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Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Installation and Making a Voice Prole 3

Initial Installation 4

Creating a Voice Prole 9

Microphone Setup 13

Voice Training 15

Interface 23

The Proles Window 23

Using the Dragon Remote App as a Microphone 24

Setting Up the Dragon Remote App 25

The Status Window 30

The Available Commands Window 30

The Dock Menu 31

The Status Menu Item 31

Keyboard Shortcuts 31

Speech 32

Modes and the Microphone 33

Microphone Off and On 34

Sleep Mode 36

Learning and Switching Modes 37

Dictation Mode 39

What You Can Say in Dictation Mode 39

Navigation and Editing Commands 41

Capitalization, Spacing, and Numbers 44

Title Case 44

Uppercase 45

Lowercase 45

Spaces 46

Numbers 46

Letter Names in Dictation Mode 52

Letters 52

Diacritical Letters 54

Ligatures and Non-Latin Letters 55

Dictionary Denition 56

Document Search 56

Auto Formatting 57

Addresses 58

Street Addresses 58

Web and Email Addresses 58

Phone Numbers 58

Abbreviated Titles 59

Date & Time 59

Numbers 60

Prices and Currencies 60

Units of Measure 61

Social Security Numbers 61

All Other Numbers 61

Miscellaneous 62

Proofreading 63

Spelling Mode 64

What You Can Say in Spelling Mode 65

Letter Names in Spelling Mode 65

Letters 65

Diacritical Letters 67

Ligatures and Non-Latin Letters 68

Numerals 68

Numbers Mode 69

Punctuation 71

Mouse Control 85

Commands 88

Global Commands 89

Voice Shortcuts 95

The Web 100 Commands 96

Key Commands 96

How to Say a Key Command 97

Generated Commands 99

Launching Applications 99

Email Messages 99

Application-Based Commands 101

Dragon Dictate Commands 102

Finder Commands 106

TextEdit Commands 111

Safari Commands 116

Mail Commands 123

iChat Commands 134

iCal Commands 134

Facebook/Twitter Commands 139

Windows 144

Note Pad Window 144

Proles Window 146

Commands Window 148

Command Types 151

Creating a Command 152

Vocabulary Editor Window 154

Microphone Setup Window 158

Voice Training Window 159

Vocabulary Training Window 160

Status Window 162

Available Commands Window 164

Recognition Window 166

How to Train 168

Preferences Window 170

General Preferences pane 170

Appearance Preferences pane 172

Recognition Preferences pane 173

Dictation Preferences pane 175

Command Preferences pane 175

Shortcuts Preferences pane 176

Sharing Preferences pane 176

Menus 178

Dictate Menu 178

File Menu 178

Edit Menu 179

Speech Menu 181

Tools Menu 181

Format Menu 182

Window Menu 182

Help Menu 183

Tips on Speaking 185

The Cache and the Golden Rule 187

Two Ways of Working 187

Text and the Cache 188

The Golden Rule of Dragon Dictate 189

Why Note Pad and TextEdit Are Special 189

Extra for Experts 189

Cache Commands 190

Cache 190

Purge 192

Note Pad Windows and the Cache 193

Sound Input Troubleshooting 194

What’s Installed Where 196

Credits 197

Introduction

Dragon Dictate is a speech recognition application. This means that you, the user, speak into a microphone and Dragon Dictate interprets your speech as actual

words. It can then respond to those words. It can respond in one of three ways:

• It can interpret your words as a command, in which case it will obey the com-

mand. For example, you can tell Safari to select a link in the text of a page

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you’re viewing, by saying to the linked page, as if you had clicked that link with the mouse, by saying

Jump to This Link

• It can interpret your words as dictation, in which case it will type what you

said, at the insertion point or selection in the frontmost application. For ex-

ample, you can place the insertion point at the start of a new empty word

processing document and say

will type: Good morning. You can also ask Dragon Dictate to read your words

back to you by saying

Selection

other.

How does Dragon Dictate work? It isn’t magic or mysterious. Behind the scenes, Dragon Dictate interprets the words you speak using a powerful and highly accurate speech recognition engine with an extensive, exible vocabulary. To obey your

commands or type your dictation, Dragon Dictate uses a combination of technologies built into Mac OS X, such as Accessibility and AppleScript.

, or by telling Dragon Dictate to read from one word through an-

Move to Next Link

Mouse Click

Good morning, period

Read Document,

; then you can tell Safari to go

, and Dragon Dictate

by selecting text and saying

Read

You can get up and running with Dragon Dictate very quickly, but you will have some preparation to do beforehand, and you will have some learning to do as you go along. Here’s why:

PreParation. Before Dragon Dictate can interpret your speech, you must

provide a sample of your speech, so that Dragon Dictate knows what your voice sounds like and how you pronounce your words.

Learning. Dragon Dictate can’t obey just any old commands. When you start out, you won’t know Dragon Dictate’s built-in commands; you’ll learn them as you go along (especially the ones you use most frequently). When dictating, you won’t always know Dragon Dictate’s terms for punctuation that you want to use; these, too, you’ll learn as you go along. (Of course you’ll have plenty of assistance along the way; Dragon Dictate has a window listing its commands and punctuation, plus you can consult this manual and the online help.) You’ll

also learn to speak more clearly and smoothly; speaking to a computer program takes practice.

With time, you’ll become more experienced, and most of the things you do with Dragon Dictate will become second nature. You may even customize Dragon

2IntroductionDragon Dictate

Dictate’s abilities to suit your needs. For example, you might add to its repertory of commands. Dragon Dictate comes with built-in specialized commands for controlling itself plus six commonly used applications, along with a set of general commands for use with any application. You can write your own commands for inserting text, running a script, choosing a menu, and so forth. And you’ll almost certainly customize Dragon Dictate’s understanding of your speech. You can add to Dragon Dictate’s vocabulary, in case you use words that it doesn’t already know. And when Dragon Dictate types what you dictate and gets it wrong, you can

train Dragon Dictate to understand you better, telling it the right interpre-

tation of what you said and improving its ability to interpret your speech correctly

in the future.

You’re probably eager to install Dragon Dictate and provide it with an initial

sample of your speech so that you can start controlling your computer by speaking.

The next chapter will guide you through the steps for doing so.

Installation and Making a Voice Prole

Before you can use Dragon Dictate, you must have two kinds of hardware that conform to its requirements: your computer, and a microphone.

ComPuter requirements

• You must be using an Intel-based Macintosh computer.

• Your system must be Mac OS X “Snow Leopard” version 10.6 or later.

• The computer should have at least 2GB of RAM (preferably 4GB or more).

• Your hard drive should have at least 3GB of free space to install Dragon Dictate and its associated les, and this installation should leave plenty of addi-

tional empty free space.

• As with any software application, a faster processor improves performance.

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• Accessibility must be turned on your Universal Access system preferences.

miCroPhone requirements

• You can use a USB microphone or an iOS device running the Dragon Remote Microphone app. The USB microphone should be of high quality, with

noise-cancelling abilities. Ideally, it should be on the list of USB microphones

certied and supported by Nuance. You can nd a list at the Nuance web site.

• To learn how to set up your iOS device as a microphone, see the section “Using the Dragon Remote App as a Microphone” on page 24.

If you’re using a USB microphone, plug it into one of your computer’s USB ports. If you’re running short of open USB ports, it might be worth investing in a powered USB hub. You can then plug some of your USB devices into the hub, and plug the hub into the computer. Some USB microphones, however, must be

plugged directly into the computer.

In System Preferences > Sound > Input, make certain that the USB microphone is selected as the sound input device. This is crucial. A USB microphone can be

plugged into the computer without being the input device; in such a case, your voice will be input in some other way, such as your computer’s built-in microphone, and Dragon Dictate will be unable to interpret your speech accurately.

Use System Preferences > Sound to make sure your USB microphone is the sound input device.

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note. You should always make certain that your USB microphone is the sound input device before starting to use Dragon Dictate. Dragon Dictate will

ascertain, as it launches, that the USB microphone is plugged in; but it cannot ascertain that the USB microphone is the sound input device. If it is not,

speech recognition will not work correctly.

Initial Installation

Use the following checklist to make certain you are ready to install Dragon Dictate.

 Your USB microphone is connected to your computer.

 Your USB microphone is your computer’s sound input device, as shown in

System Preferences > Sound > Input.

 Your computer is connected to the Internet. You will need an Internet con-

nection in order to enter your registration number and license your copy of Dragon Dictate.

 Accessibility is turned on in System Preferences > Universal Access. Check

now that this true. Choose System Preferences > Universal Access, and make certain that Enable access for assistive devices (near the bottom of the window) is checked.

In System Preferences > Universal

Access, “Enable access for assistive devices” must be checked.

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When you’ve completed the above checklist, you’re ready to begin installing Dragon Dictate.

Dragon Dictate comes in two parts: the application (on a CD), and the speech recognition engine data (on a DVD).

Insert the CD into the computer and copy the Dragon Dictate application onto your hard disk. The Applications folder is a good place, and the CD includes an alias for your Applications folder so you can drag the Dragon Dictate application

icon onto the Applications folder icon as a way of installing the application into your Applications folder. But you can put Dragon Dictate anywhere you like.

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Eject the CD.

Launch Dragon Dictate from your hard drive. Dragon Dictate requests the DVD containing the speech recognition engine data (“Dragon English Data”). Leave the

dialog up.

Dragon Dictate asks for the DVD containing the speech recognition data.

Insert the DVD into the computer. When it has mounted, return to Dragon Dictate and click OK in the dialog. Dragon Dictate copies the data from the DVD to your hard drive, reporting its progress as it does so.

Dragon Dictate copies the data from the DVD to your hard drive.

When Dragon Dictate has nished copying the data to your hard drive, it asks whether you’d like to eject the DVD. Click Eject.

Click Eject to remove the DVD containing

the speech recognition engine data.

Installation is now complete, and Dragon Dictate displays the license agreement. Click Accept after reviewing it.

Click Accept after reviewing the license

agreement.

Dragon Dictate now asks for your license. A license is a license le. You presumably don’t have such a le yet, so you need to enter your registration number in order to get it. Click Register This Software to summon a dialog where you can enter your registration number and obtain a license le.

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If you inadvertently deleted your license le, click Retrieve License Key and follow the instructions to obtain a new license key via the Internet.

Click Register This Software to summon the

registration dialog.

If you do have a license le, Dragon Dictate should nd it automatically at this point, and the entire Register This Software step will be skipped. In that case, you will see a dialog informing you that your license has been found and is valid.

