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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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Retrain
People’s voices change on different days and even within the same day.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
matches your sounds to a computer model
of your voice. The more your voice sounds differently from the model,
the more mistakes the program will make. You can’t make your voice
sound the same all the time, but it can be helpful to make Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
®
adapt its acoustic model to the way your voice
sounds at any given time by performing additional training. See “One
minute to fewer errors,” on page 155.
Keep the microphone in the same position
Each time you use Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
, keep the microphone
the same distance from your mouth. To review microphone placement,
see “Audio Setup” on page 16.
If Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
adds unwanted short words to your
dictation (such as “a,” “in,” and “of”), the microphone may be picking
up your breathing. Move the microphone closer to the corner of your
mouth rather than in front of your mouth. If the microphone is already at
the corner of your mouth, move it about an inch farther away from your
face. Also, check that the microphone cord is not rustling against your
clothes.
Use a good microphone
All microphones distort the sound of your voice as it’s transmitted to the
computer, but some microphones work much better than others, and
some combinations of microphones and sound cards work better than
others. Some people get significantly better accuracy by switching to a
different microphone. For a list of microphones certified to work with
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
, see the Web site listed on page 259.
Headset microphones tend to be more accurate than handheld
microphones, which tend to move around more relative to your mouth.
This makes your voice sound less consistent to Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
®
.
You might also try switching to a USB microphone. A USB microphone
includes its own sound hardware, bypassing your computer’s sound card.