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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. You could say for instance ‘search images for chrysanthemum’ to see

images found for that word by your default search engine.

You can even take advantage of capabilities of specific engines: one example is Google’s conversions and

calculations, as in ‘search Google for 53 percent of 1100’ and ‘search Google for 77 euros in dollars’.

A key advantage of these “Web search shortcuts” is that, like the “desktop search shortcuts”, they can be used

anytime, no matter what program is currently active on your screen; they are very convenient time-savers!

Note: After giving one of these search commands, you may not see any change on your screen right away; this is

normal since the search itself needs a moment to complete.

The following commands cover actions often done in HTML pages and work with supported Web browsers

(there are dozens of commands for Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer; please see the Help.)

Say go to address to go to the address bar; after entering a URL, say go there or press Enter.

Say go back or go forward to click the Back or Forward buttons; say go home to access the homepage.

Say add to favorites to add the current site to the Favorites list.

Say refresh page or reload page. (To stop a page load, you can say stop loading.)

Say page down or start scrolling down to see more of the web page. (You can then say stop scrolling.)

To click a hyperlink, you can say its name or just part of it, preceded by the word ‘click’ or not. (If a

red arrow appears next to it, say click that.)

IMPORTANT: Dragon is always looking to match what it hears to possible commands. For HTML windows,

you can choose to require ‘click’ before the link name, since if you dictate a word or phrase in isolation, it

may activate a link instead of being transcribed—see the Commands tab of Dragon’s Options dialog.

If what you said matches multiple items on the screen, Dragon will display numbered arrows next to the items;

to indicate the desired item, say choose 3 or whatever number corresponds to your choice. (If you need the

numbers to go away, just say hide numbers.)

Say text field or edit box to move the insertion point to the first text field on the screen. If you want

to dictate into another text field, you can say next control.

Say click image to click on an image (on the Web, some items may be designed to look like text

buttons, but are actually images.)

Say click check box to select (or unselect) a check box.

Say click radio button to select a radio button (round option button).

Say click list box to select a list box, and drop list to display the list (to highlight list items, you can

use the move up n and move down n commands)

Say click close or press Escape to close a popup window.

Note: These commands require the setting "Enable commands in HTML windows," which is on by default and

can be found on the Command tab of the Options dialog.