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Dragon NaturallySpeakingVersion 11.5User Guide

Installation and User Profile Creation6What you should know before installingInstalling Dragon to a custom locationThe default installation directory

Formatting96turn it off when you are finished. This is usually easier thansaying “No Caps” before each word.To dictate consecutive words in all lowerc

User Guide97Changing font faceChanging font sizeSay “Set Size” and then a size from 4 to 100 points. Forexample, say “Set Size 18.” Then, continue dic

Formatting98order (font face, then size, then style). See the list of examplesbelow:n “Set Font Arial”n “Set Font Arial 12” or “Set Font Arial 12 Poin

User Guide99To add bold, italics, and underlining:1 Select the text you want to change.2 Say “Bold That,” “Italicize That,” “Underline That,” or“Strik

CHAPTER1017Dictating Numbers, Punctuation,and Special Charactershis chapter describes how to dictate numbers, punctuation,Web addresses, and a few oth

Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters102If you want to dictate only numbers, you can switch to “NumbersMode.” See Switching recogniti

User Guide103If you are having problems dictating numbers, currency, times,or dates, make sure that your Regional Settings match the language(dialect)

Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters104Times of dayDictate the time of day the way you would normally say it.US/Canada: Dragon autom

User Guide105Telephone numbersNorth American phone numbersSay US and Canadian phone numbers as you normally would,pausing briefly between each group o

User Guide7Coexistence with other Dragon productsCoexistence with previous versions of DragonYou can have only one version of Dragon installed on your

Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters106In dialects other than US/Canada, you can say “bracket” insteadof “parenthesis.”See also Auto

User Guide1071/10, and 1/16 or a multiple of these fractions, just say thefraction normally.If the denominator (bottom number in the fraction) is grea

Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters108Don’t pause after the word “Roman Numeral” when you’redictating a Roman numeral. If you pause

User Guide109and numbers that make up the postal code. Spacing andformatting will happen automatically.Currency and coinYou dictate your own currency

Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters110Dragon uses the currency symbol ($, £, and so on) specified inyour Windows Regional Settings

User Guide111PunctuationUsing Natural PunctuationDragon can automatically add commas and periods at theappropriate places in your dictation without yo

Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters112Dictating PunctuationYou can enter the punctuation marks and symbols listed belowin text you

User Guide113You can use the Vocabulary Editor to view or change theformatting properties of the punctuation.Words that end with ’sTo dictate a word e

Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters114Including hyphens as you dictateTo hyphenate words that Dragon doesn’t hyphenateautomatically

User Guide115you can say “long space bar lasting” without pausing, to inserta space in place of the hyphen.Dictating compound wordsDragon joins compou

Installation and User Profile Creation8If you create a Dragon user profile for a limited user while logged in asa Windows administrator, the limited u

Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters116To compound words:1 Select the text you want to join. For example, if you want tojoin the wor

User Guide117If Dragon types the full word instead of the abbreviation oracronym, enters the wrong word, or includes incorrectpunctuation, just correc

Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters118You can create Text and Graphics custom commands fore-mail and Web addresses you use often. S

User Guide119For complete lists of special characters, see the online Help.Switching recognition modesDragon lets you use different recognition modes

Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters120To changes modes, you can:1 Select the Words menu on the DragonBar and click the nameof the m

121IndexAabbreviations 116acronyms 116All Caps Off 95All Caps On 95All Caps That 96All Caps [text] 95American English 12apostrophe ’s 113applicationso

Index122dollar sign 109Dragon Log 29DragonBar 32, 40Extras toolbar on 42DragonPad 33Ee-mail addresses, dictating 117ESC key 87, 92Extras toolbar 42, 9

User Guide123mouseclicking 65moving the pointer 63-64, 66MouseGrid 63Move to Bottom 78Move to Top 78moving around a documentbefore/after specific word

Index124S’s 113saving dictation 88storage space for 90Scratch That 76, 80scrolling 57searching while selecting 75Select Again 75Select All 76Select Do

User Guide125ZZIP codes 108

User Guide9Otherwise, proceed with Installing software — TypicalInstallation on page 9.Installing software — Typical InstallationTo install all featur

