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  • Page 1 Dragon NaturallySpeaking Dragon Medical Version 10 User Guide...
  • Page 2 Version 10 Professional, Medical, Legal, Contact Center, Preferred, Standard, and Essentials editions. Nuance Communications, Inc. has patents or pending patent applications covering the subject matter contained in this document. The furnishing of this document does not give you any license to such patents. This software is protected under the following patents, among others: 5,027,406; 5,168,548 5,202,952; 5,231,670; 5,388,183; 5,428,707; 5,465,318; 5,526,463;...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents C H A P T E R 1 Introduction 1 About this guide 2 What should I expect from Dragon? 3 C H A P T E R 2 Installation and User Creation 5 System requirements 5 Plugging in the microphone 6 What you should know before installing 7 Before installing the software 8 Choosing type of installation 9...
  • Page 4 Contents Pressing keyboard keys 53 Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse 58 C H A P T E R 5 Correcting and Editing 63 Correcting mistakes 63 Selecting text by voice 67 Moving around in a document 71 Copying, cutting, and pasting text 73 Deleting text 74 Spelling as you dictate 76...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    C H A P T E R Introduction ragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Medical let you talk to your computer instead of typing. As you talk, your words are transcribed onto your screen and into your documents or e- mail messages. Talking to a computer while it types what you say is called dictating.

  • Page 6: About This Guide

    Introduction About this guide This guide covers all editions of Dragon, including Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Medical. Most information presented applies to all the editions, and differences between the editions are noted. Conventions used in this guide This guide contains many examples of words and phrases you can say when using Dragon.

  • Page 7: What Should I Expect From Dragon

    User Guide This guide uses US spelling and punctuation for consistency. This guide also includes tips and notes to help you use the software more effectively. Tips and notes appear like this: If you pause correctly, but Dragon still types a command as NOTE: dictation, you can force it to recognize what you say as a command by holding down the...

  • Page 9: Installation And User Creation

    C H A P T E R Installation and User Creation his chapter presents how to install and set up Dragon, and then how to train Dragon to understand your voice. System requirements System requirements to run Dragon are: ■ Intel Pentium 4 (or equivalent AMD processor) 1GHz...

  • Page 10: Plugging In The Microphone

    Installation and User Creation ■ Nuance-approved noise-canceling headset/microphone. A microphone is included with the full product, but is not included with upgrade versions. ■ Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or higher (free download ® ® available at www.microsoft.com). ■ Speakers—Optional for playback of recorded speech and text- to-speech features.

  • Page 11: What You Should Know Before Installing

    User Guide What you should know before installing Before installing, modifying, or upgrading Dragon, you should know about issues with Vista and coexistence with other Dragon products. Installing on Windows Vista Dragon Version 10 is compatible with all editions of Windows Vista.

  • Page 12: Before Installing The Software

    Installation and User Creation Before installing the software Before installing, modifying, or upgrading Dragon: Close all open applications. Turn off or disable antivirus software; the installation process can sometimes trigger a false virus report. You must have Administrator rights to install or uninstall Dragon NOTE: on Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista.

  • Page 13: Choosing Type Of Installation

    Choosing type of installation When you install Dragon, you can either do a complete (typical) installation or a custom installation. Nuance recommends you do a complete installation unless you are experienced with the product. The table below tells more about each installation type.
  • Page 14 (Optional) When the Setup Type page appears, click the Change button and choose where to install the product. If no earlier versions of Dragon are installed on your system, the default directory is: C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking10 For a list of directories created by installation, see Version 10 File Structure on page 27.

  • Page 15: Installing Software - Custom Installation

    User Guide On the Ready to Install the Program page, you can choose: ■ Enable QuickStart mode for the current user—If you enable QuickStart, the product launches at system startup time and adds the Dragon QuickStart icon to the Windows task bar.
  • Page 16 (Optional) When the Setup Type page appears, click the Change button and choose where to install the product. If no earlier versions of Dragon are installed on your system, the default directory is: C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking10 For a list of directories created by installation, see Version 10 File Structure on page 27.
  • Page 17 User Guide Click Next and you see a tree where you can select any particular feature of the product and click the down arrow to its left to choose where/when to install it: ■ Install now, on local hard drive ■...
  • Page 18 Installation and User Creation Installing other languages, dialects, and specialized vocabularies To install user files for the other languages or dialects supplied with your edition, choose Custom on the Setup Type page. The user files for each language or dialect contain both spellings and pronunciations specific to that region.
  • Page 19 User Guide On the Ready to Install the Program page, you can choose: ■ Enable QuickStart mode for the current user In QuickStart mode, the product launches on system startup with the Dragon QuickStart icon in the Windows task bar. For more on the QuickStart option, see Version 10 File Structure on page 27.

