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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 12
Speaking and Dictating
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide 149
■ Using speech recognition can be a good way to get over writer’s
block. Imagine you’re telling a friend what’s next, then tell the
computer.
Summary: learning to dictate
1 Read to the computer to get used to talking to it. Review the tips on how
to speak to Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
to get the best possible accuracy
while reading.
2 Compose simple sentences about the weather, then move on to dictating
notes to friends.
3 Outline a letter or memo several paragraphs long. Dictate the letter from
start to finish based on the outline.
Henry James also dictated
Author Henry James wrote his novels longhand—until 1896. Pain in
his right wrist, probably from writer’s cramp, led him to hire a
stenographer so that he could write aloud. The switch to dictation
changed his style. Wrote a biographer, “the spoken voice was to be
heard henceforth in James’s prose, not only in the rhythm and
ultimate perfection of his verbal music, but in his use of
colloquialisms, and in a greater indulgence in metaphor.” Friends
claimed they could pinpoint the exact chapter in What Maisie Knew
when handwriting ended and dictation began (from Henry James: A
Life, by Leon Edel).