Nuance DRAGON NATURALLYSPEAKING PROFESSIONAL 4 User Manual

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About commands

When Dragon NaturallySpeaking hears certain phrases, it performs an action instead of typing the words into your document. These phrases are called “voice commands,” or just “commands.”

Following is a list of the most popular Dragon NaturallySpeaking commands. For a complete list, see Appendix B of your Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide.

To make commands work:

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Don’t pause in the middle of saying a command. If the command is “Scratch That,” for example, don’t pause between the words “scratch” and “that.”

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Do pause brieﬂy before saying the command. The pause lets Dragon NaturallySpeaking know that the phrase may be a command.

What if I say a command, but it’s typed as dictation?

If you pause correctly, but Dragon NaturallySpeaking still types your command as dictation, you can force it to recognize what you say as a command by holding down the you speak.

What if I dictate text, but it’s interpreted as a command?

If you dictate text, but Dragon NaturallySpeaking interprets your words as commands, you can force it to type your words as dictation by holding down the

SHIFT key while you speak.

CTRL key while

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Control the microphone

SAY: TO:

Go to Sleep Make the microphone stop listening

temporarily.

Wake Up Reactivate the microphone when it’s

“sleeping.”

Microphone Off Turn the microphone off.

Create new paragraphs, lines, and spaces

SAY: TO:

New Paragraph Press the Enter key twice. New Line Press the Enter key once. Tab Key Press the Tab key. Space Bar Press the space bar.

Move around in a document

SAY: TO:

Go to Bottom Move the cursor to the end of your

document.

Go to Top Move the cursor to the beginning of your

document.

Go to Beginning Move the cursor to the start of the current of Line line.

Go to End of Line Move the cursor to the end of the current

line.

*Insert After [text] Place the cursor after a speciﬁc word or

words (must be visible on screen).

*Insert Before [text] Place the cursor before a speciﬁc word or

words (must be visible on screen).

Select text

SAY: TO:

*Select [text] Select a speciﬁc word or words (must be

visible on screen).

*Select Again Select the same text again but in a different

place (must be visible on screen).

*You can use this command only in certain programs: the Dragon NaturallySpeaking window, Microsoft® Word 97 or 2000, Corel® WordPerfect® 8 or 9, Microsoft Chat 2.1 or 2.5, GoldMine® 4.0, Microsoft Outlook™ 97 or 2000, or WordPad.

Capitalize text

SAY: TO:

*Cap That Capitalize either the last thing you said or

selected text.

*All Caps That Make either the last thing you said or

selected text all capitals.

*No Caps That Make either the last thing you said or

selected text all lowercase.

Cap [word] Start the next word with a capital.

Example:

All Caps [word] Type the next word in all capitals.

Example:

No Caps [word] Type the next word in all lowercase.

Example:

No Space [word] Type the next word without a space before

it. Caps On Turn initial caps on. Caps Off Turn initial caps off. All Caps On Turn all capitals on (like pressing the

LOCK key).

All Caps Off Turn all capitals off. No Caps On Turn all lowercase on. No Caps Off Turn all lowercase off.

“Cap the Cap end” = The End

“All Caps please” = PLEASE

“No Caps jack” = jack

Example:

“Liz No Space Beth” = LizBeth

CAPS

Apply formatting

SAY: TO:

*Bold That Apply bold to either the last thing you said

or selected text. *Italicize That Apply italics to either the last thing you said

or selected text. *Underline That Apply underlining to either the last thing

you said or selected text. *Restore That Remove formatting from selected text.

Erase text and undo actions

SAY: TO:

Scratch That Erase the last thing you said. You can say

“Scratch That” more than once to keep

erasing previous words or phrases. *Delete That Delete selected text. Undo That Undo the last action (useful for undoing

commands). Backspace Press the Backspace key. To press it more

than once, say Backspace 2, Backspace 3,

and so on (up to 20).

Correct mistakes

SAY: TO:

Correct That Correct either the last thing you said or

selected text.

*Correct [text] Correct a speciﬁc word or words (must

be visible on screen).

Enter numbers

FOR: SAY:

5 ﬁve (or “numeral ﬁve”) 23 twenty three 179 one hundred seventy nine (or “one

hundred and seventy nine”) 5423 ﬁve thousand four hundred twenty three 5,423 ﬁve [comma] four twenty three 12,537 twelve thousand ﬁve hundred thirty seven 142,015 one hundred forty two thousand and

ﬁfteen Jan. 22, 1999 January twenty two [comma] nineteen

ninety nine Apr. 9, 2001 April nine [comma] two thousand and

one 07/14/85 oh seven [slash] fourteen [slash] eighty

ﬁve 8:30 eight [colon] thirty 4:45 AM four forty ﬁve a m 3:00 three o’clock 617-965-5200 six one seven nine six ﬁve ﬁfty two

hundred 1-800-555-1212 one eight hundred ﬁve ﬁve ﬁve one two

one two $45 forty ﬁve dollars $99.50 ninety nine dollars and ﬁfty cents 1/2 one half 3 7/8 three and seven eighths 9/12 nine [slash] twelve (or “nine over twelve”) 130/70 one thirty over seventy V Roman ﬁve XXIV Roman twenty Roman four