12.0
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
3. After the Wizard begins, click Next to proceed to the License Agreement
page. Read the text and select I accept the terms..., then click Next.
4. Enter your User Name and Organization, and the Serial Number supplied to
your installation.
5. (Optional) When the Setup Type page appears, click the Change button and
choose where to install the product.
If no earlier versions of Dragon are installed on your system, the default
directory is:
C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking12
For a list of directories created by installation, see Version 12 File Structure.
6. While you are still on the Setup Type page, select Typical.
7. Click Install to start the installation.
8. When prompted, click Finish to complete the installation. (If you are
prompted to restart your computer, restart it now.)
9. Select Start > All Programs > Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 > Dragon Nat-
urallySpeaking 12. The DragonBar appears on your desktop.
10. (optional) If you have users from Version 10.x or 11.x that you would like to
upgrade before proceeding, refer to Upgrading User Profiles.
11. If you have no previously existing users, the Profile Creation wizard starts
immediately after you run the product. Proceed to Creating your User Profile
to set up a User Profile, then continue as instructed, to train that user pro-
file.
You are now ready to create a User Profile, as explained under Creating your
User Profile.
Installing Software - Custom Installation
To install portions of Dragon or to install it for multiple user profiles:
1. Insert the Dragon DVD into your DVD drive.
If the installation does not start automatically, use Windows Explorer to find
and double-click setup.exe on the DVD.
Note: Windows Vista: When you start the installation on Windows Vista, you
may see the message saying A program needs your permission to continue.
Click Continue to start the installation.
2. After the Windows Installer begins, it installs:
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