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
Dragon 12 Installation and User Guide
Message area
To the left of the menus is a messages display, which shows Dragon's current
status, such as whether the microphone is on or off. If you turn off "Show
messages" on the , the Extras toolbar shows in place of the Message area.
The menus
The menus on the DragonBar contain the commands you can use while working
in Dragon.
Extras toolbar icon
Click the icon or say "Show Extras Bar" to display the Extras toolbar, which
contains the following features:
Display Correction menu
Click the Correction button to stop playback and correct a mistake.
Playback controls
Use the controls to hear audio files of dictation:
n
Begin Playback
n
Stop Playback or Text-to-speech
n
Begin Rewind
n
Begin Fast Forward
Read That button
Click the Read That button to have Dragon read back a recording of your
dictation.
Transcribe button
Click the Transcribe button to open the , which you use to transcribe recordings
of dictation made on portable recorders.
Open User Profiles button
Displays the name of the current User Profile to the right of the Transcribe
button. Click on the User Profile name to open the . Note that this button
appears only when Dragon is docked to the top or bottom of your screen.
Notes
n Unless your computer is equipped with a full-duplex sound card, it's not
possible to stop playback by voice, because the computer can't hear
speech when it's playing back dictation.
n Playback is available for documents dictated with Microsoft Word, Corel
WordPerfect, and DragonPad. only until you close a document. After you
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