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Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Installation 2

Minimum System Requirements 2

Microphone Requirements 3

Initial Installation 3

Enabling Accessibility 5

Creating a Proﬁ le 7

Microphone Setup 11

Voice Training 13

Transcription Training 19

Giving Dragon Access to Your Email Contacts 22

Interface 24

The Proﬁ les Window 24

The Status Window 24

The Available Commands Window 25

The Dock Menu 25

The Status Menu Item 26

Keyboard Shortcuts 26

Using the Dragon or Android Remote App as a Microphone 28

Setting Up the Dragon Remote App 29

Speech 34

Modes and the Microphone 35

Microphone Oﬀ and On 36

Sleep Mode 37

Learning and Switching Modes 39

Dictation Mode 40

What You Can Say in Dictation Mode 40

Navigation and Editing Commands 42

Capitalization, Spacing, and Numbers 44

Title Case 44

Uppercase 45

Lowercase 45

Spaces 46

Numbers 46

Letter Names in Dictation Mode 50

Letters 51

Diacritical Letters 52

Ligatures and Non-Latin Letters 54

Dictionary Deﬁ nition 54

Document Search 54

Spelling Mode 55

What You Can Say in Spelling Mode 55

Letter Names in Spelling Mode 56

Letters 56

Diacritical Letters 58

Ligatures and Non-Latin Letters 58

Numerals 59

Punctuation 60

Commands 73

Global Commands 74

Correction Process 81

Auto Formatting 84

Smart Formatting Rules 85

Addresses 86

Street Addresses 86

Web and Email Addresses 87

Phone Numbers 87

Abbreviated Titles 88

Date & Time 88

Numbers 89

Prices and Currencies 89

Units of Measure 89

Social Security Numbers 90

All Other Numbers 90

Miscellaneous 91

Express Editor Window 92

Proofreading 94

Numbers Mode 95

Mouse Control 97

Transcription 100

Voice Shortcuts 103

The Web 100 Commands 104

Rich Internet Application Extensions 104

RIA and Browser-Based Email 107

Key Commands 107

How to Say a Key Command 108

Generated Commands 109

Launching Applications 109

Email Messages 110

Application-Based Commands 111

Dragon Dictate Commands 112

Finder Commands 116

TextEdit Commands 122

Safari Commands 128

Mail Commands 135

Messages Commands 146

Calendar Commands 146

Windows 152

Note Pad Window 152

Proﬁ les Window 154

Commands Window 156

Facebook/Twitter Commands 158

Command Types 161

Creating a Command 162

Vocabulary Editor Window 164

Microphone Setup Window 167

Voice Training Window 168

Vocabulary Training Window 169

Status Window 171

Available Commands Window 173

Recognition Window 174

How to Train 177

Preferences Window 178

General Preferences pane 178

Appearance Preferences pane 179

Dictation Preferences pane 181

Recognition Preferences pane 181

Command Preferences pane 183

Shortcuts Preferences pane 183

Sharing Preferences pane 184

Menus 185

Dictate Menu 185

File Menu 185

Edit Menu 187

Speech Menu 187

Tools Menu 188

Format Menu 188

Window Menu 189

Help Menu 190

Introduction

Dragon Dictate is a speech recognition application. You can use your voice to create content and control your computer.

— It can interpret your words as a command, in which case it will obey the command.

For example, you can tell Safari to select a link in the text of a page you’re viewing, by saying if you had clicked that link with the mouse, by saying

Click

— 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 example, you can place the insertion point at the start of a new empty word processing document and say

Good morning, period, and Dragon Dictate will type: Good morning. You can

also ask Dragon Dictate to read your words back to you by saying Read Document, by selecting text and saying Read Selection, or by telling Dragon Dictate to read from one word through another.

— It can transcribe the speech in an audio ﬁ le and produce a text document

containing what was said. For example, you can speak ideas or notes into a digital audio recorder or smartphone while away from your Mac and transcribe the recording with Dragon Dictate when you return.

Move to Next Link; then you can tell Safari to go to the linked page, as

Jump to This Link or Mouse

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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, ﬂ exible vocabulary. To obey your commands or type your dictation, Dragon Dictate uses a combination of technologies built into OS X, such as Accessibility and AppleScript.

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.

— 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

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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 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 a number of 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 interpretation of what you said and improving its ability to interpret your speech correctly in the future.

