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UG5.bk Page 2 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM August 2000. Version 5. Professional, Preferred, and Standard editions. This material may not include some last-minute technical changes and/or revisions to the program. Changes are periodically made to the information described here. Future versions of this material will incorporate these changes. Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. (L&H) may have patents or pending patent applications covering subject matter in this document.
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UG5.bk Page v Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM About This Guide W elcome to Dragon NaturallySpeaking®, one of the world’s most widely acclaimed speech-recognition products. Dragon NaturallySpeaking lets you talk to your computer instead of typing. It also lets you use your voice to control your computer in other ways. This guide provides detailed information that will help you get the most out of using the program.
UG5.bk Page vi Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM About This Guide ■ UK English ■ Australian English ■ Indian English ■ Southeast Asian English US English uses US spelling, punctuation, times, and currency. Dragon Systems recommends US English for Canadian users since this dialect formats numbers (including times, telephone numbers, and currency) in North American formats.
UG5.bk Page 1 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 1 Introducing Dragon NaturallySpeaking D ragon NaturallySpeaking lets you talk to your computer instead of typing. As you talk, your words are transcribed onto your screen and into your documents or e-mail messages. Talking to a computer while it types what you say is called dictating.
UG5.bk Page 2 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 1 Introducing Dragon NaturallySpeaking If you share your computer with family members, friends, or colleagues, they can also use Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Simply create a new set of “user speech files” for each person who wants to talk to the computer. Find out how in Chapter 8, “Managing Users.
UG5.bk Page 3 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 1 Introducing Dragon NaturallySpeaking NaturallySpeaking menu The NaturallySpeaking menu on the DragonBar contains all the menu commands that you can use while working in Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Some of these commands are also available from other parts of the DragonBar, for example opening the online Help. Microphone icon and volume display Click the microphone icon to turn speech recognition on and off.
UG5.bk Page 4 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 1 Introducing Dragon NaturallySpeaking Playback toolbar Contains controls that control the playback of your dictation. For more information, see “Playing back your dictation” on page 23, or see the online Help. Playback speed button Click this button to speed up or slow down dictation playback. Correction button Click this button to open the Correction dialog box and correct a mistake.
UG5.bk Page 5 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 1 Introducing Dragon NaturallySpeaking Never forget a command again Can't remember a command? Voice commands are readily available with helpful on-screen reminders, extensive online Help, a detachable command reference card, and two Top 10 Commands stickers for your keyboard and monitor.
UG5.bk Page 6 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 1 Introducing Dragon NaturallySpeaking New features in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional and higher editions Dictate now, correct later Save a recording of your dictation session so that you or someone else can proofread and revise your work later. See “Dictate now, correct later” on page 26 for more information. Work in Lotus® Notes® Use new built-in commands, including Select-and-Say™ editing, in Lotus Notes.
UG5.bk Page 7 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 1 Introducing Dragon NaturallySpeaking the program work well by reading Chapter 2, “Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully.” Do I still need my mouse and keyboard? Although you can use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to do almost everything on your computer by voice, some things are still easier to do by mouse or keyboard.
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UG5.bk Page 9 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully I f you followed the exercises in your Quick Start guide, by now you’ve had a chance to try dictating with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. So, are you ready to throw away your keyboard? Probably not. Chances are there are more mistakes in your document than you’d like to see.
UG5.bk Page 10 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully How Dragon NaturallySpeaking works When you talk into the microphone, Dragon NaturallySpeaking doesn’t hear words or phrases. The computer hears your speech as a continuous stream of sounds. From this stream, Dragon NaturallySpeaking picks out common sound patterns, known as phonemes.
UG5.bk Page 11 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully Seven habits for success with Dragon NaturallySpeaking The rest of this chapter, and Chapter 3, describe seven habits you can adopt to make Dragon NaturallySpeaking work well for you. If you make the techniques and procedures in these chapters a habit, and continue to use Dragon NaturallySpeaking regularly, you should be able to make the program recognize your speech more accurately.
UG5.bk Page 12 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully microphone and check its position frequently to make sure it hasn’t moved out of place. If you find that Dragon NaturallySpeaking is making too many mistakes, experiment with moving the microphone a little closer to or farther from your mouth. If extra words, such as “and” and “the,” are often inserted into your document, Dragon NaturallySpeaking may be interpreting the sound of your breath as speech.
UG5.bk Page 13 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully Speak naturally and continuously, but pronounce each word clearly When you talk to another person, you can mumble and run your words together and still be understood most of the time. For example, if you say, “Innit cold?” a person will probably understand that you’re asking, “Isn’t it cold?” But Dragon NaturallySpeaking has trouble interpreting mumbled or slurred speech.
UG5.bk Page 14 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully sound patterns when matching sounds to words. If you speak in syllables, Dragon NaturallySpeaking is likely to transcribe each syllable as a separate word. Make it a habit to speak at your normal pace, so Dragon NaturallySpeaking can learn your normal pronunciation.
UG5.bk Page 15 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully Prevent vocal strain When you’re dictating for long periods you should think about protecting your voice. Here are some tips for preventing vocal strain: ■ Sit up straight or stand in front of your computer. ■ Don’t speak in a loud voice or in any way that is stressful for you. ■ Breathe deeply from your abdomen and not from the top of your chest.
UG5.bk Page 16 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully Correcting mistakes with Quick Correct In the DragonPad, correcting a mistake is quick and easy. Just select the mistake and choose the correct word or phrase from the Quick Correct list. To correct a mistake with Quick Correct: 1 Dictate until Dragon NaturallySpeaking misrecognizes a word.
UG5.bk Page 17 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully 3 Choose the correct word from the Quick Correct list by saying “Choose” and the number next to your choice. In this example, say “Choose 1,” and “quick” will replace “dark.” If the word you want does not appear in the list, say “Spell That” or “Correct That.” The Correction dialog box will appear for you to spell or type the correct word. See the next procedure for details.
UG5.bk Page 18 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully To open the Correction dialog box: ■ When the Quick Correct list is open, say “Spell That” or “Correct That.” This method works only in the DragonPad. ■ To correct a mistake immediately after it appears, say “Spell That” or “Correct That.” This method works in any program. ■ Say “Correct” and then the word or phrase that you see on the screen.
UG5.bk Page 19 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully 2 When the Correction dialog box opens, if the correct word or phrase is in the list of choices, you can simply choose it. You can resize the Correction dialog box by dragging a corner or side. Text box Note: The Play Back button is only in Preferred and higher editions. There are several ways to choose the correct text: ■ Say “Choose” and then the number of the correct choice.
UG5.bk Page 20 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully Dragon NaturallySpeaking types: I liked your proposal. Why don't you Web if I it and have the rest of the team take a look? To correct the text, say “Select Web if I,” then “Spell That w-e-b-i-f-y.” Then click or say “OK.” Spelling in the Correction dialog box You can either spell text by voice or type it here. You cannot dictate whole words into the Correction dialog box.
UG5.bk Page 21 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully Editing in the Correction dialog box When you’re working in the Correction dialog box, you can use your voice to move the insertion point and to select and delete words and characters. Moving around in the Correction dialog box You can move the insertion point right or left by words or characters. For example, you can say “Move Right a Word” or “Move Left 4 Characters.
UG5.bk Page 22 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully You can also delete words or characters. For example, you can say “Delete Next Word” or “Delete Previous Character.” See the complete list below: SAY TH E N ( o n e ) TH E N ( o n e ) Delete Next Word Forward 2 Words Previous 2..20 Words Back Character Last 4 Characters 2..
UG5.bk Page 23 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully Selecting text and dictating over it, however, will not correct speechrecognition errors. Only by using the Quick Correct list or the Correction dialog box can you teach Dragon NaturallySpeaking not to make the same mistakes again. For information on using Select-and-Say to revise your dictation, see “Using Select-and-Say” on page 90.
UG5.bk Page 24 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully Sometimes, there’s no dictation to play back. For example, you cannot play back text that wasn’t entered by voice, such as words you typed or pasted into your document. NOTE Even when you have entered text by voice, you cannot play it back after you have cut it, copied it, pasted it, or otherwise moved it around in the document.