The dialog that you see at this point if you

already have a license le.

Since you don’t have a license le yet, you have clicked Register This Software, and the registration dialog appears. Fill in the required information. (Dragon needs this information to set up an account for you at the Dragon web site; your information will remain private.) Type or copy your registration code into the appropriate eld of the dialog. The registration code, which you can nd on the registration code sticker, is roughly of this form: AB11-ABCD-EFGH-I123.

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Fill out the registration dialog and

click Register Now. Your computer

must be connected to the Internet.

When you’ve lled out the dialog, make sure your computer is connected to the Internet and click Register Now. Dragon Dictate goes out over the Internet, connects to

Dragon’s server, and downloads and installs your license le. If this operation is

successful, Dragon Dictate informs you of the fact. Click OK.

Dragon Dictate has downloaded and installed

your license. Click OK.

Dragon Dictate’s installation is now complete.

In order to use Dragon Dictate, you need a voice prole. Since you have only just installed Dragon Dictate, you have no voice prole. Therefore, Dragon Dictate im-

mediately offers to create one.

Creating a Voice Prole

A voice prole is a complete set of data on how you speak: what your voice sounds

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like, and what vocabulary you use. In order to speak into Dragon Dictate, you must have at least one prole.

In many cases, one prole is all you’ll need. But you’ll need multiple proles if different people are using Dragon Dictate. Each person will need to train their prole

to their voice.

Every prole has a name, which uniquely identies it. When you create a prole,

you start by giving it a name.

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note. The data for a prole lives on your hard disk as a package whose le

extension is .ddictateprole. You are offered the chance to set a prole’s loca- tion at the time you create it. You may place it anywhere you like, but a good idea is to put all proles together in a known location; for example, you might create a folder ~/Documents/Dragon Proles. This allows the prole data to be backed up easily. A symbolic link to each prole will be found in ~/Library/

Application Support/Dragon/Proles.

The rst time you use Dragon Dictate, you will be prompted to create a new prole. If you previously used MacSpeech Dictate, the proles associated with that application will automatically appear when you launch Dragon Dictate. However, to use them, you will need to upgrade them by double-clicking the prole name or clicking the “Upgrade” button in the bottom right corner of the window. Proles that have not been upgraded have this warning icon next to the prole name. A prole without a connected audio source displays a lightning bolt inside a triangle.

Any commands and vocabulary you previously added to a prole will be preserved when you begin the upgrade process, which cannot be undone. After the software updates the older prole, you’ll see the Voice Training window. You must complete a new Voice Training session. As in previous versions of the software, Dragon Dictate will stop the training session when it has collected enough speech, and you can always return to Voice Training any time to read more stories and improve the application’s accuracy.

If you need to create a new prole, you’ll start with a File Save dialog (“Name a New Prole”). Give the new prole a name. Specify a folder in which to keep this prole. Click Choose.

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The Name a New Prole dialog. Give the prole a name, specify a folder in which to

save it, and click Choose.

Dragon Dictate next presents a dialog describing the proper positioning of your

microphone. Position the microphone as shown. A checkbox lets you skip this dialog in future, but don’t ignore the advice in this dialog! The microphone should

be near your mouth but not too close, and it should be slightly off to one side so that puffs of breath, either from breathing or from articulation, are not interpreted

as speech. You should position the microphone correctly, and you should attempt to recreate its position each time you use Dragon Dictate. Click OK when you’re

ready to proceed.

Dragon Dictate shows you the

correct microphone position. Read

it, do what it says, and click OK.

Dragon Dictate now displays the Proles window, where you will set the characteristics of this prole. You have three characteristics to set up: Microphone, Spelling,

and Accent.

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miCroPhone. Dragon Dictate has already detected your USB microphone, and unless you have more than one USB microphone plugged into the com-

puter, this will be the only choice offered. If you start up Dragon Dictate and a microphone is not detected, the Proles window will report this fact and your only choice will be to quit. You can add another microphone after you create your prole by clicking the plus sign at the bottom of the Audio Sources box in the Proles dialog box.

sPeLLing. Choices are US and UK. aCCent. Choices depend upon your choice of spelling.

The Proles window is where you manage your proles. Here, you’re about to nish creating a new prole. Choose the correct settings

and click Continue.

When you’ve set the Microphone, Spelling, and Accent pop-ups, click Continue. While your prole is created, Dragon Dictate puts up a progress dialog.

While creating a prole, Dragon

Dialog puts up a progress dialog.

After you create a prole, Dragon Dictate automatically proceeds to microphone

setup.

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tiP. You are about to begin speaking to Dragon Dictate. It might be a good

idea to read the “Tips on Speaking” section now. If your microphone is a

headset, put it on! Position the microphone correctly.

Microphone Setup

Microphone setup takes place in the Microphone Setup window, and involves adjusting the sound input level. You must go through the setup process for each new microphone you associate with a prole.

The Microphone Setup window is where you adjust your sound

input level. To begin, click the

microphone icon with the red “stop sign.”

To begin adjusting your sound input level in the Microphone Setup window, click the microphone icon with the red “stop sign.” The window changes to display a

paragraph of text for you to read aloud.

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Read aloud the paragraph displayed in the box in the

Microphone Setup window. As you read, Dragon Dictate will adjust

your microphone sound input level.

Read the paragraph of text aloud. Speak slowly, naturally, clearly, and continuously, but do not worry about enunciation, because Dragon Dictate is not listening to your words; what’s important is how loudly you speak. Try to speak at a natural, consistent loudness, representative of how you will normally speak to Dragon Dic-

tate in your current environment. As you speak, the level indicator to the right of

the microphone icon shows your sound input level, a combination of how loudly you speak and how Dragon Dictate has adjusted the microphone sound input lev-

el; and the horizontal gain indicator slider moves left and right as Dragon Dictate

experiments with different sound input levels. When Dragon Dictate has heard enough, and has set your microphone sound input level optimally, it will turn off the microphone and switch away from this window automatically. If you reach the

end of the paragraph before that happens, start reading aloud from the beginning again.

note. You can check Manual Gain Setting if you want to operate the slider yourself, but Dragon Dictate should be able to do a better job of adjusting your microphone sound input level than you would.

In the next window, Dragon Dictate pauses and plays back a recording of the last

little bit of your speech. Listen to make sure that your speech level is clear and

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undistorted. Press Play to hear the recording again. Make sure there is no static, excess noise, or hum. Such problems are probably a sign of faulty microphone

hardware or a bad connection. If you think there’s a problem with the recording, and you’d like to perform the microphone sound level adjustment again, click the left-arrow button at the lower right to return to the previous window. (See “Sound

Input Troubleshooting” for tips on diagnosing sound input problems.)

Dragon Dictate has adjusted your

microphone sound input level.

If you’re creating a prole, click

Voice Training to proceed.

The next step in creating a prole is to do a session of voice training. This is where you read aloud a little story, so that Dragon Dictate can learn how your voice sounds and how you pronounce your words. Click Voice Training to proceed. You’ll be taken to the Voice Training window.

Voice Training

Voice training is a process where you read aloud a little story. It takes place in the Voice Training window.

tiP. This would be a really good time to read the “Tips on Speaking” section if you haven’t done so already. Or maybe read it again. If your microphone is a headset, put it on! Position the microphone correctly.

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During voice training, Dragon Dictate listens to your speech, matching it up with the words of the story. In this way, Dragon Dictate learns how your voice sounds and how you pronounce your words. Voice training is the most important step in creating a prole. This is why you need a different prole for each different person and microphone. You might even need to create a new prole if your voice chang-

es temporarily — because you catch a cold, for instance.

Dragon Dictate presents the Voice Training window, containing a description of what’s about to happen. Click the right-arrow button, at the lower right, to pro-

ceed.

When you do voice training in an existing prole, you are shown a window where you can select from among three stories to read from; stories you’ve previously read are marked with a “green circle” icon. But when you rst create a prole, the rst story is automatically selected for you.

The Voice Training window,

before reading a story. To proceed,

click the right-arrow button at lower right of the window.

Dragon Dictate presents the window in which it will show you the story. The microphone is off, signied by a red “stop sign” icon, and training will not begin until

you click the icon.

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The Voice Training window, ready

for you to start reading a story.

Click the microphone icon (with the red “stop sign”) to begin.

Here’s what’s going to happen when you click the microphone icon. Dragon Dictate will turn on the microphone (the icon will change to a green circle) and will present you with a short page of text to read aloud — usually just a sentence or two. You must read all the text, including punctuation (because that’s what you do when you dictate). To help you with this, punctuation is printed in capital letters, but you don’t read it any special voice. You should read in fairly brief utterances, pausing after each utterance. Dragon Dictate signies its understanding by turn-

ing each utterance green. When you reach the end of the page (all text has turned

green), Dragon Dictate automatically “turns the page” for you.

If Dragon Dictate has trouble with what you said, it turns the current utterance

red. If this happens, you need to read the red text again. If Dragon Dictate still

doesn’t understand (the same text remains red), you can click Skip Word to proceed past that text. If you feel that things are really going badly and that you’d like to begin reading this story all over again, click the left-arrow button.

As you read, keep an eye on the sound input level indicator (the vertical bar to the

right of the microphone icon). Speak at a level that keeps this at about the middle

of the green section.

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Warning. The speech recognition engine has no experience with your voice to build on during the rst few pages of a new prole’s Voice Training story, so your utterances must be quite short and careful, and the pauses between them

must be long, to give the engine a chance to catch up and turn the text green.

You will probably need to read like this: “We. Would like. You. To read aloud. For a few minutes.” After the rst couple of pages, you will nd that you can

start speaking much more naturally.

The rst page of the Voice Training story for a new prole. The rst few words have been

read, and have turned green.

As your reading of the story proceeds, Dragon Dictate “turns the page” for you. Progress from page to page is shown by the horizontal progress indicator above the text. If you need to pause at any time (to clear your throat, get a drink of water, sneeze, stretch, whatever), click the microphone icon to turn it to a red “stop sign”; when you’re ready to proceed, click it again to turn it into a green circle once

again, and carry on reading.

A page late in the rst Voice Training story. You can tell the story is nearly nished, because the

green horizontal progress indicator is nearly full. Notice the level of the sound gain indicator at the right of the microphone icon; this

is about the level where you want

to keep it, by speaking louder or softer.

When you nish reading the last page of the story, Dragon Dictate will analyze the data it has gathered about your voice and feed that analysis into your prole.

(Actually, this might happen in the middle of the last page, or an earlier page, if

Dragon Dictate feels it has sufcient data.)

