Specifications

Dragon Installation and User Guide
n Dragoncanauto-formattextandnumbersusingstandardwritingconventionsorapply
WordPropertiestowordsasyoudictate.Forinformationaboutthesesettings,see
Auto-formattingdialogboxandTheWordPropertiesdialogbox.
n Dragon'sSmartFormatRulesappearwhenyoucorrectauto-formattedalphanumeric
textorWordPropertiesusingtheCorrectionmenu,theSpellingwindow,orthe
keyboard.Fordetails,seeUsingSmartFormatRulesandSettingAuto-Formatting
Options.
Adding words or phrases to your Vocabulary
IfDragonNaturallySpeakinggetsawordwrong,itmaybethatthewordisnotinDragon's
Vocabulary.Whenthisisthecase,youcanusethefollowingproceduretoaddthatwordso
thatitisrecognizedinthefuture.
To add individual words
1. Dooneofthefollowing:
l ClickVocabulary>AddNewWordorPhraseontheNewDragonBarorClassic
DragonBar.
l Say"SwitchtoDragonBar"then"Vocabulary"then"AddNewWordorPhrase".
2. IntheAddWordorPhrasedialogbox,spell(byvoice)ortypethewordyouwanttoadd.
3. IncludeaSpokenformofthenewwordifnecessary.Forexample,ifthewordcontainsan
accent,suchas"Gaspé,"youwouldaddaSpokenformlike"gaspay"sothatDragon
recognizesthepronunciationandenterstheWrittenformwhenyoudictatetheword.
4. Optionally,select"Iwanttotrainthepronunciationofthiswordorphrase".
5. ClickAdd.
If you chose to train the word, the word you entered appears in the Train Words
dialog box, and you will be able to teach Dragon NaturallySpeaking your
pronunciation of that word.
See also Automatically add words to Vocabulary in the Dragon Help.
Using punctuation with written and spoken forms
Ifthewrittenformofawordcontainsanypunctuation,youshouldprovideaspokenformso
thatthereisnodoubtastohowtheitemwillbepronounced.Donotuseabbreviations,
symbolsorpunctuationinthespokenform.
Examples:
Written form Spoken form
TheManfromU.N.C.L.E. themanfromuncle
Soddy-Daisy,TN SoddyDaisyTennessee
Trenton-MercerAirport TrentonMercerAirport
IfyouwanttoaddpunctuationtoawordthatalreadyexistsintheVocabularyforuseina
specificsetting,youcancreateanewwrittenformwiththepunctuationincludedandaunique
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