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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 17
Troubleshooting
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Solution: There is no solution—you can select by voice only in supported
applications.
Very low accuracy
Symptom: Recognition accuracy is very low (less than about 80 percent).
Causes: This might be due to other programs competing with Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
®
for system resources. Or, your sound signal may be
of poor quality.
Solutions:
■ Be sure that the microphone element is pointed toward your mouth
(take off the windscreen to check).
■ Reduce or eliminate background noise.
■ See “Testing your sound system” above (page 211) to check your
microphone and sound card.
■ Turn off other software programs that may be running in the
background, such as appointment reminder programs and antivirus
software, to see if this helps the problem.
Problems with added words
Symptom: Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
types words that you didn’t say,
even when you’re not speaking.
Cause: The program is hearing sounds that it interprets as words.
Solutions:
■ Move the microphone toward the corner of your mouth.
■ If the microphone is already at the corner of your mouth, move it
further away (outward) from your mouth.
■ Clip the microphone cord to your shirt or tuck it in your belt so it
doesn’t rustle against your clothes.
■ Reduce background noise.
■ Check that your sound system is not introducing static. See “Testing
your sound system” on page 211. If you have a laptop, test it when
operating from batteries alone as well as from an electrical outlet.