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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 13
Improving Accuracy
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide 155
Launch the Command Browser
Click this link in the Accuracy Center to display the Command Browser,
the tool that lets you see all the commands available in your edition of
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
. In the Command Browser, you can train
commands and also create new commands customized to speed up your
work. (Available in Preferred edition only.) For more information on the
Command Browser, see page 96.
One minute to fewer errors
People’s speech can sound somewhat differently on different days
and at different times. A voice, for example, may sound more
gravelly in the morning than in the afternoon and more nasal in the
summer than in the winter. Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
, however,
gives the best results if your voice consistently sounds the same. To
improve accuracy, retrain the program for a minute or two so it
recognizes how your voice sounds right then. This is the easiest and
fastest way to improve accuracy.
To retrain, from the Tools menu on the DragonBar, click Accuracy
Center. In the Accuracy Center, click “Perform additional training.”
Next, select a text to read from the list shown. Then click Record
and read the on-screen passages. This process is just like training
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
the first time. In this case, though, you
do not need to spend a long time reading. Just read for a minute or
two—about ten paragraphs. Click Finish and Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
®
will save your user files, newly adjusted to how
your voice sounds at this time. You should experience better
accuracy right away. Do this whenever Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
is making more errors than usual.
Note that to use this “one-minute training,” you must have
completed the full twenty-minute training once. Completing only
the five-minute initial training you did when you first created your
user file is not sufficient and the Finish button will be dimmed
(unavailable) until you complete the full training.