UG5.bk Page 25 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully ■ Move the insertion point to the text you want to play back and say any of the following commands: SA Y TO Play Back Line Play back dictation for the current line. Play Back Paragraph Play back dictation for the current paragraph. Play Back Document Play back dictation for the whole document. Play Back Window Play back dictation for the text in view.
UG5.bk Page 26 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully To stop playback and correct a mistake: To stop playback and correct a mistake, do any of the following: ■ Click the Correction button on the Playback toolbar. Correction ■ Press the minus (-) key on the numeric keypad. This stops playback and simultaneously opens the Correction dialog box. There you can correct the text for the last phrase played back.
UG5.bk Page 27 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully Correcting someone else's dictation You can play back someone else's dictation and correct the text to match the dictation. You can do this in two ways: ■ You can correct the dictation using your user files. ■ You can correct the dictation using the document author's user files.
UG5.bk Page 28 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully 4 In DragonPad, open the document to correct. 5 Use the buttons on the Extras toolbar to play back dictation. 6 Select the text you want to correct by mouse or keyboard. 7 Press the correction hot key (normally the minus [-] key on the numeric key pad) or click the Correct button on the DragonBar Extras toolbar. The Quick Correct list or Correction dialog box appears with the selected text.
UG5.bk Page 29 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully ■ Move the insertion point to the text you want to hear and say any of the following commands: SA Y TO Read Line Read back the current line. Read Paragraph Read back the current paragraph. Read Document Read back the whole document. Read Window Read back the text in view. Read to Here Read back from the top of the document window to the insertion point.
UG5.bk Page 30 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully example, you can click “Spell That” to open the Correction dialog box and spell the word. You may want to select the following on the Correction tab of the Options dialog box: ■ “Correct” command brings up Correction dialog box ■ Automatic playback on correction box With these settings, Dragon NaturallySpeaking will automatically play back the author's dictation for each text selection you correct.
UG5.bk Page 31 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition Working with the Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabulary If Dragon NaturallySpeaking gets a word wrong, it could be that the word is not in the program’s vocabulary. When this is the case, you need to teach Dragon NaturallySpeaking the new word so that it can recognize it when you say it. This chapter talks about the vocabulary used by Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which contains both active words and backup words.
UG5.bk Page 32 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition chapter concludes by explaining when and how to run General Training again to improve your recognition accuracy. About the vocabulary The Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabulary contains the words the program can recognize when you say them. The vocabulary contains thousands of words and their common pronunciations. It also contains language data about how frequently words are used alone and in combination with others.
UG5.bk Page 33 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition To add a word by correcting it: 1 Dictate the following sentence. The word “Punxsutawney” (pronounced punks-ah-tawny) is in the backup dictionary, not the active vocabulary, so Dragon NaturallySpeaking won’t recognize it correctly on the first try. Meet me in Punxsutawney [comma] Pennsylvania When the program makes a mistake (for example, types “punk said Tony” instead of “Punxsutawney”), correct the mistake.
UG5.bk Page 34 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition 4 Say “Spell That” or “Correct That.” The Correction dialog box opens. 5 Type or spell the correction in the Correction dialog box. Since “Punxsutawney” is in the backup dictionary, it should appear in the list of alternatives before you finish entering it. (The list of alternatives always displays possible endings for the text in the text box.) Text box 6 Say, for example, ““Choose 2.
UG5.bk Page 35 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition Version 5 has quick and easy ways to add new words to your vocabulary. You can: ■ Add words when correcting mistakes (see previous procedure) ■ Add and train individual words ■ Add words from documents This next section describe how to add and train an individual word, and how to add words from documents.
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UG5.bk Page 37 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition To Add Words from Documents: 1 From the NaturallySpeaking menu, point to Words and click Add Words from Documents. The Add Words from Documents dialog box opens. ▲ The Add Words from Documents dialog box lets you add all the documents in a folder or add documents one at a time. Select any document in the list to remove or view it. 2 Click or say “Add Document.
UG5.bk Page 38 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition ■ Don’t add capitalized words unless you plan to dictate the capitalized form of the word often (for example, a pet’s name “Fluffy”). To remove a word from the list of words to be added to your active vocabulary, clear the check box for that word in the Preview Words dialog box. ▲ The Preview Words dialog box in Add Words From Documents lets you select or remove words from the list to be added.
UG5.bk Page 39 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition written form for the dictation shortcut appears on the left, and the spoken form is “My Signature.” WR I TT EN FO R M S PO KE N F OR M Michael D. Bowman 25 Main Street Wilmington, DE 12345 my signature This message was dictated with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional on a Dragon NaturallyMobile recorder.
UG5.bk Page 40 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition Here are some guidelines for selecting a spoken form: ■ Try to use unique phrases—don’t use a phrase you might want to use in your writing. ■ Don’t use a single word as the spoken form. ■ Make the spoken form something easy to remember. ■ Use real words; otherwise, Dragon NaturallySpeaking may not know how they are pronounced and will prompt you to train them.
UG5.bk Page 41 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition Advanced tools for building and editing vocabularies The NaturallySpeaking Words submenu offers quick and easy ways to add and train words. For more powerful tools to work with your vocabulary, you can turn to the features of the NaturallySpeaking Advanced submenu.
UG5.bk Page 42 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition To edit your vocabulary: 1 On the NaturallySpeaking menu, point to Advanced, then click Edit Vocabulary. ▲ Vocabulary Editor lists all the active words in the Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabulary. A word’s written form is what Dragon NaturallySpeaking types when you say the word. The spoken form is how you say the word. For example, the spoken form for “Sgt.” is “Sergeant.
UG5.bk Page 43 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition More about spoken forms Perhaps your vocabulary contains proprietary words with unusual capitalization, or proper names with unusual spellings. Some phrases, such as company names, have particular punctuation. Or, you might want Dragon NaturallySpeaking to write out a person’s name when you say their initials. You can teach the program to type the word or phrase correctly when it recognizes the spoken form.
UG5.bk Page 44 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition NOTE If the word you want to edit doesn’t appear in Vocabulary Editor, it means the word isn’t in the active vocabulary. You need to add it to the active vocabulary before you can edit it. (See “Editing your vocabulary” on page 41.) 3 Select the word. 4 Type the new spoken form into the Spoken Form box. Make sure you type it exactly as is it pronounced.
UG5.bk Page 45 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition appear together. Dragon NaturallySpeaking would then know to favor these words over similar-sounding words. Vocabulary Builder also gives you more control than Add Words from Documents over how words are added to your vocabulary.
UG5.bk Page 46 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition To prepare documents: 1 Make sure documents are in the following formats: ■ .TXT (Text) ■ .RTF (Rich Text Format) ■ .DOC (Microsoft Word version 6.0 or later) ■ .WPD (Corel WordPerfect version 8 or 9) ■ .HTM or .HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) ■ .SHTM or .SHTML (Server-side include Hypertext Markup Language) TIP Dragon NaturallySpeaking can process.TXT (text) files faster than other formats.
UG5.bk Page 47 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition you want to add to the vocabulary. If the list is very long, selecting and editing words can be time-consuming. Therefore, Dragon NaturallySpeaking also gives you the option of adding a list of words directly to the vocabulary. You can add this list as a document in Add Words from Documents (see page 35), or by selecting “Add words from a list” in Vocabulary Builder before processing documents.
UG5.bk Page 48 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition Running Vocabulary Builder Prepare your documents and create a list of words to add (optional), following the procedures described in the previous step. Once you have one or more documents prepared, you’re ready to run Vocabulary Builder. To run Vocabulary Builder: 1 Open the user and vocabulary you want to personalize.
UG5.bk Page 49 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition To add words from a list (optional): 1 In the Add Words from a List dialog box, specify a file containing words you want to add to the vocabulary. (See “Adding words from a list” on page 46 for more information about this step.) 2 If you specify a file, click Add Words from List and then click Next to continue. TIP You can add word lists from multiple files. The wizard tells you how.
UG5.bk Page 50 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition To analyze documents: 1 In the Analyze Documents dialog box, click Add. Select a document and click “Remove” to remove it from the list to be analyzed. ▲ Vocabulary Builder uses documents you’ve written to teach Dragon NaturallySpeaking how you write. 2 In the Analyze Documents dialog box, find and select the documents you want to process,* and then click Open.
