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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 183
Background noise
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
performs best in a quiet room. In a noisy
office, accuracy may decrease slightly, though the program will still be
useful. For best results, train (or retrain) your user files in the same
environment in which you’ll be dictating.
Electrical interference
In some cases, noise in a building’s electrical wiring will generate static
in your computer’s sound card. Few desktop users encounter this
problem; it’s mostly limited to laptops, which have less isolation of
power source and sound card. If your laptop is performing slowly or
inaccurately, try unplugging it and run it only from battery power to
eliminate possible interference from the building wiring. Also, switch to
a USB microphone, if you are not already using one.
Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
with other
software
When dictating into your word processor with no other programs
running, your computer’s power is dedicated to processing your speech.
If other programs are also open, your computer must divide its
processing power between processing your speech and other tasks. Some
programs use more computing resources than others. The performance
of Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
may vary depending on how many other
programs are open, what programs they are, and the speed and memory
in your computer. You may want to experiment to see if Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
®
performs differently depending on what other
programs are open.
Some programs that use system resources run in the background,
without appearing in an on-screen window. Antivirus software and
“reminder” alarm clock programs are among the programs in this
category. In some cases, these types of programs will affect the
performance of Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
.