Installation

Before you can use Dragon Dictate, you must have two kinds of hardware that conform to its requirements: your computer, and an audio source: a microphone for dicating and a device for recording audio to be transcribed, if you wish to use that feature. You can transcribe audio from ﬁ les in the mp3, mp4, wav, aif, aiff, m4v, and m4a formats.

Minimum System Requirements

— OS X 10.8.3 or 10.9

— 4GB of RAM

— 3GB of disk space

Microphone Requirements

— You can use a USB or Bluetooth microphone, the internal microphone of your Mac,

or an iOS or Android device running the Dragon Remote Microphone app. Ideally, the microphone should be of high quality, with noise-cancelling abilities and should be on the list of microphones certiﬁ ed and supported by Nuance. You can ﬁ nd a list at the Nuance web site.

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— To learn how to set up your iOS or Android device as a microphone, see

“Using the

Dragon Remote App as a Microphone.”

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.

Initial Installation

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

¨ Your microphone is connected to your computer, you have the Dragon Remote

Microphone app for an iOS or Android device, or you’ve decided to try the internal microphone of your Mac.

¨ Your computer is connected to the Internet. You will need an Internet connection in

order to enter your serial number and license your copy of Dragon Dictate.

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

If you purchased the software in a box, insert the included DVD into your Mac. If you purchased the software as a digital download, locate the disk image ﬁ le and double-click it.

A new window will open. You’ll see an icon named Install Dragon Dictate in the window — double-click it to begin the installation process. The Dragon Dictate Installer will walk you through the process. Click Continue to advance to the next step or Go Back to return to the previous one

When you arrive at the Installation Type step, we recommend that you use the standard installation, although you can click the Customize button to determine which elements you want to install. If you decide to stay with the standard installation after all, click Standard Install to return to it.

Custom install allows you to opt out of the Web Plug-Ins. See “Rich Internet Application Extensions” later in this manual.

After you click Install, the installation process will begin; you will need to enter your administrator password to give the installer access to place ﬁ les on your Mac.

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When the installation process ﬁ nishes, go to the Finder, click on Applications on the left side of the window, and ﬁ nd Dragon Dictate. Double-click it to launch the software.

After you click Accept in the License Agreement window, Dragon Dictate asks for the serial number you received when you purchased the software. (You can copy it (Command-C) from its source, click in the ﬁ rst ﬁ eld next to Serial Number, and paste it (Command-V) without having to retype it.) If you can’t enter it right away, click Trial. You can launch Dragon Dictate up to 5 additional times after the initial launch before you must enter a serial number. (The Trial button keeps track of your remaining launches.)

The Registration dialog.

Dragon Dictate’s installation is now complete, but you may need to tell OS X to allow the software to control your Mac, as explained in the next section.

Enabling Accessibility

The ﬁ rst time you launch Dragon Dictate, you may see a dialog box with one of these messages, depending on the version of OS X you’re using:

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You’ll see this in OS X 10.8

You’ll see this in OS X 10.9

In OS X 10.8, click Open System Preferences and open the Accessibility pane. Click the checkbox next to “Enable access for assistive devices,” as shown:

Note: You will be asked for your administrator password.

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In OS X 10.9, click Quit. You will see this dialog box under the ﬁ rst one. Click Open System Preferences.

If you click Deny, you will still be able to give Dragon Dictate control of your Mac by opening System Preferences. (Click on it in the Dock or choose the Apple menu at the top left of the screen and click System Preferences.)

System Preferences will open and display the Security & Privacy pane. Click the lock in the bottom left and enter your adminstrator password. Then click the checkbox next to Dragon Dictate, as shown:

After you have enabled accessibility in either OS X 10.8 or 10.9, you will proceed to the Proﬁ les window, where you may need to create a proﬁ le, as explained in the next section.

Creating a Proﬁ le

In order to use Dragon Dictate, you need a proﬁ le. If you have installed the software for the ﬁ rst time, you will have no proﬁ le. Therefore, Dragon Dictate immediately offers to create one after you have registered the software.

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A proﬁ le is a complete set of data on how you speak: what your voice sounds like, and what vocabulary you use. In order to speak into Dragon Dictate, you must have at least one proﬁ le.

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

Every proﬁ le has a name, which uniquely identiﬁ es it. When you create a proﬁ le, you start by giving it a name.

