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® Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 10 End-User Workbook
End-User Workbook (revision 3.1, January 2010) for Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Version 10.1 as released in North America Unless specified otherwise, the material herein applies to all editions of Dragon 10.1. We welcome comments or questions about this workbook and all aspects of Dragon documentation (instructional videos, Tutorial, User Guide, Installation Guide, Tip of the Day, Help menu, Performance Assistant, "What Can I Say" windows, etc.
This Workbook’s Goals Dragon NaturallySpeaking lets you speak naturally to perform tasks such as creating or editing documents, using e-mail, entering prices and other numeric data, searching your computer, and quickly finding on the Web maps, news, videos, images, and more.
Table of Contents This Workbook’s Goals ................................................................................................................................................................................. iii About Lesson Order, Prerequisites, and Hands-Free Usage ................................................................................................... iii Table of Contents ................................................................................................................
Correcting in the Spell dialog box ............................................................................................................................................. 30 Using Playback to Aid Correction .............................................................................................................................................. 32 Deferring Correction ....................................................................................................................................
Training Words from the Vocabulary Editor ............................................................................................................................ 63 Training While Correcting ........................................................................................................................................................... 63 Checking Acoustic Settings ..................................................................................................................................
Creating a User Profile Dragon NaturallySpeaking is speaker-dependant software. To recognize your speech accurately, it must have a “profile” of you, which it stores in a set of files called user files (often referred to as “a User”). The first time you launch Dragon, the program automatically brings up its New User Wizard, which takes you through the process of creating a profile; this includes choosing the right options for your “accent” and microphone type.
Step 4: Version 10 has special acoustic models for a number of broad “accents” heard in the US (this is particularly important for natives of the UK or the Indian sub-continent). Open the drop-down list Accent to see their names; if unsure which one is best for you, just pick “General”. Step 5: Select the right Dictation source. If you are not using the default (microphone plugged into the Mic-In jack), open the drop-down list and pick your device’s type: for instance, Bluetooth Microphone.
Step 6: Next, Dragon will check audio settings. Click the “Start Volume Check” button and read aloud the text in the gray box, exactly as presented, in a clear but natural voice. Feel free to say the punctuation if you wish. Dragon will let you know when it has heard enough. Click Next. The next screen is similar: click “Start Quality Check”, read aloud, then click Next. Dragon will verify that your sound system is acceptable for speech recognition. (The Knowledgebase at www.nuance.
“Adapt to writing style” – and a caution for multilingual users Dragon will then offer to start adapting its Vocabulary, presenting a screen entitled “Adapt to your writing style”. Feel free to skip this simplified customization, which analyzes the texts in your My Documents folder as well as your sent e-mails; as soon as your profile is created, you can use the powerful, targeted customization tools described in the following lessons.
Learning More and Getting Help Dragon NaturallySpeaking offers so many tools, commands, and features that it would be impossible to provide all their details in this workbook.
The Online Help and Performance Assistant The DragonBar’s Help menu gives you access to the on-screen Help topics and the Performance Assistant (as well as the Accuracy Assistant, the Sample Commands window, and the Tutorial.
Key points about learning more and getting help 9 This workbook is meant to get you started efficiently. You can learn more, get help, and find answers to many questions, by using the User's Guide, the online Help, the Sample Commands window, the Accuracy Center, the Accuracy Assistant, the Performance Assistant, as well as the Nuance website (www.nuance.com), including the Knowledge Base of “Tech Notes”, updated regularly.
Why Customizing the Vocabulary is Important Transcribing a person’s speech presents acoustic challenges, such as accents and ambient noise. There is also a lexical challenge; for the transcription to be precisely accurate, familiarity with the terms used is necessary.
Customizing the Vocabulary—Using the Vocabulary Editor Dragon’s Vocabulary Editor lets you view what can be transcribed from the computer’s active memory; it also allows you to add new entries, as well as edit existing entries—including their Spoken Forms and Properties. Let’s take a look inside the Vocabulary and discover the Vocabulary Editor’s interface: Step 1: Say Edit Vocabulary (you can also click View/Edit on the DragonBar’s Words menu or View or Edit Your Vocabulary from the Accuracy Center).
Some of the "words" in the Vocabulary Editor aren't single words. Of course is listed. So is as well as.
