User guide

Dragon 12 Installation and User Guide
acoustic data and text from your dictation sessions. If you agree, the data can be sent to
Nuance at a time scheduled by your network administrator. Data Collection does not include
any personal data, and participation is completely voluntary.
Data Distribution Tool (definition)
Enables developers to interactively create new words, customized Vocabularies or com-
mands, and to make them available to all User Profiles on a particular Dragon Nat-
urallySpeaking installation.
Dictation Box (definition)
Provides full support for dictating and editing text in an unknown text field. The
DictationIBox supports voice commands like Delete, Correct, and Insert, and custom com-
mands as well. When you are finished, the content is transferred to your cursor position
when you opened the Dictation Box.
Dictation Mode (definition)
A restricted recognition mode that causes Dragon to interpret everything you say as dictation
and only Dictation Commands are recognized. Dictation Mode can be helpful if you want to
dictate as quickly as possible, or dictate without looking at the words Dragon transcribes. Say
"Start Dictation Mode" or "Dictation Mode On."
Dictation Source (definition)
An audio input device or multiple devices associated with a User Profile. For example, you
can select a headset microphone at one computer and a portable recorder or another style of
mic at other computers. This way, Dragon supports users who need to move, or “roam”,
from computer to computer regardless of the microphone type or differences in ambient
noise.
Direct Editing commands (definition)
Voice formatting and correction commands such as “italicize <XYZ>” or “bold <XYZ>”.
Direct Editing commands (formerly called Quick Voice Formatting commands) are faster
than conventional commands, because they tell Dragon to go to other places in your doc-
ument, apply formatting there, and return the cursor back to where you are working.
DragonPad (definition)
Dragon’s built-in word processor, optimized for dictation and includes basic text formatting
features as well as the ability to save and print documents.
Dragon Templates with Voice Fields (definition)
A special kind of custom form available to paste into applications by voice, providing fields
for common variable information that you can fill in by voice.
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