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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About This Guide
- Introducing Dragon NaturallySpeaking
- Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully
- Improving Your Speech Recognition
- Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation
- Editing and Revising Text
- Working With Your Desktop and Windows
- 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
- Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse
- Working With E-Mail and the Web
- Managing Users
- Creating Your Own Dragon NaturallySpeaking Commands
- Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List
- Index
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Improving Your Speech
Recognition
Working with the Dragon
NaturallySpeaking vocabulary
If Dragon NaturallySpeaking gets a word wrong, it could be that the
word is not in the program’s
vocabulary
. When this is the case, you need
to teach Dragon NaturallySpeaking the new word so that it can
recognize it when you say it.
This chapter talks about the vocabulary used by Dragon
NaturallySpeaking, which contains both active words and backup words.
Version 5 has quick and easy ways to add new words to your vocabulary.
As well as adding words when correcting mistakes, you can now:
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add an individual word
■
add words from documents
■
create dictation shortcuts for frequently used text (Preferred and
higher editions)
Dragon NaturallySpeaking also offers more powerful tools for more
advanced vocabulary building. Vocabulary Builder™ (see page 44) and
Vocabulary Editor™ (see page 41) give you more control for customizing
your vocabulary. In Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional and higher
editions, you can create, import, and export multiple vocabularies. See
the section on “Managing vocabularies” on page 54 for details.
The next section discusses how to train Dragon NaturallySpeaking to
recognize problem words, including voice commands. Finally, the
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