicitly dictate any desired punctuation Dragon Dictate doesn t try to insert punctuation intelligently based on grammar tone of voice or anything like that Unlike Spelling mode Dictation mode does incorporate punctuation into its intelligent automatic spacing For names of punctuation marks see Punctuation You can also add punctuation after dictating with the Surround the Word feature which is also detailed in the Punctuation section Names of letters etter names may be used to type a word consisting of a letter or for dictating an acronym but you should not use letter names in Dictation mode as a substitute for Spelling mode For example to type An a z of animals say An alpha hyphen zulu of animals Even this approach is not entirely reliable as Dragon Dictate must allow for the possibility that aloha means alpha Spelling mode gets better results See Letter Names in Dictation Mode Commands Al
120. hile Dragon Dictate Introduction 18 though speaking and dictating refining the way you speak and improving recognition through Recognition Training Most users do not find it necessary to do any Voice Training beyond the first story When analysis of your reading is complete the Voice Training window presents a final dialog Click Tutorial to proceed epo Voice Training Congratulations your profile is ready for use D E A O E Se d Analysis of your reading is complete We encourage you to explore the Help and Tools menus as well as Click Tutorial to proceed or click Dragon s many options the personalizing the vocabulary or What s new in Dictate 3 5 links to learn more For details about this version including Smart Format Rules please see What s new in Dictate 3 5 If you have just completed the first Voice Training of your first profile Dragon Dictate presents the Welcome screen of the Interactive Tutorial This tutorial walks you through the features you need to be aware of before you begin using the software for the first time It includes some simple hands on exercises Gprason RAS Welcome to the Interactive Tutorial These step by step lessons include simulations that focus to dicta on what everyone should know in order tate and edit text efficiently Please take this opportunity to quickly learn essential tips and practice habits that will get you the best results The Welcome to the
121. hty Apostophe Ess the 1980 s Seven Forty Five AM 7 45 AM Three Colon Zero Zero 3 00 Letter Names in Dictation Mode These are the names of letters that you can say in Dictation mode Consider using Spelling mode instead though as it is more reliable because Spelling mode knows Dragon Dictate Dictation Mode 51 that you are probably saying the name of a letter and has a wider range of things you can say Letters In Dictation mode an individual letter as opposed to known acronyms and abbreviations must be entered using the International Radio Alphabet This is intended primarily for when the letter name is itself a word An initial a capital letter followed by a period may be entered by saying Capital or Uppercase followed by the name of the letter For example to dictate L M Montgomery you can say Capital L Period Uppercase M Period Montgomery An acronym a series of capital letters without any spaces or periods in between may be entered using successive initials Thus for example to dictate HAL 9000 you can say Capital H Capital A Capital L Nine Thousand Here are the International Radio Alphabet letter names What You Say Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliet Kilo Lima Dragon Dictate Dictation Mode 52 What You Say Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu Diacritical Letters A diacritical letter
122. ice This is not applicable if you are using the Dragon Remote Microphone app Speak into the microphone The input level indicator should respond to your voice If it does not and you are using a USB microphone try unplugging it or the adapter from the USB port and plugging it back in again Remember most USB microphones must be plugged directly into your computer not into a USB hub Also check to see whether your microphone has a Mute switch and make sure it is not engaged f you are using a Bluetooth microphone you can try resetting or restarting it if such an option is available You should also check the batteries and see if you need new ones If things appear to be working try Dragon Dictate again Choose Tools Microphone Setup and go through the microphone setup procedure see Microphone Setup earlier You should now be able to use Dragon Dictate If things do not appear to be working suspect the microphone If possible try using the microphone with a different computer and running the same tests there to confirm this If you have a Bluetooth microphone try using it with another device such as a smartphone to ensure it is working Dragon Dictate What s Installed Where 194 What s Installed Where In case you re wondering where all the pieces of Dragon Dictate live on your hard disk or if perhaps for some reason you d like to uninstall it here s a list of the pieces and where they live and how big they are
123. ictate is in whether you re using a capitalization spacing or numeral command what profile is currently active what the current dictation context is that is where Dragon Dictate would type your dictation at this moment and optionally to see how Dragon Dictate interprets what you have said Dragon Dictate Windows 172 The Status window Top Current profile Middle left to right microphone button sound input level mode button bring to front button Recognition window button Under the last three buttons are indicators for Caps No Space and Numeral Bottom Current dictation context Underneath Last utterance optional New Profile im 3 E 2i To show or hide the Status window Say Show Status Window or Hide Status Window Choose Window gt Show Hide Status Window Choose Show Hide Status Window from the Dock menu To set whether the Status window is visible when Dragon starts up n the General Preferences pane check or uncheck Show Status Window at Startup To change the Status window s transparency Use the slider in the Appearance Preferences pane To set whether the Status window displays your speech as it is recognized Inthe General Preferences pane check or uncheck Show Recognized Text To toggle the microphone on or off Click the microphone button The microphone button s icon indicates the microphone s status Green circle The microph
124. igation What You Say Shows the Status window for Dragon Dictate Hides the Status window for Dragon Dictate Shows the Available Commands window for Dragon Dictate Hides the Available Commands window for Dragon Dictate Displays the Recognition window containing alternatives for the current selection or the utterance to the left of the cur Sor Makes Dictate the frontmost application Opens and activates the Express Editor Closes the Express Editor preserving its contents in the process Transfers text from the Express Editor to the frontmost ap plication as indicated in the Express Editor s title bar Comment Go To Beginning Move To Beginning Of Document Go To End Move To End Of Document Go Back Moves the cursor to the first position in the document Positions to the beginning of the document Moves the cursor to the last position in the document Positions to the end of the document Returns the cursor to the last position it occupied Dragon Dictate Commands 77 What You Say Comment E Moves the cursor to the next field by sending a tab and Next Field purges the cache Moves the cursor to the previous field by sending a shift tab Previous Field and purges the cache Copy and Paste Outside of a Note Pad window that is in an application other than Dragon Dictate these commands are the same as if you had used your hands If you have a problem with Dictation mode navigation commands a
125. ile Enrollment process Give your new profile a name and click Next The next step in the Profile Enrollment process involves choosing and naming your audio Source Click the dropdown next to Microphone to select an audio source then enter a name in the field below If you want to see the microphones connected to your Mac click Sound Input Preferences which will open the Sound pane in OS X System Preferences Dragon Dictate Introduction 9 You can also click the radio button next to Transcription and enter the name of the device that you will use for recorded speech files such as a smartphone or digital voice recorder When you do so you will skip microphone setup and voice training and train an audio source for transcription At a minimum you must enter a name for your audio source before you can click Next and continue If you don t have an audio source or an iOS or Android device that you can use with the Dragon Remote Microphone app you can use your Mac s internal microphone If you want to use another audio source later you can simply add it to your profile by clicking the plus sign next to Dictation under Audio Sources in the Profiles window You would name the audio source click Continue and follow the process explained in Microphone Setup When setting up a profile for the first time continue with Region and Accent Choose from the United States the United Kingdom Australia Canada India New Zealand
126. ill open You ll see an icon named Install Dragon Dictate in the window double click it to begin the installation process The Dragon Dictate Installer will walk you through the process Click Continue to advance to the next step or Go Back to return to the previous one Dragon Dictate Introduction When you arrive at the Installation Type step we recommend that you use the standard installation although you can click the Customize button to determine which elements you want to install If you decide to stay with the standard installation after all click Standard Install to return to it jeoe Install Dragon Dictate a Custom Install on Air ickage Name Custom install allows you to opt out of the Web Plug Ins See Rich Internet Application Extensions later in this manual After you click Install the installation process will begin you will need to enter your administrator password to give the installer access to place files on your Mac When the installation process finishes go to the Finder click on Applications on the left side of the window and find Dragon Dictate Double click it to launch the software After you click Accept in the License Agreement window Dragon Dictate asks for the serial number you received when you purchased the software You can copy it Command C from its source click in the first field next to Serial Number and paste it Command V without having to retype it If you can t enter it ri
127. ind Jump to Selection Access or Show Select Line Window Show or Display Spelling And Grammar Window Undoes the last action This is the same as pressing Com mand Z undo Redoes the last action Copies the selection to the clipboard Cuts the selection to the clipboard Pastes the contents of the clipboard at the insertion point Matches the style at the insertion point when pasting the contents of the clipboard Deletes the selection Auto completes the selection Selects everything Inserts a line break at the insertion point Inserts a Page Break at the insertion point Inserts a Paragraph Break at the insertion point Opens the Find dialog box Finds the next occurrence of the find string Finds the previous occurrence of the find string Uses the selection for the find string Jumps to the selection Opens the Select Line window Shows the Spelling and Grammar window Dragon Dictate What You Say Commands 125 Comment Hide Spelling And Grammar Window Check Spelling And Grammar Of This or The Document Turn Check Spelling While Typing Off Turn Check Spelling While Typing On Turn Check Grammar With Spelling Off Turn Check Grammar With Spelling On Turn Substitutions Smart Copy And Paste Off Turn Smart Copy And Paste On Turn Smart Links Off Turn Smart Links On Turn Smart Quotes Off Turn Smart Quotes On Display Special Characters Window TextEdit Format Menu Actions What