Index126

User Guide127Information, Sales, Services and Technical SupportPlease visit these sites:n http://support.nuance.com/n http://www.nuance.com/help/conta

Installation and User Profile Creation108 When prompted, click Finish to complete the installation. (Ifyou are prompted to restart your computer, rest

User Guide115 (Optional) When the Setup Type page appears, click theChange button and choose where to install the product.If no earlier versions of Dr

Installation and User Profile Creation12For example, see the selections for the Southeast AsianEnglish vocabulary shown in the illustration below.8 Cl

User Guide139 Click Next.10Click Install to start the installation.11When the installation completes, proceed with any of thefollowing sections that a

Installation and User Profile Creation1417Select Start > All Programs > Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 >Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 or click

User Guide15n Scheduled Tasks—Toschedulevoicerecognitionoptimizationand data collection for improved accuracy, and let usersmodify the schedule.For de

Dragon User Guide, Version 11.5Nuance Communications, Inc. has patents or pending patent applications covering the subject matter contained in this do

Installation and User Profile Creation16Creating your user profileBefore you can begin using Dragon, you must let Dragon createa user profile for each

User Guide17When the wizard asks for your name, you can enter yourfirst name only, a nickname, or your first and last name.The wizard asks for your ag

Installation and User Profile Creation18process of increasing your accuracy, Acoustic Optimizationmay select a different accent for you.If you select

User Guide19n Empty Dictation—(Professional edition only) Vocabularywith a language model but without any words, designedfor experienced users or rese

Installation and User Profile Creation20n If the volume display on the DragonBarTMturns red, tryholding the microphone slightly farther from your mout

User Guide215 Continue with Training a new user profile on page 21.Training a new user profileImmediately after you create your profile, before you be

Installation and User Profile Creation22n If you need to re-read the same words, click Redo, then re-read them. If the computer still doesn’t get it,

User Guide237 Proceed to Adapting to your writing style, scheduling tuningon page 23.Adapting to your writing style, scheduling tuningAfter it adapts

Installation and User Profile Creation24Let Dragon automatically improve your accuracyAfter it adapts to your writing style, the Accuracy wizard gives

User Guide25the accuracy of future versions of Dragon. No personal information isever sent to Nuance and participation in data collection is completel

iiiContentsCHAPTER 1 Introduction 1About this guide 2What should I expect from Dragon? 3CHAPTER 2 Installation and User Profile Creation 5Plugging in

Installation and User Profile Creation26Depending on your hardware, you might receive a message thatthe amount of RAM (memory) on your computer is rel

User Guide273 Click Next and choose the location for the upgraded userprofiles. As the User Upgrade Wizard modifies your user filesto work with the ne

Installation and User Profile Creation28Version 11.5 File StructureFile locations shown apply to installations in the default location.The next two se

User Guide29\Program\Tutorial (optional)Data and user directoriesYou cannot change this location—Dragon always installs thesedirectories to your \Docu

Installation and User Profile Creation30n Structured command samples—Select Start > Programs >Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 > MyCommands Samp

CHAPTER313Starting to Dictateow that you’ve installed the software and completedtraining, you’re ready to dictate your first sentence.Starting DragonI

Starting to Dictate32Turning on the microphoneBefore you can dictate, you need to turn on the microphone. Toturn on the microphone, you:n Click the mi

User Guide33Starting to dictateTo begin dictating, start a word processor (such as Microsoft®Word or Corel®WordPerfect®) and begin a new document.Make

Starting to Dictate34control over where punctuation appears, you may want toexplicitly dictate all your punctuation.You can turn Natural Punctuation o

User Guide35Saying "New Paragraph" presses the ENTER key twice and capitalizesthe next word you dictate.Tips for dictating textn To erase th

ContentsivPressing keyboard keys 58Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse 63CHAPTER 5 Correcting and Editing 69Correcting mistakes 69Selectin

Starting to Dictate36To start the Dictation Box:1 Place you cursor where you want to put the text.2 Start the Dictation Box by either:n Saying “Show D

User Guide37You can print individual Help topics with the Print button in theHelp window. To open the online Help links, just say theirnames. The link

Starting to Dictate382 The Dragon Sidebar opens, displaying a selection ofcommands next to the window you are working in.Commands marked with an aster