  • Page 20: Modifying Application Settings For All Users

    Installation and User Creation Modifying application settings for all users If you checked off Modify the application’s settings for all users during a custom installation, the Options dialog box opens immediately after the installation completes. If you did a typical installation, open the Options dialog box NOTE: by running Dragon NaturallySpeaking and selecting Tools >...

  • Page 21: Setting Formatting Options

    User Guide Setting formatting options If you checked Formatting options on the Custom Setup page during a custom installation, the Formatting dialog box opens after the installation completes. If you did not do a custom installation, to set up formatting: Run NOTE: Dragon, open a user, and select Tools >...

  • Page 22: Creating A New User

    Installation and User Creation more possible formats for capitalization, numbers, units of measure, and abbreviations. Creating a new user Before you can begin using Dragon, you must create a user for each person or healthcare provider who is dictating. Your user files store acoustic information about your voice that Dragon uses to recognize what you say.
  • Page 23 User Guide When you launch the software for the first time, the New User Wizard starts and leads you through creating a new user: If you upgraded a single user from an earlier version, Dragon NOTE: loads that user. If you upgraded multiple users, it displays all upgraded users in the Open User dialog box.
  • Page 24 Installation and User Creation Usually, you should follow this recommendation. For a Gen- eral vocabulary, you see an Advanced button that you can click to change the speech model type and vocabulary size: ■ Speech model—Used to adapt to your voice during training. Dragon recommends the model that best fits your com- puter’s speed and memory.
  • Page 25 User Guide Positioning the microphone correctly is important. If the microphone is out of place, Dragon might not be able to hear you clearly and make more mistakes. Consistent positioning is also important. Make sure that you position the microphone the same way each time you dictate. Here are some tips on using particular types of microphones: Using a headset microphone ■...

  • Page 26: Training A New User

    Installation and User Creation When the program beeps to indicate it has finished checking the volume, click Next. When the Adjust Your Microphone: Quality Check screen appears, click Start Quality Check and then read aloud the text displayed in the box. The program beeps when it has finished evaluating the sound quality of your system.

  • Page 27: Adapting To Your Writing Style

    User Guide To advance through the first two screens, you must say the NOTE: sentences without pausing. For the rest of the screens, it’s okay to pause in the middle of a sentence. When the words change color, it means the computer has heard and recognized them.

  • Page 28: Scheduling Periodic Optimizations

    500 MB of acoustic data from your dictation sessions. You have the option of sending that data to Nuance to help improve the accuracy of future versions of Dragon. No personal information is ever sent to Nuance and participation in data collection is completely voluntary.

  • Page 29: Upgrading Existing Users From Versions 8.X And 9.X

    User Guide Auto Configuration Based on System Profile After you create a user, Dragon automatically analyzes your hardware and changes the default settings of your users to optimize performance. The changes could include: ■ Disabling Natural Language Commands in some applications. ■...
  • Page 30 Installation and User Creation On the Select Users to Upgrade page, modify the list of users to include users that you want to upgrade. The wizard starts by including all users in the current folder as candidates to upgrade. You add users to the list by clicking the Add button and browsing for additional users in other locations.

  • Page 31: Version 10 File Structure

    Version 10 File Structure File locations shown apply to installations in the default location. NOTE: Windows 2000/XP Pro/XP Home/Windows Server 2003 directory structure C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking10 \Ereg \Help \Program \Tutorial (optional) C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application...

  • Page 32: Accessing Log Files, Samples, And Tools

    Installation and User Creation C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking10\ \Custom \Data \Data\Training \Users C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Nuance\ NaturallySpeaking10\Results Cleaning up after uninstalling The following files remain on your machine after you uninstall: \Windows\Speech\ VText.dll speech.hlp Xlisten.dll vcauto.tlb Vdict.dll Xvoice.dll WrapSAPI.dll vcmd.exe spchtel.dll vcmshl.dll XTel.Dll speech.cnt Xcommand.dll vtxtauto.tlb speech.dll...

