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The DragonBar includes several menus, a message area, and a microphone icon that you click to turn on and off.

The microphone icon is also available in the system tray (on the Windows Taskbar, usually in the lower-right near

the time display).

TIP: You may want to check that your operating system does not hide Dragon’s tray icon among other icons.

(The illustration below is from the Notification Area Icons section of the Control Panel in Windows 7.)

Note: If you like to keep the DragonBar minimized as a Tray Icon only, Dragon lets you display its content by

voice command as well by right-clicking the icon: say "open Dragon’s tray menu.”

The microphone commands and sleep state

You can turn off the microphone by saying the command microphone off. There is no command to turn the

microphone on given that, when the microphone is off, it can't “hear” anything! There are, however, commands to

put the microphone in and out of a “sleeping” state where it doesn’t transcribe your words but it is still listening. To

try this, turn the microphone on by clicking on its icon, then say stop listening or go to sleep.

IMPORTANT : For these and all voice commands, there should be a brief silence before and after, but

none in the middle, otherwise Dragon cannot recognize the command and instead transcribes the words. For

example, make sure you say the words “go to sleep” together in a natural flow, not “go… to… sleep”.