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Dragon Dictate analyzes your reading of the story and feeds

the analysis into your prole. Be patient while processing proceeds.

During Dragon Dictate’s analysis of your reading of the story, be patient. Analysis is

extremely calculation-intensive and can take a long time (possibly as long as it took

you to read the story in the rst place). Do not interrupt. Do not do anything else with your computer. Do not force quit Dragon Dictate (doing so may ruin your prole).

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As this dialog informs you, you can read this story again later, or choose from two other stories, by choosing Tools > Voice Training. It’s best to use Dragon Dictate for a while, though, speaking and dictating, rening the way you speak, and improving recognition through Recognition Training. Most users do not nd it necessary to do any Voice Training beyond the rst story.

When analysis of your reading is complete, the Voice Training window presents a nal dialog. Click Done to proceed.

Analysis of your reading is complete. Click Done to proceed.

If you have just completed the rst Voice Training of your rst prole, Dragon Dictate presents the Welcome window. You may glance over its contents. (If you want to read this window again later, you can summon it from the Help menu.) When you’re ready, close the window.

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The Welcome window. Close the window to start using Dragon

Dictate.

You now have a working prole, and the prole is active. You are ready to speak to Dragon Dictate and have it type what you say and obey your commands. If you have just installed Dragon Dictate for the rst time and are curious about where its parts were installed, read “What’s Installed Where.”

Any time you want to view your available proles, you can do so by selecting “Proles...” under the Tools menu. While you’re there, you can add a microphone to a prole by clicking the plus sign in the Audio Sources box.

You can also change the images associated with your proles. In the Proles window, click the image to the left of a prole name to bring up a new dialog box. Click the down arrow next to “Recent Pictures” at the top of the dialog box to view images to choose from; they include recent iChat user images as well as images associated with your Mac OS X account. You can also click “Choose…” to nd an image located elsewhere on your Mac, or you can click the camera icon to use your Mac’s built-in iSight camera, or another camera connected to your computer,

to snap a photo of yourself.

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After you select an image, you can move it around to center the part of it you want to use. The slider lets you change its size. When you’re satised, click “Set” to use it, or click “Cancel” if you’d rather return to the image you’re currently using.

23InterfaceDragon Dictate

Interface

Dragon Dictate’s basic interface is extremely simple. This chapter will tour its key

features; details on some of these features appear in later chapters.

You can use Dragon Dictate while working in any application, so the purpose of Dragon Dictate’s interface is to be present (so that you can control Dragon Dictate’s behavior) without being in your way.

The Proles Window

When you start up Dragon Dictate, you might see the Proles window. Choose your prole and click Make Active. If you’d like to avoid seeing the Proles window at startup, uncheck Show Proles Window in the General Preferences pane. Dragon Dictate will then automatically use, when it starts up, the prole you were using when you previously quit the application.

The Proles window. If you see this window at startup, choose your prole and click Make Active.

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Using the Dragon Remote App as a Microphone

You can use your iPhone, iPod touch 4, or iPad as a microphone by downloading the Dragon Remote Microphone app from Apple’s App Store. Download and install the app on your device; Dragon Dictate will recognize it as a microphone like any other. You can add it to your existing prole by clicking the plus sign at the bottom of the microphone list, or you can create a new prole and choose it as

your microphone.

After you have selected the Dragon Remote app as your microphone in Dragon

Dictate, you need to set it up on your iOS device. The app supports Bonjour, networking technology from Apple that allows supported devices on a network to see each other and which is part of Mac OS X. Make sure your iOS device is connected to your network before continuing. To check if it is, tap Settings and see if a router name is listed next to the word “Wi-Fi;” if one isn’t, tap “Wi-Fi,” choose a network from the list, and enter the password, if applicable, to make the connection. You can’t use the app over a 3G cellular connection.

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If you’re in a place, such as a coffee shop, with a public Wi-Fi network, you can use the Dragon Remote app over an open router that doesn’t require a password. If the router is secure and requires a password, which is often the case at places like Starbucks, the Dragon Remote app won’t work because it will be blocked from connecting with your computer. You also can’t use the Dragon Remote app if you use the tethering feature in iOS 4.3 to share your iPhone or iPad’s Internet connection with your Mac. If you’re attempting to use the Dragon Remote app at work and have trouble, contact your network administrator for assistance; it’s possible your workplace network has multiple subnets set up for security reasons, in which case you will have difculty connecting the app and your Mac.

Setting Up the Dragon Remote App

Launch the Dragon Remote app on your iOS device and tap the gear icon in the

bottom right corner. On the Settings screen, tap “Find computer” to see a list of found Dragon Dictate proles and computers on your network. The easiest way to connect the app with Dragon Dictate is to nd the applicable prole and tap it; the app should “talk” to your Mac and establish a link. If the list is too long to easily navigate, tap in the search eld and type in the name of the prole or Mac you’re

looking for.

Tap “Find Computer”

to locate your Mac or Dragon

Dictate prole.

Locating a Dragon Dictate

prole and

the Mac it is running on.

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Should you need to manually establish the connection, tap “Manual Entry” and enter the necessary information. You can nd the computer’s IP address in the Network pane of System Preferences in Mac OS X; ignore the port number eld, as it can’t be changed. You can nd your Mac’s name in System Preferences’ Sharing pane; it’s shown at the top of the window.

On the left:

The Manual Entry screen.

On the right: Lining up the barcode in the

“Use a barcode”

feature.

You can also tap the “Use a barcode” button to connect with your prole. On your Mac, click the Dragon Dictate icon at the top of the screen; a pop-out window will display a barcode. Tap the “Use a barcode” button in the Remote Microphone app and line up the barcode on your Mac’s screen with the box shown on the dis-

play of your iOS device.

Generating a bar-

code on your Mac’s

display after clicking the Dragon Dictate icon at the top of the screen.

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Locating the name of the target computer in the Sharing pane of System Preferences.

After you establish a connection with your Dragon Dictate prole through the Remote Microphone app, you will be prompted to conrm that you want to allow

it to occur.

Tap “Back” in the app to return to the main screen. If the microphone icon shown in the bottom half of the screen is red, tap it to turn it green, which means it is active and

ready to accept input. To turn off the microphone, tap the icon to turn it red.

Should you exit the Remote Microphone app, or if the connection

with your Mac is lost somehow, you will see the message to the right.

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Tap the microphone icon in the app to re-establish the connection.

As with any other microphone you set up with Dragon Dictate, you will need to

complete voice training by speaking into your iOS device and reading the story

presented on the screen. If this is your rst time doing so, refer to the “Voice Training” section earlier in this chapter.

You will see the message

to the left if the Dragon Remote Microphone app has not been launched

when you begin voice

training.

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The Status Window

The Status window is your control center for Dragon Dictate. It oats over the windows of all other applications. Here you can turn the microphone on and off,

change modes, and more. For details, see “Status Window.”

The Status window oats over all

applications.

The Available Commands Window

The Available Commands window lists the commands you can say to Dragon at

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the moment. Any custom commands you’ve added are shown there too. It oats over the windows of all other applications. For details, see “Available Commands

Window.”

The Available Commands window tells you what you can say at the

moment. To reveal the actual commands, click a triangle.

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The Dock Menu

The Dragon Dictate Dock menu provides commands for showing and hiding Dragon Dictate’s windows, and for controlling modes and microphone state. The Dock menu is available no matter what application is frontmost.

The Dock Menu lets you control Dragon

Dictate no matter what application is

frontmost.

The Status Menu Item

The Dragon Dictate status menu item indicates whether the microphone is on or

off, and clicking it toggles the microphone state. It provides a simple and conve-

nient way to turn the microphone on or off, no matter what application is frontmost, and even if the Status window is not present. If you’d prefer not to see the

status menu item, uncheck In The Menu Bar in the Appearance Preferences pane.

The status menu item controls the microphone.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Dragon Dictate lets you dene global keyboard shortcuts (“hot keys”) to perform each of the following tasks:

• Turn the microphone on or off.

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• Switch between Dictation mode, Spelling mode, and Command mode.

• Show or hide the Recognition window.

To set these keyboard shortcuts, use the Shortcuts Preferences pane.

These are all tasks that you can perform in other ways, such as using your voice, or clicking in the Status window; the keyboard shortcuts are an optional convenience,

and many users happily ignore them or even disable them.

Speech

The most important way to interact with Dragon Dictate is to talk to it! To talk successfully to Dragon Dictate, you need to know about microphone state and the four modes, so that’s the subject of the next section.

33Modes and the MicrophoneDragon Dictate

Modes and the Microphone

The most important thing that you need to be in control of and aware of when

using Dragon Dictate is its state. At all times, the microphone is either on or off; and if the microphone is on, Dragon Dictate is in one of ve modes. These set-

tings determine whether and how Dragon Dictate will respond to your speech.

the miCroPhone

miCroPhone off. Dragon Dictate is not listening at all. No sound can affect

it. The only change you can make is to turn the microphone on, and the only

way to do that is using the mouse or keyboard. miCroPhone on. Dragon Dictate is listening, and how it responds to your

speech depends on what mode it is in.

the five modes

diCtation mode. If Dragon Dictate can interpret your words as a com-

mand, it obeys the command. Otherwise, Dragon Dictate interprets your words as dictation, and types those words at the insertion point in the front-

most application.

sPeLLing mode. If Dragon Dictate can interpret your words as a command, it obeys the command. Otherwise, Dragon Dictate tries to interpret your words as a limited set of letters and punctuation, and types those letters and

punctuation at the insertion point in the frontmost document. If Dragon Dic-

tate can’t interpret your words as a command or as letters and punctuation,

nothing happens.

Command mode. If Dragon Dictate can interpret your words as a command, it obeys the command. Otherwise, nothing happens. You can give commands in Dictation mode and Spelling mode as well, but Command mode

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can be an advantage because Dragon Dictate doesn’t have to decide whether what you’re saying is something to be typed or a command to be obeyed. You might switch to Command mode when you are about to issue a command or a series of commands and you want to make certain that nothing you say is

interpreted as dictation and typed accidentally into your document.

numbers mode. If Dragon Dictate can interpret your words as a number, it displays Arabic numerals. The software also recognizes commands and punc-

tuation in this mode. sLeeP mode. If Dragon Dictate can interpret your words as one of the com-

mands

three preceding modes. Otherwise, nothing happens.

Wake Up

Turn [the] Microphone On

, it returns to one of the

Microphone O and On

To pause your work completely, turn the microphone off entirely. The impli-

cations of turning off the microphone are best understood by contrast with those

of Sleep mode.

