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Dragon 12 Installation and User Guide
7. Turn off what you don't use Visit the Performance Assistant for useful
strategies for optimizing accuracy and speed with Dragon. For example, you
can turn off the ability to "voice-click" menus, buttons and other controls in
some or all programs, or the ability to open items from the Windows Start
menu or desktop. Turning off these options reduces Dragon's use of com-
puter resources and reduces the possibility of isolated words or phrases
being executed as commands, such as "Click Send" or "Open Network."
8. Use Smart Format Rules to have Dragon recognize when you change a
custom or built-in auto-formatting option or word property for alphanumeric
text or a word. Dragon automatically applies formatting to many common
spoken forms of text, such as Web and e-mail addresses, street addresses,
dates, numbers, units of measure, and so on. The Smart Format Rules fea-
ture recognizes your changes to rules and offers to customize the settings to
suit your needs as you work. You can also add custom word properties to
words to make Dragon's text entry more intuitive and efficient. By setting
word properties, you specify a variety of options that can be associated with
vocabulary entries. You can specify that a word be preceded or followed by
specific characters and customize properties for placement or handling. For
example, question marks and exclamation marks have default properties of
"Precede by (nothing)" and "Format the next word capitalized."
Or, you can specify one or more for words. If the Use Alternate Written Form
checkbox is selected for "meter," when you dictate the word after a number
Dragon enters only "m." For example, of the Alternate Written Form check-
box is not selected, and you dictate "meter," Dragon types the full word,
"meter."
9. Make corrections You can prevent many errors using the methods listed
above, but if an error does happen, correcting it will help Dragon to learn.
Redictating or retyping words or phrases are sometimes the fastest
approach, but Dragon provides a lot of flexibility about how and when you cor-
rect errors.
10. Save your user profile Remember that as Dragon works on your documents
with you, it needs to save what it learns. Whenever you correct dictation with
the keyboard, train words, or perform any of the other accuracy optimization
operations, you must to save your user profile to save your changes for your
next dictation session.
Using Smart Format Rules
Smart Format Rules may display when Dragon notices that you corrected
dictated text corresponding to an Auto-Formatting option or Word Property.
Through this optional feature, Dragon displays reaches out to offer one or more
adjustments to its settings.
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