128. ion such as a new TextEdit document Then open the Express Editor window which looks like this TextEdit Transfer Note that the Express Editor s title bar which application it relates to so you know where the dictated text will appear when you transfer it If you switch to another application while the Express Editor window is open its name will appear in the title bar The Transfer Window after text has been entered Dragon Dictate Express Editor Window 93 TextEdit The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog Why did the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog Transfer To transfer text to the frontmost application click the Transfer button or speak the command Transfer The Express Editor window automatically closes after you transfer text from it to the frontmost application You can also close the Express Editor by saying Close or Hide Express Editor or by clicking the X in the upper left corner Any text still in the Express Editor window when you close it will be preserved and will reappear the next time you open it If the Express Editor window is open when you quit Dragon Dictate it will reopen the next time you launch the software Dragon Dictate Proofreading 94 Proofreading Dragon Dictate can read text back to you whether you want to hear a specific selection or an entire document Hearing your text can help you catch mistakes especially ones that a spelling or grammar checker might miss and it
129. is a letter with a marking above or below it Spelling mode has a wider repertory of diacritical letters and is recommended The following phrases all involving the International Radio Alphabet enter diacritical letters in Dictation mode What You Say Result Alpha Accent Acute a Alpha Accent Circumflex a Alpha Accent Grave a Alpha Accent Tilde Alpha Tilde a Dragon Dictate What You Say Alpha Accent Umlaut Alpha Ring Above Charlie Accent Cedilla Echo Accent Acute Echo Accent Circumflex Echo Accent Grave Echo Accent Umlaut India Accent Acute India Accent Circumflex India Accent Grave India Accent Umlaut November Accent Tilde Oscar Accent Acute Oscar Accent Circumflex Oscar Accent Grave Oscar Accent Tilde Oscar Accent Umlaut Oscar Oblique Stroke Uniform Accent Acute Uniform Accent Circumflex Uniform Accent Grave Uniform Accent Umlaut Yankee Accent Acute Yankee Accent Umlaut Result 0 M Qo O a EE S EE o Row D O O GQ o C EM lt pe Co ie Dictation Mode 53 Dragon Dictate Dictation Mode 54 Ligatures and Non Latin Letters You can say the following ligatures and non Latin letters in Dictation mode What You Say Result A E Diphthong A E Ligature O E Diphthong O E Ligature Eszet German Sharp S S With Caron Icelandic Eth Icelandic Thorn gt 8 8 O a ox Dictionary Definition You can ask Dragon Dictate to find the dictionary definition for any word by sayin
130. is not visible click the arrow to reveal them The Related Commands list gives you Suggestions for commands you can say if for example the word you want to change dog to does not appear Let s say you want to change it to cow Speak Edit number one and the first option becomes editable Say cow and it replaces dog next to option one Dragon Dictate Correction Process 83 Then say Choose one and cow will replace dog in your text jeoo Untitled x The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy cow Note that depending on the type of change you make Dragon Dictate may display the Smart Format Rules window afterward A Smart Format Rule allows you to tell the soft ware how to always handle certain corrections such as specific ways to write numbers titles and so forth See Smart Formatting Rules in the Auto Formatting section to learn more Dragon Dictate Auto Formatting 84 Auto Formatting You can tell Dragon Dictate to automatically format addresses dates and times numbers common abbreviations and contractions and the number of spaces after a period Click on Auto Formatting in the Tools menu to bring up the Auto Formatting window which offers several options The windows to the right show you what will be displayed when a formatting option is checkmarked x Street addresses UK and Canadian postcodes M Web and email addresses name nuance com iM Phone numbers 800 555 1212 Abbreviated titles Mister Dr
131. ith a story 1 Click the right arrow at the lower right The stories are listed stories that you have not trained for this profile are unmarked Dragon Dictate Windows 169 2 Select a story and click the right arrow again 3 When you re ready to begin click the microphone button at the lower left Read the story aloud As you read aloud passages that have been recognized will turn green If passages turn red try again or click Skip Word When you first start to train a profile you will need to read quite slowly in very short distinct phrases but smoothly and naturally waiting each time for the display of green text to catch up with you After three or four pages of text however you will be able to read at a considerably more normal speed and in larger phrases When you ve reached the end of the story or when Dragon Dictate has heard enough the window will change to indicate that your training is being processed into the voice model You must train the voice model with at least one story prior to using a new profile After that further training is optional Reading additional stories there are three of them might improve Dragon Dictate s accuracy in recognizing what you say but in many cases the recognition engine will prove to be remarkably accurate after you have read just one story For a complete description of the voice training process see Voice Training Vocabulary Training Window The Vocabulary Tr
132. ith the mouse grid on the screen speak the number you want to focus on A new three by three grid will appear in that spot You can repeat the process but when the desired area becomes too small to display a grid you will see a magnifica tion window Say Small MouseGrid or Open Small MouseGrid to start the process with a small mouse grid centered around the pointer s current location You can speak Small MouseGrid to summon the small grid at the mouse pointer s current location the mouse will be located in grid panel 5 Say Cancel to remove the grid 285 4pi hse TT T T Ay Menes 3 pp eoo 5 ex Ts Fr A Cone S Aliso B T T F av Slo Ej a Slo pt Te A English USA 7 MEM Dragon Dictate Medical User M L l i B4 ul F Na Lk 4 az 9e us lel 3 2 j 2 age avers m E conntectio m remote app png sd C auto formatting window png PARAGRAPH a se em EX Unk Info lt gt con a a EE swarcuts x Xi d to correct text w Everall cal 4 ing changes Let s use the following example ud E ragon Dictate al T Mouse Control Bl fou dictate 4 c I rown fox ji amp y Mouse Control log PERIO a 3 m 1 ragon Dictate Medical allows you to move your cursor in Command mode You m i an simply move your cursor by issui
133. l global key generated and application based commands are available Recognition training commands You can train the voice model and correct recognition errors with these Dictation mode commands Train Someword Train Someword Through Otherword Train Someword to Otherword The words or the utterance containing them are selected and the Recognition window opens See Recognition Window When the Recognition window is open additional Recognition window commands are available Navigation and editing commands These are Dictation mode commands listed in the next section designed for basic text navigation and editing to correct your own errors to modify what you dictated or to fix capitalization If what you dictated was not correctly recognized by Dragon Dictate it is better to use the Recognition window See Recognition Window Dragon Dictate Dictation Mode 42 Navigation and Editing Commands You can move the insertion point with these commands Move Backward s NN Word s Move Forward s NN Word s where NN is a number up to 99 You can place the insertion point with these commands Insert Before Someword Insert Before Someword Through Otherword Insert Before Someword to Otherword Insert After Someword Insert After Someword Through Otherword Insert After Someword to Otherword Insert Next
134. lection Words X Through Y Put Spanish Question Marks Around the Word Selection Words X Through Y Result text text text lt text gt itext text Mode Dictation Dictation Dictation Dictation Dictation Dictation Comments Punctuation 72 Dragon Dictate Commands 73 Commands To learn what commands are available at any moment use the Available Commands window See Available Commands Window Commands may be edited modified created activated and deactivated and deleted in the Commands window See Commands Window Commands come in six categories Mode based commands Individual modes may have commands built into them For example Capitalize the Word Valley is something you can say in Dictation mode only For more information see the discussion of each mode Window based commands Some commands become available only when a certain window is open For example Pick 2 to insert the second alternative from the Recognition window into your document is available only when the Recognition window is open See Recognition Window Global commands Some commands are global meaning that they are always available except in Sleep mode See Global Commands Key commands Key commands are global commands that let you say the names of keyboard keys or modifier key combinations for Dragon Dictate to type See Key Commands Generated commands Dragon Dictate
135. license or otherwise transfer reference is made to section 19 3 below to Licensee to install and use one 1 copy of the Software contained on the provided installation media on a single computer running a validly licensed operating system and to use in connection with such Software the rest of the Software Package by one 1 Licensee located at one 1 physical address This license expressly prohibits the use of Software Package on any portable machine or machine that is not licensed to the same Licensee Licensee is permitted to create and use multiple Voice Profiles under this license A single license for the Software Package does not allow Licensee to use the Software Package on a server This license for the Software Package does not allow Licensee to use the Software as a Run time Engine 1 c Grant of License For Professional and Legal Editions of the Software Nuance grants a non exclusive license without the right to sublicense or otherwise transfer reference is made to section 19 3 below to Licensee and Licensee s employees who agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this License provided Licensee has entered into a Nuance volume license agreement to install and use the Software contained on the provided installation media on multiple computers running validly licensed operating systems and to use in connection with such Software the rest of the Software Package A licensed speaker is permitted to create and use multipl
136. mands They are Wake Up Turn the Microphone On Anything else you say will be ignored This allows you to pause your work and have Dragon Dictate ignore microphone input until you are ready to resume work Dragon Dictate Modes and the Microphone 38 To enter Sleep mode Say Sleep Mode or Go to Sleep Choose from the Status window mode menu The mode menu appears when you click the mode button in the Status window Choose from the Speech menu Choose from the Dock menu Choose an Auto Sleep setting in the Recognition pane in the Preferences window To learn whether you are in Sleep mode Look at the Status window Its mode button shows the Sleep icon and the microphone appears with a blue sleep balloon with a crescent moon Look at the Dock icon for Dragon Dictate Alternatively use Command Tab to display the application switcher If you have chosen the option to badge the Dock icon to display the microphone status it appears with a crescent moon Look at the optional status menu item It appears with a crescent moon Look in the Speech menu The fifth mode menu item says Wake Up Look in the Dock menu It contains menu items that work just like the Soeech menu When in Sleep mode you can resume work by doing any of the following Say Wake Up or Turn the Microphone On Choose Speech gt Microphone On or Speech gt Wake Up Choose Microphone On or Wake Up from the Dock menu Click the microphone