The advantage of turning the microphone off, as opposed to Sleep mode, is that no voice input can be interpreted, even accidentally, as a command to turn the microphone on. All voice input is ignored.

The disadvantage of turning the microphone off is that you can’t turn it on again using your voice; you must use your hands. Sleep mode, on the other hand, lets you

speak to resume work.

To turn the microphone off:

• Say

Microphone Off

• Choose Speech > Microphone Off.

• Choose Microphone Off from the Dock menu.

• Click the microphone icon in the Status window so that it appears with a red “stop sign”.

• Click the optional status menu item in the menu bar so that it appears with a red “stop sign”.

• Press the keyboard shortcut for toggling the microphone.

• Tap the icon in the Dragon Remote Microphone app on your iOS device.

To turn the microphone on, when the microphone is off:

• Choose Speech > Microphone On.

• Choose Microphone On from the Dock menu.

• Click the microphone icon in the Status window so that it appears with a green “go button”.

• Click the optional status menu item in the menu bar so that it appears with a green “go button”.

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• Press the keyboard shortcut for toggling the microphone.

• Tap the icon in the Dragon Remote Microphone app on your iOS device.

To learn whether the microphone is on or off:

• Look at the Status window. The microphone icon displays the microphone’s

status.

• Look at the optional status menu item in the menu bar. It is a miniature ver- sion of the Status window microphone icon, and displays the microphone’s

status.

• Look at the Dock icon for Dragon Dictate. It appears (optionally) with a microphone icon displaying the microphone’s status.

• Look in the Speech menu. If the microphone is on, the rst menu item will read Microphone Off; if the microphone is off, the rst menu item will read

Microphone On.

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• Look in the Dock menu. It contains menu items that work just like the Speech

menu.

• Look at the icon in the Dragon Remote Microphone app on your iOS device. If it’s green, the microphone is on; if it’s red, the microphone is off.

Sleep Mode

To pause your work temporarily, switch to Sleep mode. In Sleep mode, Dragon Dictate is listening, but it is in a special state where it responds only to a very limited set of commands. They are:

•

Wake Up

•

Turn [the] Microphone On

Anything else you say will be ignored. This allows you to pause your work and have Dragon Dictate ignore microphone input until you are ready to resume work.

To enter Sleep mode:

• Say

• Choose from the Status window mode menu. The mode menu appears when

• Choose from the Speech menu.

• Choose from the Dock menu.

• Choose an Auto Sleep setting in the Recognition pane in the Preferences win-

To learn whether you are in Sleep mode:

• Look at the Status window. Its mode button shows the Sleep icon, and the mi-

Sleep Mode

you click the mode button in the Status window.

d ow.

crophone appears with a blue “sleep balloon” with a crescent moon.

, or

Go to Sleep

• Look at the Dock icon for Dragon Dictate. (Alternatively, use Command-Tab to display the application switcher.) If you have chosen the option to badge the Dock icon to display the microphone status, it appears with a crescent moon.

• Look at the optional status menu item. It appears with a crescent moon.

• Look in the Speech menu. The fourth mode menu item says “Wake Up”.

• Look in the Dock menu. It contains menu items that work just like the Speech

menu.

When in Sleep mode, you can resume work by doing any of the following:

37Modes and the MicrophoneDragon Dictate

• Say

Wake Up

Turn [the] Microphone On

• Choose Speech > Microphone On or Speech > Wake Up.

• Choose Microphone On or Wake Up from the Dock menu.

• Click the microphone icon in the Status window so that it appears with a green “go button”.

• Click the optional status menu item so it appears with a green “go button”.

• Press the keyboard shortcut for toggling the microphone.

Learning and Switching Modes

The three non-sleep modes — Dictation mode, Spelling mode, and Command

mode — form a group. You can switch from one to another, and learn which

mode Dragon Dictate is in, in a consistent manner.

To switch between modes:

• Say one of the following:

◦

Dictation Mode

◦

Spelling Mode

◦

Command Mode

◦

Numbers Mode

• Choose from the Status window mode menu. The mode menu appears when you click the mode button in the Status window.

• Choose from the Speech menu.

• Choose from the Dock menu.

• Press the keyboard shortcut for cycling between modes.

To learn what mode you are in:

• Look at the Status window. The mode button’s icon represents the current mode; and in the mode menu, which appears when you click the mode but-

ton, the current mode is checked.

• Look in the Speech menu. The current mode is checked.

• Look in the Dock menu. It contains menu items that work just like the Speech

menu.

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39Dictation ModeDragon Dictate

Dictation Mode

In Dictation mode, you can both dictate text to be typed and issue commands to be obeyed. Dragon Dictate will type what you say, interpreting your words as dictation, unless it recognizes what you say as a command.

In general, if you speak smoothly and continuously, Dragon Dictate will interpret your words as dictation, even if they include words that might be a command. If you pause before and after a phrase, on the other hand, Dragon Dictate will con-

sider that phrase as a possible command.

For example,

If you say

types those words.

But if you say

switches to Sleep mode.

So, to ensure that a phrase is recognized as a command, pause before and after the command, but speak the command itself smoothly and continuously.

This might be a good time to review the “Tips on Speaking” section.

Go To Sleep

Go. To sleep

Don’t go to sleep in the middle of the lecture

Don’t. Go to sleep

is a command (it switches to Sleep mode). So:

, Dragon Dictate types Go to sleep.

, Dragon Dictate types Don’t and then

, Dragon Dictate

What You Can Say in Dictation Mode

Words and Phrases to be tyPed. You can use the Vocabulary Editor window to view and edit the list of words that Dragon Dictate knows about. You should try not to make any extraneous noises, but Dragon Dictate will do its best to ignore the well-known hesitation noises “ah”, “er”, “uh”, and “um”. (In fact, you may have to use Spelling mode to type such items.)

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instruCtions for sPaCing and CaPitaLization. In general there should be

no need for these; Dragon Dictate will perform intelligent automatic spacing and capitalization. But if you do need ner control over capitalization and

spacing, you have it. See “Capitalization, Spacing, and Numbers.” To insert a space, say

Space Bar

In many cases it will be simpler to let Dragon Dictate perform its automatic capitalization, right or wrong, and then correct it after the fact with the capitalization editing commands discussed below.

PunCtuation. Unlike spacing and capitalization, you must explicitly dictate

any desired punctuation; Dragon Dictate doesn’t try to insert punctuation

intelligently based on grammar, tone of voice, or anything like that. Unlike Spelling mode, Dictation mode does incorporate punctuation into its intelligent automatic spacing. For names of punctuation marks, see “Punctuation.”

You can also add punctuation after dictating with the Surround the Word feature, which is also detailed in the “Punctuation.” section.

names of Letters. Letter names may be used to type a word consisting of a

letter, or for dictating an acronym; but you should not use letter names in Dictation mode as a substitute for Spelling mode. For example, to type An a-z of

animals, say

entirely reliable, as Dragon Dictate must allow for the possibility that

An alpha hyphen zulu of animals

. Even this approach is not

alpha

means alpha. Spelling mode gets better results. See “Letter Names in Dicta-

tion Mode.”

Commands. All global, key, generated, and application-based commands are available.

reCognition training Commands. You can train the voice model and cor- rect recognition errors with these Dictation mode commands:

◦

Train “Someword”

◦

Train “Someword” Through “Otherword”

◦

Train “Someword” to “Otherword”

The words (or the utterance containing them) are selected and the Recognition window opens. See “Recognition Window.” When the Recognition win- dow is open, additional Recognition window commands are available.

navigation and editing Commands. These are Dictation mode commands, listed in the next section, designed for basic text navigation and editing, to

correct your own errors, to modify what you dictated, or to x capitalization. These are “proper” ways to work on your document; they do not violate the

Golden Rule (see “The Cache and the Golden Rule”).

If what you dictated was not correctly recognized by Dragon Dictate, it is better to use the Recognition window. See “Recognition Window.”

Navigation and Editing Commands

You can move the insertion point with these commands:

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•

Move Backward(s) NN Word(s), Move Forward(s) NN Word(s)

“NN” is a number up to 99)

You can place the insertion point with these commands:

•

Insert Before “Someword”

•

Insert Before “Someword” Through “Otherword”

•

Insert Before “Someword” to “Otherword”

•

Insert After “Someword”

•

Insert After “Someword” Through “Otherword”

•

Insert After “Someword” to “Otherword”

•

Insert Next “Someword”

(where “Someword” is a word or series of words

specied by the previous select command)

(where

•

Insert Previous “Someword”

(where “Someword” is a word or series of

words specied by the previous select command)

You can control the selection with these commands:

•

Select “Someword”

•

Select “Someword” Through “Otherword”

•

Select “Someword” to “Otherword”

•

Select Next, Select Previous

•

Select the Next NN Words, Select the Previous NN Words

is a number up to 100)

•

Select Again “Someword”

(where “Someword” is a word already selected)

You can select and delete a phrase with these commands:

•

Delete “Someword”

•

Delete “Someword” Through “Otherword”

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(where “NN”

•

Delete “Someword” to “Otherword”

•

Delete Next “Someword”

•

Delete Previous “Someword”

(where “Someword” is a word already selected)

(where “Someword” is a word already se-

lected)

You can select and change the case of a phrase with these commands:

•

Capitalize “Someword”

•

Capitalize “Someword” Through “Otherword”

•

Capitalize “Someword” to “Otherword”

•

Capitalize Next “Someword”

(where “Someword” is a word or series of

words specied by the previous select command)

•

Capitalize Previous “Someword”

(where “Someword” is a word or series

of words specied by the previous select command)

•

Lowercase “Someword”

•

Lowercase “Someword” Through “Otherword”

•

Lowercase “Someword” to “Otherword”

•

Lowercase Next “Someword”

(where “Someword” is a word or series of

words specied by the previous select command)

•

Lowercase Previous “Someword”

(where “Someword” is a word or series

of words specied by the previous select command)

•

Uppercase “Someword”

•

Uppercase “Someword” Through “Otherword”

•

Uppercase “Someword” to “Otherword”

•

Uppercase Next “Someword”

(where “Someword” is a word or series of

words specied by the previous select command)

•

Uppercase Previous “Someword”

(where “Someword” is a word or series

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of words specied by the previous select command)

In the above commands where you specify the words to select, if those words ap-

pear more than once in the document, Dragon Dictate selects the nearest instance.

Position the insertion point near the desired words beforehand, to ensure that they will be selected.