User Guide39A list of Global commands (available everywhere) appears ifthere are no Dragon commands available for the active program.4 To see addition

Starting to Dictate405 For more information, see the online help.TutorialTo start the Tutorial, choose Tutorial from the Help menu on theDragonBar. Th

User Guide41Microphone button and volume displayWhen the microphone is on, theVolume Display shows the soundlevel:nYellow means silence or that youare

Starting to Dictate42Extras toolbarIf the button is in your edition of Dragon, you can click theExtras button on the far right of the DragonBar to ope

User Guide43Changing the DragonBar positionTo change the position of the DragonBar, click the Dragon iconat the far left of the DragonBar. A menu disp

Starting to Dictate44Using QuickStartThe Dragon QuickStart taskbar tray icon gives you quick accessto Dragon and recent users. Right-clicking the Quic

User Guide45Using QuickStartYou access QuickStart by right-clicking the Dragon QuickStarttaskbar tray icon. This action displays QuickStart menus that

CHAPTER11Introductionragon NaturallySpeaking let you talk to your computerinstead of typing. As you talk, your words are transcribedonto your screen a

CHAPTER474Working on Your Desktophis chapter describes how to control almost everything onyour computer with Dragon NaturallySpeaking voicecommands.Pr

Working on Your Desktop48n MS Word, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office Wordn MS Excel, Microsoft Exceln MS Outlook, Microsoft Outlookn Outlook Expressn

User Guide49For example, if Microsoft®Word®is running, you can switch toit by saying “Switch to Microsoft word.”You can also switch between open windo

Working on Your Desktop50Opening and closing menusYou can activate any menu by saying the menu name.To open a menu:1 Open a program window (for exampl

User Guide51Selecting buttons, tabs, and optionsWhen Dragon is running, you can select any button, check box,text box, or other dialog box option you

Working on Your Desktop52Using Windows Desktop commandsYou can use voice commands to perform many actions on theWindows Desktop, as shown in the table

User Guide53Open the Windows SystemConfiguration Utility(msconfig)"Open System Configuration Utility"Open the Windows ControlPanel"Open

Working on Your Desktop54Selecting icons on the desktopYou can use voice commands to select icons on the Windows®desktop.To select an icon on the desk

User Guide552 Say the name of the icon (for example, “My Computer”).Dragon types the icon name and Windows®selects it.3 To select another icon, say “M

Introduction2About this guideThis guide covers all editions of Dragon. Most informationpresented applies to all the editions, and the manua notes anyd

Working on Your Desktop56“Click” is required for the Control menu commands.If you have trouble getting Dragon to recognize any of the windowcommands,

User Guide57Scrolling in windows and list boxesYou can scroll vertically in a window (for example, an onlineHelp window) or list box by saying “Move D

Working on Your Desktop58Pressing keyboard keysYou can activate Windows®menus and controls by pressingkeys. With Dragon you can “press” any key on you

User Guide59You can say “Press c” or “Press Charlie” but you cannot say“Press Cathy” or “Press Carl.”Capitalizing a letterYou can capitalize a letter

Working on Your Desktop60For example, to enter “28K” say “twenty eight” and then“Press Cap K” (or “Press Cap K for Karen”).Pressing numbersYou can pre

User Guide61Pressing function and numeric keypad keysTo press a function key (F1 to F12), say “Press Function” andthen the name of the key. For exampl

Working on Your Desktop62Pressing other keysHere’s a list of other keys you can press by voice:SAY THENPress Up ArrowDown ArrowRight ArrowLeft ArrowHo

User Guide63Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouseDragon provides hands-free mouse control with MouseGrid andthe mouse motion voice commands.