137. ment is completed the window will say Finished and the last few seconds of your speech will be played back To adjust the sound input level manually Check Manual Gain Setting and slide the slider while speaking until the typical gain displayed in the thermometer next to the microphone button maxes out at the top of the green area For a complete description of the microphone setup process see Microphone Setup Voice Training Window The Voice Training window is where you read aloud a little story so that Dragon Dictate can train the active profile s voice model to recognize your speech To summon the Voice Training window Choose Tools Voice Training The Voice Training window will also appear automatically as part of the sequence of events when you create a new profile Le oo Voice Training Voice Training helps Dragon Dictate adapt to the way you speak During this process you will be asked to read a story including punctuation This should take you five minutes or less The training process will stop when enough speech has been collected usually before you reach the end of the story The Voice Training window before emper estelar ei reading a story To proceed click the start with the next word s i right arrow button at lower right of the The progress bar on the panel will show how far along you are in the story wi ndow Click the right arrow to continue 2 gt To train w
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139. n now If your microphone is a headset put it on Position the microphone correctly Dragon Dictate next presents a dialog describing the proper positioning of your micro phone Position the microphone as shown A checkbox lets you skip this dialog in the future but don t ignore the advice in this dialog The microphone should be near your mouth but not too close and it should be slightly off to one side so that puffs of breath either from breathing or from articulation are not interpreted as speech You should Dragon Dictate Introduction 11 position the microphone correctly and you should attempt to recreate its position each time you use Dragon Dictate Click OK when you re ready to proceed looo Profiles j Connecting a Microphone to your Macintosh A Nuance approved microphone for Mac is required in order to achieve the best accuracy and receive technical support If your microphone has analog connectors plug them into the appropriate receptacles in a USB audio adapter and then plug the adapter into an open USB port on your computer Positioning Headset Microphones Dragon Dictate shows you the correct microphone position Read it do what it says and click OK Na directly in front of your mouth U Place it off to the side about a P Lx thumb s width away from the corner of your mouth Make sure the correct side the side with the 1 Do not place the microphone 2 M AEN C word talk or a dot is facing y
140. n of what you just said will be played back Listen for any problems such as too much background noise or 1 i 1 y Binion will adjust your microphone s sound If you reach the end of this text please continue reading from the beginning input level Read the paragraph of text aloud Speak slowly naturally clearly and continuously but do not worry about enunciation because Dragon Dictate is not listening to your words what s important is how loudly you speak Try to speak at a natural consistent loudness representative of how you will normally speak to Dragon Dictate in your current environment As you speak the level indicator to the right of the microphone icon shows your sound input level a combination of how loudly you speak and how Dragon Dictate has adjusted the microphone sound input level and the horizontal gain indicator slider moves left and right as Dragon Dictate experiments with different sound input levels When Dragon Dictate has heard enough and has set your microphone sound input level optimally it will turn off the microphone and switch away from this window automatically If you reach the end of the paragraph before that happens start reading aloud from the beginning again Note To use the Manual Gain Setting click the Microphone icon and slowly slide the slider to the right while speaking until you see the window that says Finished Dictate will play back the last few seconds of your speech Dragon Di
141. n our website PERIOD The first page of the Voice Trai ning By end of April COMMA I plan to send you new videos COMMA as well as updated versions of the User Guide and Administrator APOSTROPHE S story for a new profile This is the Guide PERIOD sales oriented training story The first few words have been read and have turned green As your reading of the story proceeds Dragon Dictate turns the page for you Progress from page to page is shown by the horizontal progress indicator above the text If you need to pause at any time to clear your throat get a drink of water sneeze stretch whatever click the microphone icon to turn it to a red stop sign when you re ready to proceed click it again to turn it into a green circle once again and carry on reading Dragon Dictate Ao Voice Training inni TT Skip Word iw Another challenge is how to distinguish between two or more phrases that sound alike PERIOD People use common sense and context DASH knowledge of the topic being talked about DASH to decide whether a speaker said OPEN QUOTE ice cream CLOSE QUOTE or OPEN QUOTE scream PERIOD CLOSE QUOTE gt ju Introduction 17 A page late in the first Voice Training story You can tell the story is nearly finished because the green horizontal progress indicator is nearly full Notice the level of the sound gain indicator at the right of the microphone icon this is about the level where
142. nce Dragon Dictate signifies its understanding by turning each utterance green When you reach the end of the page all text has turned green Dragon Dictate automatically turns the page for you If Dragon Dictate has trouble with what you said it turns the current utterance red If this happens you need to read the red text again If Dragon Dictate still doesn t understand the same text remains red you can click Skip Word to proceed past that text If you feel that things are really going badly and that you d like to begin reading this story all over again click the left arrow button As you read keep an eye on the sound input level indicator the vertical bar to the right of the microphone icon Speak at a level that keeps this at about the middle of the green section Dragon Dictate Introduction 16 Warning The speech recognition engine has no experience with your voice to build on during the first few pages of a new profile s Voice Training story So your utterances must be quite short and careful and the pauses between them must be long to give the engine a chance to catch up and turn the text green You will probably need to read like this Hi Carolyn Here are some New tips To post on our website After the first couple of pages you will find that you can start speaking much more naturally he Voice Training EGGEOOEEBEGOEEIEEEE _ Skip word _ p li Hi Carolyn COMMA here are some new tips to post o
143. ndow to train the voice model However there is a big difference between them Modifying the document When you use a Dictation mode command to select and delete a phrase or to select and dictate to replace a phrase and so forth you are implying that you made a mistake Training the voice model When you use the Recognition window to train the voice model you are implying that Dragon Dictate made a mistake it misrecognized your speech or didn t know a word you used Use training in other words to teach Dragon Dictate and to improve its accuracy in recognizing your speech and the kinds of things you say o Recognition Spelling Alternatives A aa baaie airain The Recognition window If the first alternative is correct the next step would be to say Pick 1 or click the 1 button To summon the Recognition window Say Show Recognition Window n Dictation mode say one of the following Train the Word Someword Train the Words Someword Through Otherword Train the Words Someword to Otherword Click the Recognition window button in the Status window Dragon Dictate Windows 176 Press the Recognition window keyboard shortcut If Show Recognition Window when dictating is checked in the Recognition Preferences pane the Recognition window will open automatically when you are dictating in Dictation mode or Spelling mode as soon as the insertion point is within or after a phrase capable of b
144. ng commands or you can say MouseGrid or Say Correct dog The word dog is highlighted and the Recognition window mil Open MouseGrid to summon a transparent three by three full screen grid with ith spelling alt ives appears e numbers one through nine With the mouse grid on the screen speak the num er you want to focus on A new three by three grid will appear in that spot You an repeat the process but when the desired area becomes too small to display a rid you will sec a magnification window ay Small Mouscgifid or Open Small MouseGrid to start the process wit mall mouse grid ntered around the pointer s current location You can spea INote that you click the ear button the upper gi ner to have pras Di Epis ck how you aid the wor to correct id to summon the small grid at the mouse pointer s current se till be located in grid panel 5 Say Cancel to remove the grid Dragon Dictate Mouse Control 98 r Y agon D A When the MouseGrid becomes too And the magnification window small to display numbers you ll see will appear to show what you re this focused on To move your mouse pointer without using the mouse grid say Move Mouse and add the desired direction Up Down Left or Right You can also add a combination of directions such as Left and Up and you can append 1 100 units of measurement Points Centimeters or Inches after the direction For
145. nt Conversation is a bit like mind reading we guess at what our interlocutor means Dragon Dictate can t read your mind it tries to transcribe faithfully what you actually say Make up your mind what you want to say then say it Don t stumble Don t add any extra noises or interjections like You know Pause between utterances but try not to hesitate in the middle of an utterance Relax Tension in your voice and mouth can cause sounds to emerge in an artificial strained way Posture might matter It can even be helpful to have on hand a glass of water or warm tea and to take frequent sips Breathe gently so that your breath is not heard as an utterance Turn the microphone off and shake out your tension from time to time Dragon Dictate Sound Input Troubleshooting 193 Sound Input Troubleshooting If Dragon Dictate doesn t respond to your voice or doesn t seem to be working at all check your sound input The problem might be software your microphone might not be your sound input device or hardware your microphone might not be working at all Also if your iOS or Android device goes to sleep the Dragon Remote Microphone app may stop communicating with your Mac Begin by quitting Dragon Dictate if it is running You might restart the computer just in case or see if waking up your iOS or Android device helps Now try the following Look in System Preferences Sound Input and make sure your microphone is the sound input dev
146. nts Open Paren Left Paren Open Parenthesis Left Parenthesis All three Close Paren Right Paren Close All three Parenthesis Right parenthesis Dragon Dictate Punctuation 64 What You Say Result Mode Comments Dictation Open Bracket Left Bracket Non US dialects like parenthesis Spelling Dictation Close Bracket Right Bracket ST Non US dialects like parenthesis pelling Dictation Open Bracket Left Bracket US dialect like square bracket Spelling Dictation Close Bracket Right Bracket US dialect like square bracket Spelling Open Square Bracket Left Dictation Square Bracket Spelling Close Square Bracket Right Dictation Square Bracket Spelling Open Brace Left Brace Open Curly Brace Left Curly Brace Open Curly Bracket Left Curly Bracket All three Close Brace Right Brace Close Curly Brace Right Curly Brace Close Curly Bracket Right Curly Bracket All three Open Angle Bracket Left Angle lt Dictation Bracket Close Angle Bracket Right Angle gt Dictation Bracket Open Angle Bracket Left Angle Spellin Unicode 8249 left angle quote Bracket Pe SM Dragon Dictate Punctuation 65 What You Say Result Mode Comments Close Angle Bracket Right Angle gt Spelling Unicode 8250 right angle quote Bracket Money What You Say Result Mode Comments Cents Sign Cent Spelling mode only All three Dollar Sign Dollar Spelling mode only