TIP Vocabulary entries may have more than one spoken form. You may add spoken forms to custom entries and to existing entries, in order to be able to dictate them as comes naturally to you—for example, to obtain the symbol ©, you might like to say “circle see” instead of the existing spoken form “copyright sign”. Adding Spoken Forms allows you to dictate in the way that is most natural, but also quickest for you.
Deleting “Words” and Modifying “Word” Properties If at some point you find that an item is not transcribed as you wished, remember that it might need a spoken form, or a longer entry in the Vocabulary. (Also, particularly if the pronunciation contains non-English sounds, you may want to help the software with some acoustic “training”—see "Training Words").
9 In the Vocabulary Editor, custom-added entries are marked with a red star; choosing Custom Words Only from the Display drop-down list allows you to see just the custom entries. 9 You can locate an item by entering it in the Written Form field. By using the Display drop-down list, you can also browse subsets like “Custom words only”, “Words containing digits” and “Words containing punctuation.” 9 Spoken Forms are an efficient way to help Dragon transcribe “special” words.
Importing Lists of Vocabulary Entries You now know how to add words and phrases one by one in the Vocabulary Editor. If you have many entries to add, this is not the most efficient method, particularly if you already have some relevant lists in electronic form. Dragon’s Word Import feature allows adding many Vocabulary entries at once, even if they have Spoken Forms. Observe the sample import list in the illustration below, and identify the motivation behind each entry.
Step 4: On the Add Words from Word Lists dialog, click the Add File button. The Add File window appears. Locate the file containing your list and click Open; the name of the file you designated is now displayed in the File List. If you have other lists to import, add their files in the same way. Step 5: Click Next. The software will import the listed items into the Vocabulary. The imported entries will be viewable in the Vocabulary Editor, where they will have a red star like other custom entries.
Customizing the Vocabulary from Existing Documents You now know about importing lists of entries into the Vocabulary. Another efficient way to boost your accuracy is to let Dragon analyze text that is similar to what you are likely to dictate: the Add Words From Documents tool use many documents at once to “harvest” potential words to add to the Vocabulary, as well as to “adapt to the writing style” (i.e., learn frequency information).
Step 4: On the Add Documents box, click Add Document. Locate and select the document(s), then click Open. TIP You can select multiple files at once: by holding down the Ctrl key, by pressing Ctrl A (the Windows keyboard shortcut to “select all”)... Dragon will now analyze the text contained in the designated documents. This may take a moment—if there is a lot of text to analyze, you should run this tool when you do NOT need to use Dragon for something else.
Before the words are added, you are given the option to provide acoustic training for them. You can skip this step and provide training later just for those words that seem to need it, as explained in this workbook and in the Help. Finally, Dragon will adapt its word-frequency and context information based on the text analyzed (unless you unchecked the box “Adapt to writing style” on the first screen of this tool); this will allow it to better guess between words that sound alike.
Customizing the Vocabulary from Your E-Mail As you learned, Dragon can adapt its Vocabulary based on designated documents. It also has the ability to quickly learn from your usage of several e-mail programs: Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail. By “studying” the e-mails you sent as well as the recipient names, Dragon can identify potentially useful contact names to add to the Vocabulary, as well as adapt its statistical information on word usage (frequency and context).
Key points about customizing the Vocabulary from e-mail: 9 Dragon can quickly adapt its Vocabulary from your use of e-mail in Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, thanks to a tool available in its Accuracy Center: Increase Accuracy From E-Mail. 9 This tool is presented much like the tool Add Words From Documents. It performs two functions: it finds and lists potentially useful contact names to add, and it also analyzes your sent e-mails to “adapt to the writing style”, i.e.
Starting to Dictate: Controlling the Microphone When ready to dictate, you must ensure that Dragon NaturallySpeaking is able to hear you. Your device must be connected and positioned correctly of course, but the software also needs to know whether to “listen”. This lesson shows several ways to indicate that, and introduces the DragonBar—Dragon’s own “tool bar”.
The Importance of Hot Keys, including Microphone On/Off Pressing a key or two is usually quicker than moving and clicking the mouse (and physically easier, too)— software programs, including operating systems, typically contain keyboard shortcuts, or ‘hot keys’. Dragon provides hot keys for various useful tasks, including controlling the state of its listening. If your computer has a full-sized keyboard, press the plus (+) key on the numeric keypad (on the far right of the keyboard).