If you speak to delete or alter text and then change your mind (perhaps because

Dragon Dictate selected the wrong stretch of text), say

Undo Dictation

To remove the word last dictated or to the left of the cursor:

• Say

Scratch Word

To remove the phrase last dictated or to the left of the cursor:

• Say

Scratch That

(or

Delete That

). Dragon Dictate’s notion of a “phrase”

depends upon how it detects pauses in your speech.

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If you “scratch” or “forget” and then change your mind (perhaps because Dragon Dictate removed more than you wanted), say

Undo Dictation

Capitalization, Spacing, and Numbers

In Dictation mode, you can say commands that apply special rules for capitalization, spacing and interpretation of numbers. This gives you ner control

when Dictation mode’s intelligent automatic behavior needs assistance. (For nest possible control, though, use Spelling mode.)

tiP. Dragon Dictate comes with a large repertory of built-in words with cor- rect capitalization and spacing. So, before using these commands, try saying

your word (or look it up in the Vocabulary Editor window) to see what Dragon

Dictate does. For example, Dragon Dictate handles correctly such terms as

“CD-ROM” and “FreeBSD” without your having to worry about spacing,

hyphenation, or capitalization.

Title Case

To capitalize (title case) the next word:

• Say

In the Status window, the rst indicator light will glow yellow and will read “Abc”. When you say the next word, it will be typed capitalized, and the indicator light will go out automatically.

To capitalize (title case) a series of words, you may prefer to turn on title

casing, say the series of words, and turn off title casing. To do so:

• Say

Cap

. (To type the word “cap” you may need to switch to Spelling mode

and spell it out!)

Caps On

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In the Status window, the rst indicator light will glow green and will read “Abc”. Say the series of words, which will be typed capitalized. Finally, say The indicator light will go out.

Caps Off

Uppercase

To uppercase (all caps) the next word:

• Say

In the Status window, the rst indicator light will glow yellow and will read “ABC”. When you say the next word, it will be typed uppercased, and the indicator light will go out automatically.

To uppercase (all caps) a series of words, you may prefer to turn on upper-

casing, say the series of words, and turn off uppercasing. To do so:

• Say

In the Status window, the rst indicator light will glow green and will read “ABC”. Say the series of words, which will be typed uppercased. Finally, say The indicator light will go out.

All Caps

All Caps On

All Caps Off

Lowercase

To lowercase (no caps) the next word:

• Say

In the Status window, the rst indicator light will glow yellow and will read “abc”. When you say the next word, it will be typed lowercased, and the indicator light will go out automatically.

To lowercase (no caps) a series of words, you may prefer to turn on lower- casing, say the series of words, and turn off lowercasing. To do so:

• Say

No Caps

No Caps On

In the Status window, the rst indicator light will glow green and will read “abc”.

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Say the series of words, which will be typed lowercased. Finally, say The indicator light will go out.

No Caps Off

Spaces

To prevent automatic insertion of a space before the next word:

• Say

In the Status window, the second indicator light will glow yellow. When you say the next word, it will be typed without a preceding space and the indicator light will go

out automatically.

To prevent automatic insertion of spaces while saying a series of words:

• Say

In the Status window, the second indicator light will glow green. Say the series of words, which will be typed without intervening spaces. Finally, say The indicator light will go out.

To insert a space:

No Space

No Space On

No Space Off

• Say

In general you should not need to suppress or control spacing merely because

of punctuation. For example, to hyphenate two words, say the rst word, then

Hyphen

phen, because there is a built-in rule governing how automatic spacing works next

to a hyphen.

Space Bar

, then the second word. There will be no space on either side of the hy-

Numbers

To force the next word to be interpreted as an Arabic digit (“1”, “2”, etc.):

• Say

Numeral

or switch to Numbers mode.

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In the Status window, the third indicator light will glow yellow and will read “123”. Say the digit. The digit will be typed, and the indicator light will go out automati-

cally.

tiP. To type 0, say

Zero

To force the next word to be interpreted as a Roman numeral (“I”, “II”, etc.):

• Say

Roman Numeral

In the Status window, the third indicator light will glow yellow and will read “XIV”. Say the number. The number will be typed, and the indicator light will go out automatically. This works even for large Roman numerals; for example, to type

MCMXCVII, say

Seven

(in one smooth utterance).

Roman Numeral One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety

Dragon Dictate performs a lot of automatic intelligent formatting of numbers and dates. Here are some details. You can also click on Auto Formatting under the Tools menu to bring up options for formatting addresses, dates, times, numbers, and other utterances, including common abbreviations and contractions.

When you say a number, Dragon Dictate will either type out the words or the number, depending on the context in which the number was used. If you want to force the program to type a number instead of typing the words for the number,

say Numeral before saying the number.

Here are some examples of Dragon Dictate’s automatic formatting and punctuation of numeric expressions.

Numbers (numerals) may be spoken using digits or full number names. Insert

punctuation as needed.

What You Say Result

Numeral One

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What You Say Result

49Dictation ModeDragon Dictate

Numeral Five

Seventeen

Forty Two

One Hundred Seventy Nine

Five Thousand Four Hundred and Twenty Three

Numeral Five Comma No Space Four Hundred and Twenty

5 17 42 179 5423

5,423

Three

Twelve Thousand Five Hundred and Thirty Seven

One Hundred and Forty Two Thousand and Fifteen

Thirty Five Point Two Three

Zero Point Zero Three

Forty-Three Point Twenty Eight Percent Sign

12,537 142,015

35.23

0.03

43.28%

Fractions may be spoken normally, or you can clarify by saying

between the numerator and the denominator.

Slash

Over

What You Say Result

Numeral One Half

Numeral One Over Four;

Numeral One Quarter

Fifteen Sixteenths;

Fifteen Over Sixteen

Two and Three Fourths

Eleven Over Thirty Two

Eleven Thirty Seconds

1/2

1/4

15/16

2 3/4 11/32 11/32

What You Say Result

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Three and Seven Eights;

Numeral Three Seven Over Eight

Nine Slash Twelve

Nine Over Twelve

Numeral Five Space Bar Three Slash Fifty Six

One Thirty Over Seventy

3 7/8

9/12

5 3/56 130/70

Currency may be spoken normally; the number will be parsed and punctuated in

response to your use of the currency name.

What You Say Result

Ninety Nine Dollars and Fifty Five Cents

Forty Five Euros and Thirty Five Cents

Pound Sterling Sign One Hundred and Twenty Point Thirty Five

$99.55 €45.35 £120.35

Zip codes (US) may be spoken normally, digit by digit. For other postal code formats, the best approach is probably to switch to Spelling mode.

What You Say Result

Oh Two Four Six Zero

Oh Two Four Six Zero Hyphen One Four Five Eight

02460 02460-1458

US telephone numbers may be spoken normally, digit by digit, and punctua-

tion will be automatic; for other telephone number formats, say the punctuation (you might like to experiment a bit).

What You Say Result

Three Five Zero Zero Nine Zero Three

Six Oh Three Three Five Oh Oh Nine Oh Three

350-0903 603-350-0903

What You Say Result

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One Eight Hundred Five Five Five One Two One Two

Open Parenthesis Six Zero Three Close Parenthesis Three

1-800-555-1212

(603) 350-0903

Five Zero Zero Nine Zero Three

One Two One Two Five Five Five Twelve Twelve

Open Parenthesis Oh One Six Two Eight Close

1-212-555-1212

(01628) 894150

Parenthesis Eight Nine Four One Five Oh

Oh Two Seven Space Bar Six Two Nine Space Bar Eight

027 629 8944

Nine Four Four

Six One Hyphen Seven Hyphen Four Six Nine Five

61-7-4695-2055

Hyphen Two Zero Five Five

Dates and times may mostly be spoken normally. For times, the separator is a colon, and this is entered automatically if you say

. Alternatively, say

punctuation explicitly.

What You Say Result

Twenty Two January Nineteen Ninety Nine

22 January 1999

April Nine Comma Two Thousand And One

Fourteen Slash Oh Seven Slash Eighty Five

Three Slash Eleven Slash Zero Two

Three Slash Eleven Slash Two Thousand And Two

April First

March Twenty Second

The Nineteen Eighties

The Nineteen Eighty Apostophe Ess

Seven Forty Five AM

April 9, 2001 14/07/85 3/11/02 3/11/2002 April 1 March 22 the 1980s the 1980's 7:45 AM

What You Say Result

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Three Colon Zero Zero

3:00

Letter Names in Dictation Mode

These are the names of letters that you can say in Dictation mode. (Consider using Spelling mode instead, though, as it is more reliable — because Spelling mode

knows that you are probably saying the name of a letter — and has a wider range of things you can say.)

Letters

In Dictation mode, an individual letter (as opposed to known acronyms and abbreviations) must be entered using the International Radio Alphabet. This is intended primarily for when the letter name is itself a word.

An initial (a capital letter followed by a period) may be entered by saying or

Uppercase

followed by the name of the letter. You can pronounce the letter’s

name normally or use the International Radio Alphabet. Thus, for example, to

Capital

dictate L. M. Montgomery, you can say

Montgomery

. (The

Space Bar

is needed so as to get two separate initials rather

Capital L, Space Bar, Uppercase Mike,

than the acronym LM, as described in the next paragraph.)

An acronym (a series of capital letters without any spaces or periods in between)

may be entered using successive initials. A period will appear after you dictate the rst initial, but it will be removed when you dictate the second initial. Thus, for ex-

ample, to dictate HAL 9000, you can say

Thousand

Capital H, Capital A, Capital L, Nine

Here are the International Radio Alphabet letter names:

What You Say

Alpha

Bravo

Charlie

Delta

Echo

Foxtrot

Golf

Hotel

India

Juliet

Kilo

Lima

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Mike

November

Oscar

Papa

Quebec

Romeo

Sierra

Tango

Uniform

Victor

Whiskey

Xray

Yankee

54Dictation ModeDragon Dictate

What You Say

Zulu

Diacritical Letters

A diacritical letter is a letter with a marking above or below it. (Spelling mode has a wider repertory of diacritical letters and is recommended.)

