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Table of Contents
This Workbook’s Goals ................................................................................................................................................................................. iii
About Lesson Order, Prerequisites, and Hands-Free Usage ................................................................................................... iii
Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................................................................................... iv
Creating a User Profile .................................................................................................................................................................................. 1
“Adapt to writing style” – and a caution for multilingual users ............................................................................................. 4
The Speed vs. Accuracy slider and Natural Language Commands.......................................................................................... 4
Learning More and Getting Help .............................................................................................................................. .................................... 5
The Dragon User's Guide ............................................................................................................................................................... 5
The Accuracy Center and Accuracy Assistant ............................................................................................................................ 5
The Online Help and Performance Assistant ............................................................................................................................. 6
The Sample Commands window: “What Can I Say” ................................................................................................................. 6
Why Customizing the Vocabulary is Important ......................................................................................................................................... 8
Customizing the Vocabulary—Using the Vocabulary Editor ..................................................................................................................... 9
Adding Vocabulary Entries: Words, Phrases, Acronyms… ........................................................................................................ 9
The importance of Spoken Forms .............................................................................................................................................. 10
Deleting “Words” and Modifying “Word” Properties .............................................................................................................. 12
Importing Lists of Vocabulary Entries ....................................................................................................................................................... 14
Customizing the Vocabulary from Existing Documents .......................................................................................................................... 16
Customizing the Vocabulary from Your E-Mail ........................................................................................................................................ 19
Starting to Dictate: Controlling the Microphone .................................................................................................................................... 21
The DragonBar and the Microphone Icon ................................................................................................................................. 21
Voice Commands for the Microphone and Sleep State .......................................................................................................... 21
The Importance of Hot Keys, including Microphone On/Off ................................................................................................. 22
Starting to Dictate: Your First Dictation .................................................................................................................................................. 23
Dictating Text and Punctuation Marks ...................................................................................................................................... 23
New Line and New Paragraph .................................................................................................................................................... 23
The Results Box ............................................................................................................................................................................ 24
Dictating Special Text: Numbers, Dates, Addresses, Units… ................................................................................................................ 26
Special Text in Normal Dictation ............................................................................................................................................... 26
Numbers Mode -- Dictating Numbers Exclusively .................................................................................................................... 27
Spell Mode -- Dictating Letters, Digits, and Other Characters ............................................................................................. 28
The Spell Command -- Dictating a sequence of characters .................................................................................................. 28
Correcting Transcription Errors in Your Dictated Text .......................................................................................................................... 30