UG5.bk Page 51 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition After a document is processed, the word “Yes” appears in the Analyzed column. 4 When you’re finished processing documents, click Next. After Vocabulary Builder analyzes documents, it displays the Add New Words dialog box with a list of the new words found.
UG5.bk Page 52 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition found with unusual capitalization (for example, “Fluffy” and “joan”). NOTE Any capitalized words found at the beginning of a sentence or in a title (such as “War and Peace”) don’t appear in the list. ■ 2 3 Clear the “Include words added in this session” box if you want to hide any words that you have added since you began running Vocabulary Builder this time.
UG5.bk Page 53 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition 4 After selecting and editing words you want to add, click Add Checked Words to Vocabulary. Dragon NaturallySpeaking will add the new words to your vocabulary (marked with a star in the list). A dialog box appears asking if you want to train the new words now. You should train any words that are not pronounced the way they are spelled. To train the new words, click Yes and follow the instructions on the screen.
UG5.bk Page 54 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition example, if you were processing documents you didn’t write but which contain words you use). 2 For the second option, select “Yes” to preserve previously gathered language data. If you select “No,” this data will be lost. You could select “No” if you wanted to overwrite data gathered previously (for example, if you processed the wrong documents the last time you ran Vocabulary Builder).
UG5.bk Page 55 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition Keep in mind that a single vocabulary is easier to maintain. If you have different vocabularies, you may have to add and delete words in multiple places. Language data gathered when you run Vocabulary Builder is specific to a single vocabulary. But acoustic data—information about how you pronounce different words—applies across vocabularies.
UG5.bk Page 56 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition 2 Click New. Enter a name for the new vocabulary and select a vocabulary on which to base it. You can base the new vocabulary on one of the standard Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabularies (which begin with the word “Base”) or on one of your current vocabularies. 3 Click OK to create the vocabulary. 4 To start using the new vocabulary, you need to open it first. See the following section, “Opening vocabularies.
UG5.bk Page 57 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition Deleting vocabularies This procedure applies only to Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional and higher editions. To delete a vocabulary: 1 On the NaturallySpeaking menu, point to Advanced and click Manage Vocabularies. 2 Select the vocabulary you want to delete and click Delete. If you want to delete the open vocabulary, you must close it first by opening a different one.
UG5.bk Page 58 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition Vocabularies are associated with specific users. You can, however, copy vocabularies between users by importing and exporting them. For example, if you create another user for use with a portable recorder, you may want to copy your current vocabulary to the new user. You can do this by exporting the vocabulary from your current first user and then importing it to the new user.
UG5.bk Page 59 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition vocabulary, the file with the extension .TOP (for topic) is the one to select. To import a vocabulary: 1 Open the user to which you want to import the vocabulary. (On the DragonBar Users menu, click Manage Users. From the Manage Users dialog box, select the user you want and click Open.) 2 On the NaturallySpeaking menu, point to Advanced and click Manage Vocabularies.
UG5.bk Page 60 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition this happens, you should teach Dragon NaturallySpeaking how you say it. This is known as training the word or phrase. Training words Typically, correcting a word is all you need to do for Dragon NaturallySpeaking to get it right the next time. But if you find yourself correcting the same word or phrase over and over, you need to train Dragon NaturallySpeaking to understand it.
UG5.bk Page 61 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition 3 Pronounce the word or phrase. The text disappears, and if Dragon NaturallySpeaking successfully recognized the word, the dot below the text box lights up briefly. (You may be prompted to say the word more than once.) NOTE When you train a word after correcting it in the Correction dialog box, you’re prompted to say both the correct and incorrect word. This helps Dragon NaturallySpeaking learn the difference.
UG5.bk Page 62 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition ■ All-Caps-Off ■ No-Caps ■ No-Caps-On ■ No-Caps-Off ■ No-Space ■ No-Space-On ■ No-Space-Off To train a command in the previous list: 1 On the NaturallySpeaking menu, point to Advanced, and then click Edit Vocabulary. 2 Scroll to the top of the list where the commands are listed. (To get there quickly, click in the list and press the Home key.) 3 Click the command you want to train.
UG5.bk Page 63 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition Enter the command with the exact capitalization shown on your Command Quick Reference card or in Appendix B of this guide. For example, to train “Correct That,” capitalize the words exactly as shown. 3 Click OK. For further instructions, follow steps 2–4 beginning on page 60.
UG5.bk Page 64 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition 3 Follow the instructions on the screen. TIP As you read, speak clearly, as if you were dictating the text into a document. This will allow the program to learn how you sound when you dictate. 4 64 When you’ve read as much as you want (or at least one complete text), click Finish.
UG5.bk Page 65 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation Y our Quick Start guide explains the basics of dictating.
UG5.bk Page 66 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation Other Dialects: Dictate your name and your town. For example, say “My name is Harriet Timms [full stop] I live in Marlow [comma] Buckinghamshire [full stop]” NOTE All non-US/Canada dialects (UK, Australian, Indian, and Southeast Asian English) use the same commands for punctuation, selection, number formatting, and so on. Say the words as clearly as possible.
UG5.bk Page 67 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation Dictating abbreviations and acronyms Dragon NaturallySpeaking knows many common abbreviations (such as NYC and BBC) and acronyms (such as NATO). To dictate an abbreviation or acronym, just say it as you normally would. TO EN TE R SA Y US/Canada: Dr. Other Dialects: Dr Doctor UK U K (say each letter) RSVP R S V P (say each letter) HTML H T M L (say each letter) 8 cm eight centimeters US/Canada: pp.
UG5.bk Page 68 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation Dictating hyphenated words Many hyphenated words and phrases are already in the Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabulary. To dictate a word or phrase that’s hyphenated based on standard usage, just say it as you normally would.
UG5.bk Page 69 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation 2 Say “Hyphenate That.” This command adds a hyphen between the selected words. To move back to the end of the line, you can say “Go to End of Line.” Removing hyphens You can remove a hyphen by selecting it and replacing it with a space. To remove a hyphen: 1 Say “Select hyphen.” 2 Say “Space Bar.
UG5.bk Page 70 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation To dictate consecutive words without spaces: 1 Say “No Space On” to turn no spaces on. 2 Dictate the words you want to appear without spaces. 3 Say “No Space Off” to turn no spaces off. Compounding words later You can compound the last words you said or compound selected words by saying “Compound That.”* To compound words: 1 Select the text you want to join.
UG5.bk Page 71 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation To dictate a word ending with ’s, just say it as you normally would. (For some words, you may need to emphasize the “ess” sound.) If Dragon NaturallySpeaking doesn’t include the ’s, you can add it later.
UG5.bk Page 72 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation Dictating e-mail and Web addresses You can dictate e-mail and Web addresses as you would normally say them. Dragon NaturallySpeaking formats them for you automatically. TO EN TE R SA Y Virginia@aol.com [Cap] virginia at a o l dot com info@dragonsys.com [No Caps On] info at dragon sys dot com [No Caps Off] http://www.dragonsystems.
UG5.bk Page 73 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation described in “Training Dragon NaturallySpeaking to recognize problem words” on page 59). TIP You can create dictation shortcuts for e-mail and Web addresses you use often. See “Creating dictation shortcuts” on page 38. Dictating special characters Dictating common special characters The following special characters are in the Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabulary.
UG5.bk Page 74 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation TO E NT ER SA Y :-) smiley face :-( frowny face ;-) winky face * For more information about dictating currency in different dialects, see “Currency and coin” on page 81. For more complete lists of special characters, see “Entering punctuation and special characters” on page 194 or the online Help.
UG5.bk Page 75 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation 3 Say the name of the special character (for example, say “yen sign” to enter ¥). For the complete list of special characters, see page 194 in Appendix B, or the online Help. 4 Click or say “OK.” Dragon NaturallySpeaking enters the special character (for example, ¥) and also adds it to the vocabulary.
UG5.bk Page 76 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation Dictating numbers You can dictate most numbers as you would normally say them. Many number formats in DragonNaturallySpeaking are controlled by your Windows Regional Settings. To view these settings, point to Settings from the Windows Start menu, click Control Panel, and double-click the Regional Settings icon.
