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Table of Contents
Goals and Prerequisites ......................................................................................................................................................... iii
Efficiency and Hands-Free Usage ........................................................................................................................... iii
Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................................................... iv
Creating a User Profile ............................................................................................................................................................. 1
Connecting and positioning your microphone ........................................................................................................ 2
Creating your Profile .................................................................................................................................................. 3
About audio sources, including smartphones and recorders ............................................................................... 5
A first opportunity to adapt your profile’s vocabulary ........................................................................................ 8
Scheduling Dragon's periodic tasks .......................................................................................................................... 8
Before your profile opens — caution with desktop icons ..................................................................................... 9
Important options: Natural Language Commands and Speed vs. Accuracy .................................................... 10
Learning More and Getting Help........................................................................................................................................... 12
The Dragon User's Guide .......................................................................................................................................... 15
The Tutorial ............................................................................................................................................................... 15
The Accuracy Center and Accuracy Assistant ...................................................................................................... 12
The Help and the Performance Assistant ............................................................................................................. 12
The Dragon Sidebar: “What Can I Say” ................................................................................................................. 13
Why Personalizing the Vocabulary is Important ................................................................................................................ 17
Customizing the Vocabulary—Using the Vocabulary Editor ............................................................................................. 18
Adding Vocabulary Entries: Words, Phrases, Acronyms… .................................................................................. 18
The importance of Spoken Forms .......................................................................................................................... 19
Deleting “Words” and Modifying Word Properties .............................................................................................. 22
Importing Lists of Vocabulary Entries .................................................................................................................................. 25
Customizing the Vocabulary from Existing Documents .................................................................................................... 27
Customizing the Vocabulary from Your E-Mail ................................................................................................................... 30
Starting to Dictate: Controlling the Microphone ............................................................................................................... 32
The DragonBar and the Microphone Icon .............................................................................................................. 32
The Microphone’s Commands and Sleep State .................................................................................................... 34
The Importance of Hot Keys, including Microphone On/Off ............................................................................. 35
Starting to Dictate: Your First Dictation ............................................................................................................................. 36
Dictating Text and Punctuation Marks .................................................................................................................. 36