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Exercise 2: Dictate the following address. For the line containing the zip code, just say Oakland California 9
1 2 3 5; Dragon automatically uses the postal abbreviation for the state, and precedes it with a comma.
127 Evergreen Terrace
Oakland, CA 91235
Exercise 3: Dictate the following dates. (Dragon automatically formats when you say, for instance, “Monday
July 16
th
2009”.
Tip: You can change the default date format to one of the many formats offered on the Auto-Formatting
options dialog.
Monday, July 16, 2009 10/15/09 (say slash) 11-7-2013 (say hyphen)
Exercise 4: Dictate the following sentence, or a similar one containing a price. Read the price as forty dollars
and ninety cents; Dragon will automatically format it with the dollar sign and dot.
Suggested retail price: $40.95
Exercise 5: Dictate the following sentence, or a similar one containing a URL. Pronounce the URL w w w dot
the best business dot com. Dragon will automatically remove the spaces between words.
Please visit www.thebestbusiness.com for more information.
Exercise 6: Dictate the following e-mail addresses. (Remember: for e-mail addresses you frequently dictate,
adding them to your vocabulary will ensure that you can dictate them very quickly and with high accuracy.)
[e-mail] (say “Laura underscore Miller” and “at” or “at sign”)
[e-mail] (“customer service at sign electrical experts dot com”)
The Restricted Recognition Modes
There may be times when you wish to do a special kind of dictation, giving only commands, or only dictation,
or entering many numbers or characters in a row—when inputting figures or product codes into a database, for
instance.
Version 11 of Dragon includes a persistent indication of the current recognition mode on the DragonBar (next to
the Full Text Control checkmark).
Take a moment to explore Dragon’s restricted recognition modes, which include Numbers Mode, Spell Mode,
Command Mode and Dictation Mode. (Please see the Help for details beyond the ones below.)
TIP Dictation Mode can be helpful if you want to dictate as quickly as possible.
Numbers Mode -- Dictating Numbers Exclusively
When you are about to dictate a sequence of numeric data, consider switch on Dragon’s Numbers Mode. When
in this mode, the software tries to recognize everything it hears as number-related (or as a command).