13.0

Learning More and Getting Help

Dragon NaturallySpeaking offers so many tools, commands, and features that it would be impossible to cover

them all in detail in this workbook. This lesson presents several ways to find more information as you start using

the software—be sure to take advantage of the available resources!

Please see the card that comes in the Dragon NaturallySpeaking box. It includes important notes about installing

Dragon as well as sample lists of commands and what you can say to dictate special characters, times, dates,

postal codes and more. (The latest version of this quick reference guide is available for download on the Nuance

website.)

The Accuracy Center

The most important features of Dragon are accessible directly from the DragonBar's menus. The Accuracy Center

offers a central location to access many of them and get guidance on which one to use when.

Step 1: Say Open Accuracy Center. You can also click the DragonBar’s Help menu (or say Switch to

DragonBar then say Click Help) then Improve my Accuracy.

Step 2: Click the link that interests you. You can also say its name immediately preceded by the word "click”.

("Require 'click' for HTML" is an option enabled by default, to help prevent unintended recognitions. See the

Commands tab of the Options dialog.)

TIP: You can activate links without saying their whole name: for instance, instead of “click add a list of words to

your vocabulary”, you could say just “click add a list”.

The Help and the Performance Assistant

The DragonBar’s Help menu gives you access to the on-screen Help topics (articles) and the Performance

Assistant (a collection of suggestions for what you can do to increase Dragon’s speed).