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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
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Tools to improve your vocabulary
Each of the next group of commands in the Accuracy Center lets you
add words to your vocabulary. When Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
analyzes what you say, it uses a statistical model of what words tend to go
together and what words you use most often. The built-in model in
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
is designed for personal and general
business writing. The software works best “out-of-the-box” when you
dictate business letters, memos, and other documents of similar
language. If you dictate a laboratory report or a poem, Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
®
will tend to make relatively more errors.
For best accuracy, you need to show Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
samples of the types of documents you write and the words you use most
often. The tools in the “Improve your vocabulary” section of the
Accuracy Center let Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
learn your writing style
and specific words that you use. Using these tools affects the software’s
estimates of how often words are used but does not change the acoustic
model of how your voice sounds.
Add a single word to your vocabulary
Sometimes there may be a name, abbreviation, part number, or other
word you use that Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
does not know. To add
any word to the vocabulary, click “Add a single word to your vocabulary”
in the Accuracy Center. In the Add Individual Word dialog box that
appears, type the word you want to add and click Add.
To teach Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
the pronunciation of the new word
you added, select the check box “I want to train the pronunciation of
this word” before clicking Add, as shown in the illustration above.
You can also access the Add Individual Word dialog box by clicking New from
the Words menu on the DragonBar.
NOTE