  • Page 33: Setting Command, Hot Key, Backup Options

    User Guide Setting command, hot key, backup options You use the Options dialog box to set where you can dictate commands, assign hot keys, customize how text is formatted, set initial microphone settings, and set the how often your user files are backed up.
  • Page 34 ■ Clinging to the application window where the text is transcribed ■ Sitting in the Windows tray as an icon You can also choose whether or not to display the Results Box, where that box should be positioned, and whether or not that box should be hidden after a particular number of seconds.
  • Page 35 ■ Run optimizations on the schedule set by the administrator ■ Collect data about this user’s acoustic and language model optimizations to Nuance for improving future accuracy ■ Delete the data stored about the user’s acoustic and language model ■...
  • Page 36 PowerMic I tab—Hot keys on microphone (Medical Edition only) Under the PowerMic I tab, you can set actions taken by PowerMic microphone buttons: ■ ■ Dictate Stop/Play ■ ■ Top Left Lower Left ■ ■ Fast Forward Rewind ■ ■ Top Right Lower Right PowerMic II tab—Hot keys on microphone (Medical...

  • Page 37: Starting To Dictate

    C H A P T E R Starting to Dictate ow that you’ve installed the software and completed training, you’re ready to dictate your first sentence. Starting Dragon If Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Medical is not already running, you can start it by: ■...

  • Page 38: Turning On The Microphone

    Starting to Dictate Turning on the microphone Before you can dictate, you need to turn on the microphone. You turn on the microphone by: ■ Click the microphone icon on the DragonBar. You can click this icon again to turn it off. ■...

  • Page 39: Starting To Dictate

    User Guide Starting to dictate To begin dictating, start a word processor (such as Microsoft ® Word or Corel WordPerfect ) and begin a new document. ® ® Make sure your text insertion point is at the start of the new document.
  • Page 40 Starting to Dictate focusing on what you are saying rather than how your speech is punctuated. Natural Punctuation inserts only periods and commas. You have to dictate other punctuation marks. Even with Natural Punctuation turned on, you can still dictate periods and commas.
  • Page 41 User Guide Starting new lines and paragraph While you are dictating, you can use the following commands to duplicate the action of pressing the key once (to add a ENTER new line) or twice (to add a new paragraph). Add a new line “New Line”...
  • Page 42 Starting to Dictate Using the Dictation Box Normally you can dictate and use Dragon voice commands in any text window of any application. However, you may occasionally find an application or a specific window in an application where some voice commands won’t work or won’t work consistently.

  • Page 43: Getting Help

    User Guide Saving From the File menu, choose Save. You can also say “Click File” and then say “Save.” Remember, you have to pause between the “Click File” and the “Save” commands to have Dragon recognize them as two separate commands. If the Natural Language Commands have been enabled, you can say “Save Document.”...
  • Page 44 Starting to Dictate “What Can I Say?” Saying “What Can I Say?” will bring up the Sample Commands window. The Sample Commands window displays a small selection of useful commands that Dragon recognizes for the current context, whether it is a particular program you are using or the Windows desktop.

  • Page 45: Troubleshooting

    User Guide A list of Global commands (available everywhere) appears if NOTE: there are no sample commands available for a specific program. Commands marked with an asterisk (*) are available only if the Enable Natural Language Commands check box is selected on the Commands tab of the Options dialog box.
  • Page 46 Starting to Dictate ■ Red means that you are speaking too loudly. The Select-and-Say indicator The DragonBar includes a Select and Say indicator that turns green when you are in an application or window where all of Dragon’s functionality is supported. Select-and-Say indicator displays in green to show you can dictate.
  • Page 47 User Guide Extras toolbar displays buttons for hand-held recorder transcription and playing back your dictation. Stop Start Skip Playback Playback Forward Skip Correction Transcribe Fast Back Button Button Playback Correction Clicking the Correction button opens the Correction menu to teach the computer what you said. See Chapter Chapter 5, Correcting and Editing on page 63.

  • Page 48: Using Quickstart

    Starting to Dictate Changing the DragonBar position To change the position of the DragonBar, click the Dragon icon at the far left of the DragonBar. A menu displays that lets you move the DragonBar as follows: SELECT... TO. .. Docked to Top mode lock the DragonBar to the top of the (default) screen...
  • Page 49 User Guide When in QuickStart mode, Dragon launches automatically at system startup time and adds the Dragon icon to the Windows taskbar. To enable QuickStart: Two ways to enable QuickStart mode are: ■ During installation. An installation screen includes the option to enable QuickStart.
  • Page 50 Starting to Dictate Using QuickStart You access QuickStart by right-clicking the Dragon QuickStart taskbar tray icon. This action displays the QuickStart menus, which parallel the menus in the DragonBar. SELECT... TO... Turn Microphone On/ Turn on or off the microphone. File >...

  • Page 51: Working On Your Desktop

    C H A P T E R Working on Your Desktop his chapter describes how to control almost everything on your computer with Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Medical voice commands. Programs, documents, and folders Using voice commands, you can start programs and open documents and folders that appear in your Start menu or desktop.

