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Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1: What's New in Dragon Version 12
- Chapter 2: Installing Dragon
- Installation and User Profile Creation
- Dragon system requirements
- What you should know before installing
- Installation Prerequisites
- Installing Software - Typical Installation
- Installing Software - Custom Installation
- Modifying application settings for all users
- Modifying formatting options for all users
- Creating your user profile
- Setting up, positioning, and checking your microphone
- Training a new user profile
- Adapting to your writing style and scheduling tuning
- How Dragon automatically configures user profiles
- Upgrading User Profiles
- Version 12 File Structure
- Accessing log files, samples, and tools
- Activating Dragon
- Chapter 3: Getting Started
- Chapter 4: Dictating Text
- Dictation Basics
- Undoing actions
- Correcting text errors as you dictate
- Dictation commands
- Typing or spelling text
- Spelling words
- Dictating numbers
- Using the Dictation Box
- Using the Dictation Box
- Using Dictation Box in unsupported applications
- Turning off the Dictation Box
- Unsupported applications
- Transferring your text
- The Full Text Control Indicator
- Dictating in unknown text fields
- Editing text in unknown text fields
- Defining how the Dictation Box works in different applications
- Unexpected behavior or text in the Dictation Box
- Dictation Box Settings
- Using DragonPad
- Chapter 5: Making Corrections
- Chapter 6: Revising Text
- Chapter 7: Working in Programs
- Chapter 8: Working with Web applications
- Using Rich Internet Application extensions
- Browser requirements for Web application support
- Enabling Web application support
- How to tell if Web application support is active
- Using Gmail
- Using Hotmail
- Editing text in a supported Web application
- Using Dragon's Web capabilities without RIA
- If you have problems using Web application support
- Chapter 9: Working with Web browsers
- Chapter 10: Working on Your Desktop
- Starting and exiting programs
- Using Windows Desktop commands
- Controlling menus
- Selecting buttons and dialog box options
- Selecting tabs in a dialog box
- Resizing and closing windows
- Selecting and opening icons
- Scrolling in windows and lists
- Searching your Desktop by voice
- Switching between programs and windows
- Chapter 11: Controlling the Mouse and Keyboard
- Chapter 12: Improving recognition accuracy
- Top 10 ways to improve accuracy
- Using Smart Format Rules
- Adjusting Speed vs. Accuracy
- The Dragon Accuracy Center
- Recognition Modes
- Teaching Dragon to Understand You Better
- Personalizing your Dragon Vocabulary
- About personalizing your Vocabulary
- Adding words or phrases to your Vocabulary
- Using punctuation with written and spoken forms
- Learning from specific documents
- Importing lists of words or phrases
- Adding words with the Spelling window
- Learn From Sent E-mails
- Adding contact names to the Vocabulary
- Deleting words
- Using the Don't Recognize That Word Command
- Managing Vocabularies
- Chapter 13: Using the Command Browser
- Chapter 14: The Dragon Glossary
- Index
Chapter 1: What's New in Dragon Version 12
Microsoft Excel, WordPerfect, Notepad, and Dragon NaturallySpeaking
for Windows.
Optimization reminders:
Give your vocabulary a tune-up
Dragon can now help you to improve its accuracy and speed by using a new
reminder window that prompts you to scan your local computer system and
adapt your vocabulary based on words and writing styles in typical documents
and your sent e-mail messages. By learning words and typical phrasing that
you use, dictation can be faster and more accurate. See Let Dragon learn from
documents and messages in the Dragon Help.
Also, the two Dragon Vocabulary tools that you'll be using to make these
improvements – the former Increase Accuracy From E-Mail and Add Words
From Documents tools – are renamed in this release as "Learn From Sent E-
mails" and "Learn From Specific Documents." In addition to the reminder
option, you can click Tools on the DragonBar to run them when you choose.
Optimizing the Language model:
Make Dragon smarter
Dragon also provides an option to save language model information when you
save your user profile. The Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer
accumulates this data from session to session and Dragon prompts you to
save your language model periodically. The first prompt appears the day after
you create your profile and then a week later.
BestMatch V speech model:
Maximize your computer's resources
If you have a computer with two or more processors and other required
resources, Dragon automatically selects the BestMatch V speech model for
you when you create your user profile. BestMatch V performs two recognition
passes in parallel and, for U.S. English profiles, assigns the Medium
vocabulary. See About speech and acoustic models in the Dragon Help.
Enhanced Bluetooth wireless support:
Dragon supports the best new devices
Dragon now takes advantage of wideband Bluetooth to provide higher wireless
accuracy compared to 8 kHz Bluetooth.
If you plug in the USB adaptor for a certified wideband Bluetooth microphone,
such as the Plantronics “Calisto II” BT-300, before you open Dragon, the list of
audio sources on the New User wizard and the New Dictation Source dialog
box will contain the option “Enhanced Bluetooth.”
NOTE
If you are upgrading a user profile for use with a 16 kHz Bluetooth microphone,
you must add the microphone to the profile as a new dictation source.
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