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Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Installation and Training
- Starting to Dictate
- Working on your Desktop
- Programs, documents and folders
- Switching between open windows
- Opening and closing menus
- Selecting buttons, tabs, and options
- Selecting icons on the desktop
- Resizing and closing windows
- Scrolling in windows and list boxes
- Opening lists and making selections
- Pressing keyboard keys
- Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse
- 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
- Working with Applications
- Dictating Names, Numbers, Punctuation & Special Characters
- Using the Command Browser
- Improving Accuracy
- Managing Users
- Setting Up Roaming Users
- Using Portable Recorders (Preferred and Professional)
- Automate Your Work (Preferred and Professional)
- Customizing Dragon NaturallySpeaking
- Version 8 File Structure
- MSI Installation Options
- Index
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Customizing Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide 185
"Wake Up" or "Listen to Me" before Dragon NaturallySpeaking will recognize
dictation or other commands.
■ Launch DragonPad: Opens DragonPad when Dragon NaturallySpeaking first
starts.
User Close
■ Automatically save user files: Saves your user files when exiting Dragon
NaturallySpeaking without displaying a dialog box asking you to confirm that
you want the user files saved.
Other options
■ Speed vs. Accuracy: Adjusts the number of words and phrases that the program
examines in order to find a word match. The more words examined, the greater
the possibility of an accurate match at the expense of using more memory and
taking a longer time to recognize your speech. You can use the Speed vs.
Accuracy slider to influence the performance of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. As
a general rule, you should move the slider farther to the right on faster
machines than on slower ones.
■ Use screen reader compatible menus: Allows a screen reader to read menu
items out loud to vision-impaired users. Some screen readers have trouble
reading menus unless this option is turned on. If this option is on, the small
icons next to menu items will disappear.
■ Use Active Accessibility for menu and dialog control: Specifies that Dragon
NaturallySpeaking should use Microsoft Active Accessibility features, which
are required by some versions of Windows to control the menus and dialog
boxes of certain applications by voice.
This option is dimmed if Active Accessibility is not installed or if your version
of Windows does not require it. Changing this option affects all users.
■ Launch in QuickStart mode on Windows startup: Allows Dragon
NaturallySpeaking to load in the background when you start your computer or
log in to your operating system, depending on your version of Windows. When
Dragon NaturallySpeaking is launched in QuickStart mode the microphone
icon appears in the system tray. When you start Dragon NaturallySpeaking in
QuickStart mode, it is available for use more quickly than when you start it in
normal mode.
Restore defaults
Clicking the Restore defaults button restores the values of the Miscellaneous tab to
what they were when you installed Dragon NaturallySpeaking.