Document Outline

• Contents
• Introduction
  • About this guide
  • What’s new in version 6?
    • Tools for greater accuracy
    • Easier to use
    • Create your own commands
    • More powerful and versatile
  • What should I expect from Dragon NaturallySpeaking?
    • Do I still need my keyboard and mouse?
• Installing and Training
  • System requirements
  • Plug in the microphone
  • Plug in the speakers
  • Install the software
  • Create a new user
    • About vocabularies
  • Audio Setup
    • Positioning your microphone
    • Adjust Your Volume
    • Sound quality check
  • New user training
  • Training problems and solutions
• Starting to Dictate
  • Key tips for dictating
  • Turning the microphone on and off
  • Sleeping and waking up
    • Printing and saving your dictated text
  • Online Help
    • “What Can I Say?”
  • The DragonBar
    • Changing the DragonBar position
    • Microphone button and volume display
    • Extras toolbar (Available in Preferred edition only)
    • The microphone in the taskbar
    • Results box
    • Controlling Dragon NaturallySpeaking® with voice commands
• Correcting and Editing
  • The Correction menu
    • Using the keyboard or mouse commands
    • Correcting quickly
  • Selecting text by voice
    • Using Select-and-Say
    • Selecting the same text again
    • Unselecting words
    • Selecting a longer phrase
    • Selecting your whole document
    • Selecting an entire paragraph or line
    • Selecting a word or character
  • Moving around in a document
    • Going to the top or bottom of a page or document
    • Going to the beginning or end of a line
    • Placing the insertion point before or after a specific word
    • Moving up or down a paragraph or line
    • Moving right or left a word or character
  • Copying, cutting, and pasting text
  • Copying text to other programs
  • Deleting text
    • Deleting the last words you dictated
    • Going back as you dictate
    • Deleting specific words
    • Deleting the next or previous paragraph or line
    • Deleting the next or previous word or character
  • Keyboard editing shortcuts
  • Spelling as you dictate
• Formatting
  • Capitalizing text
    • Capitalizing the first letter of the next word you dictate
    • Capitalizing consecutive words
    • Dictating the next word in all capital letters
    • Dictating consecutive words in all capital letters
    • Dictating the next word in all lowercase letters
    • Dictating consecutive words in all lowercase letters
    • Capitalizing (or uncapitalizing) text already in your document
  • Formatting text
    • Changing the font as you dictate
    • Changing the font later
    • Bold, italics, and underlining
    • Aligning text
    • Bulleted text
• Numbers and Punctuation
  • Dictating numbers
    • Using Numbers Mode
    • Dates
    • Times of day
    • Telephone numbers
    • Fractions
    • Roman numerals
    • Postal and ZIP Codes
  • Punctuation
    • Words that end with ’s
  • Dictating hyphenated words
    • Including hyphens as you dictate
    • Removing hyphens
    • Preventing hyphens
  • Dictating compound words
    • Compounding words as you dictate
    • Compounding words later
  • Dictating names
  • Dictating abbreviations and acronyms
  • Dictating email and Web addresses
  • Dictating special characters
    • Dictating common special characters
    • Dictating uncommon special characters
  • Modes
• Using E-Mail and Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • Working with e-mail
    • Checking for new e-mail
    • Opening and closing e-mail
    • Composing e-mail
    • Transferring dictation into your e-mail
    • Sending and printing e-mail
    • Forwarding and replying to e-mail
    • Deleting mail
  • Working with Microsoft Internet Explorer
    • Going to favorite Web pages
    • Entering a Web address in the Address bar
    • Going back to the previous Webpage or forward to the next
    • Entering text in a text box
    • Clicking links, buttons, and images
    • Frames and panes
    • Scrolling in a Web page
• Using Natural Language Commands
  • Available Natural Language Commands
  • The Sample Commands window
  • The Command Browser
  • Sample Commands
    • Copying, moving, cutting, pasting, and deleting command samples
    • Formatting command samples
    • Spelling, grammar, and printing sample command samples
    • Table sample command samples
    • Microsoft Excel command samples (available in Preferred and higher editions only)
    • America Online sample commands
• Hands-Free Computing
  • Starting programs
    • Starting a program from the Start menu
    • Starting a program from the Windows desktop
  • Opening documents and folders
    • Opening documents and folders from the Startmenu
    • Opening documents and folders from the Windows desktop
  • Switching between open windows
  • Copying text to other programs
  • Opening and closing menus
  • Selecting buttons, tabs, and options
  • Selecting icons on the desktop
  • Resizing and closing windows
  • Scrolling in windows and listboxes
  • Pressing keyboard keys
    • Pressing letters
    • Capitalizing a letter
    • Pressing numbers
    • Pressing key combinations
    • Pressing function and numeric keypad keys
    • Pressing other keys
  • Activating commands by saying key names
    • Menu commands
    • Dialog box controls
    • Online Help
  • Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse
    • Moving the mouse pointer with MouseGrid
    • Moving the pointer with the “Mouse” command
    • Clicking the mouse
    • Marking and dragging objects
    • Moving the pointer with the mouse motion commands
  • Hands-free tips
• Automate Your Work
  • Viewing or editing commands
  • Searching commands
  • Creating new commands (Preferred edition only)
    • Creating Text and Graphics commands
  • Deleting custom commands (Preferred edition only)
  • Renaming Text and Graphics commands
• Workflow
  • Dictate first, correct later (Preferred edition only)
    • Listening to your recorded voice (Preferred edition only)
  • Ways to correct your dictation
    • Correcting by typing
    • Correcting with audio playback (Preferred edition only)
    • Correcting by voice
    • Proofreading with a recorder
    • Text-to-speech (Preferred edition only)
• Speaking and Dictating
  • Speak clearly
  • Pronounce each word
  • Pause if you like
  • Give it context
  • Leave out the fillers
  • Speak with inflection
  • Breathe fully
  • Close your eyes
  • Be alert
  • Relax
  • Composing
    • Start by reading
    • Easy and chatty
    • Complex writing
    • Dictation tips
    • Summary: learning to dictate
• Improving Accuracy
  • The Accuracy Center
    • The Accuracy Assistant
    • Check your audio settings
    • Run the Acoustic Optimizer
    • Perform additional training
    • Launch the Command Browser
  • Tools to improve your vocabulary
    • Add a single word to your vocabulary
    • Add words from your documents to the vocabulary
    • Prepare documents
    • Add contact names to the vocabulary
    • Add a list of words to your vocabulary
    • View or edit your vocabulary
    • Changing word properties
    • Managing your vocabularies
    • Training a word or command
  • The ideal system for best accuracy
  • Some practical ways to improve accuracy
    • Speak clearly
    • Retrain
    • Keep the microphone in the same position
    • Use a good microphone
    • Use a good sound card
    • Context
    • Processor speed, memory, and hard disk space
    • Improving speed
    • Background noise
    • Electrical interference
    • Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking® with other software
• Healthy Computing
  • Ergonomics and posture
  • Maintaining good vocal health
    • Speak normally, with these guidelines
    • Ease and comfort
    • Taking care of yourself
    • Your vocal cords
• Using a Handheld Recorder (Preferred edition only)
  • Installing recorder software
  • Creating a user adapted to your recorded speech
  • Dictating into your recorder
    • The restricted command set
  • Transcribing recorded dictation
    • Connecting a recorder to your computer
    • Transcribing from a handheld recorder
    • Transcribing dictation from other recorders
    • Drag-and-drop transcription
    • The Advanced Settings dialog box
    • Troubleshooting
  • Correcting mistakes
  • Using the Dragon NaturallyMobile recorder as a microphone
  • Better accuracy with a recorder
• Customizing Dragon NaturallySpeaking
  • The Options dialog box
    • Correction options
    • Startup/Shutdown options
    • View options
    • Hot key options
    • Text-to-speech options (Preferred edition only)
    • Miscellaneous options
    • Backing up user files
    • Formatting options
• Troubleshooting
  • Testing your sound system
    • Fixing sound problems
  • Other problems and solutions
    • No response when dictating
    • Problems with commands
    • Very low accuracy
    • Problems with added words
    • Slow performance
• Commands List
  • Which commands work in which programs?
    • Controlling the microphone
    • Controlling the DragonBar
    • Controlling the DragonPad
    • Adding paragraphs, lines, and spaces
    • Selecting text
    • Correcting text
    • Deleting and undoing
    • Moving around in a document
    • Copying, cutting, and pasting text
    • Capitalizing text
    • Formatting text
    • Entering numbers
    • Entering punctuation and special characters
    • Playing back and reading text (Available in Preferred edition only)
    • Working with your desktop and windows
    • E-mail commands
    • Using Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • Working hands-free
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  • H
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  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
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  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y
  • Z
• Index