The following phrases, all involving the International Radio Alphabet, enter diacritical letters in Dictation mode:

What You Say Result

Alpha-Accent-Acute

Alpha-Accent-Circumex

Alpha-Accent-Grave

Alpha-Accent-Tilde; Alpha-Tilde

Alpha-Accent-Umlaut

Alpha-Ring-Above

Charlie-Accent-Cedilla

Echo-Accent-Acute

Echo-Accent-Circumex

Echo-Accent-Grave

Echo-Accent-Umlaut

India-Accent-Acute

India-Accent-Circumex

India-Accent-Grave

á â à ã ä å ç é ê è ë í î ì

India-Accent-Umlaut

What You Say Result

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November-Accent-Tilde

Oscar-Accent-Acute

Oscar-Accent-Circumex

Oscar-Accent-Grave

Oscar-Accent-Tilde; Oscar-Accent-

Tilde

Oscar-Accent-Umlaut

Oscar-Oblique-Stroke

Uniform-Accent-Acute

Uniform-Accent-Circumex

Uniform-Accent-Grave

Uniform-Accent-Umlaut

Yankee-Accent-Acute

Yankee-Accent-Umlaut

ñ ó ô ò

ö ø ú û ù ü ý ÿ

Ligatures and Non-Latin Letters

You can say the following ligatures and non-Latin letters in Dictation mode:

What You Say Result

A E Diphthong; A E Ligature

O E Diphthong; O E Ligature

Eszet; German Sharp S

S With Caron

Icelandic Eth

æ œ ß š ð

What You Say Result

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Icelandic Thorn

Dictionary Denition

You can ask Dragon Dictate to nd the dictionary denition for any word by saying

Show Denition For "Someword."

Mac OS X will launch and display the denition of the requested word. This

command is also available in Command, Numbers, and Spelling modes.

The Dictionary application built into

Document Search

In addition, you can search any document for a word or phrase by saying

Document For "Someword"

want to just bring up the Find dialog, you can simply say can insert the word

mands are also available in Command, Numbers, and Spelling modes.

See pages 101-102 for additional ways to speak document search commands.

The

This

Search Document For "Somephrase."

Search Document.

between

and

Document.

These com-

If you

You

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Auto Formatting

You can tell Dragon Dictate to automatically format addresses, dates and times,

numbers, common abbreviations and contractions, and the number of spaces after a period. Click on Auto Formatting... in the Tools menu to bring up the Auto

Formatting window, which offers several options. The windows to the right show you what will be displayed when a formatting option is checkmarked.

58Auto FormattingDragon Dictate

Addresses

Street Addresses

Dragon Dictate will automatically format postal addresses when this option is

enabled. For example, speaking 49 Orchard Lane, Boston, Massachusetts Oh Two

Four Four Six will produce 49 Orchard Lane, Boston, MA 02446. A separate op-

tion enables automatic formatting of UK and Canadian postcodes, such as W2

4RJ, which would be spoken as W Two Four R J.

tiP. Some addresses, particularly those with a lot of numbers, can be difcult

to interpret. For example, if you say Two Hundred Forty Fifth Street, Dragon Dictate may produce 245th Street, 200 45th Street, or 240 5th Street. The

simple addition of the word And can help produce the right result, so if you

say Two Hundred And Forty Fifth Street, 200 45th Street will be eliminated from the possible choices.

Web and Email Addresses

If you say Name At Nuance Dot Com, Dragon Dictate will produce name@nu-

ance.com. Web site addresses, such as W W W Dot Nuance Dot Com, will also

appear properly; in this case, you will see www.nuance.com on the screen.

Phone Numbers

Dragon Dictate will display properly-formatted phone numbers when you say seven- or ten-digit sequences. For example, Eight Hundred Five Five Five One

Two One Two produces 800-555-1212. (You can also say Eight Zero Zero at the

beginning of the sequence.)

59Auto FormattingDragon Dictate

tiP. Vanity phone numbers, such as 1-800-EXAMPLE, are not supported,

nor is automatic formatting of U.S. phone numbers for UK English users.

Abbreviated Titles

If you say Mister Smith or Missus Smith or Doctor Smith, for example, Dragon

Dictate will produce Mr. Smith or Mrs. Smith or Dr. Smith.

Date & Time

The default in the dropdown menu is Date As Spoken, which produces dates

exactly as you speak them. For example, January 5th 2011 produces January 5,

2011. (You can also say January 5 2011 to display the same result.) From the drop-

down, you can select a variety of other ways to display dates, depending on your preference. For example, setting it to 1/5/2011 produces exactly that when you

say January 5th 2011.

tiP. Omitting the year when you speak produces the month and day as a word and a number, despite the formatting you’ve selected. For example, Janu-

ary 5 (or 5th) produces January 5.

When you say a time, it’s properly formatted if that option is enabled. For example, Three Twenty A M produces 3:20 AM. Without auto-formatting, it would read 320 a.m.

60Auto FormattingDragon Dictate

Numbers

The Use Numerals Before option spells out all numbers equal to or less than the selected value, which is set at 0 as the default. The other choices in the drop- down menu are 2, 10, and 100. For example, if you choose 10, saying Three will

produce three and saying Eleven will produce 11.

If you choose to Partially Format “-illion” Numbers, Dragon Dictate will

display a combination of numbers and text when you speak numbers higher than 999,999. For example, saying Eight Million will produce 8 million instead of

8,000,000.

Prices and Currencies

This option properly displays money amounts. For example, One Dollar and

Thirty Cents will produce $1.30. If the ISO Currency Codes option is checked,

Dragon Dictate will display the proper three-letter code, rather than the currency

symbol.

ISO Code Displayed Currency Spoken Currency Symbol

USD CAD EUR JPY GBP CHF

US Dollar

Canadian Dollar

Euro

Ye n

British Pound

Swiss Franc

€

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Units of Measure

This option properly displays symbols and abbreviations for measurements. For example, Six Feet Three Inches will produce 6’ 3”, and Two Kilometers will produce

2 km. If you want to specify a format for a measurement, open the Vocabulary

Editor in the Tools menu, click the word or abbreviation in the list and click the Information button at the bottom of the window.

Social Security Numbers

Dragon Dictate will display properly-formatted U.S. Social Security numbers when you say nine-digit sequences. For example, speaking One Two Three Four

Five Six Seven Eight Nine produces 123-45-6789.

All Other Numbers

Numbers not covered elsewhere in this section are properly formatted when this option is checkmarked. They include negative numbers, numbers with punctua-

tion, fractions, decimals, and Roman numerals. For example, speaking Roman

Numeral Twenty-Four produces XXIV and Two Point Zero Three produces 2.03.

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Miscellaneous

These nal four options cover other common auto-formatting needs:

Common Abbreviations: Automatically converts words to their common ab- breviations. For example, Versus will produce vs.

Expand Contractions: If this box is checked, spoken contractions will be ex- panded. For example, Haven’t will produce have not. If a contraction could be ambiguous, however, it is always expanded, regardless of how you set this option. For example, It Is Always and It Has Always have two different meanings, so Dragn Dictate won’t display it’s always.

Insert Two Spaces After Period: Automatically inserts two spaces after each period. While this was a common convention when most writing was done with typewriters, today the standard is to use one space after a period, thanks to the proportional fonts found in word processing software.

Allow Pauses in Formatted Phrases: If you pause while speaking a number, Dragon Dictate’s number and phrase formatting will still work together.

63ProofreadingDragon Dictate

Proofreading

Dragon Dictate can read text back to you, whether you want to hear a specic

selection or an entire document. Hearing your text can help you catch mistakes, especially ones that a spelling or grammar checker might miss, and it lets you listen to the ow of your writing, so you can decide where to make changes during editing.

Say Read Document or Read Selection to have Dragon Dictate read the entire

document or the text you’ve selected by highlighting it with your mouse. You

can also say Read the Words [text] to [text] to tell Dragon Dictate to read all the

text from one word through another. You can substitute Proofread for Read and

Through for To. For example, if a sentence says The quick brown fox jumped

over the lazy dog, you can say Read the Words brown to over. You can also in-

struct Dragon Dictate to read a selection that spans multiple sentences.

Say Stop Reading to halt the speech synthesis.

Dragon Dictate uses the text-to-speech capabilities that are built into Mac OS X,

so if you want to change the voice you hear, click on Speech in System Preferences and select Text to Speech. You’ll see a few male and female voices to choose from, but if you select Show More Voices, the list will expand. You will probably want to stick with one of the standard voices, but if you want to have some fun, Mac OS X offers several novelty voices too, such as Bad News and Zarvox. Click the Play

buton to hear a sample.

You can also change your preferred voice’s speaking rate in the Speech preference

pane.

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Spelling Mode

In Spelling mode, you can both spell and give commands. Dragon Dictate will

type individual letters, numbers, and punctuation that you say, unless it recognizes

what you say as a command. If Dragon Dictate doesn’t recognize what you say as

a letter, number, punctuation, or command, nothing happens.

tiP. Spelling mode enables a slightly different set of punctuation marks from

Dictation mode, which can be useful. Spelling mode is also good for typing words that Dictation mode will misinterpret (such as “cap” or “uh”). It is helpful, too, when you want to type a word that Dragon Dictate doesn’t know, or when you want to enter an abbreviation or acronym or URL; but Dictation mode also has ways of entering acronyms, and if you frequently use a word, you should consider adding it to your prole’s vocabulary so that you can say

it in Dictation mode (see “Vocabulary Editor Window”).

In Spelling mode, no automatic spaces are inserted. Contrast Dictation mode,

where automatic spaces are inserted before or after punctuation, as appropriate, and between words. In Spelling mode, you must insert any desired spaces yourself.

To insert a space:

• Say

To remove the letter last typed or to the left of the cursor:

• Say

If you “scratch” and then change your mind, say

Space Bar

Scratch Word

(or

Delete Word

) or

Scratch That

Undo Dictation

(or

Delete Word

What You Can Say in Spelling Mode

the names of Letters and numeraLs. (For letter names, see the next section,

“Letter Names in Spelling Mode.”) To capitalize a letter:

◦

Say

Cap

followed by the name of the letter.

PunCtuation. See “Punctuation.” Commands. All global, key, generated, and application-based commands are

available.

navigation Commands. You can control the insertion point with these Spelling mode commands:

◦

Move Backward(s) NN Letter(s)

and

Move Forward(s) NN Letter(s)

(where “NN” is a number up to 99)

Letter Names in Spelling Mode

65Spelling ModeDragon Dictate

These are the names of letters and numerals that you can say in Spelling mode.

Letters

Letters are lowercase by default. To capitalize a letter:

• Say

To type a letter in Spelling mode:

• Say the name of the letter, e.g. A, B, etc.

• Or, say the International Radio Alphabet name of the letter (listed below).

When saying a plain letter name (as opposed to a diacritical letter, discussed below), you may precede the name of the letter by

Letter Alpha, Letter Bravo

Cap

followed by the name of the letter.

. This can help disambiguate.

