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Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters

To compound words:

1Select the text you want to join. For example, if you want to join the words “Web TV,” say “Select Web TV.”

2Say “Compound That.”

Dictating names

Many names of people, places, and events are already in the Dragon vocabulary. For example, you can dictate “Martin Luther King,” “New York Times,” and “Boston.”

To dictate a name, first try dictating the name. Dragon automatically capitalizes the names it knows. If Dragon incorrectly types the name, correct it by keyboard or by voice (see Correcting and Editing on page 69).

If the program continues to type a name incorrectly after you’ve corrected it several times, train the word individually using the Train Word dialog box. See the online help for more information.

Dictating abbreviations and acronyms

Dragon knows many common abbreviations (such as NYC and BBC) and acronyms (such as NATO). To dictate an abbreviation or acronym, just say it as you normally would.

TO E NTER	SAY
US/Canada: Dr.	Doctor
Other Dialects: Dr
UK	U K (say each letter)
RSVP	R S V P (say each letter)
HTML	H T M L (say each letter)
8 cm	eight centimeters
US/Canada: pp. 27–33	pages 27 hyphen 33
Other Dialects: pp 27–33
NATO	NATO (say as one word)
NASDAQ	NASDAQ (say as one word)

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