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Contents
About This Guide v
C H A P T E R 1 Introducing Dragon NaturallySpeaking 1
What’s new in version 5?
2
What should I expect from Dragon NaturallySpeaking? 6
Do I still need my mouse and keyboard? 7
C H A P T E R 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully 9
How Dragon NaturallySpeaking works
10
Seven habits for success with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11
Positioning your microphone correctly 11
Speaking properly to the computer 12
Correcting recognition mistakes 15
Playing back your dictation 23
Using text-to-speech 28
C H A P T E R 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition 31
Working with the Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabulary
31
Quick and easy ways to add new words 34
Advanced tools for building and editing vocabularies 41
Managing vocabularies 54
Training Dragon NaturallySpeaking to recognize problem words 59
Running General Training again 63
C H A P T E R 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation 65
Dictating names of people, places, and events
65
Dictating abbreviations and acronyms 67
Dictating hyphenated words 68
Dictating compound words 69
Dictating words that end with ’s 70
Dictating e-mail and Web addresses 72
Dictating special characters 73
Dictating foreign words 75
Dictating numbers 76
C H A P T E R 5 Editing and Revising Text 87
Moving around in a document
87
Selecting text 90
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