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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 3
Starting to Dictate
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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Click the microphone button to turn the microphone on. The button
and the volume meter next to it change to show if the microphone is off
or on.
▲ Off—the computer can’t hear you.
▲ On—the computer is listening. It will type whatever it hears.
Dictate a sentence about the weather. Or read this:
I am now able to talk to my computer!
(Say “exclamation point” for “!”).
Go ahead and dictate whatever you like. Remember to say punctuation.
Here is what to say for the most common punctuation marks. (For a
complete list of punctuation, see page 250.)
Did it work?
If no words appear, check that the microphone is plugged in
correctly and is turned on (by pressing the microphone button on
the DragonBar, as described above). If only one or two words appear,
your microphone may be set up incorrectly or your sound settings
may need to be changed. See page 221 for instructions on how to
test your sound system.
If words did appear, but many are not what you said, that’s okay.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
will improve as you use it.
TO ENTE R SAY (US/Canada) SAY (Other Dialects)
,commacomma
. period full stop
! exclamation point or
exclamation mark
exclamation mark