147. o Right Change Writing Direction From Right To Left Increase Quote Level Decrease Quote Level 143 Dragon Dictate Commands Mail Window Menu Actions What You Say Minimize This or The Window Zoom This or The Window Access or Show Message Viewer Access or Show Address Panel Access or Show Previous Recipients Show Activity Viewer Access or Show Connection Doctor Bring All to Front Arrange In Front Mail Help Menu Actions What You Say Access or Show Mail Help Display What s New in Mail Mail Navigation and Selection What You Say Move To Beginning Of Message or Email Move To End Of Message or Email Move Down One Page Move Up One Page Move Down One Paragraph Move Up One Paragraph Move Left One Word 144 Dragon Dictate Commands What You Say Move Right One Word Move To Beginning Of This or The Line Move To End Of This Line Move Left One Character Move Right One Character Extend Selection to Beginning Of Message or Email Extend Selection To End Of Message or Email Extend Selection To End Of This or The Window Extend Selection Down One Page Extend Selection Up One Page Extend Selection To End Of Paragraph Extend Selection Up One Paragraph Extend Selection To Beginning Of Word Extend Selection To End Of Word Extend Selection Up One Line Extend Selection Down One Line Extend Selection To Beginning Of Line Extend Selection To End of Line Extend Selection Left One Character Extend Selection Ri
148. ofile to their voice Every profile has a name which uniquely identifies it When you create a profile you start by giving it a name The first time you use Dragon Dictate you will be prompted to create a new profile If you previously used MacSpeech Dictate the profiles associated with that application will automatically appear when you launch Dragon Dictate However to use them you will need to upgrade them by double clicking the profile name or clicking the Upgrade button in the bottom right corner of the window Profiles that have not been upgraded have a warning icon next to the profile name A A profile without a connected audio Dragon Dictate Introduction 8 source displays a lightning bolt inside a triangle LN Please note that you can t upgrade a profile that has a missing audio source Any commands and vocabulary you previously added to a profile will be preserved when you begin the upgrade process which cannot be undone After the software updates the older profile you ll see the Voice Training window You must complete a new Voice Training session As in previous versions of the software Dragon Dictate will stop the training session when it has collected enough speech and you can always return to Voice Training any time to read more stories and improve the application s accuracy When you create a new profile you begin the Profile Enrollment process The first step involves giving your profile a name The Prof
149. oll left arrow Scrolls the page right by a litte but more than by clicking the Scroll Right Mic oe scroll right arrow Dragon Dictate Commands 135 What You Say Comment Scroll One Screen Down Scrolls down one screenfull Scroll One Screen Left Scrolls left one screen Scroll One Screen Right Scrolls right one screen Scroll One Screen Up Scrolls up one screenfull Do Web Search Puts cursor in the search field Mail Commands These commands are available when Mail is frontmost What You Say About This Command Set Mail Application Menu Actions What You Say About This or The Application Access or Show Preferences Window Hide This or The Application Hide Other Applications Show All Applications Quit This or The Application Mail File Menu Actions What You Say Make or Create New Message New Viewer Window Close This or The Window Dragon Dictate What You Say Save As Draft Access or Show Save As Window Access or Show Attach File Window Access or Show Save Attachments Window Access or Show Add Account Window Access or Show Import Mailboxes Window Access or Show Page Setup Window Print This or The Document Mail Edit Menu Actions What You Say Undo Last Action Redo Last Action Cut Selection Copy Selection Paste From Clipboard Delete Selection Select All Complete Entry Paste As Quotation Paste ASH TML Paste and Match Style Append Selected Messages or Email Commands 136 Dra
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151. omplete voice training by speaking into your device and reading the story presented on the screen If this is your first time doing so refer to the Voice Training section earlier in this chapter Dragon Dictate Interface 34 The default setting for this option is to have the checkbox unchecked which means you need to add the fn Function to your Command F key presses in Dictate If you check that box you don t need to use the fn key with your Command F Key presses in Dictate but you do need to use the fn key when trying to access the features printed on the F keys such as the volume controls found on F10 F11 and F12 on most Mac keyboards Speech The most important way to interact with Dragon Dictate is to talk to it To talk successfully to Dragon Dictate you need to know about microphone state and the five modes so that s the subject of the next section Dragon Dictate Modes and the Microphone 35 Modes and the Microphone The most important thing that you need to be in control of and aware of when using Dragon Dictate is its state At all times the microphone is either on or off and if the microphone is on Dragon Dictate is in one of five modes These settings determine whether and how Dragon Dictate will respond to your speech The Microphone Microphone Off Dragon Dictate is not listening at all No sound can affect it The only change you can make is to turn the microphone on and the only way to do that
152. on Menu Actions What You Say Comment About This or The Finder Displays information about the Finder Access or Show Preferences Opens the Preferences dialog box Window Empty Trash Empties the trash Secure Empty Trash Securely empties the trash Hide or Close This Application Hides the Finder Hide or Close Other um Hides other applications Applications Access or Show All on Shows all applications Applications Dragon Dictate Finder File Menu Actions What You Say Commands 117 Comment New Finder Window Make or Create New Folder Make or Create New Smart Folder Make or Create New Burn Folder Open Selection Print This or The Document Close This or The Window Close All Windows Get Info Show or Access Inspector Hide or Close Inspector Compress This or The Selection Duplicate This or The Selection Make or Create Alias Quick Look Selection Slideshow Selection Access or Show Original Add To Sidebar Move To Trash Eject Selection Makes a new Finder window Makes a new folder Make New Smart Folder Makes a new Burn folder Opens the selected item s Prints the selected document Closes the active Finder window Closes all Finder windows Displays information on the selected item s Shows the Inspector window Hides the Inspector window Compresses the selection Duplicates the selection Makes an alias of the selected item s Opens the Quick Look h
153. one is on Red stop sign The microphone is off Blue balloon with crescent moon The microphone is asleep Dragon Dictate Windows 173 The mode button s icon indicates the current mode Click it to summon the modes menu where you can switch between modes To bring Dragon Dictate frontmost Click the bring to front button To summon the Recognition window Click the Recognition window button Available Commands Window The Available Commands window lists the commands you can say at any moment When the Available Commands window is showing it floats over all applications The list of commands displayed in the Available Commands window changes automatically depending on what mode you re in what application is frontmost and whether the Recognition window is open The availability of some global commands and the order in which commands are displayed depends on your settings in the Command Preferences pane Dictation Global The Available Commands window while the Finder is frontmost To show the Available Commands window Say Show Available Commands Window Choose Window gt Show Available Commands Dragon Dictate Windows 174 Choose Show Available Commands from the Dock menu The Available Commands window will automatically appear when you start up Dragon Dictate if it was showing when Dragon Dictate last quit Scroll through the window or use the search field to discover commands
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155. ote Pad window to a new folder you cannot change its name Revert To Revert to the last saved version or select Browse All Versions to select a past revision through Time Machine Print Print the current Note Pad window Save Profile Save the currently active profile s data Enabled only if you have done something Such as training the voice model to affect the active profile The active profile is saved automatically when you activate a different profile or quit Dragon Dictate this menu item is just a safety valve for those wishing to make certain that changes in the profile are not lost in case of a power failure or similar unforeseen event Command Import Summon a standard File Open dialog where you can open a commandstext file as created by the Command Export menu item Opening such a file will incorporate the commands it contains so that they will appear in the Commands window and the Available Commands window Command Export Summon a dialog where you can select commands from the Commands window to export followed by a standard File Save dialog where you can specify a name and location to save the commands as a commandstext file This is an XML file but it is not intended to be user editable its purpose is to be imported with the Command Import menu item Thus you can transfer custom commands between computers and users ScriptPak Import Like Command Import but the type of file you can open is a ScriptPak
156. ou Other Microphones Refer to your microphone s user manual for important information on setup and use Note Microphone quality and positioning significantly affect recognition accuracy C Don t show this information again Cancel MORE Microphone Setup Microphone setup takes place in the Microphone Setup window and involves adjusting the sound input level You must go through the setup process for each new microphone you associate with a profile n Microphone Setup Volume Adjustment C Manual Gain Y 50 Enable the microphone by clicking the icon J The Microphone Setup window is where you adjust your sound input level To begin click the microphone icon with the red stop sign Dragon Dictate Introduction 12 To begin adjusting your sound input level in the Microphone Setup window click the microphone icon with the red stop sign The window changes to display a paragraph of text for you to read aloud AON Microphone Setup Volume Adjustment Begin reading so Dragon Dictate can properly adjust your microphone iw l Manual Gain Q 78 Read aloud the paragraph displayed Speak at a normal conversational volume and pace Microphone Setup listens to your speech It will automatically adjust the recording volume to suit in the box in the Microphone Setup your voice and environment window As you read Dragon Dictate When the program has heard enough a portio
157. owing disclaimer in the documenta tion and or other materials provided with the distribution Neither the name of bDistributed com Inc nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this Software without specific prior written permission THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY CF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE Twitter OAuth Twitter OAuth Source and Example for iPhone Glommed together by Ben Gottlieb copyright 2009 Stand Alone Inc all rights reserved License BSD If you use it please include the following text somewhere in your application s user facing text Includes Twitter OAuth code by Ben Gottlieb The goal of this was to create a drop in code package for iPhone apps that want to access Twitter via OAuth The main benefit h
