6.0
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
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
216
Slow performance
Symptom: The performance of Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
is very slow
in general. The computer lags far behind your dictation. Accuracy may
also be very low (less than 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, so that Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
must spend
processing time filtering the noise.
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 (see 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.
In Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
version 6, it is possible to gain speed by creating a
new user and choosing a vocabulary that is smaller than the recommended one. To do
this, create a new user (from the NaturallySpeaking
®
menu on the DragonBar, choose
Open/Manage Users, then click New). From the first screen of the New User Wizard that
appears (as shown on page 14), click the Advanced button. In the Advanced dialog box
that appears, from the Vocabulary Size list choose a smaller vocabulary than the
recommended vocabulary size.
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