UG5.bk Page 77 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation TO EN TE R SAY 5423 five thousand four hundred and twenty three 5,423 five [comma] four twenty three 12,537 twelve thousand five hundred and thirty seven 142,015 one hundred and forty two thousand and fifteen 35.23 thirty five [point] two three 0.03 All Dialects: zero [point] zero three Outside US/Canada: nought [point] nought three 43.
UG5.bk Page 78 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation These commands change the last number dictated or a selected number.
UG5.bk Page 79 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation NOTE With Numbers Mode on, Dragon NaturallySpeaking tries to interpret everything as a number. If you dictate words, the results will be unpredictable. However, you can still navigate menus and switch between programs by voice when Numbers Mode is on. Dates You can dictate most dates the way you would normally say them. Say “oh” or “zero” to enter 0. In dialects outside US/Canada, you can also say “nought.
UG5.bk Page 80 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation Other Dialects: Usually, you can dictate the time of day the way you would normally say it. Say “o’clock” to enter .00. Dragon NaturallySpeaking automatically types the point (.) if you say “a m,” “p m,” or “o’clock” when dictating the time. Otherwise, say “point zero zero” to enter .00. TO EN TE R SA Y 8.30 eight [colon] thirty 4.45 AM four forty five a m 10.22 PM ten twenty two p m 3.
UG5.bk Page 81 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation Telephone numbers outside North America To dictate other phone numbers, including European phone numbers, you must say all the punctuation, including the hyphens, spaces, and parentheses.
UG5.bk Page 82 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation Currency in US/Canada (US English dialect) TO EN TE R S AY $58.00 fifty eight dollars and zero cents $1.75 one dollar and seventy five cents $5.25 five dollars and twenty five cents $3.9 billion three point nine billion dollars £ 45 pound sterling sign forty five £ 99.50 pound sterling sign ninety-nine point five oh £ 2.
UG5.bk Page 83 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation Other Dialects: If your Regional Settings are set to the United Kingdom, your default currency is £ (pound sterling). If you want to dictate a pound sterling currency amount, dictate it the way you normally do. If you want to dictate a dollar currency amount, say, for example, “dollar sign fifty eight” (to enter $58) and so on.
UG5.bk Page 84 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation Roman numerals You can dictate Roman numerals by saying “Roman” and the number. For large numbers, say the number in small combinations (as in the last three examples).
UG5.bk Page 85 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation Postal and Zip Codes US Zip Codes You can dictate US five-digit ZIP codes just as you dictate any group of numbers. You must say the hyphen when dictating nine-digit ZIP codes. UK and Canadian Postal Codes You can dictate UK postcodes by saying “Postcode” followed by the letters and numbers that make up the postcode.
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UG5.bk Page 87 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text I f you followed the online Tutorial and the Quick Start guide, you learned a few useful commands for editing a document by voice. You learned how to use Select-and-Say to revise text, move to the top and bottom of your document, capitalize a word, and apply bold, italics, and underlining. This chapter describes other ways to edit and revise text in a document by voice.
UG5.bk Page 88 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text Going to the top or bottom of a page or document You can move to the top or bottom of the current page by saying “Page Up” (equivalent to pressing the PAGE UP key) or “Page Down” (equivalent to pressing the PAGE DOWN key). You can move to the top or bottom of your document by saying “Go to Top” or “Go to Bottom.
UG5.bk Page 89 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text To place the insertion point before a specific word: To move the insertion point before the word “lets” in the sentence below, say “Insert Before lets” (or “Insert Before lets me talk”). Remember not to pause between any of the words. Dragon NaturallySpeaking lets me talk instead of type.
UG5.bk Page 90 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text Moving right or left a word or character You can move right or left a word by saying “Move Right a Word” or “Move Left a Word.” You can also move right or left a number of words (up to 20). For example, you can say “Move Right 3 Words.” You can move to the next or previous character by saying “Move Right a Character” or “Move Left a Character.” You can also move forward and backward a number of characters (up to 20).
UG5.bk Page 91 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text To Select-and-Say: 1 Dictate the sentence below: US/Canada: Let’s meet for lunch on Tuesday [period] Other Dialects: Let’s meet for lunch on Tuesday [full stop] 2 Say “Select lunch on Tuesday.” The words “lunch on Tuesday” should be highlighted on the screen. 3 Say “dinner on Wednesday.” These words should replace “lunch on Tuesday.” You can also select punctuation marks.
UG5.bk Page 92 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text You can also say “Select Again” if Dragon NaturallySpeaking selects a word that sounds like but is not the word you want (for example, “two” instead of “too”). Unselecting words If the wrong text is selected, say “Unselect That.” You can also “unselect” words by moving your insertion point (by mouse or voice) to another part of your document. For example, say “Go to End of Line” or click somewhere else in your document.
UG5.bk Page 93 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text To correct a longer phrase: 1 Select the phrase by saying “Select [text] Through [text]” (US/Canada) or “Select [text] To [text]” (Other Dialects). For [text], substitute the actual word or words at the beginning and the end of the range of wrong words (they must be visible on the screen). For example, you could correct the underlined words in the following sentence...
UG5.bk Page 94 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text When you want to copy all the text in a document to another window, the easiest way to do it is with the “Copy All to Clipboard” command. (See “Copying text to other programs” on page 106.) NOTE The “Scratch That” and “Cut That” commands don’t work, nor can you dictate, when a lot of text is selected. This prevents you from accidentally deleting a large part of your document.
UG5.bk Page 95 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text Copying, cutting, and pasting text You can move text from one place to another by using the “Copy That,” “Cut That,” and “Paste That” commands. To copy, cut, or paste text: 1 Select the text you want to copy or cut. 2 Say “Copy That” or “Cut That.” 3 Move the insertion point to where you want to paste the text. 4 Say “Paste That.
UG5.bk Page 96 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text If you need to dictate the word “cap” in a sentence (as in, “The company is putting a cap on salary increases”), just pause after saying “cap.” NOTE Dragon NaturallySpeaking should capitalize correctly whenever you’re dictating in the DragonPad or any of the programs listed on page 171. In other programs, it may not always capitalize the first word you say automatically; you may need to capitalize as you dictate.
UG5.bk Page 97 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text To dictate consecutive words in all capitals: 1 Say “All Caps On” to turn all capitals on (like pressing the CAPS LOCK key). 2 Dictate the words you want to appear in all caps. 3 Say “All Caps Off” to turn all capitals off. Dictating the next word in all lowercase letters When you’re dictating, you can enter a word in all lowercase letters by saying “No Caps” and then the word.
UG5.bk Page 98 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text Formatting text In the DragonPad, Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect and WordPad, you can use commands to specify any combination of font name, size, and style, in that order. These commands change text you dictate from then on, or text you have selected. To set a new style for text you are about to dictate, use the “Set Font” and “Set Size” commands.
UG5.bk Page 99 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text Changing font style SAY Set Font TH E N ( o ne ) Bold Italics Underline Strikeout Plain or Plain Text or Normal or Regular Changing a combination of font face, size, and style Say “Set Font” and then the attributes you want (listed in the previous sections). You can specify any combination of face, size, and style, but you must specify these attributes in that order (face, then size, then style).
UG5.bk Page 100 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text Adding (or removing) bold, italics, and underlining You can apply formatting to text in your document by selecting it and then saying “Bold That,” “Italicize That,” or “Underline That.” You can also say “Strikeout That.” To add bold, italics, and underlining: 1 Select the text you want to change. 2 Say “Bold That,” “Italicize That,” Underline That,” or “Strikeout That.
UG5.bk Page 101 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text You can say “Scratch That” (but not “Delete That”) up to ten times to delete the last few things you said. If you repeat the command, you must pause before saying it again. You can also say, for example, “Scratch That 5 Times.” Backing up as you dictate When you’re dictating, sometimes you may hesitate or think of a better way to say something right after you’ve said it.
UG5.bk Page 102 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text Deleting the next or previous paragraph or line You can delete the next or previous paragraph by saying “Delete Next Paragraph” or “Delete Previous Paragraph.” You can delete the next or previous line by saying “Delete Next Line” or“Delete Previous Line.” You can also delete a number of paragraphs or lines (up to 20). For example, you can say “Delete Previous 5 Paragraphs.