158. pe the desired shortcut To delete a shortcut Click the X at the right end of the oval shortcut region To revert to a previous shortcut Click the curved arrow at the right end of the oval shortcut region Sharing Preferences pane The Sharing Preferences pane allows you to set up connectivity to your Facebook and Twitter accounts so you can dictate updates to both social sites Click the Login button next to each option to set it up Enter your user name and password for each service Facebook will ask you to allow Dragon Dictate to access your Facebook wall and personal information that function is a necessary part of Facebook s privacy policy so you must enable it to post updates via Dragon Dictate If you change your user name or password for either service set up a new account or simply don t want to use this function anymore click the Reset button to disconnect one of the social networking services Dragon Dictate Menus 185 Menus This section lists Dragon Dictate s menus and menu items Dictate Menu About Dictate Summon the About window Check for Updates Communicate over the Internet with Dragon to see whether your version of Dragon Dictate is the most recent If a newer version is available you will be offered a chance to download and install it Dragon Dictate can also optionally check for updates automatically as it starts up to control whether it does this use the checkbox in the General Preferenc
159. r work with earlier versions To dismiss the Profiles window Create or activate a profile as previously described Click Close at the lower right Dragon Dictate Windows 156 Commands Window The Commands window is your interface for management of global and application based commands This is where commands may be edited modified created activated and deactivated and deleted To open the Commands window Choose Tools gt Commands Choose File gt New Command This is the same as choosing Tools gt Commands and then pressing the button to create a new command The Commands window An active built in command from the Global set is selected displaying its AppleScript underpinnings eo e LE e p 4 2 To switch among command lists Inthe left column select a command set Global or an application context At the top of the middle column click All Built in or User Defined It is the combination of both these settings that determines which commands are displayed To activate or deactivate a command Click the checkbox to the left of the command s name A deactivated command still exists but it is not listed in the Available Commands window you cannot issue the command and Dragon Dictate doesn t have to consider that phrase as a possible command when you Say it So deactivating unused Dragon Dictate Windows 157 commands can be useful but you p
160. re Microphone Setup window Set your sound input level Voice Training window Perform additional training to helo Dragon Dictate better recognize your speech Vocabulary Training window Add words that you want Dragon Dictate to know Status window Your compact floating command center Available Commands window A list of all commands you can say right now Recognition window Improve Dragon Dictate s accuracy when it misrecognizes your speech Express Editor Transfer window A window for dictating and manipulating text before transferring it to an application that does not offer Full Text Control with Dragon Dictate Transcription window A window for importing and reviewing text resulting from Dragon Dictate s analysis of a speech file Preferences window Some useful options live here Note Pad Window Dragon Dictate comes with its own built in word processor Note Pad A Note Pad window is a word processing window But it s a special kind of word processor it is specifically aimed at dictation through Dragon Dictate In fact you should control the Dragon Dictate Windows 153 contents of the window entirely through dictation and commands you should never need to type in a Note Pad window eoo Untitled Dragon Dictate lets you dictate into any application but a Note Pad window is the fastest and most reliable place to dictate because it is designed for this purpose A common technique A Note Pad window is a fas
161. ready understand that command type For example a Shell Script implementation requires a knowledge of shell scripts The AppleScript command type is the most flexible and therefore the most involved Teaching you AppleScript is beyond the range of this manual you can learn the language from any of a number of books such as AppleScript The Definitive Guide published by O Reilly Media You can study the built in AppleScript commands to get an idea of how they are implemented Except for Global commands directed at Dragon Dictate itself the built in commands tend not to talk AppleScript at an application even when it is scriptable rather they use GUI scripting by way of System Events to manipulate the target application s interface Whenever possible the Menu Item type is the preferred approach This however should not discourage you from writing your own commands that do take advantage of the target application s scriptability As a convenience Dragon Dictate lets you easily create an AppleScript command that issues modifier keystroke combination For example you might create a Log Out This User command that types Shift Command Q Set the Type to AppleScript click Click to record shortcut and type the modifier keystroke combination The script will be automatically created in the Source field Dragon Dictate Windows 164 In general the more you arm Dragon Dictate with a repertory of user defined commands corresponding to your
162. robably should wait before doing so to see which commands you really don t need To create a new command Click the button To delete a command Select the command and press Delete or choose Delete from the tool gear menu You can t delete an unmodified built in command Deleting a built in command that you ve modified restores the original unmodified built in command To duplicate a command Choose Duplicate from the tool gear menu To edit a command Select the command name and work in the right hand column Changes that you make in the Commands window might not be registered until you close the Commands window Note You don t need to read any more about the Commands window unless you are thinking of creating or modifying a command To import or export commands Select Command Import or Command Export in the File menu When you select Command Export a dialog window appears and you can select the individual commands or entire sets of commands you want to export When you re done and click Export a new dialog window allows you to name the export whatever name you give it will automatically have commandstext appended to it You will also be prompted to save those commands trigger terms in a separate file that will automatically have Terms dynamictext appended to it A confirmation of your successful export will appear when you re done Dragon Dictate Windows 158 Face
163. rofile but it will likely be in your user s Documents folder assuming you chose the default location when originally saving it A Spotlight search on ddictateprofile4 should find your profiles if necessary Or search on ddictateprofile if you also want to find profiles associated with older versions of Dragon Dictate A profile is about 77MB in size with a single audio source Profiles can be larger depending upon the number of audio sources associated with the Profile Dragon Dictate Credits 195 Credits AppScript Special Thanks To Apple Inc for the wonderful OS X Brad Cook and Matt Neuburg for their documentation expertise Credit Given Where Credit Is Due Copyright C 2007 2008 HAS Aquatic Prime AquaticPrime h AquaticPrime Framework Copyright c 2006 Lucas Newman All rights reserved Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer eRedistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documenta tion and or other materials provided with the distribution eNeither the name of Aquatic nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior
164. roid device running the Dragon Remote Microphone app Ideally the microphone should be of high quality with noise cancelling abilities and should be on the list of microphones certified and supported by Nuance You can find a list at the Nuance web site To learn how to set up your iOS or Android device as a microphone see Using the Dragon Remote App as a Microphone If you re using a USB microphone plug it into one of your computer s USB ports If you re running short of open USB ports it might be worth investing in a powered USB hub You can then plug some of your USB devices into the hub and plug the hub into the computer Some USB microphones however must be plugged directly into the computer Initial Installation Use the following checklist to make certain you are ready to install Dragon Dictate O Your microphone is connected to your computer you have the Dragon Remote Microphone app for an iOS or Android device or you ve decided to try the internal microphone of your Mac O Your computer is connected to the Internet You will need an Internet connection in order to enter your serial number and license your copy of Dragon Dictate When you ve completed the above checklist you re ready to begin installing Dragon Dictate If you purchased the software in a box insert the included DVD into your Mac If you purchased the software as a digital download locate the disk image file and double click it A new window w
165. s Access Change Location Window Find Shared Calendars Calendar View Menu Actions What You Say Switch To Day View Switch To Week View Switch To Month View Go To Next Day Go To Next Month Go To Next Week Go To Previous Day Go To Previous Month Go To Previous Week 148 Dragon Dictate Commands 149 What You Say Go to Today Go to Date Show Mini Months Hide Mini Months Show Notifications Hide Notifications Show Search Results Hide Search Results Show To Dos Hide To Dos Show All Day Events Hide All Day Events Show Mini Calendar Hide Mini Calendar Show Notifications Hide Notifications Calendar Window Menu Actions What You Say Minimize This Window Zoom This Window Show Address Panel Hide Address Panel Bring All Windows To Front Dragon Dictate Commands 150 Calendar Help Menu Actions What You Say Display Help Display Keyboard Shortcuts Calendar Navigation and Display What You Say Show Calendar Show Events On This Calendar Hide Events On This Calendar Hide Other Calendar Events Scroll Up Scroll Down Select Next Select Previous Notes Actions What You Say Comment File New Creates a new note and makes it active New File File Save Saves the active note File Close Closes the active note Close File Select All Selects all text within the active note Copy Copies the selected text within the active note to the clipboard Paste Pastes the clipboard contents to the active note
166. s Copyright 2001 2010 bDistributed com Inc All rights reserved GTMStackTrace m Copyright 2007 2008 Google Inc Licensed under the Apache License Version 2 0 the License you may not use this file except in compliance with the icense You may obtain a copy of the License at tp www apache org licenses LICENSE 2 0 Li h Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing software distributed under the License is distributed on an AS IS BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND either express or implied See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License CTGradient Copyright O 2007 2010 Chad Weider Some rights reserved http creativecommons org licenses by 2 5 Log4Cocoa Copyright 2002 2010 Bob Frank All rights reserved Shortcut Recorder Copyright 2006 2010 contributors to ShortcutRecorder Contributor details at http wafflesoftware net shortcut contributors All rights reserved The MIT License Copyright c 2008 Big Nerd Ranch Inc Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files the Software to deal in the Software without restriction including without limitation the rights to use copy modify merge publish distribute sublicense and or sell copies of the Software and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
