10.0

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Starting to Dictate

ow that you’ve installed the software and completed

training, you’re ready to dictate your first sentence.

Starting Dragon

If Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Medical is not already

running, you can start it by:

You can start Dragon over a Remote Desktop connection

(Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home), but interactive

dictation is not supported. Using a Remote Desktop connection, you can

access the DragonBar and transcribe dictation but you cannot use a

microphone attached to the remote machine to dictate.

■ Double-clicking the Dragon icon on the

desktop.

■ Selecting Programs > Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.0 >

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.0 from the Start menu.

■ If the QuickStart option is enabled, right-clicking the

QuickStart taskbar tray icon and selecting Start

Dragon NaturallySpeaking. For more on using the

QuickStart option, see Using QuickStart on page 48.

NOTE: