Main
Page
iii
Contents
iv
1
Introduction
D
2
About this guide
Conventions used in this guide
3
What should I expect from Dragon?
Page
5
Installation and User Profile Creation
Multiple users on one computer
Plugging in the microphone
6
What you should know before installing
Installing Dragon to a custom location
Installing on Windows Vista/Windows 7
7
Coexistence with other Dragon products
Coexistence with previous versions of Dragon
Coexistence with the Dragon SDK Client Edition
Before installingthe software
8
Choosing type of installation
9
Installing software Typical Installation
To install all features of Dragon:
10
Installing software Custom Installation
To install portions of Dragon or to install it for multiple user profiles:
Page
Page
Page
14
Modifying application settings for all users
Modifying administrative settings
15
Modifying formatting options for allusers
16
Creating your user profile
To create a user profile:
Page
Page
Setting up/positioning your microphone
Checking microphone volume/sound quality
21
Training a new user profile
To train a new user:
Page
23
Adapting to your writing style, scheduling tuning
Adapting to your writing style (Let Dragon search for words and add them now)
Let Dragon automatically improve your accuracy
Scheduling data collection (Help us improve Dragon)
25
How Dragon automatically configuresuser profile
26
Upgrading User Profiles
To upgrade existing users:
Page
28
Version 11.5 File Structure
Windows XP Pro/XP Home/Windows Server 2003/2008 directory structure
Windows Vista and Windows 7 directory structure
29
Cleaning up after uninstalling
Accessing log files, samples, and tools
Page
31
3
Starting to Dictate
Starting Dragon
N
32
Turning on the microphone
Sleeping and waking up
33
Starting to dictate
Using Natural Punctuation
Dictating punctuation
Starting new lines and paragraph
Tips for dictating text
Using the Dictation Box
36
Printing and saving your dictated text
Printing
Saving
Getting Help
What Can I Say?
To open the Dragon Sidebar:
Page
Page
}
40
Tutorial
Troubleshooting
The DragonBar
Microphone button and volume display
The Full Text Control indicator
Extras toolbar
Correction
Transcribe
Start Playback and Stop Playback
Read That
Changing the DragonBar position
Controlling Dragon with voice commands
44
Using QuickStart
To enable QuickStart:
To shut off/permanently disable QuickStart:
To Redisplay the DragonBar:
Using QuickStart
Page
47
Working on Your Desktop
Programs, documents, and folders
Starting a program
Shorter names for popular programs
48
Opening documents and folders from the Start menu
Switching between open windows
To switch between open programs or windows
50
Opening and closingmenus
To open a menu:
51
Selecting buttons, tabs, and options
52
Using Windows Desktop commands
Page
54
Selecting icons on the desktop
To select an icon on the desktop:
55
Resizing and closing windows
56
Scrolling in popular programs
57
Scrolling in windows and list boxes
Opening lists and making selections
To open a list box:
To make a selection from an open list:
58
Pressing keyboard keys
Pressing letters
Capitalizing a letter
Pressing numbers
Pressing key combinations
Pressing function and numeric keypad keys
Pressing other keys
63
Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse
Moving the mouse pointer with MouseGrid
To use MouseGrid:
Moving the pointer with the Mouse command
To move the pointer:
Clicking the mouse
To click the mouse:
Marking and dragging objects
To mark and drag an object:
Dragging the mouse
Moving the pointer with the mouse motion commands
Enabling the mouse motion commands
The mouse motion commands
Page
69
5
Correcting and Editing
Correcting mistakes
To correct text with the keyboard:
W
Correcting text using voice commands
Correcting text while playing back dictation
Using the Correction menu
Numbered list of alternative recognitions
Spell That
Page
74
Correcting Punctuation
Selecting text by voice
Using Full Text Control
To use Full Text Control:
Selecting the same text again
Unselecting words
Selecting a longer phrase
Selecting your whole document
Selecting an entire paragraph or line
Selecting a word or character
78
Moving around in a document
Going to the top or bottom of a page or document
Going to the beginning or end of a line
Placing the insertion point before or after a specific word
To place the insertion point before a specific word:
To place the insertion point after a specific word:
Moving up or down a paragraph or line
80
Moving right or left a word or character
Copying, cutting, and pasting text
To copy, cut, or paste text:
Deleting text
Going back as you dictate
To go back as you dictate:
Deleting specific words
To delete text:
Deleting the next or previous paragraph or line
Deleting the next or previous word or character
83
Spelling as you dictate
Page
85
Playing back your dictation
Playing back dictation from the Correction menu
Playing back dictation in a document
To play back dictation:
To stop playback:
To skip backward or forward:
To stop playback and correct a mistake:
Dictate now, correct later
Correcting your own dictation
Correcting someone elses dictation
Correcting with your own user files
Correcting with the document authors user files
To correct using someone elses user files:
Page
91
Using text-to-speech
To start text-to-speech, do one of the following:
To stop text-to-speech, do one of the following:
6
Formatting
Y
94
Capitalizing text
Capitalizing first letter of next word you dictate
Capitalizing consecutive words
To capitalize the first letters of consecutive words:
Dictating next word in all capital letters
Dictating consecutive words in all capital letters
To dictate consecutive words in all capitals:
Dictating next word in all lowercase letters
Dictating consecutive words in all lowercase letters
96
To dictate consecutive words in all lowercase letters:
Capitalizing (or uncapitalizing) text already in your document
To capitalize or uncapitalize text:
Formatting text
Changing font face
Changing font size
Changing font style
Changing a combination of font face, size, and style
Changing the font later
To change the font:
Bold, italics, and underlining
To add bold, italics, and underlining:
To remove formatting:
Aligning text
To align text:
Bulleted text
Page
101
Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters
Dictating numbers
Page
Using Numbers mode
Dates
Times of day
Telephone numbers
North American phone numbers
Telephone numbers outside North America
Automatic formatting of dates, times, telephone numbers
Fractions
Roman numerals
Postal and ZIP Codes
US ZIP Codes
UK and Canadian Postal Codes
Currency and coin
Currency in US/Canada (US English dialect)
Currency in Other Dialects (UK, Australian, Indian, and Southeast Asian English)
Page
111
Punctuation
Using Natural Punctuation
Enabling and disabling automatic punctuation
Dictating Punctuation
113
Words that end with s
Including s as you dictate
Dictating hyphenated words
Including hyphens as you dictate
Removing hyphens
To remove a hyphen:
Preventing hyphens
115
Dictating compound words
Compounding words as you dictate
To dictate consecutive words without spaces:
Compounding words later
116
To compound words:
Dictating names
Dictating abbreviations and acronyms
117
Dictating e-mail and Web addresses
118
Dictating special characters
Dictating common special characters
119
Switching recognition modes
Page
121
Index
A
B
C
E
F
G
H
I
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
W
Y
Page
Page
127
Information, Sales, Services and Technical Support