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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. By reducing keyboard and mouse

usage, you can gain productivity AND avoid strain on your wrists, shoulders, neck, and eyes!

This workbook aims to efficiently present what an end-user should know as quickly as possible — it

does not cover every aspect of Dragon (the resources in Dragon’s Help menu and on nuance.com

offer many details). It covers how to:

• “Type by voice” naturally and efficiently, which includes:

- Dictating anything (including prices, phone numbers, addresses, URLs, symbols, punctuation, part

numbers, acronyms, Roman numerals, units of measure, etc.)

- Personalizing the software’s Vocabulary with custom words and phrases, spoken forms

(pronunciations) and written forms, to ensure that Dragon is able to transcribe exactly what you want,

even if what you said could be written in different ways.

- Formatting, editing, and revising text, as well as Correcting Dragon’s errors if needed.

- Creating custom commands to insert boilerplate content (commands of the type “Text-and-

Graphics”, available in editions Preferred, Professional, Legal and Medical).

• “Command and control” your computer by voice, which includes:

- Saying commands to use the Internet and e-mail, search your computer, open programs, click menus

and buttons, close or minimize windows, switch between windows, etc.

- “Voice-pressing” keys or key combinations on your keyboard.

About Lesson Order, Prerequisites, and Hands-Free Usage

For best efficiency, we strongly recommend you go through this workbook in order; it contains

progressive explanations and illustrations, as well as step-by-step instructions and practice exercises;

in addition, notes and tips provide further details and alert you to potential pitfalls.

TIP When directed to “click” items (buttons, menus, checkboxes…), feel free to instead use your

voice, or keyboard shortcuts (underlined letters, Tab, spacebar…). If hands-free usage is important

to you, read the lesson ‘Controlling the Operating System and Applications’ first, and see the Help

about Dragon’s MouseGrid and commands for moving, clicking, and dragging the mouse.

To perform the exercises in this workbook, you should have basic familiarity with:

• Using Microsoft® Windows® to start or exit applications, open or save files, maximize

windows, close dialog boxes, copy or move items, browse to folders, cut and paste, etc.

• Simple word-processing concepts such as bullet points, font size and font style, bolding and

italicizing, right-aligning and centering, etc.