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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
l "John dot Smith at Nuance dot com" → john.smith@nuance.com
l Better overall handling of Roman numerals
Improved set up
Dragon provides simplified microphone selection for faster, easier setup:
l No transcription setup option needed
l No smartphone option needed (since built-in mic is already supported along with numerous other microphone
options)
l Audio playback and troubleshooting button to allow the user to hear their audio passage read during setup, so
that they be assured their microphone is working or troubleshoot if there is an audio issue
Improved user interface and experience
Dragon delivers an improved user experience that makes powerful features easier to discover and use.
l Clearer Full Text Control indicator on the new Guidance Window for an enhanced dictation experience
l Improved Status Window, Correction Window and streamlined Profiles management
l New License preference pane to manage licenses or subscriptions
l New automated backups of commands and vocabulary
l Improved Command management
l Faster startup time with optimizations throughout
Enhanced transcription
The enhanced transcription process leverages all the accuracy improvements gained from the state-of-the-art engine,
while reducing the number of steps required to getting your audio recordings transcribed.
l Simplified user interface and better speaker management
l No training is required for transcription; you no longer need to initially transcribe and correct a short 90-second
clip to achieve transcription accuracy
l Acoustic and language model adaptation are automatically leveraged for the current user
l No training is required for third-party transcription; there is also better separation of current user data versus
third-party speaker data
Transcription Batch Mode
Now use Batch Mode and save time if you have multiple audio files to transcribe. In the Transcription Window, simply
drop as many files as you need to have transcribed to the Audio Files to Transcribe list, and Dragon Professional
Individual for Mac transcribes them all together, quickly and efficiently.
Updated web and application support
Dragon empowers you to work even more quickly and accurately by voice with support for Full Text Control* within the
latest business applications. Web and desktop applications with enhanced support include for example:
l Apple Pages
l Apple Keynote
l Apple Numbers
l Microsoft Outlook 2016
l Scrivener
* Full Text Control requires adoption of Apple’s Accessibility API
Improved help
Contextual guidance tailored to your usage helps you maximize the power of Dragon and complete documentation
more efficiently than ever before. Dragon offers multiple ways to accelerate proficiency and get the most out of your
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