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Table Of Contents
- Dragon Professional for Mac User Guide
- Get started
- Using the Dragon menu
- The Status Window
- The Guidance window
- Recognition modes
- Preferences window
- Using profiles and dictation sources
- Using DragonPad
- FAQs
- What's New?
- Upgrading from Dragon Dictate 4 or Dragon for Mac 5: FAQ
- Activate and Register
- Use the microphone
- Dictate text
- Getting started with dictation
- Mixing dictation with typing
- Dictation overview
- Take it back
- Dictating punctuation and symbols
- Dictating letters
- Dictating numbers
- Correct mistakes
- Edit text
- Format text
- Auto Formatting
- To open the Auto Formatting window:
- Street Addresses
- UK and Canadian postcodes
- Web and email addresses
- Phone numbers
- Abbreviated titles
- Dates
- Times
- Use numerals starting with
- Partially format -illion numbers
- Prices and currencies
- ISO currency codes
- Units of measure
- Social Security Numbers
- All other numbers
- Common abbreviations
- Expand contractions
- Insert two spaces after period
- Allow pauses in formatted phrases
- Formatting
- Capitalization
- Spacing
- Aligning text
- Auto Formatting
- Transcription
- Control your computer
- Launching and quitting applications
- Navigating application windows
- OS X controls
- Working with the Finder
- Using dialog controls
- Key commands
- Menu Walking
- Mouse commands
- MouseGrid
- Create documents
- Working with Microsoft Word
- Working with TextEdit
- Navigating within a document
- To move the cursor to the first or last position in the current document
- To move the cursor a specified number of words from its current position
- To insert the cursor before a specified word or phrase
- To move the cursor to its previous position
- To move the cursor up, down, left or right
- To move the cursor to a new text field
- Related topics:
- Use applications
- Working with Mail
- Working with TextEdit
- Working with Microsoft Word
- Working with Safari
- Working with Firefox
- Working with Calendar
- Working with Messages
- Browse the web
- Dragon Web Extensions
- Installing Dragon Web Extensions
- Upgrading Dragon Web Extensions
- Setting up Dragon Web Extensions—Safari
- Setting up Dragon Web Extensions—Firefox
- Using Dragon Web Extensions to access links and other Web controls
- Disabling or Uninstalling Dragon Web Extensions—Firefox
- Disabling or Uninstalling Dragon Web Extensions—Safari
- Working with Safari
- Working with Firefox
- Posting to Facebook and Twitter
- Dragon Web Extensions
- Make Dragon more accurate
- Use email
- Working with email
- Working with Mail
- Working with webmail
- AutoTexts
- Manage Dragon Commands
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting overview
- Troubleshooting audio and recognition
- Troubleshooting Dragon Web Extensions
- Troubleshooting Commands
- Troubleshooting Vocabulary
- Issues with Upgraded Profiles
- Uninstall Dragon Professional Individual for Mac version 6
Make Dragon more accurate
Read these topics to learn how to teach Dragon to better understand the way you speak and the words you use.
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Editing Dragon's Vocabulary
l Using the Vocabulary Editor to:
l View the vocabulary list
l Add a vocabulary item
l Edit a vocabulary item
l Train a vocabulary item
l Delete a vocabulary item
l Export vocabulary
l Import vocabulary
Vocabulary Training
l Training Dragon to recognize how you use words
Voice Training
l Training Dragon to understand how you speak
Editing Dragon's Vocabulary
In this topic, learn how to use the Vocabulary Editor to:
l View the vocabulary list
l Add a vocabulary item
l Edit a vocabulary item
l Train a vocabulary item
l Delete a vocabulary item
l Export vocabulary
l Import vocabulary
Dragon comes with an extensive built-in vocabulary made up of all the words, numbers and symbols it can type for you
in Dictation mode. As you use Dragon, it learns words and phrases that you use and adds them to the vocabulary for
your profile. Dragon learns words when you:
l Use Correction to fix Dragon's mistakes.
l Use Vocabulary Training to teach Dragon how you use words.
l Use Transcription Training to improve Dragon's understanding of recorded text.
The Vocabulary Editor allows you to view and edit the list of words Dragon understands.
To open the Vocabulary Editor window
l Say "Edit Vocabulary."
Or
l Click the icon in the menu bar and select Edit Vocabulary…
The Vocabulary list
When you first open the Vocabulary Editor, you see a list of all existing vocabulary items.
l Items marked with a icon are part of the built-in vocabulary.
l Items marked with a icon are User vocabulary items added as you use the product.
Use the drop-down menu at the top of the window to narrow the list of vocabulary shown:
l All
l Built-In
l User
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