167. s of the Recognition window and of the recognition engine Recognition Window Options If Show Recognition Window When Dictating is checked the Recognition window will open automatically when you are dictating in Dictation mode or Spelling mode as soon as the insertion point is within or after a phrase capable of being trained Usually this will be as soon as you dictate anything If Close Recognition Window After Each Choice is checked the Recognition window will close automatically as soon as you use it to replace a dictated phrase with its correct alternative If Show Smart Format Rules is checked Dragon will open the smart formatting window after you ve made a correction enabling you to tell the software how to automatically handle the change in the future Use Maximum Number of Alternatives to set the number of alternatives shown in the Recognition window Fewer alternatives might be shown as few as one in fact depending on how certain Dragon Dictate feels about its interpretation of what you said Dragon Dictate Windows 182 Recognition Use the slider to trade off between speed and accuracy of speech recognition The middle 50 is a good initial setting but given the speed of today s Intel based machines you can probably opt for more accuracy with no appreciable increase in response time Feel free to experiment After you ve done a good deal of dictation and honed your voice model using the Recognition window Dragon
168. s the field below Command Name It is optional Click in that window to edit it Context This is the application in which you want the command to be available For all applications choose Global Contexts for which Dragon Dictate already has application based commands are listed in the pop up menu see Dragon Dictate Windows 163 Application Based Commands To create a new context click Choose and select an application in the Open dialog Type Pick a type from the pop up menu see Command Types Alternatively if the implementation involves specifying a file or is itself a file you may be able simply to leave the pop up menu on Automatic and drag the file onto the drag area For example if you drag an Automator Workflow file Dragon Dictate chooses the Automator Workflow type and points to that file if you drag an AppleScript compiled script file Dragon Dictate chooses the AppleScript type and copies the script into the Source field if you drag text Dragon Dictate chooses the Text Macro type and copies the text into the Text field if you drag a miscellaneous file or folder Dragon Dictate switches to the File or Folder type and points to the dragged item and so forth Implementation If an implementation was not automatically provided by the previous step provide an implementation for your command Providing a command implementation is generally straightforward because the use of a command type implies that you al
169. s the frontmost application Dragon Dictate What You Say Commands 80 Comment Hide Other Applications Hide All Applications Show All Applications Switch To Next Application Switch To Previous Application Next Application Window Previous Application Window Quit This Application Activate Name of Application Quit Name of Application Swipe Left Swipe Right Enter or Switch to Full Screen Exit Full Screen Hides all applications except the frontmost application Hides all applications except the Dragon Dictate works only when Dragon Dictate is frontmost Shows all applications Switches to the next application that is running Switches to the previous application that is running Activates the next window in the active application Activates the previous window in the active application Quits the frontmost application except if it is Dragon Dictate Dragon Dictate must be quit using menu or keyboard Brings the named application to the front Activate commands are automatically generated for all running applications and ap pear in the Applications subgroup of the Available Commands window Quits the named application Quit commands are automati cally generated for all running applications except the Finder and Dragon Dictate and appear in the Applications subgroup in the Available Commands window Simulates a left swipe gesture Simulates a right swipe gesture Enters full s
170. selection plain text Makes the selection bigger Makes the selection smaller Shows the Colors Palette Hides the Colors Palette Aligns the text to the center Aligns the text to the left Aligns the text to the right Justifies the selected text Changes the writing direction Shows the Text Ruler Hides the Text Ruler Copies the Text Ruler for the selection Dragon Dictate What You Say Commands 127 Comment Paste Text Ruler Access or Show Text Spacing Window Access or Show Link Window Access or Show List Window Access or Show Table Window Convert Document To Plain Text Convert Document To Rich Text Turn Prevent Editing Off Turn Prevent Editing On Wrap Text To Page Toggle Hyphenation Turn Hyphenation On Applies the formatting settings copied with the Copy Text Ruler command to the selection Opens the Text Spacing window Allows you to assign a URL to a selection of text Allows you to format the selected text as a list Allows you to format the selection as a table Converts the active document to plain text Converts the active document to rich text Turns Prevent Editing off Turns Prevent Editing on Toggles whether the text is wrapped to the page or not Turns Hyphenation off Turns Hyphenation on TextEdit Window Menu Actions What You Say Comment Bring All Windows To Front Minimize This or The Window Minimize All Windows Zoom This or The Window Brin
171. sic snortiblog rtf Today 2 10 PM Pictures Voice Training Window Today 2 07 PM commands Today 2 00 PM sharing preference pane Today 1 54 PM SHARED A progress window will track Dragon Dictate as it transcribes the file Transcription C u Memo2me m4a T l Cancel When Dragon Dictate is done transcribing the file a dialog appears asking if you want to go to the Profiles window to select another profile or audio source transcribe another audio file or edit your transcription results If you decide to open the Profiles window or transcribe another audio file your transcription results will still be in the open Note Pad window so you can return to work with it further or copy and paste it into another application Dragon Dictate Transcription 102 What do you want to do sest Vere cart a b ouate pafe Fie ot emer etm reat m eh 16 The fies mde by vehe rt anedhes profe wr Bote re Dragon Dictate Commands 103 Computer As a Whole What You Say Comment Turn Dock Hiding On Turns on Dock hiding Turn Dock Hiding Off Turns off Dock hiding Put Computer to Sleep Puts the computer to sleep Special Sleep Forces the computer to go to sleep Restart the Computer Restarts the computer Special Restart Restarts the computer without waiting for other tasks to complete Search Menus for text Searches OS X s menus for a specific word or phrase Search someplace for text Searches a specific pla
172. so subject to the following conditions The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software Table of Contents Introduction Installation Minimum System Requirements Microphone Requirements Initial Installation Enabling Accessibility Creating a Profile Microphone Setup Voice Training Transcription Training Giving Dragon Access to Your Email Contacts Interface The Profiles Window The Status Window The Available Commands Window The Dock Menu The Status Menu Item Keyboard Shortcuts Using the Dragon or Android Remote App as a Microphone Setting Up the Dragon Remote App Speech Modes and the Microphone Microphone Off and On Sleep Mode O Cc Co N N a 11 13 19 22 24 24 24 25 25 26 26 28 29 34 35 36 37 Learning and Switching Modes Dictation Mode What You Can Say in Dictation Mode Navigation and Editing Commands Capitalization Spacing and Numbers Title Case Uppercase Lowercase Spaces Numbers Letter Names in Dictation Mode Letters Diacritical Letters Ligatures and Non Latin Letters Dictionary Definition Document Search Spelling Mode What You Can Say in Spelling Mode Letter Names in Spelling Mode Letters Diacritical Letters Ligatures and Non Latin Letters Numerals 39 40 40 42 44 44 45 45 46 46 50 51 52 54 54 54 55 55 56 56 58 58 59 Punctuation 60 Commands 73 Global Commands 74 Correc
173. such as of or in not be capitalized in such phrases If a vocabulary item is not being recognized correctly you might wish to train the pronunciation of the item This means that you pronounce the item several times so that Dragon Dictate can record your voice saying it and incorporate the recording into your voice model To train a vocabulary item select the item and choose Train from the tool gear menu at the bottom of the window Dragon Dictate presents a sequence of training dialogs 1 Adialog explaining that you are about to pronounce the item three times click Train to proceed 2 Adialog where you pronounce the item three times watching for feedback in the dialog so you know Dragon Dictate has heard you 3 A dialog where you are informed that the training process is over To create a new user vocabulary item Click the button Type the word as written in the dialog To add a description of how the word is spoken or to train the word s pronunciation by speaking click Advanced to reveal the rest of the dialog To delete a user vocabulary item Select the word and press Delete or choose Delete from the gear menu A dialog appears giving you an opportunity to change your mind To export and import vocabulary items To export select the item s and choose Export from the gear menu An XML file is created To import choose Import from the gear menu and specify an exported XML Dragon Dictate
174. t c 2005 Chad Weider Some rights reserved lt http creativecommons org licenses by 2 5 gt For more information visit http blog oofn net projects misc Sparkle Copyright c 2006 Andy Matuschak Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files the Software to deal in the Software without restriction including without limitation the rights to use copy modify merge publish distribute sublicense and or sell copies of the Software and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so subject to the following conditions The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software Dragon Dictate Credits 199 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE TokyoCabinet Tokyo Cabinet is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation either versio
175. t Box Access or Show Drafts Access or Show Sent Box Access or Show Junk Access or Show Trash Use This or The Mailbox For Drafts Use This or The Mailbox For Junk Use This or The Mailbox For Sent Mail or Mailbox Use This or The Mailbox For Trash Rebuild Selected Mailbox 141 Dragon Dictate Commands Mail Message Menu Actions What You Say Send This or The Message or Email Send This or The Message or Email Again Reply To This or The Message or Email Reply All To This or The Message or Email Reply With Chat Forward Selection Forward This or The Message or Email Redirect This or The Message or Email Bounce Selection Mark As Flagged Mark As Unflagged Mark As High Priority Mark As Low Priority Mark As Normal Priority Mark As Junk Mail Mark As Read Mark As Unread Move To Last Used Mailbox Apply Rules Add Sender to Contacts Remove Attachments 142 Dragon Dictate Commands Mail Format Menu Actions What You Say Access or Show Font Palette Hide Font Palette Show Color Palette Hide Color Palette Make Selection Bigger Make Selection Smaller Make Selection Bold Make Selection Italic Make or Create Selection Outline Make Selection Underline Make Selection Plain Text Make Selection Rich Text Copy Style Of Selection Paste Style Access or Show Styles Window Align Selection Center Align Selection Left Align Selection Right Justify Selection Change Writing Direction From Left T