Working on Your Desktop64the Recycle Bin, say “4.” A smaller MouseGrid will appearin the chosen grid square.3 To zoom in over the desired area, say an

User Guide65To move the pointer:1 Say “Mouse” followed by the direction and number of timesto move it (up to 10). For example, say “Mouse Up 5” or“Mou

User Guide35 This guide also includes tips and notes to help you use thesoftware more effectively. Tips and notes appear like this:If you pause correc

Working on Your Desktop66Dragging the mouseYou can use the following movement commands if you select theEnable mouse motion commands check box on the

User Guide67Enabling the mouse motion commandsTo use the mouse motion commands:1 From the Tools menu on the DragonBar, choose Options andthen the Comm

Working on Your Desktop68or ALT key held down during the mouse drag, use one of thesecommands before saying one of the drag commands in thepreceding t

CHAPTER695Correcting and Editinghen Dragon NaturallySpeaking types the wrong words,you should correct these mistakes. By giving the programthe right w

Correcting and Editing70You can change the hot key assignment on the Hotkeys tab ofthe Options dialog box. You can also click the Correctionbutton on

User Guide71press the Correction hot key again. Playback continuesautomatically from the point where you stopped.5 Continue until all the text is corr

Correcting and Editing72in the last thing you said, you can just say "Select That."Dragon highlights the word or phrase, and the Correctionm

User Guide73Play That BackPlays back recorded dictation of the selected word or phrase.All Caps ThatCapitalizes the initial letter in the selected wor

Correcting and Editing74specify which command is used to bring it up, "Correct" or"Select."Correcting PunctuationNote the followin

User Guide752 Say “Select lunch on Tuesday.” The words lunch on Tuesdayshould be highlighted on the screen.3 Say “dinner on Wednesday.” These words sh

Introduction4Do I still need my keyboard and mouse?Although you can use Dragon to do almost everything on yourcomputer by voice, some things are still

Correcting and Editing76Selecting a longer phraseYou canselect a longer phrase by saying “Select [text] Through[text]” (US/Canada) or “Select [text] T

User Guide77your document. To remove a large selection, you can say “Delete That”instead.Selecting an entire paragraph or lineYou can select the curre

Correcting and Editing78Moving around in a documentWhen you’re editing a document, you can move around in it byvoice. After you place the insertion po

User Guide79Placing the insertion point before or after a specific wordYou can place the insertion point before a specific word bysaying “Insert Befor

Correcting and Editing80Moving right or left a word or characterYou can move to the right or left of a word by saying “MoveRight a Word” or “Move Left

User Guide81thing it typed into your document. This may be a full sentence, aphrase, or just one word, if that’s all you said before pausing.You can s

Correcting and Editing822 Say “Delete That.”You can also say “Scratch That” to do the same thing.Deleting the next or previous paragraph or lineYou ca

User Guide83Another way to delete the previous character is by saying“Backspace.” This is equivalent to pressing the BACKSPACE key. Youcan “press” it

Correcting and Editing84If you say “Spell” by itself, without any letters after it, the Spelldialog box opens.You can then speak the letters and Drago

User Guide85To dictate unusual text such as automobile license plate numbers orproduct codes, you can also switch to Spell mode by saying “Switch ToSp

CHAPTER52Installation and User ProfileCreationhis chapter presents how to install and set up Dragon, andthen how to train Dragon to understand your vo

Correcting and Editing86You can set up Dragon to play back dictation automaticallywhenever you open the Correction menu. On the Dragon menu,select Too

User Guide87To play back dictation:To play back dictation, do any of the following:n Select the text you want to play back, and say “Play ThatBack.”n

Correcting and Editing88To stop playback and correct a mistake:To stop playback and correct a mistake, do any of the following:n Click the Correction

User Guide89Correcting with your own user filesYou should use this correction technique if you regularly correctanother person’s text by voice and it

Correcting and Editing905 Use the buttons on the Extras toolbar to play back dictation.6 Select the text you want to correct by mouse or keyboard.7 Pr

User Guide91called MyDoc.rtf, Dragon saves your dictation in a file calledMyDoc.dra in the same directory as your document.Using text-to-speechYou can

Correcting and Editing92To stop text-to-speech, do one of the following:n From the NaturallySpeaking menu, point to Advanced andclick Stop Playback/Re

CHAPTER936Formattingou can bold text, change font sizes and styles, capitalizetext, and apply other formatting by voice.Many Dragon NaturallySpeaking

Formatting94Capitalizing textCapitalizing first letter of next word you dictateDragon capitalizes many words automatically, such as the firstword in a

User Guide952 Dictate the words you want capitalized. For example, say:“success is a journey [colon] seven steps to achievingsuccess in the business o