UG5.bk Page 103 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 6 Working With Your Desktop and Windows I n the previous chapters, you learned how to use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to enter text. You can also use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to control your computer. For example, you can start programs, open menus, and click buttons by using your voice rather than the mouse and keyboard.
UG5.bk Page 104 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 6 Working With Your Desktop and Windows Microsoft Access), Windows Explorer, and Internet Explorer. From the NaturallySpeaking menu, select Advanced, then click Options. Click the Miscellaneous tab and make sure that “Active Accessibility for menu and dialog control” is selected. Starting programs You can use voice commands to start a program that appears anywhere on your Windows Start menu or desktop.
UG5.bk Page 105 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 6 Working With Your Desktop and Windows TIP You can also open other desktop items with the “Start” command. For example, you can say “Start My Computer.” Opening documents and folders You can use voice commands to open a document or folder that appears on your Windows Start menu or desktop.
UG5.bk Page 106 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 6 Working With Your Desktop and Windows Switching between open windows You can switch between the windows you have open by saying “Switch to” and then say the name of the program or document window exactly as it appears in the title bar. For example, if Lotus Notes is running, you can switch to it by saying “Switch to Lotus Notes.
UG5.bk Page 107 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 6 Working With Your Desktop and Windows 2 Switch to another program, such as Microsoft Outlook (as described in the previous section, “Switching between open windows”). 3 Say “Paste That.” 4 To return to Microsoft Word, say“Switch to Microsoft Word” or “Switch to Previous Window” as described in the previous section. Opening and closing menus When Dragon NaturallySpeaking is running, you can activate any menu by saying its name.
UG5.bk Page 108 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 6 Working With Your Desktop and Windows only the words before the special character. For example, say “Click Undo.” TIP To open the Start menu, say “Click Start.” To close a menu: Say “Cancel” or press the ESC key. Selecting buttons, tabs, and options When Dragon NaturallySpeaking is running, you can select any button, check box, text box, or other dialog box option you see by saying its name. If that doesn’t work, say “Click” and then its name.
UG5.bk Page 109 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 6 Working With Your Desktop and Windows Selecting icons on the desktop You can use voice commands to select icons on the Windows desktop. To select an icon on the desktop: 1 Switch to the Windows desktop. (You can’t do this by voice.) Say “Mouse Click” to make the desktop active. 2 Say the name of the icon (for example, My Computer). Dragon NaturallySpeaking types the icon name and Windows selects it.
UG5.bk Page 110 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 6 Working With Your Desktop and Windows Resizing and closing windows To resize and close windows, say “Click” and then a window command, such as “Maximize.” These commands appear on the window’s Control menu, but you don’t need to open this menu to say them. NOTE “Click” is NOT optional for the following Control menu commands. To maximize a window: 1 Activate the window you want to maximize. 2 Say “Click Maximize.
UG5.bk Page 111 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 6 Working With Your Desktop and Windows number of scroll bar arrow clicks (up to 20). For example, say “Move Down 4” or “Move Up 10.” You can scroll horizontally by saying “Move Left” and “Move Right” and then a number of scroll bar arrow clicks (up to 20). For example, say “Move Left 10” or “Move Right 5.” Pressing keyboard keys With Dragon NaturallySpeaking, you can “press” any key on your keyboard by voice.
UG5.bk Page 112 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 6 Working With Your Desktop and Windows TIP You can use any word in the International Communications Alphabet (page 178) to “spell” the letter keys, for example, Albert/Alice/alpha.
UG5.bk Page 113 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 6 Working With Your Desktop and Windows Capitalizing a letter You can capitalize a letter by saying “Press Cap” and then the letter. For example, to enter “28K” say “twenty eight” and then “Press Cap K” (or “Press Cap K for Karen”). Pressing numbers You can press numbers (0 to 9) by saying “Press” and then the number. For example, say “Press 8.
UG5.bk Page 114 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 6 Working With Your Desktop and Windows SAY T HE N ( o ne ) Keypad minus (-) (opens the Correction dialog box or Quick Correct list, depending on your Correction Options setting) Keypad plus (+) (turns the microphone on or off) Keypad star (*) (opens the NaturallySpeaking menu on the DragonBar) Keypad Enter NOTE Num Lock must be on for the “Press Keypad” commands to work. You can say “Press Num Lock” to turn Num Lock on.
UG5.bk Page 115 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 6 Working With Your Desktop and Windows Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse Dragon NaturallySpeaking provides hands-free mouse control with MouseGrid™ and the mouse pointer voice commands. You can use these features to position the pointer anywhere on the screen, click the mouse buttons, and drag objects—all by voice. Moving the mouse pointer with MouseGrid You can position the mouse pointer anywhere on the screen by using MouseGrid.
UG5.bk Page 116 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 6 Working With Your Desktop and Windows 2 Say a grid number from 1 to 9 to position the pointer in that numbered area. In this example, to position the pointer over My Briefcase, say “7.” A smaller MouseGrid will appear in the chosen grid square. 3 To position it again, say another grid number. In this example, say “4” to place the pointer directly over the My Briefcase icon.
UG5.bk Page 117 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 6 Working With Your Desktop and Windows You can combine moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse in a single voice command. For example, you can say “Mouse Up 3 Click” or “Mouse Right 2 Double-Click.” To move the pointer: 1 Say “Mouse” followed by the direction and number of times to move it (up to 10). For example, say “Mouse Up 5” or “Mouse Left 10.
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UG5.bk Page 119 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 7 Working With E-Mail and the Web I magine answering your e-mail as easily as you answer the telephone: by voice. Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 5 now works with most popular e-mail applications and with Lotus Notes (Professional and higher editions). If you use Internet Explorer® to browse the Web, you can also use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to follow links and go to your favorite sites.
UG5.bk Page 120 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 7 Working With E-Mail and the Web When Dragon NaturallySpeaking and your e-mail application are running, you can use voice commands to: ■ Check for new mail ■ Open and close incoming mail ■ Compose mail by dictating ■ Transfer dictation into your e-mail ■ Forward and reply to mail ■ Send and print mail messages ■ Delete mail messages Checking for new mail You must be connected to the Internet to check your e-mail.
UG5.bk Page 121 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 7 Working With E-Mail and the Web To navigate e-mail fields: SAY TH E N ( on e) Go to To Field Move to CC Field BCC Field Body Field First Field Last Field Here’s an example of how to dictate a simple e-mail message. To dictate an e-mail message: 1 Say “New Mail.” The new message opens on your screen. 2 Say “Go to To Field.
UG5.bk Page 122 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 7 Working With E-Mail and the Web To transfer dictation from the DragonPad into e-mail: 1 Say “Switch to DragonPad.” Dictate your message, or open a previously transcribed document. 2 Say “Copy All to Clipboard.” The entire document is selected and transferred to the clipboard. 3 Say “Switch To” followed by the name of your e-mail program. For example, say “Switch to Eudora.
UG5.bk Page 123 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 7 Working With E-Mail and the Web Working with Internet Explorer You can use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to control Internet Explorer and browse the Web by voice. To use this feature, you must have Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later installed.
UG5.bk Page 124 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 7 Working With E-Mail and the Web To go to a Favorites page: Say “Go to Favorite” and then the name of the favorite page exactly as it appears in the Favorites menu. For example, say “Go to Favorite Yahoo” or “Go to Favorite Dragon Systems.” You cannot use voice commands to go to the Channels folder. TIP If Dragon NaturallySpeaking misunderstands your command and opens the wrong page, you can return to where you were by saying “Go Back.
UG5.bk Page 125 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 7 Working With E-Mail and the Web For more information about dictating Web addresses, see “Dictating e-mail and Web addresses” on page 72. 3 Say “Go There” to open the page (same as pressing the ENTER key). TIP You can also say “Click Go” instead of “Go There.” Going back to the previous Web page or forward to the next You can go back to the previous Web page by saying “Go Back” (same as clicking the Back button on the Internet Explorer toolbar).
