10.0

User Guide
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To advance through the first two screens, you must say the
sentences without pausing. For the rest of the screens, it’s okay to pause
in the middle of a sentence.
When the words change color, it means the computer has
heard and recognized them.
2 If you re-read the same words and the computer still doesn’t
get it, just click Skip. Otherwise, click Next to continue.
3 Choose a text to read aloud and click OK.
You only need to read for about five minutes to train Dragon
to recognize your voice.
You can take breaks during this training by clicking Pause.
Don’t worry if you make mistakes or laugh. You should try to
read exactly what you see on the screen, but it’s okay if you
read something incorrectly. The computer either ignores the
mistake or positions the yellow arrow at the beginning of the
text for you to reread it.
The progress bar shows how much text is left to dictate.
During training, dictating punctuation is not necessary.
4
When you’ve read enough, the New User Wizard displays a
congratulations message. Click OK and Dragon starts
adapting to your voice.
5 Proceed to Adapting to your writing style on page 25.
Adapting to your writing style
After it adapts to your voice, the New User Wizard prompts you
to adapt Dragon to your writing style.
Dragon can analyze your writing style to increase your overall
recognition accuracy. This tool scans documents in your My
Documents directory—Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, text
files, html files, and rich text files (.rtf).
Adapting to your writing style can add 5 to 30 minutes to user
training. Close all other programs when you run this step.
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