176. t and is to dictate into a Note Pad window and then copy and paste into another application reliable place to dictate Dragon Dictate lets you dictate into any application but a Note Pad window is an easy place to dictate because it is designed for this purpose A common technique is to dictate into a Note Pad window and then copy and paste into another application A TextEdit document also makes a good place to dictate for similar reasons One big advantage of a Note Pad window or TextEdit document is that Dragon Dictate can actually see what s in it Dragon Dictate always knows the contents of a Note Pad window or TextEdit document even after you type or paste in text or open an existing document Dragon Dictate is thus not as dependent upon its own memory of how it entered text through dictation the cache as in other applications To summon a new Note Pad window Say File New New File New Note Pad Make New Note Pad or Create New Note Pad when Dragon Dictate is frontmost Choose File New Note Pad To set the default font and size for a new empty Note Pad window Open a new Note Pad window choose Format Font Show Fonts specify the desired font and size and close the Font palette and the Note Pad window Note Pad window contents are saved as rtf files which can be opened for editing later with another word processor TextEdit Microsoft Word etc You can also open an existing rtf file into a No
177. te Auto Formatting 87 Tip Some addresses particularly those with a lot of numbers can be difficult to interpret For example if you say Two Hundred Forty Fifth Street Dragon Dictate may produce 245th Street 200 45th Street or 240 5th Street The simple addition of the word And can help produce the right result so if you say Two Hundred And Forty Fifth Street 200 45th Street will be eliminated from the possible choices Web and Email Addresses If you say Name At Nuance Dot Com Dragon Dictate will produce name nuance com Web site addresses such as W W W Dot Nuance Dot Com will also appear properly in this case you will see www nuance com on the screen Phone Numbers Dragon Dictate will display properly formatted phone numbers when you say seven or ten digit sequences For example Eight Hundred Five Five Five One Two One Two pro duces 800 555 1212 You can also say Eight Zero Zero at the beginning of the se quence Dragon Dictate Auto Formatting 88 Tip Vanity phone numbers such as 1 800 EXAMPLE are not supported nor is automatic formatting of U S phone numbers for UK English users Abbreviated Titles If you say Mister Smith or Missus Smith or Doctor Smith for example Dragon Dictate will produce Mr Smith or Mrs Smith or Dr Smith Date amp Time The default in the dropdown menu is Date As Spoken which produces dates exactly as you speak them For example January 5th 2011 produces January 5 2011 You can
178. te Pad window choose File Open Dragon Dictate Windows 154 Profiles Window The Profiles window is for managing your profiles A profile is a complete set of data on how you speak In order to speak into Dragon Dictate you must have at least one profile and at every moment you are using exactly one profile the active profile or current profile marked in the Profiles window with a green circle jeoo Profiles Microphone Dragon Remote Microphone The Profiles window To summon the Profiles window choose Tools Profiles If you have checked Show Profiles Window in the General Preferences pane the Profiles window will appear automatically when you start up Dragon Dictate offering you a chance to activate a profile otherwise Dragon Dictate activates the profile you were previously using In many cases one profile is all you ll need But you ll need multiple profiles in certain situations f different people are using Dragon Dictate each will need their own profile f you use Dragon Dictate in different environments home and office for example you should have a profile for each environment as the ambient sound characteristics may differ Every profile has a name which uniquely identifies it The name of the active profile is visible in the Status window as its title bar Dragon Dictate Windows 155 The data for a profile lives on your hard disk as a package whose file extension is ddict
179. th your OS X account You can also click Choose to find an image located elsewhere on your Mac or you can click the camera icon to use your Mac s built in iSight or FaceTime camera or another camera connected to your computer to snap a photo of yourself After you select an image you can move it around to center the part of it you want to use The slider lets you change its size When you re satisfied click Set to use it or click Cancel if you d rather return to the image you re currently using Transcription Training If you decide to train a transcription audio source first rather than a dictation micro phone or if you later need to add a transcription audio source to your profile you ll have to supply an audio file that s at least 90 seconds long without significant gaps of silence The file needs to be in the aif aiff m4a m4v mp3 mp4 or wav format It should have been dictated into an iPhone 3G or later iPod touch 4th generation or later iPad Android or other smartphone or any other digital recording device or into a computer microphone Dragon Dictate Introduction 20 Note that if you don t train an audio source while creating a profile and you later click Transcription in the Tools menu you will automatically be asked to supply an audio file that s at least 90 seconds long for training A dialog will open and ask you to find the audio file you want to use for training Select it and
180. the application based commands in the Available Commands window Check Enable Web Site Commands to cause the Web 100 global commands to be enabled and to be present in the Available Commands window Command Generation Check Generate Application Launch Commands to cause global commands for launching applications to be generated the next time you start up Dragon Dictate Check Generate Email Commands to cause global commands for creating and addressing an email message to be generated the next time you start up Dragon Dictate Shortcuts Preferences pane The Shortcuts Preferences pane lets you set global keyboard shortcuts hot keys for three Dragon Dictate actions They are Toggle Microphone Turns the microphone on or off Select Speech Mode Cycles through the modes Dictation mode Spelling mode and Command mode Show Recognition Window Shows and hides the Recognition window Dismiss MouseGrid Dismisses the MouseGrid after it s been summoned Important note When following the instructions below to change a keyboard shortcut you should never assign a key sequence that is the same as the one used to invoke Apple s built in dictation capabilities found in OS X You should also not assign Dragon Dictate Windows 184 Apple s built in dictation capability with a key sequence that includes Command F9 Command F10 Command F1 1 or Command F12 To set a shortcut Click in the oval shortcut region and ty
181. those that are standard and familiar in any OS X word processing application such as TextEdit They work in a Note Pad window Dragon Dictate Menus 189 Font gt Show Fonts Show the Font palette Changes will be applied to the selection Font gt Bold Toggle the bold styling of the selection Font gt Italic Toggle the italic styling of the selection Font gt Underline Toggle the underlined styling of the selection Font gt Bigger Increase the font size of the selection Font gt Smaller Decrease the font size of the selection Font gt Show Colors Show the Color palette Changes will be applied to the selection Font gt Copy Style Move styling information from the selection to the clipboard Font gt Paste Style Apply style information from the clipboard to the selection Text gt Align Left Align the selected text against the left margin Text gt Center Center the selected text between the margins Text gt Justify Align the selected text against both margins Text gt Align Right Align the selected text against the right margin Window Menu Minimize Minimize the active Note Pad window to the Dock Minimize All Option key version of the above Minimize all Note Pad windows to the Dock Zoom Toggle the size of the active Note Pad window Zoom All Option key version of the above Toggle the size of all Note Pad windows Bring All to Front Bring all Dragon Dictate windows in front of windows of other
182. ting delivery of the Software the government hereby agrees that this software qualifies as commercial computer software within the meaning of the acquisition regulation s applicable to the procurement The terms and conditions of this Agreement shall pertain to the government s use and disclosure of the Software and shall supersede any conflicting contractual terms or conditions If this Agreement fails to meet the government s needs or is inconsistent in any respect with Federal law the government agrees to return the Software unused to Nuance The following additional statement applies only to acquisitions governed by DFARS Subpart 227 4 October 1988 Restricted Rights Use duplication and disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph c 1 ii of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252 227 7013 Oct 1988 In the event any of the above referenced agency regulations is amended or replaced the equivalent successor regulation shall apply instead 16 Licensee expressly agrees that Nuance is not a licensed health care provider and if that the Software is not a substitute for independent medical decision making by a qualified health care practitioner Licensee is solely responsible for its own conduct with respect to patient care and any reliance upon the Software shall not diminish Licensee s responsibility for patient care that Licensee may be involved or associate
183. tion Process 81 Auto Formatting 84 Smart Formatting Rules 85 Addresses 86 Street Addresses 86 Web and Email Addresses 87 Phone Numbers 87 Abbreviated Titles 88 Date amp Time 88 Numbers 89 Prices and Currencies 89 Units of Measure 89 Social Security Numbers 90 All Other Numbers 90 Miscellaneous 91 Express Editor Window 92 Proofreading 94 Numbers Mode 95 Mouse Control 97 Transcription 100 Voice Shortcuts 103 The Web 100 Commands 104 Rich Internet Application Extensions 104 RIA and Browser Based Email 107 Key Commands 107 How to Say a Key Command 108 Generated Commands 109 Launching Applications 109 Email Messages 110 Application Based Commands 111 Dragon Dictate Commands 112 Finder Commands 116 TextEdit Commands 122 Safari Commands 128 Mail Commands 135 Messages Commands 146 Calendar Commands 146 Windows 152 Note Pad Window 152 Profiles Window 154 Commands Window 156 Facebook Twitter Commands 158 Command Types 161 Creating a Command 162 Vocabulary Editor Window 164 Microphone Setup Window 167 Voice Training Window 168 Vocabulary Training Window 169 Status Window 171 Available Commands Window 173 Recognition Window 174 How to Train 177 Preferences Window 178 General Preferences pane 178 Appearance Preferences pane 179 Dictation Preferences pane 181 Recognition Preferences pane 181 Command Preferences pane 183 Shortcuts Preferences pane 183 Sharing Preferences pane 184 Menus 185 Dictate Menu 185 Fil
184. tive is the interpretation that Dragon Dictate entered in the document The number of additional alternatives is limited by your setting for Maximum number of alternatives in the Recognition Preferences pane You can use the Recognition window to train what you just dictated because the insertion point is still at the end of that phrase so that is the phrase shown in the Recognition window You can also select a dictated phrase using Dictation mode navigation commands if Dragon Dictate still has cached dictation information for this part of the document the Recognition window will change to show alternatives for that phrase Thus one way of working with the Recognition window is to train phrases aS soon as you dictate them another is to dictate a larger amount such as a paragraph or two and then go back and train In most cases Dragon Dictate will have preserved the recording of your speech from when you dictated the phrase To play the recording of the phrase selected in your text Say Press Play Click the green ear icon at the top right of the window This can be a useful precaution because you may not have said what you think you said You do not want to mistrain Dragon Dictate by using the Recognition window to enter a trained phrase that is not a correct interpretation of what you actually said If you made a mistake don t use the Recognition window If one of the Recognition window s alternatives is corre