UG5.bk Page 126 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 7 Working With E-Mail and the Web To enter text in a text box: 1 Say “Type Text” to move to the first text box on the page. TIP You can also say “Edit Box” or “Text Field” instead of “Type Text.” 2 If the page has more than one text box, they will be numbered like this . (See the following procedures for examples.) Choose the number you want, or move to the next or previous text box by saying “Next” or “Previous.
UG5.bk Page 127 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 7 Working With E-Mail and the Web 4 If this is not the link you want, you can move to the next or previous matching link by saying another number, or by saying “Next” or “Previous.” Say “Stock Quotes” to open this unique link. Say “Choose 1” to move to the first “Auctions.” Say “Choose 2” or “Next” to move to the second “Auctions.” NOTE On secure Web pages this feature is disabled. You cannot select links on secure pages by voice.
UG5.bk Page 128 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 7 Working With E-Mail and the Web To click an image: 1 When you say “Image” (or “Click Image”), Dragon NaturallySpeaking numbers all the images on the page like this . 2 Move to the image you want by saying, for example, “Choose 3.” 3 If this is not the image you want, you can choose another number or move to the next or previous one by saying “Next” or “Previous.
UG5.bk Page 129 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 7 Working With E-Mail and the Web To click a check box, list box, or radio (option) button: 1 Say “Check Box,” “List Box,” or “Radio Button” to number the buttons like this . Then choose the number you want as in the previous procedure. Here is a table of commands you can use for clicking links, images, check boxes, and buttons. SA Y TO Type Text or Edit Box Go to the first place on a Web page where you can enter text.
UG5.bk Page 130 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 7 Working With E-Mail and the Web read a Web page without using the mouse or keyboard. See the complete list of commands below: SA Y TO Go to Bottom Scroll to the end of the Web page. Go to Top Scroll to the beginning of the Web page. Page Down Scroll down one screen (same as pressing the Page Down key). Page Up Scroll up one screen (same as pressing the Page Up key).
UG5.bk Page 131 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 8 Managing Users M ore than one person can use Dragon NaturallySpeaking on the same computer. You can even dictate in different languages or dialects (Preferred and higher editions). Each person who wants to use the program needs to create a new set of user speech files and train Dragon NaturallySpeaking to understand his or her voice.
UG5.bk Page 132 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 8 Managing Users This chapter explains how to set up Dragon NaturallySpeaking so that more than one person can use it, and describes how to open, rename, delete, back up, and restore users. Creating a new user When someone new wants to use Dragon NaturallySpeaking, that person needs to follow the steps described in this section to create a new user. To create a new user: 1 On the far right of the DragonBar, click Users and then click Manage Users.
UG5.bk Page 133 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 8 Managing Users Opening a user When someone else has been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, you need to open your own user before you start using the program. Or, if you have more than one user of your own (for example, you have a separate user for your portable recorder), always remember to switch to the appropriate user before you start. To open a user: 1 On the far right of the DragonBar, select Users and then click Manage Users.
UG5.bk Page 134 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 8 Managing Users Deleting a user If you know you will not need a user that you have created, you can delete it and free up hard-disk space. Removing a user can’t be undone, so make sure you don’t need it before you remove it. To delete a user: 1 On the far right of the DragonBar, select Users and then click Manage Users. 2 In the Manage Users dialog box, select the user you want to delete and click Delete. Click “Delete” to delete a user.
UG5.bk Page 135 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 8 Managing Users If you want to delete the current user, you must close it first by opening a different user. There must be at least one user on the computer, so if you’ve got only one, you can’t delete it. NOTE Always use the Delete button to delete users. Don’t remove folders from the \...NaturallySpeaking\Users folder on your hard disk. Using the Delete button is the only way to completely remove all information about a user from your computer.
UG5.bk Page 136 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 8 Managing Users NOTE You can only back up the current user. You cannot back up a user simply by selecting it in the Manage Users dialog box; you must open the user first. To back up a user: 1 Open the user you want to back up. 2 From the NaturallySpeaking menu, point to Advanced and click Backup User. Dragon NaturallySpeaking makes a backup copy in a default location on your computer.
UG5.bk Page 137 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 8 Managing Users Multilingual users Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 5 allows you to create and train users in multiple languages. If you have purchased a product with support for more than one language, you can add additional languages by choosing “Custom Install” during Setup. If you didn't select additional languages during Setup, you will still be able to select them when you create a new user.
UG5.bk Page 138 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 8 138 Managing Users ■ In Lotus Notes, you will only be able to use e-mail commands if the language of the Lotus Notes mail file matches the language of your user. ■ If you switch users to dictate text in multiple languages in the same document, you will be able to correct and change text in both languages. Multilingual correction works best with the mouse.
UG5.bk Page 139 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 9 Creating Your Own Dragon NaturallySpeaking Commands ith Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional and higher editions, you can expand the power of the program by creating your own voice commands for tasks you do frequently. W Commands can insert multiple lines of text into the current document, send keystrokes to the current program, or run complex scripts.
UG5.bk Page 140 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 9 Creating Your Own Dragon NaturallySpeaking Commands About voice commands You can create your own voice commands only with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional and higher editions. In Chapter 4, “Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation,” you learned how to create dictation shortcuts for entering words or blocks of text that you use frequently. Commands are similar to dictation shortcuts, but are much more powerful.
UG5.bk Page 141 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 9 Creating Your Own Dragon NaturallySpeaking Commands ■ Name the command ■ Specify what the command will do After creating a command, if you need to make changes to it (for example, change its name or what it does), you can edit it by using the Edit Command Wizard. See “Editing a command” on page 148 for more information.
UG5.bk Page 142 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 9 Creating Your Own Dragon NaturallySpeaking Commands Application-specific commands If the command is application-specific, you will then be asked to select the title of the target window or dialog box for the command. The command will work only in the specified window or dialog box of the program you select. For example, you could specify that a command “Resize Table” should work only when that program’s Table dialog box is open.
UG5.bk Page 143 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 9 Creating Your Own Dragon NaturallySpeaking Commands Example: Creating a command “Type Closing Remark” Suppose you want to create a command named “Type Closing Remark” that moves to the bottom of your Microsoft Word document and types “Dictated with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.” On the NaturallySpeaking menu, point to Custom Commands and then click Create.
UG5.bk Page 144 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 9 Creating Your Own Dragon NaturallySpeaking Commands You can drag the crosshair pointer to a program window to select it. Drag the crosshair pointer to the target window to select it. To continue, click Next.
UG5.bk Page 145 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 9 Creating Your Own Dragon NaturallySpeaking Commands 3 Select the file where you want the command to be active, or enter a new file name. Choose a custom command file you have already created... ...or enter a new file name here. By default, the computer chooses the command file associated with the program for which you create the command (in this example, WINWORD). For global commands, the default file is the global.dvc file.
UG5.bk Page 146 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 9 Creating Your Own Dragon NaturallySpeaking Commands Your command will work whenever the window title you specify in this step matches the window title of the active window or dialog box. To continue, click Next. 5 Enter the command name. For this example, enter “Type Closing Remark.” To continue, click Next. 6 146 Select the type of command action.
UG5.bk Page 147 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 9 Creating Your Own Dragon NaturallySpeaking Commands For this example, select Type text or keystrokes. To continue, click Next. 7 In the Keystrokes box, type the text and keystrokes you want the command to type or send. For this example, type the text string “{Ctrl+End},” then “{Ctrl+b},” followed by the text “Dictated with Dragon NaturallySpeaking” and “{Ctrl+b}” again.
UG5.bk Page 148 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 9 Creating Your Own Dragon NaturallySpeaking Commands To continue, click Next. 8 Check your selections. To close the wizard and create the command, click Finish. If you need to make changes, click Back. 9 Try your new command. The command is application-specific, so you must first switch to the window where it’s active (in this example, Microsoft Word). Say “Type Closing Remark.
UG5.bk Page 149 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 9 Creating Your Own Dragon NaturallySpeaking Commands specific commands. You can edit not only commands you create but also most standard Dragon NaturallySpeaking commands. Edit standard commands with caution If you modify standard Dragon NaturallySpeaking commands, do so cautiously; these commands were selected to be easily distinguished from dictation words.
UG5.bk Page 150 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 9 Creating Your Own Dragon NaturallySpeaking Commands Importing and deleting command files Dragon NaturallySpeaking can only import and export command files, not individual commands. If you want to share a groups of commands with other people, it makes sense to put all the commands you might be sharing together in a single file. You may also choose to organize groups of commands into separate files according to what the commands do.
