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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Installing and Training
- Starting to Dictate
- Correcting and Editing
- Formatting
- Capitalizing text
- Capitalizing the first letter of the next word you dictate
- Capitalizing consecutive words
- Dictating the next word in all capital letters
- Dictating consecutive words in all capital letters
- Dictating the next word in all lowercase letters
- Dictating consecutive words in all lowercase letters
- Capitalizing (or uncapitalizing) text already in your document
- Formatting text
- Capitalizing text
- Numbers and Punctuation
- Using E-Mail and Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Using Natural Language Commands
- Available Natural Language Commands
- The Sample Commands window
- The Command Browser
- Sample Commands
- Copying, moving, cutting, pasting, and deleting command samples
- Formatting command samples
- Spelling, grammar, and printing sample command samples
- Table sample command samples
- Microsoft Excel command samples
- Microsoft Outlook sample commands
- Microsoft PowerPoint sample commands
- America Online sample commands
- Hands-Free Computing
- Starting programs
- Opening documents and folders
- Switching between open windows
- Copying text to other programs
- Opening and closing menus
- Selecting buttons, tabs, and options
- Selecting icons on the desktop
- Resizing and closing windows
- Scrolling in windows and listboxes
- Pressing keyboard keys
- Activating commands by saying key names
- Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse
- Hands-free tips
- Automate Your Work
- Workflow
- Speaking and Dictating
- Improving Accuracy
- Healthy Computing
- Using a Handheld Recorder
- Customizing Dragon NaturallySpeaking
- Troubleshooting
- Commands List
- Which commands work in which programs?
- Controlling the microphone
- Controlling the DragonBar
- Controlling the DragonPad
- Adding paragraphs, lines, and spaces
- Selecting text
- Correcting text
- Deleting and undoing
- Moving around in a document
- Copying, cutting, and pasting text
- Capitalizing text
- Formatting text
- Entering numbers
- Entering punctuation and special characters
- Playing back and reading text
- Working with your desktop and windows
- E-mail commands
- Using Lotus Notes
- Using Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Working hands-free
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Which commands work in which programs?
- Index
CHAPTER 11
Workflow
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While your dictation is being played back, you can press the left arrow
key to back up, the right arrow key to go faster, and the down arrow key
to open the Correction menu.
Deferred correction
In Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
Professional and higher editions, you can
save your dictation along with the text of your document when dictating
in Microsoft
®
Word, Corel
®
WordPerfect
®
, and the DragonPad. This
feature, called deferred correction, lets you dictate now and correct later or
delegate correction to an assistant who can check the Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
®
transcription against the recording of your actual
dictation.
When you save a document in Microsoft
®
Word
®
, Corel
®
WordPerfect
®
,
or the DragonPad, you’ll be asked if you want to save the audio
recording of your speech. If you click Yes, Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
will create a file with the same name as your text document, but with the
extension “.dra.” This .dra file contains the audio. These audio files are
quite large. To conserve hard disk space, be sure to delete them when
they are no longer needed.
Because of memory constraints, Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
can play back
only your last 100 utterances (defined by the pauses in your speech). To increase the
amount of transcribed text you can play back, try speaking in longer phrases without
pausing for a breath or increase the “Pause between phrases” setting. (From the Tools
menu on the DragonBar, choose Options and click the Miscellaneous tab.)
If playback is unavailable
When Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
will not play back your recorded
voice, you still need to figure out what you said so that you can correct
your text.
Try pronouncing the misrecognized words aloud. The sound may
remind you of what the words were supposed to be. For example:
■ The program types: “…make sure speech patterns…”
■ Say it aloud to remember what you said: “…makes your speech
patterns…”
For complex or difficult dictation that would be hard to reconstruct, have
a handheld recorder running on your desk as you speak. This serves as a
backup recording of what you said. It’s time-consuming to go back and
NOTE