  • Page 52: Switching Between Open Windows

    Working on Your Desktop To open a document or folder from your Windows desktop, just ® say “Start” and then the name below the icon. For example, to open a folder named Projects, say “Start Projects.” Say “Start Projects” to open the folder. Switching between open windows You can switch between the windows you have open by saying “Switch to”...

  • Page 53: Opening And Closing Menus

    User Guide Opening and closing menus You can activate any menu by saying the menu name. To open a menu: Open a program window (for example, Microsoft Word) and ® make it active. Say the name of the menu you want to open (for example, say “File”).

  • Page 54: Selecting Buttons, Tabs, And Options

    Working on Your Desktop Selecting buttons, tabs, and options When Dragon is running, you can select any button, check box, text box, or other dialog box option you see by saying its name. If that doesn’t work, say “Click” and then its name. For example, to select a check box labeled Toolbar, say “Toolbar”...

  • Page 55: Selecting Icons On The Desktop

    User Guide Selecting icons on the desktop You can use voice commands to select icons on the Windows ® desktop. To select an icon on the desktop: Switch to the Windows desktop. To do this by voice, ® minimize all open applications and place the mouse pointer over the desktop icon.

  • Page 56: Resizing And Closing Windows

    Working on Your Desktop Resizing and closing windows To resize and close windows, say “Click” and then one of the following window commands: SAY THIS Click Minimize or Minimize the active window. Click Control Menu (pause) Minimize Click Maximize or Maximize the active window.

  • Page 57: Opening Lists And Making Selections

    User Guide You can scroll horizontally by saying “Move Left” and “Move Right” and then a number of scroll bar arrow clicks (up to 20). For example, say “Move Left 10” or “Move Right 5.” Opening lists and making selections You can activate any list box by saying the list box name.
  • Page 58 Working on Your Desktop For similar-sounding letters (such as B, D, and V), you can use the International Communications Alphabet to spell the letter keys, for example, “Press alpha” or “Press bravo” or say “Press d as in David” or “Press d for David,” and so on) as if you were spelling to another person over the phone.
  • Page 59 User Guide THEN u as in Ursula/unit/uniform v as in Valerie/visit/Victor w as in Wendy/wake/whiskey x as in Xavier/Xerxes/xray y as in Yolanda/Yvonne/yankee z as in Zachary/zookeeper/zulu (you can also say “for” instead of “as in”) You can say “Press c” or “Press Charlie” but you cannot say NOTE: “Press Cathy”...
  • Page 60 Working on Your Desktop Pressing function and numeric keypad keys To press a function key ( ), say “Press Function” and then the name of the key. For example, say “Press Function 1” to bring up the online Help. To press the keys on the numeric keypad, say “Press Keypad” and then the name of the key.
  • Page 61 User Guide THE N Down Arrow Right Arrow Left Arrow Home Key End Key Page Up Page Down Insert Key Delete Key Control Key Shift Key Alt Key Print Screen Scroll Lock Pause Key Num Lock Caps Lock...

  • Page 62: Moving The Mouse Pointer And Clicking The Mouse

    Working on Your Desktop Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse Dragon provides hands-free mouse control with MouseGrid and the mouse motion voice commands. You can use these features to position the mouse pointer anywhere on the screen, click the mouse buttons, and drag objects—all by voice.
  • Page 63 User Guide the Recycle Bin, say “4.” A smaller MouseGrid will appear in the chosen grid square. Say “4” to place a smaller MouseGrid over grid square number 4. To zoom in over the desired area, say another grid number. In this example, say “4”...
  • Page 64 Working on Your Desktop To move the pointer: Say “Mouse” followed by the direction and number of times to move it (up to 10). For example, say “Mouse Up 5” or “Mouse Left 10.” When the pointer is over an icon or other object, you can use voice commands to click the mouse or mark and drag the object.
  • Page 65 User Guide Moving the pointer with the mouse motion commands In addition to the mouse movement methods described above, you can also move the mouse by using the mouse motion commands. Say, for example, “Move Mouse Right.” The mouse pointer begins moving to the right and keeps moving until you say “Stop.”...
  • Page 66 Working on Your Desktop ■ “Click,” “Double Click,” “Right Click,” or “Left Click” to click the mouse buttons ■ “Go to Sleep,” “Stop Listening,” or “Microphone Off” to turn the microphone off To specify which mouse button (left, right, or center) is being held down during mouse drags or if you want the SHIFT CTRL...