Starting to Dictate: Your First Dictation You can use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to dictate into virtually any Windows application. Further in this workbook, you will learn how to start programs by voice (but one doesn’t need to have started a program by voice in order to dictate into it.) What you dictate will be inserted wherever your insertion point (cursor) is located in your document.
The Results Box Exercise 2: Study the following text sample then dictate it in DragonPad. (Ignore any errors for now.) The more I use it, the software will adapt to the way I sound and the words I use.
IMPORTANT: The location and behavior of the Results box can be customized from the Options dialog’s View tab. Many users find it most convenient to “anchor” the Results box to a place where it’s unlikely to hide anything, such as the bottom right corner of their screen—to do that, just check the “Anchor” checkbox, then drag the Results box to the desired place. Below are other frequent punctuation marks—you may want to say them out loud once before the next exercise.
Dictating Special Text: Numbers, Dates, Addresses, Units… As you saw in your first dictation, Dragon NaturallySpeaking automatically inserts spaces between words. It also follows spacing and capitalization rules: for example, it inserts a space after close quote but none after open quote, and it capitalizes at the beginning of sentences and paragraphs.
TIP By default, Dragon applies its automatic formatting rules even if you pause within the segment (the option “Allow pauses in formatted phrases” lets you turn this off.) If you need to dictate sequences of 7, 10 or 11 digits and do NOT want them formatted as phone numbers, one trick is to say “numeral” just before. Exercise 2: Dictate the following address.
Now that Dragon is in Numbers mode, you can: • dictate numbers and punctuation (hyphen, dollar sign…). For decimal point, say dot or point. • say new line, new paragraph and space • say move up|down|left|right to move the focus in your document’s lines or cells. If it hears anything else, Dragon shows “Did you say some number?” in the DragonBar message area. Step 2: To resume regular dictation, you can say switch to normal mode, or click Words, Normal Mode.
Key points about dictating numbers and special text 9 Dragon can format dates, times, prices, street addresses, phone numbers, Web addresses, units of measure, and other special text automatically. The Formatting dialog (from the Tools menu) lets you turn these built-in rules off or on as desired. 9 The restricted recognition modes can make dictating special text more efficient. They are accessible by voice commands (“Numbers Mode on”, “switch to Normal Mode”) and through the DragonBar’s Words menu.
Correcting Transcription Errors in Your Dictated Text Human beings sometimes can’t recognize words correctly—especially if the speaker and the listener come from different regions, if the speaker is discussing an unfamiliar subject, or if the words are not well articulated. In addition, when we hear a word for the first time, we may not know how to spell it. Some people’s first or last names can be spelled different ways (like Gene/Jean, Hansen/Hanson).
The Spell dialog box opens, displaying what was transcribed, as well as alternate guesses, each preceded by a number: • If what should have been transcribed is listed: say choose n (the number of the correct choice: in this case, choose 3). You can also pick the correct choice by double-clicking it (or using your keyboard’s down arrow and Enter.) • If what should have been transcribed is NOT listed, enter it by hand or by voice (see below), then say OK or press Enter.
Using Playback to Aid Correction Sometimes, especially if you dictate a significant amount of text before correcting, you may not remember exactly what you actually said. Dragon’s playback feature is very helpful in these instances. You can take advantage of it in several ways. If you see that a certain word or phrase appears incorrectly, use the correct command to open the Spell dialog box. Once it appears, click or say Play Back to hear the recording of your voice as you dictated that text.
9 If the word(s) you dictated are not in the Spell box’s list of choices, you can spell them by voice or type them. You cannot re-dictate the word(s) directly in the Spell dialog – since the reason you are there is that Dragon needs a little help with this word or phrase. 9 If the Spell dialog is open but you are not sure of what exactly was said, click or say play back. 9 To proofread using playback, first highlight the relevant text, then say play that back or click the playback icon.
Deferring Correction You know now that correcting recognition errors helps Dragon NaturallySpeaking adapt to your speech and recognize it more accurately.
IMPORTANT: The dictator’s profile must be accessible from both computers. Copying profiles onto another computer is easy, but if the profiles are in a Roaming configuration, it is not necessary: their Master copy resides on the network, making them usable from any connected computer. Step 1: Jane dictates her reports. When she is finished, she saves the documents to a network location Bob can access from his computer. When Dragon asks whether she wants to save the audio, she chooses Yes.