185. tup window Opens the Voice Training window Opens the Vocabulary Training window Dragon Dictate Commands 115 What You Say Comment Access or Show Train Vocabulary From Selection Opens the Train Vocabulary From Selection window Window Dragon Dictate Format Menu Actions What You Say Comment Align This or The Text Left Aligns the text to the left Align This or The Text Center Aligns the text to the center Align This or The Text Right Aligns the text to the right Justify This or The Selection Justifies the selected text Dragon Dictate Window Menu Actions What You Say Comment Minimize This or The Window _ Minimizes the active window Minimize All Window Minimizes all Dictate windows Zoom This or The Window Zooms the frontmost window Bring All Windows To The i Brings all Dictate windows to the front Front Arrange in Front Arrange in front Dragon Dictate Help Menu Actions What You Say Comment Access or Show Dictate Help Opens the Dictate Help window Dragon Dictate Commands 116 What You Say Comment Access or Show Tips and Opens Tips and Tricks Tricks i p Access or Show Release Opens the Release Notes Notes Access or Show Quickstart Guide Access or Show User Manual Opens the User Manual Opens the Quickstart Guide Send Email to Tech Support Sends email to tech support Finder Commands These commands are available when the Finder is frontmost Finder Applicati
186. uch as 80 when you say Eighty It will also recognize certain punctuation marks some com mands and a few words You can say Numbers Mode to switch to it or you can choose it under the Speech menu or in the Dock menu Tip Numbers mode when used in conjunction with certain Auto Formatting options is most useful when you need to dictate strings of numbers such as phone numbers for a contact list or prices for a product list As in Spelling mode no automatic spaces are inserted in Numbers mode You must insert spaces yourself If you don t Dragon Dictate may combine separate smaller numbers into a single larger one To insert a space Say Space Bar To remove the number last typed or to the left of the cursor Say Scratch Number or Delete Number or Scratch That If you Scratch and then change your mind say Undo Dictation See Punctuation for the punctuation marks that are available in Numbers mode Here are the words Numbers mode recognizes What You Say And Billion Cent Cents Dollar Dollars Euro Euros Hundred Dragon Dictate What You Say Million Minus Pence Thousand Trillion Numbers Mode 96 Dragon Dictate Mouse Control 97 Mouse Control Dragon Dictate allows you to move your cursor in Command mode You can simply move your cursor by issuing commands or you can say MouseGrid or Open MouseGrid to summon a transparent three by three full screen grid with the numbers one through nine W
187. vate Automator to launch it The commands for launching applications will appear in the Available Commands window in the Applications subgroup of the Global group Email Messages To generate commands for creating pre addressed email messages Check Generate Email Commands in the Command Preferences pane The Email Commands subgroup will appear in the Global group in the Available Commands window The Email commands are globally available you do not have to be in Mail to use one To learn what Email commands are available consult your Contacts Dragon Dictate lets you say the name of any person or group having an email address in your Contacts To create an email message Say Send an Email To XXX where XXX is the primary addressee To specify multiple addressees Append and as you give your command For example Send an Email To XXX and YYY You can have more than two addressees Send an Email To XXX and YYY and ZZZ and so forth Dragon Dictate responds by creating a new email window addressed as specified with the insertion point in the Subject line ready for you to dictate a subject Dragon Dictate Commands Application Based Commands Dragon Dictate has sets of commands that it makes available only when a particular application is frontmost These are the application based commands Note This mechanism allows commands to be tailored to a particular application It also keeps the list of available commands from
188. written permission THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE BDAlias License Agreement By using or downloading this software you agree to be bound by the following license If you do not agree to be bound by the license please destroy all copies of this software Copyright 2001 2002 bDistributed com Inc All rights reserved Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met Dragon Dictate Credits 196 Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the foll
189. xample Haven t will produce have not If a contraction could be ambiguous how ever it is always expanded regardless of how you set this option For example It Is Always and It Has Always have two different meanings so Dragn Dictate won t display it s always Insert Two Spaces After Period Automatically inserts two spaces after each period While this was a common convention when most writing was done with typewriters today the standard is to use one space after a period thanks to the proportional fonts found in word processing software Allow Pauses in Formatted Phrases If you pause while speaking a number Dragon Dictate s number and phrase formatting will still work together Dragon Dictate Express Editor Window 92 Express Editor Window If you open a program that does not offer full text control the ability to dictate text and then manipulate it through voice commands such as Select dog or Delete the section you can summon the Express Editor Window which floats above the application Say Open or Show Express Editor to open the Express Editor You can dictate into the Express Editor and then click the Transfer button or say Transfer to move the text to the application While TextEdit does offer full text control with Dragon Dictate we ll use it here to explain how to use the Express Editor window with an application If you want to use Express Editor with an application make sure the cursor is active in a field in that applicat
190. y Roman Numeral In the Status window the third indicator light will glow yellow and will read XIV Say the number The number will be typed and the indicator light will go out automatically This works even for large Roman numerals for example to tyoe MCMXCVII say Roman Numeral One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Seven in one smooth utterance Dragon Dictate performs a lot of automatic intelligent formatting of numbers and dates Here are some details You can also click on Auto Formatting under the Tools menu to bring up options for formatting addresses dates times numbers and other utterances including common abbreviations and contractions When you say a number Dragon Dictate will either type out the words or the number depending on the context in which the number was used If you want to force the program to type a number instead of typing the words for the number say Numeral before saying the number Here are some examples of Dragon Dictate s automatic formatting and punctuation of numeric expressions Numbers numerals may be spoken using digits or full number names Insert punctuation as needed What You Say Result Numeral One 1 Numeral Five 5 Seventeen 17 Forty Two 42 Dragon Dictate What You Say One Hundred Seventy Nine Five Thousand Four Hundred and Twenty Three Numeral Five Comma No Space Four Hundred and Twenty Three Twelve Thousand Five Hundred and Thirty Seven One Hundred and Fort
191. y Two Thousand and Fifteen Thirty Five Point Two Three Zero Point Zero Three Forty Three Point Twenty Eight Percent Sign Dictation Mode 48 Result 179 5423 5 423 eoo 142 015 35 23 0 03 43 28 Fractions may be spoken normally or you can clarify by saying Slash or Over between the numerator and the denominator What You Say Numeral One Half Numeral One Over Four Numeral One Quarter Fifteen Sixteenths Fifteen Over Sixteen Two and Three Fourths Eleven Over Thirty Two Eleven Thirty Seconds Three and Seven Eights Numeral Three Seven Over Eight Nine Slash Twelve Nine Over Twelve Numeral Five Space Bar Three Slash Fifty Six Result 1 2 1 4 15 16 2 3 4 11 32 11 32 3 7 8 9 12 5 3 56 Dragon Dictate Dictation Mode 49 What You Say Result One Thirty Over Seventy 130 70 Currency may be spoken normally the number will be parsed and punctuated in response to your use of the currency name What You Say Result Ninety Nine Dollars and Fifty Five Cents 99 55 Forty Five Euros and Thirty Five Cents 45 35 Pound Sterling Sign One Hundred and Twenty Point Thirt dial erling Sign One Hundred and Twenty Poi irty 120 35 iv Zip codes US may be spoken normally digit by digit For other postal code formats the best approach is probably to switch to Spelling mode What You Say Result Oh Two Four Six Zero 02460 Oh Two Four Six Zero Hyphen One Four Five Eight 02460 1458
192. you want to keep it by speaking louder or softer When you finish reading the last page of the story Dragon Dictate will analyze the data it has gathered about your voice and feed that analysis into your profile Actually this might happen in the middle of the last page or an earlier page if Dragon Dictate feels it has sufficient data mno Voice Training Cece eee EE E E X x oe Dragon Dictate has collected enough speech to perform training You do not have to read the entire story After processing is complete you will be ready to dictate into all your favorite Macintosh applications You may return to Voice Training and read more stories to improve Dragon Dictate s ability to recognize your voice by selecting Voice Training from the Tools menu Processing Training s JS Dragon Dictate analyzes your reading of the story and feeds the analysis into your profile Be patient while processing proceeds Please note that Dragon Dictate s analysis of your reading of the story is extremely calculation intensive and can take a long time possibly as long as it took you to read the story We recommend that you do not do anything else with your computer while this is happening Do not force quit Dragon Dictate doing so may ruin your profile As this dialog informs you you can read this story again later or choose from two other stories by choosing Tools Voice Training It s best to use Dragon Dictate for a w
193. ze Toolbar window Stop Loading This or The Page Stops loading the current page Reload This or The Page Reloads the current web page Safari History Menu Actions What You Say Comment Jump Back Goes back to the last location visited Jumps forward to the next location visited typically used Jump Forward after you have already used the Jump Back command to view a previous page again Jump Home Takes you to your home page Dragon Dictate What You Say Commands 132 Comment Mark This or The Page For Snap Back Jump To Snap Back Page Search Snap Back Reopen Last Closed Window Reopen All Windows From Last Session Jump To Bookmark One Jump To Bookmark Two Jump To Bookmark Three Jump To Bookmark Four Jump To Bookmark Five Jump To Bookmark Six Jump To Bookmark Seven Jump To Bookmark Eight Jump To Bookmark Nine Show All History Clear History Safari Bookmarks Menu Actions Marks the current web page for SnapBack Takes you to the page you previously marked as the SnapBack page Takes you to the Search Results SnapBack page Reopens the last closed window Reopens all the Safari windows that were open during the last session Jumps to the first bookmark in the Bookmark Bar Jumps to the second bookmark in the Bookmark Bar Jumps to the third bookmark in the Bookmark Bar Jumps to the fourth bookmark in the Bookmark Bar Jumps to the fifth bookmark in the Bookmark Bar Jumps to the sixth bookmark in

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