8.0
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
5
Correcting and Editing
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide 55
If dictation is not available, the Play Back button is dimmed (grayed out). When
playback is not available, you may find text-to-speech useful for checking your
work. See “Using text-to-speech” on page 58.
Playing back dictation in a document
To help you check your work for mistakes, you can play back a line, a paragraph, a
selection, or the whole document. After playback starts, you can stop it as soon as
you notice a mistake and automatically open the Correction menu.
The Playback toolbar is an extra section of the DragonBar that is normally hidden.
To see the Playback toolbar, click the double chevron icon on the DragonBar to
open the Extras toolbar (Preferred and higher editions).
To play back dictation:
To play back dictation, do any of the following:
■ Select the text you want to play back, and say “Play That Back.”
■ Click the Start Playback button on the Playback toolbar.
■ Move the insertion point to the text you want to play back and say any of the
following commands:
To stop playback:
To stop playback, do any of the following:
■ Click the Stop Playback button on the Playback toolbar.
■ Click anywhere in the document window.
■ Press the ESC key.
SAY TO
Play Back Line Play back dictation for the current line.
Play Back Paragraph Play back dictation for the current paragraph.
Play Back Document Play back dictation for the whole document.
Play Back Window Play back dictation for the text in view.
Play Back to Here Play back dictation from the top of the document
window to the insertion point.
Play Back from Here Play back dictation from the insertion point to the
bottom of the document window.
Correction
Start Playback Skip ForwardStop Playback
Fast Playback Skip Back Transcribe