Letter

, e.g.

Letter A, Letter B

To repeat a letter (that is, to say a letter that appears twice in succession):

66Spelling ModeDragon Dictate

• You may say the letter name preceded by

Alpha

. (In case of “u”, say

Double Letter U

Double

, e.g.

Double A, Double

to disambiguate from “w”.)

Here are the International Radio Alphabet letter names:

What You Say

Alpha

Bravo

Charlie

Delta

Echo

Foxtrot

Golf

Hotel

India

Juliet

Kilo

Lima

Mike

November

Oscar

Papa

Quebec

Romeo

Sierra

Tango

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What You Say

Uniform

Victor

Whiskey

Xray

Yankee

Zulu

Diacritical Letters

A diacritical letter is a letter with a marking above or below it. To type a diacritical letter in Spelling mode:

• Say the name of the letter (normal or International Radio Alphabet) followed by the name of the diacritical:

• Optionally, in most cases you may say

A-Acute, Alpha-Acute

Accent

between the name of the letter

and the diacritical (even when, strictly speaking, the diacritical is not an accent): for example,

A Accent-Acute, Alpha Accent-Acute

. But you cannot

do this for “Dieresis” or “Ring”.

Not every diacritical is possible, even for every European language. You cannot, for example, say the fourth letter of “Dvořák”. (The best way to type Dvořák’s name with Dragon Dictate would be through a Text Macro command; see “Com-

mands Window.”

Letter Diacriticals

A Acute, Circumex, Grave, Tilde, Umlaut; Dieresis, Ring

C Cedilla

E Acute, Circumex, Grave, Umlaut; Dieresis

I Acute, Circumex, Grave, Umlaut; Dieresis

Letter Diacriticals

N Tilde

O Acute, Circumex, Grave, Tilde, Umlaut; Dieresis, Ring

U Acute, Circumex, Grave, Umlaut; Dieresis

Y Acute, Umlaut; Dieresis

Ligatures and Non-Latin Letters

You can say the following ligatures and non-Latin letters in Spelling mode:

What You Say Result

68Spelling ModeDragon Dictate

A E Diphthong; A E Ligature; Ligature A E

O Slash

O E Diphthong; O E Ligature; Ligature O E

Eszet; Sharp S; German Sharp; German Sharp S

S Wedge

Icelandic Eth

Icelandic Thorn

æ ø œ ß š ð þ

Numerals

Numerals are individual digits. To type a digit in Spelling mode:

• Say the name of the digit, e.g.

• Or, say

Numeral One

Numeral

followed by the name of the digit, e.g.

, etc. (Do not say

Some numeric symbols are discussed as punctuation; see “Punctuation.”

Zero, One

Number

, etc.

Numeral Zero

, which signies the hash sign, “#”.)

69Numbers ModeDragon Dictate

Numbers Mode

In Numbers mode, Dragon Dictate will type Arabic numerals when you say them, such 80 when you say Eighty. It will also recognize certain punctuation marks, some commands, and a few words. You can say Numbers Mode to switch to it, or

you can choose it under the Speech menu or in the Dock menu.

tiP. Numbers mode, when used in conjunction with certain Auto Formatting options, is most useful when you need to dictate strings of numbers, such as

phone numbers for a contact list or prices for a product list.

As in Spelling mode, no automatic spaces are inserted in Numbers mode. You

must insert spaces yourself. If you don’t, Dragon Dictate may combine separate

smaller numbers into a single larger one.

To insert a space:

• Say

To remove the number last typed or to the left of the cursor:

• Say

If you

See “Punctuation.” for the punctuation marks that are available in Numbers mode.

Here are the words Numbers mode recognizes:

What You Say

And

Billion

Space Bar

Scratch Number

Scratch

and then change your mind, say

(or

Delete Number

Scratch That

Undo Dictation

What You Say

Cent/Cents

Dollar/Dollars

Euro/Euros

Hundred

Million

Minus

Pence

Thousand

Trillion

70Numbers ModeDragon Dictate

71PunctuationDragon Dictate

Punctuation

In Dictation mode, Spelling mode, and Numbers mode, you can say the names of punctuation marks that Dragon Dictate should type. This chapter lists the names

of these symbols. These names are listed also in the Available Commands window (and, for Dictation mode, in the Vocabulary Editor window).

There are some broad differences between saying a punctuation mark in Dictation

mode and saying it in Spelling or Numbers mode.

In Dictation mode, Dragon Dictate will attempt to insert intelligent automatic spacing. (For example, it will probably put a space before “open quote” and after “close

quote”.) You may be able to prevent this by switching

control, use Spelling mode.

In Spelling and Numbers modes, on the other hand, Dragon Dictate types the

symbol and that’s all. Also, Spelling mode has a larger repertory of punctuation marks (and of things you can say to type them).

After you’ve dictated text, you can go back and add punctuation around a word or group of words with a feature called Surround the Word. You can specify a single word, selected text, or a specic series of words, such as “and of things you can say to type them.” For example, you can say

Words open quote

them

With Surround the Word, you can add quotes, double quotes, parentheses, brackets, curly brackets, angle brackets, braces, Spanish exclamation marks, and Span-

ish question marks.

, or

Put Parentheses Around the Words and Through

Put Double Quotes Around the

No Space

on. But for nest

sPaCes

What You Say Result Mode Comments

72PunctuationDragon Dictate

Space Bar

No-Break Space; Non-Breakable Space;

Unbreakable Space

New Line; Next Line

New Paragraph; Next Paragraph

Tab Key

All three Space character

Spelling

Dictation,

Single return character

Numbers Dictation,

Double return character

Numbers Dictation,

Tab character

Numbers

stoPs

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Period

Full Stop; Dot

Period Paragraph

. .

All three US dialect only

All three

Dictation,

Numbers

Full stop followed by double return

character

Exclamation Mark

Exclamation Point

Inverted Exclamation Point

Inverted Exclamation Mark

Question Mark

Inverted Question Mark

! !

All three

All three US dialect only

Dictation,

Spelling

¡ ?

Spelling

All three

Dictation,

Spelling

Pauses and Joins

What You Say Result Mode Comments

73PunctuationDragon Dictate

Hyphen

Soft Hyphen

Comma

Semicolon

Colon; Colon Mark (Dictation and

Numbers modes only)

Center Dot; Middle Dot (Spelling

mode only)

Dash

Em-Dash

En-Dash

Em-Dash

, ;

---

-—

All three

Spelling

All three

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation Three hyphens

Dictation Two hyphens

Spelling Unicode 8212, a true em-dash

No space before or after in Dicta-

tion mode

Unicode 173, optional hyphen (not

every application interprets this

correctly)

Two hyphens

En-Dash

–

Spelling Unicode 8211, a true en-dash

aPostroPhe and quotes

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Apostrophe

Apostrophe-Ess

Open Single Quote; Begin Single Quote

‘

Dictation,

Spelling Dictation,

Spelling

Spelling Left curly single quote

Straight apostrophe (no pre-

ceding space)

Straight apostrophe

What You Say Result Mode Comments

74PunctuationDragon Dictate

Close Single Quote; End Single Quote

Single Quote

Open Single Quote; Begin Single Quote

Close Single Quote; End Single Quote

Open Quote; Begin Quote

Close Quote; End Quote

Quote; Quotation Marks

Open Quote; Open Quotes; Begin

Quote; Begin Quotes; Open Double

Quote; Open Double Quotes; Begin

Double Quote; Begin Double Quotes

Close Quote; Close Quotes; End Quote;

End Quotes; Close Double Quote; Close

Double Quotes; End Double Quote;

’ '

“ ” "

Spelling Right curly single quote

Spelling Straight single quote

Straight single quote (preced-

Dictation

ing space) Straight single quote (no pre-

Dictation

ceding space, like apostrophe)

Spelling Left curly double quote

Spelling Right curly double quote

Spelling Straight double quote

Straight double quote (preced-

Dictation

ing space)

Straight double quote (no pre-

Dictation

ceding space)

End Double Quotes

Open Euro Quote; Open Euro Quotes

Close Euro Quote; Close Euro Quotes

Begin Angle Quote; Begin Angle

Quotes; Open Angle Quote; Open

Angle Quotes

End Angle Quote; End Angle Quotes;

Close Angle Quote; Close Angle Quotes

Dictation,

Spelling Dictation,

Spelling

enCLosures

What You Say Result Mode Comments

75PunctuationDragon Dictate

Open Paren; Left Paren; Open

Parenthesis; Left Parenthesis

Close Paren; Right Paren; Close

Parenthesis; Right parenthesis

Open Bracket; Left Bracket

Close Bracket; Right Bracket

Open Bracket; Left Bracket

Close Bracket; Right Bracket

Open Square Bracket; Left Square

Bracket

Close Square Bracket; Right Square

Bracket

Open Brace; Left Brace; Open Curly

Brace; Left Curly Brace; Open Curly

Bracket; Left Curly Bracket

(

)

(

)

[

]

All three

Dictation,

Non-US dialects, like parenthesis

Spelling Dictation,

Non-US dialects, like parenthesis

Spelling Dictation,

US dialect, like square bracket

Spelling Dictation,

US dialect, like square bracket

Spelling

Dictation,

[

Spelling

Dictation,

]

Spelling

Dictation,

{

Spelling

Close Brace; Right Brace; Close

Curly Brace; Right Curly Brace;

Close Curly Bracket; Right Curly

Bracket

Open Angle Bracket; Left Angle

Bracket

}

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation

What You Say Result Mode Comments

76PunctuationDragon Dictate

Close Angle Bracket; Right Angle

Bracket

Open Angle Bracket; Left Angle

‹

Bracket

Close Angle Bracket; Right Angle

›

Bracket

Dictation

Spelling Unicode 8249, left angle quote

Spelling Unicode 8250, right angle quote

money

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Cents Sign; Cent (Spelling mode only)

Dollar Sign; Dollar (Spelling mode only)

Sterling Sign; Sterling

Pound Sterling Sign

£ £

Dictation,

Spelling Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation US dialect

Pound Sign

Yen Sign; Yen (Spelling mode only)

Euro Sign; Euro (Spelling mode only)

Guilder Sign; Guilder (Spelling mode only)

Dictation,

Spelling Dictation,

Non-US dialects

Spelling Dictation,

€

Spelling Dictation,

Spelling

arithmetiC

What You Say Result Mode Comments

77PunctuationDragon Dictate

Equals Sign; Equal (Spelling mode only)

Plus Sign; Plus (Spelling mode only)

