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1. Choose a Speaker from the list:
l Choose Me if you are transcribing your own speech.
l Choose Someone Else if you are transcribing another person's speech.
2. If you chose Someone Else in the previous step, Dragon prompts you to set up a new profile for
Transcription. Follow the prompts
1. Enter a unique name for the profile, then click Continue.
2. Choose a region, then click Continue.
The region affects spelling, vocabulary, and formatting of the transcribed text.
3. Choose the accent that best describe the recorded voice, then click Continue.
Dragon takes a few moments to create the new profile.
Once you have created a Transcription profile, it will appear in the Speaker dropdown for future use.
3. Optional: Select a Format for the transcribed text, and an application to open the file.
4. Optional: Select a Destination folder for the transcribed text.
By default, Dragon automatically saves your files in Documents/Dragon/Transcribed Files.
5. To select an audio file for transcription, drag the file onto the Audio Files to Transcribe list, or click to
browse to the file.
Dragon can transcribe audio files in mp3, mp4, wav, aif, aiff, m4v, and m4a formats.
6. Click Start to begin the transcription process.
Depending on the size and number of audio files, this may take several minutes. If you want to stop the
transcription, click the button to the right of the progress bar. Dragon provides a partial transcript of the
portion of the file that was processed.
When Dragon has finished transcribing your file, a notification appears.
7. Click OK to dismiss the message, or do one of the following:
l If you transcribed a single audio file, click Open to view the file in the application you selected in step
3.
l If you transcribed multiple audio files, click Show to open a Finder window showing the transcribed
files folder you selected in step 4.
Editing a transcribed file
When Dragon transcribes an audio file, you can choose to open the results in a new Microsoft Word or TextEdit
document. The text will not include any punctuation, unless you dictated punctuation in the transcribed audio file. If
you switch to Dictation mode (see Exiting Transcription mode below), you can select, replace, and format text using
commands such as:
l "Bold <word>"
l "Insert before <word>"
l "Select <text>"
Note that you cannot say "Correct <text>" to fix Transcription errors. Correction requires audio to compare against the
selected text – Dragon doesn't have that data in transcribed files. What you can do is say "Select <text>," then dictate
over it. If what you just spoke is misrecognized, then you can say "Correct <text>" to correct your dictated text. See
Using Correction for more information.
See Mixing dictation with typing for information on how to avoid errors caused by mixing dictation and
typing.
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