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Correcting and Editing
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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To use Select-and-Say
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:
1 Dictate the sentence below:
US/Canada: Let’s meet for lunch on Tuesday [period]
Other Dialects: Let’s meet for lunch on Tuesday [full stop]
2 Say “Select lunch on Tuesday.” The words “lunch on Tuesday”
should be highlighted on the screen.
3 Say “dinner on Wednesday.” These words should replace “lunch on
Tuesday.”
Since “Tuesday” and “Wednesday” sound completely different,
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
will know you are not correcting a
recognition mistake but rather revising your dictated text.
You can also select punctuation marks.
4
Say: “Select period” (US/Canada) or “Select full stop” (Other
Dialects). If there’s more than one period or full stop, you can say
“Select Again” to select a different one.
5 To replace the period or full stop with an exclamation mark, say
“exclamation mark.”
It is often easier for Dragon NaturallySpeaking to find the matching
text if you select a short phrase rather than individual words. If you select
some words that are already correct, just say them again along with the ones
you want to change.
Selecting the same text again
If the words you’re trying to select appear more than once on the
screen and Dragon NaturallySpeaking selects the wrong ones, just say
“Select Again.” The program then looks for another instance of the
same word or words.
You can also say “Select Again” if Dragon NaturallySpeaking selects a
word that sounds like the word you want, but is not the correct one (for
example, “two” instead of “too”).
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