Minus Sign

Plus or Minus Sign; Plus or Minus (Spelling mode

only)

Plus Minus Sign; Plus Minus

Multiplication Sign

Multiply Sign; Multiply; Times sign; Times

Division Sign

Divide Sign; Divide

Less Than Sign; Less Than (Spelling mode only)

Greater Than Sign; Greater Than (Spelling mode

only)

± × ×

Dictation,

Spelling

All three

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Percent Sign; Percent (Spelling mode only)

Point

Logical Not Sign; Logical Not (Spelling mode only)

Not Sign; Not

Superscript One

Superscript Two

All three

Dictation,

Spelling Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling Dictation,

Spelling

What You Say Result Mode Comments

78PunctuationDragon Dictate

Squared; Square

Superscript Three

Cubed; Cube

One-Half Sign

Half Sign; Half; One Half

One-Quarter Sign

Quarter Sign; Quarter; One Quarter

Three Quarters Sign

Three Quarters

oCtothorPe

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Pound Sign; Pound (Spelling mode only)

Number Sign; Number (Spelling mode

only)

Hash Sign; Hash (Spelling mode only);

Hash Mark (Spelling mode only)

Sharp Sign; Sharp (Spelling mode only)

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

US dialect only

In Dictation mode, works

only in non-US dialects

In Dictation mode, works

only in non-US dialects

other Common symboLs

What You Say Result Mode Comments

79PunctuationDragon Dictate

Ampersand; And-Sign; Ampersand Sign (Spelling

mode only)

Asterisk; Star (Spelling mode only)

At Sign; At (Spelling mode only)

Backslash

Backquote; Backtick (Dictation mode only)

Caret; Hat (Spelling mode only)

Dicta-

tion,

Spelling

All three

Dicta-

tion,

Spelling Dicta-

tion,

Spelling Dicta-

tion,

Spelling Dicta-

tion,

Spelling Dicta-

Degree Sign; Degree (Spelling mode only)

Ellipsis; Dot-Dot-Dot

Ellipsis

...

…

tion,

Spelling Dicta-

tion,

Spelling Dicta-

tion,

Numbers

Spelling

Three dots

Unicode 8230, true

ellipsis mark

What You Say Result Mode Comments

80PunctuationDragon Dictate

Forward Slash; Slash

Large Center Dot

Logical And

Logical Or

Optional Ess

Paragraph Sign; Paragraph (Spelling mode only)

Registered Sign; Registered (Spelling mode only)

Registered Trademark Sign; Registered Trademark

Section Sign; Section (Spelling mode only)

•

&& || (s)

All three

Unicode 8226, bul-

Dictation

let

Dictation

Dicta-

tion,

Spelling Dicta-

tion,

Spelling

Dicta-

tion,

Spelling Dicta-

Tilde

Trademark Sign; Trademark (Spelling mode only)

Underscore

Vertical Bar; Bar (Spelling mode only)

™

tion,

Spelling Dicta-

tion,

Spelling

All three

Dicta-

tion,

Spelling

rarities

What You Say Result Mode Comments

81PunctuationDragon Dictate

Alternate Comma

Angstrom

Broken Vertical Bar

Dagger

Single Dagger Sign

Double Comma

Double Dagger

Double Dagger Sign

Feminine Ordinal

Feminine Ordinal Sign

Macron Sign; Macron

(Spelling mode only)

Masculine Ordinal

Greek Mu

‚ å ¦ † †

„

‡ ‡ ª ª

Spelling Unicode 8218, lowered single quote

Spelling

Dictation

Dictation,

Unicode 8222, lowered double quote

Spelling

Dictation

Spelling

Dictation

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Micro

Micron; Micro Sign

Per Thousand; Permille

Permille Sign

µ µ ‰ ‰

Spelling

Dictation

Spelling

Dictation

smiLies

What You Say Result Mode Comments

82PunctuationDragon Dictate

Smiley Face; Smiley

Frowny Face; Frowny

Winky Face; Winky

Laughing Face

Winky Laughing Face

:-) :-( ;-) :oD ;oD

Dictation

surround the Word

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Put Quotes Around

the Word/Selection/

Words X Through Y

Put Double Quotes

Around the Word/

Selection/Words X

Through Y

“text”

Dictation

Put Quotation Marks

Around the Word/

Selection/Words X

Through Y

Put Single Quotes

Around the Word/

Selection/Words X

Through Y

“text”

‘text’

Dictation

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Put Straight Quotes

83PunctuationDragon Dictate

Around the Word/

Selection/Words X

Through Y

Put Single Straight

Quotes Around the

Word/Selection/

Words X Through Y

Put Parentheses

Around the Word/

Selection/Words X

Through Y

Put Curly Brackets

Around the Word/

Selection/Words X

Through Y

Put Braces Around

"text"

'text'

(text)

{text}

Dictation

the Word/Selection/

Words X Through Y

Put Curly Braces

Around the Word/

Selection/Words X

Through Y

Put Square Brackets

Around the Word/

Selection/Words X

Through Y

{text}

[text]

Dictation

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Put Brackets Around

84PunctuationDragon Dictate

the Word/Selection/

Words X Through Y

Put Angle Brackets

Around the Word/

Selection/Words X

Through Y

Put Spanish

Exclamation Marks

Around the Word/

Selection/Words X

Through Y

Put Spanish Question

Marks Around the

Word/Selection/

Words X Through Y

[text]

<text>

¡text!

¿text?

Dictation

85Mouse ControlDragon Dictate

Mouse Control

Dragon Dictate allows you to move your cursor in Command mode. You can simply move your cursor by issuing commands, or you can say

MouseGrid

numbers one through nine. With the mouse grid on the screen, speak the number you want to focus on. A new three-by-three grid will appear in that spot. You can repeat the process, but when the desired area becomes too small to display a grid, you will see a magnication window.

Say

Small MouseGrid

small mouse grid centered around the pointer’s current location. You can speak

Small MouseGrid

tion; the mouse will be located in grid panel 5. Say

to summon a transparent three-by-three full-screen grid with the

Open Small MouseGrid

to summon the small grid at the mouse pointer’s current loca-

to start the process with a

Cancel

MouseGrid

to remove the grid.

Open

86Mouse ControlDragon Dictate

When the MouseGrid becomes too small to display numbers, you’ll see

this.

To move your mouse pointer without using the mouse grid, say add the desired direction:

nation of directions, such as

Up, Down

, Left, or Right. You can also add a combi-

Left and Up, and you can append 1-100 units

of measurement -- Points, Centimeters, or Inches -- after the direction

And the magnication window will appear to show what you’re focused

on.

Move Mouse

and

. (For example: Move Mouse Right and Down Two Inches.) Say Faster or Slower to change the mouse speed; you can repeat the command to make it move even faster

or slower. Mouse movement has three levels of speed. Say Stop to end mouse

movement.

When you have your mouse pointer in the desired spot, you can say Mouse Click,

Mouse Double Click, or Mouse Triple Click. Before those words, you can also say

any combination of Command, Option, Shift, Control, or Caps Lock, enabling

you to use those keys in conjunction with a single, double, or triple mouse click.

Say Hold Mouse when you want to click and hold the mouse pointer; a ashing circle appears around it to indicate that status. Say Release Mouse to disengage the mouse.

By issuing voice commands to click and hold the mouse, and then move it, you can

highlight sections of text, drag and drop les and folders, and more.

87Mouse ControlDragon Dictate

You can change the mouse grid’s appearance in the Appearance Preferences pane under the Dictate menu. You can modify its level of transparency and change its color, along with the color displayed when you say Hold Mouse. In addition, you can decide whether Dragon Dictate automatically switches to Command mode when you invoke the MouseGrid, and you can enable or disable zoom, which turns on and off the magnication window that appears when the mouse grid be-

comes too small to display numbers.

Mouse Commands

[Open] MouseGrid

[Open] Small MouseGrid

Cancel

[Modifer(s)] Press Mouse or Hold Mouse

[Modier(s)] Mouse Click or [Modier(s)] Mouse Double

Click or [Modier(s)] Mouse Triple Click

Release Mouse

Move Mouse (Direction) [1-100 Points/Centimeters/Inches]

Stop

Slower

Faster

Commands

To learn what commands are available at any moment, use the Available

Commands window. See “Available Commands Window.”

Commands may be edited — modied, created, activated and deactivated, and deleted — in the Commands window. See “Commands Window.”

Commands come in six categories:

mode-based Commands. Individual modes may have commands built into

88CommandsDragon Dictate

them. For example, say in Dictation mode only. For more information, see the discussion of each mode.

WindoW-based Commands. Some commands become available only when a certain window is open. For example, from the Recognition window into your document, is available only when the Recognition window is open. See “Recognition Window.”

gLobaL Commands. Some commands are global, meaning that they are al-

ways available (except in Sleep mode). See “Global Commands.”

Key Commands. Key commands are global commands that let you say the

names of keyboard keys or modier-key combinations for Dragon Dictate to

type. See “Key Commands.” generated Commands. Dragon Dictate, as it starts up, will optionally gener-

ate additional global commands that let you launch applications or create an email message addressed to someone in your Address Book. See “Generated

Commands.”

Capitalize the Word “Valley”

Pick 2

, to insert the second alternative

is something you can

aPPLiCation-based Commands. Some commands become available only

when a certain application is frontmost. For example, you can say

Send

Nuance ScanSoft Dragon Dictate - 2.5 User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Introduction

Initial Installation

Microphone Setup

Voice Training

Interface

Using the Dragon Remote App as a Microphone

Setting Up the Dragon Remote App

The Status Window

The Available Commands Window

The Dock Menu

The Status Menu Item

Keyboard Shortcuts

Speech

Modes and the Microphone

Sleep Mode

Learning and Switching Modes

Dictation Mode

What You Can Say in Dictation Mode

Navigation and Editing Commands

Capitalization, Spacing, and Numbers

Title Case

Uppercase

Lowercase

Spaces

Numbers

Letter Names in Dictation Mode

Letters

Diacritical Letters

Ligatures and Non-Latin Letters

Document Search

Auto Formatting

Addresses

Street Addresses

Web and Email Addresses

Phone Numbers

Abbreviated Titles

Date & Time

Numbers

Prices and Currencies

Units of Measure

Social Security Numbers

All Other Numbers

Miscellaneous

Proofreading

Spelling Mode

What You Can Say in Spelling Mode

Letter Names in Spelling Mode

Letters

Diacritical Letters

Ligatures and Non-Latin Letters

Numerals

Numbers Mode

Punctuation

Mouse Control

Commands