  • Page 67: Correcting And Editing

    C H A P T E R Correcting and Editing hen Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Medical types the wrong words, you should correct these mistakes. By giving the program the right word, you actually teach the program not to make the same mistakes again. Correcting mistakes requires some extra effort, but it saves you time in the long run by making Dragon more accurate.
  • Page 68 Correcting and Editing You can change the hot key assignment on the Hot keys tab of the Options dialog box. You can also click the Correction button on the Extras toolbar of the DragonBar. If one of the alternatives is correct, press the Down Arrow key to highlight that choice and then press to accept it.
  • Page 69 User Guide press the Correction hot key again. Playback continues automatically from the point where you stopped. Continue until all the text is correct. Using the Correction menu The Correction menu shows Dragon’s best guess of the alternatives to the words you dictated and selected. In the following example, Dragon heard the word “quick”...
  • Page 70 Correcting and Editing ■ Capitalize it (say “Cap That,” in this example, to get “Clinic”) ■ Say “Unselect That” to cancel the selection and close (dismiss) the Correction menu ■ Ignore the Correction list and keep dictating (in the example above, just say “quick”...

  • Page 71: Selecting Text By Voice

    User Guide is Thursday, I have a meeting at 11 o’clock.” If you want to change the comma to a period, say “Select Thursday comma.” If the correct punctuation appears in the Correction menu, select it. Otherwise, you can dictate over the selection by, for example, saying “Thursday period.”...
  • Page 72 Correcting and Editing To use Select-and-Say ® Dictate the sentence below: US/Canada: “Let’s meet for lunch on Tuesday [period]” Other Dialects: “Let’s meet for lunch on Tuesday [full stop]” Say “Select lunch on Tuesday.” The words lunch on Tuesday should be highlighted on the screen. Say “dinner on Wednesday.”...
  • Page 73 User Guide You can also unselect words by moving your insertion point (by mouse or voice) to another part of your document. For example, say “Go to End of Line” or click somewhere else in your document. Selecting a longer phrase You can select a longer phrase by saying “Select [text] Through [text]”...
  • Page 74 Correcting and Editing When you want to copy all the text in a document to another window, the easiest way to do it is with the “Copy All to Clipboard” command. When a lot of text is selected, the “Scratch That” and “Cut That” NOTE: commands don’t work, nor can you overwrite the selection by dictating new text.

  • Page 75: Moving Around In A Document

    User Guide THE N T HE N Back 2...20 Characters Last Moving around in a document When you’re editing a document, you can move around in it by voice. After you place the insertion point where you want it, you can dictate more text, select text, copy and paste, or apply formatting.
  • Page 76 Correcting and Editing THEN Move to Start of Line End of Line Placing the insertion point before or after a specific word You can place the insertion point before a specific word by saying “Insert Before” and then the word or words. You can place the insertion point after a word by saying “Insert After”...

  • Page 77: Copying, Cutting, And Pasting Text

    User Guide THEN THEN Back 2...20 Paragraphs Down a Line or 1 Line Forward 2...20 Lines Moving right or left a word or character You can move to the right or left of a word by saying “Move Right a Word” or “Move Left a Word.” You can also move right or left a number of words (up to 20).

  • Page 78: Deleting Text

    Correcting and Editing Deleting text Deleting the last words you dictated You can erase the last words you dictated by saying “Scratch That.” When you say this command, Dragon deletes the last thing it typed into your document. This may be a full sentence, a phrase, or just one word, if that’s all you said before pausing.
  • Page 79 User Guide Deleting specific words You can delete text by selecting it and saying “Delete That.” To delete text: Select the text you want to delete. Say “Delete That.” You can also say “Scratch That” to do the same thing. Deleting the next or previous paragraph or line You can delete the next or previous paragraph by saying “Delete Next Paragraph”...

  • Page 80: Spelling As You Dictate

    Correcting and Editing You can also delete a number of words or characters (up to 20). For example, you can say “Delete Previous 5 Words.” See the complete list below: THEN THEN Delete Next Word Forward 2...20 Words Previous Character Back 2...20 Characters Last...

