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Goals and Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................................. v
Efficiency and hands-free usage .............................................................................................................................. v
Table of Contents ...................................................................................................................................................... vi
Getting Started and Creating a User Profile ...............................................................................................................1
Positioning and connecting your microphone ......................................................................................................... 1
Upgrading one or more profiles ................................................................................................................................ 2
Creating your profile (or adding an audio source) ................................................................................................. 3
About the Dragon Remote Microphone app as source ......................................................................................... 5
About spoken recordings as source ......................................................................................................................... 5
Adding and managing sources ................................................................................................................................. 6
Before your profile opens — caution with desktop icons ...................................................................................... 7
Important options ........................................................................................................................................................ 8
Learning More and Getting Help ............................................................................................................................. 11
The Accuracy Center................................................................................................................................................ 11
The Help and the Performance Assistant ............................................................................................................. 11
The Learning Center ................................................................................................................................................ 12
The Interactive Tutorial ............................................................................................................................................ 12
The User's Guides .................................................................................................................................................... 13
Why Personalizing the Vocabulary is Essential ...................................................................................................... 14
Customizing the Vocabulary—Using the Vocabulary Editor ................................................................................... 15
Adding vocabulary entries ....................................................................................................................................... 15
The importance of spoken forms ............................................................................................................................ 17
Deleting “words” and modifying word properties .................................................................................................. 18
Importing Lists of Vocabulary Entries ...................................................................................................................... 21
Customizing the Vocabulary from Existing Documents ........................................................................................... 23
Customizing the Vocabulary from Your E-Mail ........................................................................................................ 26
Starting to Dictate: Controlling the Microphone ....................................................................................................... 28
The DragonBar and the microphone icon ............................................................................................................. 28
The microphone commands and sleep state....................................................................................................... 30
The Importance of Hot Keys, including Microphone On/Off ............................................................................... 31
Starting to Dictate: Your First Dictation ................................................................................................................... 33
Dictating text and punctuation marks ..................................................................................................................... 33