Editing Text by Voice Dragon NaturallySpeaking lets you use your voice to move around within a document and edit the contents— whether or not that document was originally created by voice. As you learned, the software transcribes your dictation wherever the insertion point is (usually shown as a thin blinking vertical bar some call cursor.) Here are some of the commands to select text and move the insertion point. Mouse and keyboard can still be used, of course.
• You can select the entire content: select all • You can “unselect” a selection by saying unselect that or deselect that. (Another way is to move the insertion point with a move right command, for instance.) TIP As with all commands, you must say these as a continuous phrase, with a brief pause before and after. For commands that quote words from your screen, choose your target words before you start to say the command.
Select-and-Say™, non-standard windows, and the Dictation Box Commands such as ‘correct ’ and ‘insert after ’, which quote from the active text field work thanks to a Dragon functionality called Select-and-Say. This functionality requires the text field to let Dragon be aware of its content—such as where words (and sentences) begin and end, so that Dragon can automatically apply spacing between words, and capitalization at the beginning of sentences...
TIP: You can have different Dictation Box settings for different applications. Also, you can have multiple Dictation Boxes open at one time. The Help contains more details about the Dictation Box. Replacing and Inserting Words The select commands are very useful when you wish to change some of the text on your screen. As you would with mouse or keyboard, you select the relevant segment, then you overwrite it—by dictating or typing.
Say six o’clock. Æ The sentence should now read “We could meet at your office at 6:00.” 3) Say select in through week. Æ The words “in Boston for a few days next week” are highlighted. Say in your area on Tuesday. Æ The sentence should now read “I will be in your area on Tuesday…” Let’s say we now want to add a few words inside this paragraph. 4) Observe the insertion point’s current position. Say insert after dinner, then say if you have time.
9 At first, uttering the whole command can be tricky for commands that quote words from your text, such as select… through… and insert before…. As usual, deciding what you are going to say before starting to speak is recommended. If you paused mid-command, just say scratch that, pause, and give the complete command again. 9 If the word or phrase you want to select appears in several places, you can use select , followed by the command select again to move to the next instance.
Formatting Text by Voice Whether text was originally dictated or typed, Dragon NaturallySpeaking lets you use your voice to control font (Arial, Courier…), font style (bold, underline…), font size, alignment (center, right-align…), color, and more. The "X that" Convention Dragon has many commands to tell the computer to perform a certain action on a certain item. Many are phrased as "X that", with X being a verb for the desired action: for instance, italicize that and delete that.
The "Format That" Commands Not all formatting commands are worded as "X that", but all follow the same rules about what text the action is performed on: the selection if there is one, otherwise the last utterance (what was said since the last pause.
Controlling the Operating System and Applications Dragon NaturallySpeaking can do much more than type and format your dictated text: it lets you start programs, open desktop items, switch between open windows, maximize or minimize windows, choose menu and submenu items, navigate dialog boxes, “voice-click” buttons, “voice-press” keys, move the mouse pointer, and much more, without touching the mouse or keyboard. Of course, when Dragon is running, you can still use your mouse and keyboard.
Opening and Closing Programs and Windows To close the active window, you can say click close. To start a program by voice, say start (or open) immediately followed by the name of the application. For instance, start DragonPad, start Internet Explorer, start Notepad or start Lotus Notes. TIP Do you need to say "start Word", "start Microsoft Word" or "start Microsoft Office Word 2007"? In the Start Menu (on your Windows taskbar), look in Programs. Some programs require clicking a series of submenus.
TIP By default, some Microsoft applications show only the most-used menu items. For optimal voice usage, consider changing this default: in the application’s Tools menu, open the Customize dialog, and check the box “Always show full menus.” Menu items often open dialog boxes, which may contain controls such as buttons, checkboxes, tabs, and radio buttons.
Note: If you enable the Microsoft Word set, for instance, Dragon’s speed within Word (or Outlook using Word as its editor) may decrease. “Voice-Pressing” Keys At times, you may wish to press a key or two on your keyboard; you can use Dragon to “voice-press” them. TIP Common accelerator keys for Windows operating systems include: Esc to close a window, Enter to active the item which has the focus, Tab to move the focus forward, and Shift+Tab to move the focus backward.
• How could you place the insertion point in the Find field? How could you go to the other tabs? • Which control currently has the focus? How could you move the focus to the Find Next button? How could you close this dialog box? Key points about controlling your computer by voice 9 You can open an application (or desktop item) by saying start or open immediately followed by the name of the application (or item). You may want to provide easy names for these items.
Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking with the Internet Below are some commands for common Internet-related tasks. The Command Browser lists many more, and the Help contains a lot of detail about using your voice on the Web and about Web-related Dragon options. TIP In editions “Preferred” and above, Version 10 added commands you can say anytime to perform general Web searches, Web searches in specific categories (maps, news, products, images, videos) or searches in certain specific sites, like Wikipedia.
Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking for E-mail Dictating is in itself a great benefit of Dragon NaturallySpeaking for e-mail usage.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Microsoft Word In “Controlling the Operating System and Applications”, you learned about Natural Language Commands. Since Microsoft Word is an application many people use, this chapter lists built-in commands for this word processor. Corel WordPerfect has similar commands, so it shares the same Sample Commands window. If the application’s Natural Language Command set is disabled, the Sample Commands window will show Global Commands.
Here is an example of a Help topic, listing commands for working in Word documents. Many of Dragon’s commands work for both Word 2003 and Word 2007, such as: • New file • Save the file. Save file as. • Create a 3 by 7 table • Add page numbers [at bottom left|center|right] • Delete next sentence • Find a word. Find and replace. • Set page orientation to Landscape • Print pages 3 to 7. Print the selection. Print [this] page • View page layout. Change view to print layout.
Just for Word 2007 In addition to letting you navigate by voice the “Ribbon Interface” introduced in Office 2007, Dragon 10 contains commands for Word features introduced by that version; below are just a few.
Dictating and editing in Microsoft Excel You can use Dragon to dictate and edit content into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Many Excel-specific commands are built into the higher editions; the What Can I Say window shows some, and the Command Browser lets you discover the full set. In addition, the Help describes commands usable in Excel to fill or hide rows or columns, sort, sum or average values, widen columns, and more (see Help example below.
Select-and-Say™ in Quick Edits You will want to practice entering data into a spreadsheet and navigate around the spreadsheet and within cells, as well as dictate and correct text using Select-and-Say commands like “correct ”. For the exercise below, the content of the spreadsheet is not important. Step 1: Open Excel, say open document and locate the relevant .xls file – or use a blank file. Step 2: Say move to cell C7 (or Charlie seven.) Step 3: Dictate your full name into the cell.
Key points about editing cells in Excel 9 You can navigate between cells using absolute commands such as move to cell A1 or relative movement commands such as move up one, move right two, etc. 9 If you want to mention a cell in a command (such as “move to cell D5”, or “select cell B3 through cell H3”), be sure to say the word “cell”. You can use alpha bravo Charlie etc. instead of A B C.
Boosting Productivity with Custom Commands In previous lessons, you learned various built-in voice commands to perform actions such as formatting text, searching the Internet, creating a new e-mail, creating a new appointment… The higher editions of Dragon also allow the creation of custom commands. There are several types of custom commands; this workbook presents the “Text-and-Graphics” type, which allows you to define boilerplate for Dragon to paste wherever you utter the command.
TIP If the text you want already exists in electronic form, you can save time: highlight the desired segment in the original document, then say “make that a shortcut”. Dragon will automatically open the Editor and paste the selection in the Content field. All you have to do now is specify the command’s name and attributes, and edit the Content as needed.
Step 6: Once the command is named, edited, described, grouped, and formatted as you want it, click Save. Let’s test your command. Say start DragonPad, then say your command’s name. (Commands you create yourself follow the usual rule: you must pause before and after, but not in the middle!) You may realize now that you could make your command even more convenient: for instance, by adding a blank line before the content so your pasted content automatically starts as a new paragraph.
• type or dictate a specific value in each placeholder —> The placeholder is overwritten, and delimiters are removed. • accept the default value —> Delimiters are NOT automatically removed; you can say "clear variable delimiters". To navigate a DragonTemplate’s Fields, you can select the desired Field with the mouse, or use the voice commands "Next Field" or "Previous Field.
Step 6: With your command highlighted, click Edit (or use the Script menu). The MyCommands Editor will open, displaying the command’s attributes and content; you can now edit the command as desired. Remember: the Description field is useful for entering comments such as where and when the command should be used, or reminders like “make variations of this ASAP” or “change this after we move”.
