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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 13
Improving Accuracy
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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■ have the fastest available processor in your computer,
■ have at least 256 MB of RAM,
■ have a hard disk with enough free space,
■ work in a quiet room,
■ have no radio interference or electrical noise from power lines.
Many of these conditions are impossible to achieve. No voice, for
example, always sounds the same and no microphone reproduces sounds
100 percent accurately. Other items are impractical or unlikely to be
available at the same time.
Some practical ways to improve
accuracy
Speak clearly
Speaking clearly and articulating each word is essential to getting a high
level of accuracy. The truism “garbage in, garbage out” applies here.
The clearer your speech, the better Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
will
guess what you said. If you mumble and slur your words, you’ll get many
errors. (See “Speaking and Dictating” on page 153.)
Retrain
People’s voices change on different days and even within the same day.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
matches your sounds to a computer model
of your voice. The more your voice sounds differently from the model,
the more mistakes the program will make. You can’t make your voice
sound the same all the time, but it can be helpful to make Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
®
adapt its acoustic model to the way your voice
sounds at any given time by performing additional training. See “One
minute to fewer errors,” on page 165.
Keep the microphone in the same position
Each time you use Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
, keep the microphone
the same distance from your mouth. To review microphone placement,
see “Audio Setup” on page 18.