  • Page 81: Playing Back Your Dictation

    User Guide If you say “Spell” by itself, without any letters after it, the Spell dialog box opens. You can then speak the letters and Dragon will type them or you can correct any errors in the word you spelled. When spelling, you can say numbers and special characters as well as...
  • Page 82 Correcting and Editing Although Dragon never makes a spelling mistake, the mistakes it does make can be challenging to find and fix. Sometimes, what the program types looks very different from what you actually said. To make correcting mistakes easier, Dragon records your voice as you dictate.
  • Page 83 User Guide to-speech useful for checking your work. See Notes on correcting with another author’s user files on page 83. Playing back dictation in a document To help you check your work for mistakes, you can play back a line, a paragraph, a selection, or the whole document. After playback starts, you can stop it as soon as you notice a mistake and automatically open the Correction menu.
  • Page 84 Correcting and Editing Play Back to Here Play back dictation from the top of the document window to the insertion point. Play Back from Here Play back dictation from the insertion point to the bottom of the document window. To stop playback: To stop playback, do any of the following: ■...
  • Page 85 User Guide Dictate now, correct later When you dictate into the DragonPad, you can save your dictation with your text so either you or someone else can correct it later. You must create and edit your file in the DragonPad to be able to play back dictation. This feature is available in Dragon Professional, Medical, and higher editions.
  • Page 86 Correcting and Editing Correcting with the document author’s user files You should use this correction technique if you do not need to correct by voice and it is important to maximize the author’s recognition accuracy. This technique works if all work is done on a single computer. TIP: Consult your Dragon reseller about ways to dictate on one computer and correct on another.

  • Page 87: Using Text-To-Speech

    User Guide Notes on correcting with another author’s user files NOTE: This technique is effective if all work is done on a single computer. Consult your Dragon reseller about ways to dictate on one computer and correct on another. Display the DragonBar Extras toolbar by clicking the double chevron icon on the DragonBar (not possible in Cling mode).
  • Page 88 Correcting and Editing Text-to-speech is available only in the DragonPad, Microsoft Word, and Corel WordPerfect. You can, however, copy and paste text from other programs and then use text-to-speech. To start text-to-speech, do one of the following: ■ Select the text you want to hear (a line, a paragraph, and so on), and then say “Read That.”...

  • Page 89: Formatting

    C H A P T E R Formatting ou can bold text, change font sizes and styles, capitalize text, and apply other formatting by voice. Many Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Medical formatting commands work for text that is selected (highlighted) in your document.
  • Page 90 Formatting You can change the spacing and capitalization rules for a word NOTE: in the Word Properties dialog box. See the online help for more information. When you’re dictating, you can capitalize words that aren’t automatically capitalized by saying “Cap” and then the word. For example, say “Cap zelda”...
  • Page 91 User Guide Capitalizing names of people, departments, and drugs in Medical Edition In the Dragon Medical edition, to indicate that you want either initial caps or all caps for names of people, departments, and medications: On the DragonBar, select Tools > Formatting. In the Formatting dialog box, click the Capitalization tab.
  • Page 92 Formatting In the Medical Edition, you can choose to have important words appear in all caps automatically. See Capitalizing critical words for emphasis in Medical Edition on page 87. Dictating consecutive words in all capital letters When you want to dictate consecutive words in all capitals, you can turn all capitals on and then turn them off when you’ve finished.

  • Page 93: Formatting Text

    User Guide Capitalizing (or uncapitalizing) text already in your document You can change the capitalization of text already in your document by selecting it and then saying “Capitalize That,” “Cap That,” or “All Caps That,” or “Uncapitalize That,” “Uncap That,” or “No Caps That.” To capitalize or uncapitalize text: Select the text you want to change.
  • Page 94 Formatting THEN Helvetica Palatino Times Times New Roman Changing font size Say “Set Size” and then a size from 4 to 100 points. For example, say “Set Size 18.” Then, continue dictating. Changing font style THEN Set Font Bold Italics Bold Italics Underline Strikeout...
  • Page 95 User Guide If you’re changing only the font size, use the “Set Size” NOTE: commands, not the “Set Font” command. Changing the font later You can go back and change the font face, size, or style of text by selecting it and then using the “Format That” commands. “Format That”...
  • Page 96 Formatting Say “Center That,” “Left Align That,” or “Right Align That.” You can also use the following commands on selected text: “Format That Centered,” “Format That Left Aligned,” and “Format That Right Aligned.” Bulleted text To add bullets to text, place your insertion point in the text and say “Format that Bullet Style.”...

  • Page 97: Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, And Special Characters