UG5.bk Page 151 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM CHAPTER 9 Creating Your Own Dragon NaturallySpeaking Commands To delete a command file: 1 On the Custom Commands menu, click Delete. 2 Select the command file you want to delete in the Command File to Delete list. 3 Click Delete. Deleting a command cannot be undone. You may want to make a backup copy of your custom command files (.dvc files) in your Users folder before modifying or deleting command files.
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UG5.bk Page 153 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder I f you have Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred or a higher edition, you can dictate into a portable recorder and then use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to transcribe your recorded speech.
UG5.bk Page 154 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder Installing recorder software The Sony Memory Stick IC Recorder ICD-MS1 and the Sony ICDR100 recorder require additional software to work with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. ■ If you are using the Sony Memory Stick IC Recorder ICD-MS1, you must install the Sony Memory Stick Voice Editor. ■ If you are using the Sony ICD-R100 recorder, you must install the ICD-PCLINK software.
UG5.bk Page 155 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder Use the Voice It Link software to perform functions for your Dragon NaturallyMobile recorder that you can’t perform from the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Transcribe dialog box. Note that for normal transcription from the Dragon NaturallyMobile recorder, you don’t need to have this software installed.
UG5.bk Page 156 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder 3 On the Create User screen, enter a unique name for the user. Make sure that the language and vocabulary are correct for your system (see your Quick Start guide for details). Then select the appropriate recorder type from the dictation source list. Use the following table as a guide for selecting a dictation source and deciding what to do next.
App_a.fm Page 157 Monday, August 7, 2000 2:54 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder D IC T AT IO N S OU R C E HO W TO PR OC E E D Sony Memory Stick IC Recorder ICD-MS1 Skip to step 5. Recording device plugged into Line-In Jack Be sure the recorder is connected to your computer with a cable plugged into your sound card, and proceed to step 4. Digital recorder using sound files (.wav) on disk (includes the Sony ICDR100) Skip to step 5.
UG5.bk Page 158 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder 7 8 The screen that appears and what you do next depends on the recorder type you have selected. R E C OR D E R TY P E HO W TO PR OC E E D Sony Memory Stick IC Recorder ICD-MS1 Click the “Sony Memory Stick Voice Editor” button and follow the instructions on the screen.
UG5.bk Page 159 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder consistent results. Be sure to hold the recorder at the same distance you used when you dictated the training text. ■ Don’t change the recording volume setting on your recorder (if it has one). Keep the same setting you used during training. If the setting changes, check the audio volume and quality again. From the NaturallySpeaking menu, point to Advanced and click Check Audio.
UG5.bk Page 160 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder Later, when you transcribe your recorded dictation, you can choose to make Dragon NaturallySpeaking ignore all but the commands in the previous list (or a subset of the list).
UG5.bk Page 161 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder 2 Open the user adapted for your recorded speech. (Click the Users button on the DragonBar, and then click the user name.) 3 From the NaturallySpeaking menu, point to Advanced, and click Transcribe Recording. (If the Extras toolbar is displayed, you can also click the Transcribe button.) The Transcribe a Recording dialog box opens.
UG5.bk Page 162 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder 5 162 If you are using the Dragon NaturallyMobile recorder, the Select Files for Transcription dialog box opens.
UG5.bk Page 163 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder If you are using the Sony Memory Stick IC Recorder ICD-MS1, the Sony Memory Stick Voice Editor dialog box opens. 6 If you are using the Dragon NaturallyMobile recorder, select the file or files you want to transcribe, and click the Transcribe button.
UG5.bk Page 164 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM 2 Open the user adapted for your recorded speech. (Click the Users button on the DragonBar and then click the user name.) From the NaturallySpeaking menu, point to Advanced, and click Transcribe Recording. (If the Extras toolbar is displayed, you can also click the Transcribe button.) The Transcribe from dialog box opens.
UG5.bk Page 165 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder 4 To begin transcription, click Transcribe. 5 If your dictation source is “Recording device plugged into Line-In Jack,” press the Play button on your recorder. Your recorded speech should appear on the screen. If text doesn’t appear, see the section, “Troubleshooting” on page 167.
UG5.bk Page 166 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder The following sections describe the options on the Advanced Settings dialog box: Destination You can choose to specify that the recording should be transcribed into the DragonPad window or into a selected window you click in after closing the Transcribe Recording dialog box. Make sure the window you select accepts text.
UG5.bk Page 167 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder Miscellaneous Options (for Line Input recorders only) “When using a Line Input recorder, stop transcribing after seconds of silence” instructs Dragon NaturallySpeaking to finish transcribing a recording after it detects a certain number of seconds of silence.
UG5.bk Page 168 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder Correcting mistakes After Dragon NaturallySpeaking transcribes your dictation, make sure you correct any mistakes. To help you check for mistakes, you can play back your recorded voice as you read what Dragon NaturallySpeaking transcribed. Listening to your dictation as you read the transcription will help you identify misrecognized words or phrases.
UG5.bk Page 169 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder TIP One of the most effective ways to proof and correct a transcription is simply to select the entire transcription and play it back. During playback, you can press the right arrow key to speed up the playback and the left arrow key to slow it down. When you see a mistake, just press the down arrow key to open the Correction dialog box.
UG5.bk Page 170 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX A Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking With a Portable Recorder 5 Begin speaking, holding the built-in microphone of the recorder almost touching the corner of your mouth and a bit to the side. Do not hold the recorder so that the microphone is directly in front of your mouth. Hold the recorder so that the built-in microphone is at the side of your mouth, not in front of it.
UG5.bk Page 171 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List his appendix lists the Dragon NaturallySpeaking commands. Most of the commands listed here are described in detail elsewhere in this guide. For more information about commands, follow the page references provided throughout the appendix. T Which commands work in which programs? Some commands work only in certain types of programs.
UG5.bk Page 172 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List ▲ A triangle means that in most programs, the command works on what you just said. For example, you can say “Scratch That” to erase what you just said. Commands marked with a triangle also work on selected text in programs that support Select-and-Say (listed below). In these programs, for example, you can say “Cap That” to capitalize the first letter of selected text.
UG5.bk Page 173 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Controlling the microphone SAY TO ● Go to Sleep Make the microphone stop listening temporarily. ● Wake Up Reactivate the microphone when it’s sleeping. ● Microphone Off Turn the microphone off. (You cannot turn it back on by voice.
UG5.bk Page 174 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Selecting text Selecting specific words SA Y TO ◆ Select glass Select a specific word or words that are visible on screen. In this example, select glass. ◆ Select Again Select the same text again but in a different place, which is also visible on screen. ◆ US/Canada: Select It Select a range of words visible on screen. In this example, select It was a dark and stormy night.
UG5.bk Page 175 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Selecting a word or character SAY ● Select TH E N ( on e) T HE N ( o ne ) Next Word Forward 2 Words Previous 2...20 Words Back Character Last 4 Characters 2...20 Characters TIP You can also say “Select Word,” “Select Line,” or “Select Character.” For more information about these commands, see “Selecting a word or character” on page 94.
UG5.bk Page 176 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Correcting text SA Y TO ▲ Select That Select the last thing you said and display the Quick Correct list (by default; you can choose to display the Correction dialog box instead). ▲ Correct That Correct either the last thing you said or selected text. ◆ Correct carefully Correct a specific word or words that are visible on screen. In this example, correct the word carefully.
UG5.bk Page 177 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Correction dialog box commands SA Y TO Choose 2 Select an alternative from the numbered list and enter it in your document. You can say any number that appears in the list. Select 4 Select an alternative from the numbered list for editing. You can say any number that appears in the list. Scratch That Erase the dictated text in the Correction dialog box.
UG5.bk Page 178 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List International Communications Alphabet When spelling in the Correction dialog box, you can use the International Communications Alphabet to enter letters. For a complete list of alphabet choices, see the online Help.
UG5.bk Page 179 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List TO EN TE R SA Y – en dash - soft hyphen (Nonbreaking space) nonbreaking space or nonbreakable space or no break space or unbreakable space Currency symbols When spelling in the Correction dialog box, you can enter the following special characters by voice. (If the program has trouble recognizing a character, try using the longest available spoken form.
