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Starting to Dictate
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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Turning on the microphone
Before you can dictate, you need to turn on the microphone. You turn
on the microphone by:
■ Click the microphone icon on the DragonBar. You can click this
icon again to turn it off.
■ Pressing the plus (+) key on the numeric keypad to turn the
microphone on, and then press it again to turn the microphone off.
■ Clicking the microphone icon in the Windows task bar.
The button and the volume meter on the DragonBar change to show if
the microphone is off or on.
Once the microphone is off, you cannot turn it on again by voice.
Sleeping and waking up
To make Dragon NaturallySpeaking stop listening temporarily:
1 Say "Go to Sleep" or "Stop Listening."
Dragon NaturallySpeaking ignores everything except the "Wake
Up" or "Listen To Me" commands.
2 To reactivate the microphone, say "Wake Up" or "Listen To Me."
You can also press the numeric (+) key to turn on the microphone.
Shows that the microphone is off
Shows that the microphone is on
Microphone
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