    C H A P T E R Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters his chapter describes how to dictate numbers, punctuation, Web addresses, and a few other special items. For complete information on this topic, see the online help. If Dragon is not formatting a word as you would like, you can NOTE: change the formatting properties of the word by using the Word Properties dialog box.
  • Page 98 Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters If you want to dictate only numbers, you can switch to “Numbers TIP: Mode.” See on page 119 for more Switching recognition modes information. TO EN T ER numeral one five numeral five seventeen twenty three one hundred seventy nine one seventy nine...
  • Page 99 User Guide If you are having problems dictating numbers, currency, times, NOTE: or dates, make sure that your Regional Settings match the language (dialect) you selected when you created your user. Using Numbers mode Any time you need to dictate a series of numbers and do not want Dragon to recognize them as words, you can turn on Numbers Mode.
  • Page 100 Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters Times of day Dictate the time of day the way you would normally say it. US/Canada: Dragon automatically types the colon (:) if you say “a m” or “p m” when dictating the time. Say “o’clock” or “colon zero zero”...
  • Page 101 User Guide Telephone numbers North American phone numbers Say US and Canadian phone numbers as you normally would, pausing briefly between each group of numbers. You don’t need to dictate hyphens for most phone numbers (numbers that are 7, 10, or 11 digits long). Dragon will add them automatically.
  • Page 102 Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters In dialects other than US/Canada, you can say “bracket” instead TIP: of “parenthesis.” See also Automatic formatting of dates, times, telephone numbers on page 98. Automatic formatting of dates, times, telephone numbers To indicate how you want dates, times, telephone numbers, and other numbers automatically formatted: On the DragonBar, select Tools >...
  • Page 103 User Guide Additional Automatic Formatting Options for Medical Edition only Click the Numbers, Units, and Dates tab. To indicate how you want “o’clock” transcribed, go to the Write “o’clock” as a word drop-down list and choose one of these: Never, Only before “position,” or Always. To indicate a number should be interpreted as a time when you say “in the morning”...
  • Page 104 Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters If the denominator (bottom number in the fraction) is greater than 10, you can enter the fraction by saying “slash” or “over” between the two numbers. TO EN T ER 9/12 nine [slash] twelve or nine over twelve 5 3/56 five [space bar] three [slash] fifty six 130/70...
  • Page 105 User Guide TO EN TER Roman Numeral fifty Roman Numeral one hundred Roman Numeral five hundred Roman Numeral one thousand XXIV Roman Numeral twenty our XXXI Roman Numeral thirty one MCMXCVII Roman Numeral one thousand Roman Numeral nine hundred Roman Numeral ninety Roman Numeral seven Don’t pause after the word “Roman Numeral”...
  • Page 106 Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters Postal and ZIP Codes Dragon can automatically formats postal codes. This feature is controlled from the Formatting tab of the Options dialog box. For more information, see the online help. US ZIP Codes You can dictate US five-digit ZIP codes just as you dictate any group of numbers.
  • Page 107 User Guide Currency and coin You dictate your own currency as you would normally say it. Currency in US/Canada (US English dialect) TO EN TER $58.00 fifty eight dollars and zero cents $1.75 one dollar and seventy five cents $5.25 five dollars and twenty five cents $3.9 billion three point nine billion dollars...

  • Page 108: Punctuation

    Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters US/Canada: If your Regional Settings are set to the United States or Canada, your default currency is $ (dollar). If you want to dictate a dollar currency amount, dictate it the way you normally do. If you want to dictate a pound sterling currency amount, say, for example, “pound sterling sign fifty eight”...
  • Page 109 User Guide Periods will only appear at the end of a sentence once you have TIP: started the next utterance or said “New Line” or “New Paragraph.” Enabling and disabling automatic punctuation Natural Punctuation is turned on by default. There are two ways of turning Natural Punctuation on and off: ■...
  • Page 110 Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters TO EN T ER open paren (US/Canada) left paren (US/Canada) left parenthesis (All Dialects) open parenthesis (All Dialects) close paren (US/Canada) right paren (US/Canada) right parenthesis (All Dialects) close parenthesis (All Dialects) ‘ apostrophe ‘s apostrophe-ess hyphen...

  • Page 111: Dictating Hyphenated Words

    User Guide already end in “s,” say “apostrophe” after the word, as in the second example shown here. TO EN TER SA Y We took my brother’s We took my brother [apostro- phe ess] car I met my friends’ I met my friends [apostrophe] children children You can add ‘s to a word by selecting it and then saying it again...
  • Page 112 Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters You can hyphenate words you just dictated with the command “Hyphenate That.” Select the words you want to hyphenate and say “Hyphenate That.” If you say this command when no words are selected, Dragon will usually hyphenate the last few words that you said.

  • Page 113: Dictating Compound Words

    User Guide To proceed to indicate you want a hyphen after the prefix re or before the suffix up, click the Miscellaneous tab. Click the check box labeled Spell word prefix “re” with a hyphen. Click the check box labeled Spell word suffix “up” with a hyphen.

