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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Installing and Training
- Starting to Dictate
- 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
- Numbers and Punctuation
- Using E-Mail and Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Using Natural Language Commands
- Hands-Free Computing
- 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
- Activating commands by saying key names
- Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse
- Hands-free tips
- Automate Your Work
- Workflow
- Speaking and Dictating
- Improving Accuracy
- Healthy Computing
- Using a Handheld Recorder (Preferred edition only)
- Customizing Dragon NaturallySpeaking
- Troubleshooting
- Commands List
- Which commands work in which programs?
- Controlling the microphone
- Controlling the DragonBar
- Controlling the DragonPad
- Adding paragraphs, lines, and spaces
- Selecting text
- Correcting text
- Deleting and undoing
- Moving around in a document
- Copying, cutting, and pasting text
- Capitalizing text
- Formatting text
- Entering numbers
- Entering punctuation and special characters
- Playing back and reading text (Available in Preferred edition only)
- Working with your desktop and windows
- E-mail commands
- Using Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Working hands-free
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Which commands work in which programs?
- Index
CHAPTER 11
Workflow
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide 141
When proofreading with the help of a recorder, stop the recording while
correcting a mistake and then move on. The amount of time required to
proofread your document depends, of course, on the number of errors as
well as your typing speed. The key to efficiency here is to keep your
hands on the keyboard and use keystrokes, not the mouse, to correct
(see “Ways to correct your dictation” on page 136).
Text-to-speech (Preferred edition only)
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
can read any text to you in a synthesized
voice, which some people find helpful for proofreading. This feature,
available in Microsoft
®
Word, Corel
®
WordPerfect
®
, the DragonPad, and
some other applications, is called text-to-speech.
To use text-to-speech, select the text you want Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
®
to read. Then do one of the following:
■ Say “Read That.”
■ From the Sound menu on the DragonBar, click Read That.
You can also have parts of the text read to you by saying any of the
following commands:
■ “Read Line”
■ “Read Paragraph”
■ “Read Document”
■ “Read Window” (only the words in view)
■ “Read To Here” (read from the top of the window to the insertion
point)
■ “Read From Here” (read from the insertion point to the bottom of the
window)
To stop Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
as it reads, press the ESC key or
click the Stop Playback button on the Extras toolbar on the
DragonBar. You cannot stop playback of text-to-speech by voice. To
change the sound of the synthesized voice, use the options on the Text-
to-speech tab of the Options dialog box (see page 205).
On most computers, you cannot give Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
voice
commands while the program is reading to you or playing sound back. This is because
most sound cards cannot listen to you at the same time that they are playing sound.
NOTE