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UG5.bk Page 181 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Mathematical symbols When spelling in the Correction dialog box, you can enter the following special characters by voice. (If the program has trouble recognizing a character, try using the longest available spoken form.
UG5.bk Page 182 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Erasing and undoing SA Y TO ● Delete That Delete selected text. (For more information, see “Deleting specific words” on page 101.) ● Backspace Press the BACKSPACE key. To press it more than once, say Backspace 2, Backspace 3, and so on (up to 20). ● Undo That or Undo the last action. Undo Last Action ▲ Scratch That Erase the last thing you said or selected text.
UG5.bk Page 183 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Deleting the next or previous word or character SAY ● Delete T HE N ( o ne ) T HE N ( o ne ) Next Word Forward Character Previous 2 Words Back 3 Characters Last 2...20 Words 2...20 Characters For more information about these commands, see “Deleting the next or previous word or character” on page 102.
UG5.bk Page 184 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Going to the beginning or end of a line SAY TH E N (o ne ) ● Go to Beginning of Line ● Move to Start of Line End of Line For more information about these commands, see “Going to the beginning or end of a line” on page 88. Placing the insertion point before or after a specific word SA Y TO ◆ Insert Before Place the insertion point before a specific word or words that are visible on screen.
UG5.bk Page 185 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Moving up or down a line SAY ● Move T HE N ( o ne ) T HE N ( o ne) Up a Line (or 1 Line) Back 2 Lines Down 3 Lines Forward 2...20 Lines For example, you can say “Move Up a Line” or “Move Down Six Lines.” For more information about these commands, see “Moving right or left a word or character” on page 90.
UG5.bk Page 186 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Copying, cutting, and pasting text SA Y TO ● Copy Selection Copy selected text to the Clipboard. ● Cut Selection Cut selected text. ▲ Copy That Copy the last thing you said or selected text to the Clipboard. ▲ Cut That Cut the last thing you said or selected text. ● Paste That Paste the contents of the Clipboard. ● Copy All to Copy all the text in your document to the Clipboard.
UG5.bk Page 187 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Capitalizing or uncapitalizing the next word you say SA Y TO ● Cap glass Start the next word with a capital, in this example, Glass. ● All Caps glass Type the next word in all capitals, in this example, GLASS. ● No Caps Jack Type the next word in all lowercase, in this example, jack.
UG5.bk Page 188 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Hyphenating or compounding text SAY TO ▲ Hyphenate That or Format That With Hyphens ▲ Compound That or Format That Without Spaces Hyphenate either the last thing you said or selected text. Compound either the last thing you said or selected text. For more information about these commands, see “Adding hyphens later” on page 68 and “Compounding words later” on page 70.
UG5.bk Page 189 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Changing font face S A Y (o ne ) T HE N ( o ne ) ■ Set Font Times ■ Format That Times New Roman Arial Courier Courier New For more information about these commands, see “Changing font face” on page 98.
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UG5.bk Page 191 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Entering numbers TO EN TE R S AY 5 five or numeral five 23 twenty three 179 one hundred seventy nine or one seventy nine 5423 five thousand four hundred and twenty three 5,423 five [comma] four twenty three 12,537 twelve thousand five hundred and thirty seven 142,015 one hundred and forty two thousand and fifteen 35.23 thirty five [point] two three 0.
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UG5.bk Page 193 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Postal and ZIP codes TO EN TER S AY 02460 oh two four six zero 02460-1458 oh two four six zero [hyphen] one four five eight NOTE: the hyphen is not optional.
UG5.bk Page 194 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Entering punctuation and special characters 194 TO EN TER S AY TO E N TE R SA Y & ampersand or and sign * asterisk ’ apostrophe ’s apostrophe s @ at sign ` backquote ‘ open single quote or begin single quote ’ close single quote or end single quote “ open quote open quotes or begin quote or begin quotes ” close quote or close quotes or end quote or end quotes \ backslash
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UG5.bk Page 196 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Playing back and reading text Playing back dictation SA Y TO ■ Play That Back or Play Play back the last thing you said or selected text. That or Play Selection ■ Play Back Line Play back dictation for the current line. ■ Play Back Paragraph Play back dictation for the current paragraph. ■ Play Back Document Play back dictation for the whole document.
UG5.bk Page 197 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Working with your desktop and windows Starting programs and opening documents and folders SA Y TO ● Start Calculator Start a program on your Windows Start menu or desktop, in this example, Calculator. ● Start Mail Start your default e-mail program. ● Start proposal.doc Open a document on your Windows Start menu or desktop, in this example, proposal.doc.
UG5.bk Page 198 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Opening and closing menus SA Y ● Click File or File ● Cancel TO Open a menu or activate a menu command, in this example, the File menu. Close an open menu. For more information about these commands, see “Opening and closing menus” on page 107. Selecting buttons, tabs, and options SA Y TO ● Click OK or OK Activate a button or option, in this example, OK.
UG5.bk Page 199 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Resizing and closing windows SA Y TO ● Click Maximize Maximize the active window. ● Click Minimize Minimize the active window. ● Click Restore Restore the active window to its previous size. ● Click Close Close the active window. ● Click Control Menu Open the Control menu for the active window. ● Click System Menu Open the System menu for the active window.
UG5.bk Page 200 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List The following commands work if you have a message selected in your Inbox, or if you are currently in an e-mail message. Sending, replying to, forwarding, and printing e-mail SA Y TO Reply Mail or Reply Message or Reply To E-Mail or Reply To Message Reply to the sender of the current message. Reply to All Reply to all recipients of the current message.
UG5.bk Page 201 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Editing a message SA Y TO Go to To Field or To Move to the To field. In AOL only, you can say “Send To.” Go to CC Field or CC Move to the CC field. In AOL only, you can say “Copy To.” Go to BCC Field or BCC Move to the BCC field. Go to Subject Field Subject Move to the Subject field. Go to Body Field or Body Move to the Body field.
UG5.bk Page 202 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Using Lotus Notes Lotus Notes commands are available only in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional and higher editions. These commands let you control and navigate using Lotus Notes. Basic commands SA Y TO Move to Tab 1..10 Move to the selected Lotus Notes tab. Next Message Open the next message in the list. Previous Message Open the previous message in the list.
UG5.bk Page 203 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Navigating the Web SA Y TO Go to Address Move to the Address box. Click Go or Go There Go to the Web page specified in the Address box (same as pressing the ENTER key). Go to Favorite Dragon Systems Go to a Web page on your Favorites list, in this example, Dragon Systems. Refresh or Reload Refresh the current Web page (same as clicking the Refresh button).
UG5.bk Page 204 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List Moving around a Web page SA Y Page Down TO Scroll down one screen (same as pressing the PAGE DOWN key). Page Up Scroll up one screen (same as pressing the PAGE UP key). Line Down Scroll down one line (same as clicking the down arrow in the scroll bar once). Line Up Scroll up one line (same as clicking the up arrow in the scroll bar once). Go to Top Scroll to the beginning of the Web page.
UG5.bk Page 205 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM APPENDIX B Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 5 Commands List SA Y TO Click Radio Button/ Radio Button Enumerate all option (radio) buttons on the page, and go to the first one. Click List Box or List Box Enumerate all the boxes with a list of choices (drop-down lists) on the page, and go to the first one. Show Choices Open a list of choices. Hide Choices Close a list of choices.
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UG5.bk Page 212 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM Index postal and Zip codes 85 pound sterling 81 PowerPoint 103 problems dictating currency or time programs, starting 104 punctuation 194 76 Q Quick Correct 15–16, 33 options 17 R Read That 28 reading text 196 recognition errors.
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UG5.bk Page 214 Friday, August 4, 2000 2:26 PM Index W Wake Up 173 Web addresses 72, 124 Web pages. See Internet Explorer What’s new in version 5 2 windows closing 110, 199 resizing 110, 199 switching between 106 Windows Explorer 104 Windows NT 103 WordPad 172 WordPerfect 46, 87, 98, 171–172 words deleting 94, 101–102 moving to next/previous 90 placing insertion point before/after 88 selecting 92, 94 WorldWide Web.
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