What Can I Say? | Nuance comm K609A-WN9-11.0, K609A-GC3-11.0

User Guide

You can print individual Help topics with the Print button in the Help window. To open the online Help links, just say their names. The links display next to the application window and give you examples of the most common commands that work in the application you are currently using.

The online help includes the following information not found in this user guide:

nCreating and Managing Users

nDictation Guidelines

nDictating using a Portable Recorder

nDictating with a Roaming User

nCorrecting Recognition Errors

nRevising Text

nImproving Recognition Accuracy

nWorking on Your Desktop

nWorking in Programs

nCreating Commands with MyCommands

nDragon Tools

“What Can I Say?”

Saying “What Can I Say?” brings up the Dragon Sidebar with Dragon Tips displaying below it. The Dragon Sidebar displays a selection of useful commands that Dragon recognizes for the current context, whether it is a particular program you are using or the Windows desktop.

To open the Dragon Sidebar:

1Choose Dragon Sidebar from the Help menu on the DragonBar or say either “What can I say” or “Show SideBar.”

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Contents

User Guide Page Iii Contents Formatting Introduction Conventions used in this guide About this guide What should I expect from Dragon? What if I can’t use a keyboard and mouse? Do I still need my keyboard and mouse? Multiple users on one computer Plugging in the microphone Installing on Windows Vista/Windows What you should know before installingInstalling Dragon to a custom location Coexistence with other Dragon products Before installing the softwareCoexistence with previous versions of Dragon Coexistence with the Dragon SDK Client Edition Choose the type of installation to carry out Choosing type of installation To install all features of Dragon Installing software Typical Installation Installing software Custom Installation \Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11 Modify the administrative settings OPT ION Description Modifying administrative settings Modifying application settings for all users Modifying formatting options for all users To create a user profile Creating your user profile User Guide Installation and User Profile Creation Using a headset microphone Setting up/positioning your microphone Using an array microphone Checking microphone volume/sound quality To train a new user Training a new user profile Installation and User Profile Creation Adapting to your writing style, scheduling tuning Scheduling data collection Help us improve Dragon Let Dragon automatically improve your accuracy How Dragon automatically configures user profile Upgrading User Profiles To upgrade existing users User Guide Windows Vista and Windows 7 directory structure Version 11.5 File Structure Cleaning up after uninstalling Accessing log files, samples, and tools Installation and User Profile Creation Starting Dragon Starting to Dictate Sleeping and waking up Turning on the microphone Starting to dictate Using Natural Punctuation Starting new lines and paragraph Dictating punctuation Tips for dictating text Using the Dictation Box Printing and saving your dictated text Getting HelpPrinting Saving To open the Dragon Sidebar What Can I Say? MS Outlook commands Global commands Desktop commands Tutorial TroubleshootingDragonBar Full Text Control indicator Microphone button and volume display Extras toolbar Changing the DragonBar position Controlling Dragon with voice commands To enable QuickStart Using QuickStartTo shut off/permanently disable QuickStart To Temporarily Disable QuickStart Phone On/Off Profile Using QuickStartPage Shorter names for popular programs Programs, documents, and foldersStarting a program Opening documents and folders from the Start menu Switching between open windows To switch between open programs or windows To open a menu Opening and closing menus Selecting buttons, tabs, and options Using Windows Desktop commands User Guide To select an icon on the desktop Selecting icons on the desktop Say Move Right 1, Move Down 2, or Move Up Resizing and closing windows Scrolling in popular programs Opening lists and making selections Scrolling in windows and list boxesTo open a list box To make a selection from an open list Pressing letters Pressing keyboard keys Capitalizing a letter Pressing key combinations Pressing numbers Pressing function and numeric keypad keys Pressing other keys To use MouseGrid Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouseMoving the mouse pointer with MouseGrid Moving the pointer with the Mouse command Marking and dragging objects Clicking the mouseTo move the pointer To click the mouse Dragging the mouse Moving the pointer with the mouse motion commands Enabling the mouse motion commands Mouse motion commands Working on Your Desktop To correct text with the keyboard Correcting mistakes Correcting text while playing back dictation Correcting text using voice commands Using the Correction menu Spell That Numbered list of alternative recognitions Play That Back Make That a CommandAll Caps That Add that to Vocabulary Selecting text by voice Using Full Text ControlCorrecting Punctuation To use Full Text Control Unselecting words Selecting the same text again Selecting your whole document Selecting a longer phrase Selecting a word or character Selecting an entire paragraph or line Going to the beginning or end of a line Moving around in a documentGoing to the top or bottom of a page or document Moving up or down a paragraph or line Placing the insertion point before or after a specific wordTo place the insertion point before a specific word To place the insertion point after a specific word Deleting text Copying, cutting, and pasting textMoving right or left a word or character Deleting the last words you dictated Deleting specific words Going back as you dictateTo go back as you dictate To delete text Deleting the next or previous word or character Deleting the next or previous paragraph or line Spelling as you dictate Correcting and Editing Playing back dictation from the Correction menu Playing back your dictation Playing back dictation in a document To skip backward or forward To play back dictationTo stop playback Correcting your own dictation Dictate now, correct laterCorrecting someone else’s dictation To stop playback and correct a mistake Correcting with the document author’s user files To correct using someone else’s user filesCorrecting with your own user files Correcting and Editing To start text-to-speech, do one of the following Using text-to-speech To stop text-to-speech, do one of the following Formatting Capitalizing first letter of next word you dictate Capitalizing textCapitalizing consecutive words To capitalize the first letters of consecutive words Dictating consecutive words in all capital letters Dictating next word in all capital lettersDictating next word in all lowercase letters Dictating consecutive words in all lowercase letters Changing the font as you dictate Formatting textTo dictate consecutive words in all lowercase letters To capitalize or uncapitalize text Changing font size Changing font faceChanging font style Changing a combination of font face, size, and style To change the font Changing the font laterBold, italics, and underlining Bulleted text Aligning textTo add bold, italics, and underlining To remove formattingPage 101 Dictating numbers 102 Dates Using Numbers mode103 Times of day 104 Telephone numbers 105North American phone numbers Telephone numbers outside North America Fractions 106Automatic formatting of dates, times, telephone numbers Roman numerals 107 Postal and ZIP Codes 108US ZIP Codes UK and Canadian Postal Codes Currency in US/Canada US English dialect 109Currency and coin 110 Enabling and disabling automatic punctuation Punctuation111 112 Characteristics 113 Dictating hyphenated wordsWords that end with ’s Including ’s as you dictate Including hyphens as you dictate 114Removing hyphens Preventing hyphens 115 Dictating compound wordsCompounding words as you dictate Compounding words later Dictating abbreviations and acronyms Dictating names116 To compound words 117 Dictating e-mail and Web addresses Dictating common special characters Dictating special characters118 119 Switching recognition modes 120 121 Index 122 123 124 125 126 127 Information, Sales, Services and Technical Support