Key points about custom commands 9 You can quickly create custom commands to insert blocks of text and/or graphics in your documents. This is done in the tool MyCommands Editor, which you can bring up by saying add new command. 9 If the boilerplate text already exists in an electronic document, you can copy and paste it into the MyCommands Editor’s Content box, or say make that a shortcut. 9 Providing a Group name for your custom commands makes it quick and easy to locate and manage them later.
Performing Audio Checks and Acoustic Training You already know that personalizing Dragon’s vocabulary is a small investment of time that makes a big difference in how accurately the software can work for you. You also know that using proper correction technique to fix misrecognitions allows Dragon to learn from its mistakes.
Step 1: Begin as you normally would, by saying correct immediately followed by the incorrect word(s) Dragon placed on your screen. The Spell dialog box will appear as usual. Step 2: Because you wish to train the pronunciation of this word, proceed slightly differently than usual: If the correct choice appears in the list, single-click it, or say select 2 (or whatever number corresponds to the choice) rather than choose 2 as you normally would.
Step 1: From the Accuracy Center, click or say Check your Acoustic Settings. The Audio Setup Wizard opens. (You can also access the Audio Setup Wizard directly by saying check audio or check audio settings.) Note that opening the Audio Setup Wizard automatically turns off the microphone. Step 2: Follow the Wizard’s screens as when you first created your User profile: click the Start button and read the content of the gray box. Dragon will indicate whether the check passed.
Creating and Using Multiple Vocabularies Every Dragon NaturallySpeaking user automatically has at least one Vocabulary. The Professional, Legal, and Medical editions of Dragon allow you to have several Vocabularies, although it is relatively rare for a person to need more than two or three. The advantage of having several Dragon vocabularies is being able to customize each one to perform best for very different topics or different styles of dictation.
From there, you can also Export a Vocabulary (to burn it to a CD or save it to a USB drive, for instance). This would allow you to share it with other users; the recipient user would also access the Manage Vocabularies dialog, choose Import and browse for the exported Vocabulary’s .top file. (See the Help for more details.) NOTE: If you have multiple Vocabularies for the same User profile, this will be reflected in the Open User window, which will appear when you start Dragon.
Acoustic and Language Model Optimization Proper correction and Vocabulary customization both help Dragon recognize your speech more accurately. Acoustic and Language Modeling Optimization is a functionality you can use to further “tune” the accuracy for your specific usage: • It refines your User profile using the latest acoustic data archived from any corrections and acoustic training you performed.
Step 2: Check the Acoustic or Language Model checkbox as desired, then click Go. (As the dialog box mentions, you should run this tool when your PC is not being used actively.) Dragon will let you know once it has collected enough data for its automatic optimization. Scheduling the Optimizations—and Data Collection For convenience, Dragon lets you schedule a specific time and frequency for these optimizations.
address this through the Scheduled Tasks tab of the Administrative Settings dialog (accessible from the DragonBar’s Tools menu after choosing Close User from the NaturallySpeaking menu). Windows will ask you to enter your new password. The Data tab of the Options dialog Key points about Acoustic and Language Model Optimization 9 The Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer can automatically “tune” Dragon by making it review all the acoustic data and/or text data it has gathered from your usage.
Copying User Profiles As you learned, each person who uses Dragon NaturallySpeaking creates a User profile, which the software holds in a set of user files containing, among other things, acoustic and lexical data. When you add a personalization to the Vocabulary, correct a misrecognition, read a training text, or change a setting in the Options dialog, Dragon can save these refinements in the open User profile.
Practice Exercise: Creating a Memo by Voice Bring up DragonPad or your usual word processor. Using your new dictation and formatting skills, try to create the following document entirely by voice—feel free to replace the signature block with your own. Take this opportunity to practice looking up keywords in the online Help or the PDF file of your User’s Guide to find out more ways to accomplish a particular task by voice. August 5, 2008 AnyCorporation Gene Hansen-Wolffe P.O.
ALL CAPS ON Search files for Atlanta reunion Press Escape Search images for compost diagram Press Alt F4 Backspace 3 Scroll Down Book appointment with Jane Smith Minimize window Bold That Hyphenate That MouseGrid window Insert page break Bullet That Delete Line Mouse right-click Move mouse lower left Switch to Normal Mode Italicize please let Through possible Export Custom Words Check Audio Drag mouse up Open quote Press Tab Search the web for recycling in Houston Numbers Mode Off Cap