  • Page 114: Dictating Names

    Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters Compounding words later You can compound the last words you said or compound selected words by saying “Compound That.” This command removes all spaces between selected words. Or, if no words are selected, it removes all spaces in the last utterance. Any tabs or line breaks are also removed.
  • Page 115 User Guide TO EN TER HTML H T M L (say each letter) 8 cm eight centimeters US/Canada: pp. 27–33 pages 27 hyphen 33 Other Dialects: pp 27–33 NATO NATO (say as one word) NASDAQ NASDAQ (say as one word) If Dragon types the full word instead of the abbreviation or acronym, enters the wrong word, or includes incorrect punctuation, just correct it in your document by voice or by...
  • Page 116 Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters Click the check boxes that indicate the usage you would like. Here are some examples of check boxes on the tab: ■ Expand “ACL” to “anterior cruciate ligament” ■ Expand “ADHD” to “attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder” ■...

  • Page 117: Dictating E-Mail And Web Addresses

    [No Caps Off] http:// [No Caps On] h t t p w w w www.nuance.com dot nuance dot com [No Caps Off] Here are some guidelines for dictating e-mail and Web addresses: ■ When you say “h t t p” or “w w w,” Dragon knows to format the next words you say as a Web address.

  • Page 118: Dictating Special Characters

    Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters automatic formatting, see Automatic formatting of dates, times, telephone numbers on page 98. Dictating special characters Dictating common special characters The following special characters are in the Dragon vocabulary. To dictate these characters, just say their names. TO EN T ER SA Y &...
  • Page 119 User Guide TO EN TER smiley face frowny face winky face For complete lists of special characters, see the online Help. Dictating uncommon special characters If you use uncommon special characters in your writing (for example, a double-dagger sign ‡), you can enter them by voice using the “Spell”...
  • Page 120 Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters Say the name of the special character. (In this example, say “double dagger” to enter the ‡.) Click or say “OK.” Dragon types the special character (‡) in your document and adds it to your vocabulary.
  • Page 121 User Guide In the Spoken form field, type the name you want to dictate for this character and click Add. Type the way you would dictate the character (for example, “double dagger”) in the Spoken form field. Click Train. The Train Words dialog box opens. Click Go and say the name of the character, as shown in the Train Words dialog box.
  • Page 122 Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters have a spoken form in your vocabulary. It is okay to have two spoken forms for a single word or symbol, as you see here for the double dagger symbol. You can have multiple alternative spoken forms for the same symbol that coexist in your vocabulary.

  • Page 123: Switching Recognition Modes

    User Guide Switching recognition modes Dragon lets you use different recognition modes in your dictation. Dragon uses normal mode by default. In normal mode, the program distinguishes between words, numbers, and commands. In addition to normal mode, there are other modes: ■...
  • Page 124 Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters To changes modes, you can: Select the Words menu on the DragonBar and click the name of the mode you want. Switch modes by voice by saying one of these commands: MO DE TO TUR N ON , S AY TO TUR N OF F, SA Y Numbers mode Numbers mode On...

  • Page 125: Index

    Index Coexistence with previous versions 7 abbreviations 110 Command Mode 119 setting preferences in Medical Edition 111 commas acronyms 110 automatically adding 104 All Caps Off Compound That compound words 109-110 All Caps On All Caps That contractions. See apostrophe ’s All Caps [text] Copy That American English 14...
  • Page 126 Index Dictation Mode 119 dictation, saving for later playback 81 help online 39 documents moving to top/bottom 71 homophones, tips for selecting 68 opening 47 Hyphenate That selecting all text in 69 hyphenated words 107 dollar sign 103 dictating 107 Dragon Log 28 hyphens 107 DragonBar 34, 41...
  • Page 127 User Guide Medical Edition moving around a document before/after specific words 72 abbreviation preferences 111 to beginning/end of line 71 capitalization of drug names 87 by paragraphs or lines 72 capitalization of life-saving data 87 scrolling 52 dashes to top/bottom of page 71 setting preferences 108 by words or characters 73 dictating ordinal numerals 100...
  • Page 128 Index ’s 106 Page Down saving dictation 81 Page Up storage space for 83 pages. See moving around a document Scratch That paragraphs 70, 74 deleting 75 scrolling 52 moving up/down 72 searching while selecting 68 selecting 70 Select Again Paste That Select All pasting text 73...
  • Page 129 User Guide student voice models 19 user files switching windows 48 creating 18 multiple users 6 users. See user files Tab key tabs (dialog box), selecting 50 teenage voices 19 telephone numbers 97 Web addresses 113 setting automatic formatting 98 What Can I Say text see also Formatting Text...

  • Page 131: Technical Support

    The answers to many Dragon technical support questions can be found on our Web site at www.nuance.com/ NaturallySpeaking/support/ Information and Sales Nuance Communications, Inc. 1 Wayside Road Burlington, MA 01803 Web: www.nuance.com/Help/Contact/. Training and Customization Services Professional training and customization services from a Dragon Certified Solution Provider can help you achieve the maximum return on your investment.

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