The ﬁ rst time you use Dragon Dictate, you will be prompted to create a new proﬁ le. If you previously used MacSpeech Dictate, the proﬁ 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 proﬁ le name or clicking the “Upgrade” button in the bottom right corner of the window. Proﬁ les that have not been upgraded

have a warning icon next to the proﬁ le name:

. A proﬁ le without a connected audio

source displays a lightning bolt inside a triangle: . Please note that you can’t upgrade a proﬁ le that has a missing audio source.

Any commands and vocabulary you previously added to a proﬁ le will be preserved when you begin the upgrade process, which cannot be undone. After the software updates the older proﬁ 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.

When you create a new proﬁ le, you begin the Proﬁ le Enrollment process. The ﬁ rst step involves giving your proﬁ le a name.

The Proﬁ le Enrollment process. Give your new proﬁ le a name and click Next.

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The next step in the Proﬁ le Enrollment process involves choosing and naming your audio source.

Click the dropdown next to Microphone to select an audio source, then enter a name in the ﬁ eld below. If you want to see the microphones connected to your Mac, click Sound Input Preferences..., which will open the Sound pane in OS X System Preferences.

You can also click the radio button next to Transcription and enter the name of the device that you will use for recorded speech ﬁ les, such as a smartphone or digital voice recorder. When you do so, you will skip microphone setup and voice training and train an audio source for transcription.

At a minimum, you must enter a name for your audio source before you can click Next and continue. If you don’t have an audio source or an iOS or Android device that you can use with the Dragon Remote Microphone app, you can use your Mac’s internal microphone. If you want to use another audio source later, you can simply add it to your proﬁ le by clicking the plus (+) sign next to Dictation under Audio Sources in the Proﬁ les window. You would name the audio source, click Continue, and follow the process explained in Microphone Setup.

When setting up a proﬁ le for the ﬁ rst time, continue with Region and Accent:

Choose from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and Singapore. The selected region determines spellings and word usage, along with some auto-formatting.

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Choose from American, American - Inland Northern, American - Southern, American - Teens, Australian, British, Indian, Latino, and Southest Asian. Your selection helps Dragon Dictate improve its accuracy.

Click Next after making each selection. You will then be prompted to save your new proﬁ le. By default, it’s saved in the Documents folder. You can click the dropdown next to Where to select another location; click the down arrow to the right of the Save As ﬁ eld to navigate to a folder if it doesn’t show up in the dropdown list.

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Finding a place to save a proﬁ le after clicking the

down arrow to the right of the Save As ﬁ eld.

After you ﬁ nish setting up your proﬁ le, Dragon Dictate creates it; a progress dialog shows you that the software is working on it.

While creating a proﬁ le, Dragon Dialog puts up a progress dialog.

After you create a proﬁ le, Dragon Dictate automatically proceeds to microphone setup, unless you chose a transcription audio source instead of a dictation microphone, in which case you should skip ahead to “Transcription Training” for an explanation of the process.

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.

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 the 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.

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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 proﬁ le.

The Microphone Setup window is where you adjust your sound input level. To begin, click the microphone icon with the red “stop sign.”

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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.

Read aloud the paragraph displayed in the box in the Microphone Setup window. As you read, Dragon Dictate will adjust your microphone’s 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 Dictate 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 level; 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. To use the Manual Gain Setting, click the Microphone icon, and slowly slide the slider to the right while speaking until you see the window that says “Finished.” Dictate will play back the last few seconds of your speech.

In the next window, click the left-arrow button at the lower right to return to the previous window, if you think there might have been a problem with your microphone and you would like to train it again. (See “Sound Input Troubleshooting” for tips on diagnosing sound input problems.) Otherwise, click Voice Training... to continue.

Dragon Dictate has adjusted your microphone sound input level. If you’re creating a proﬁ le, click Voice Training to proceed.

The next step in creating a proﬁ 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.

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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 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.

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 proﬁ le. This is why you need a different proﬁ le for each different person.

“Tips on Speaking” section

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 proceed.

When you do voice training in an existing proﬁ le, you are shown a window where you can select from among four stories to read from; stories you’ve previously read are marked with a “green circle” icon. But when you ﬁ rst create a proﬁ le, the ﬁ 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.

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Next, Dragon Dictate presents a window in which you can choose one of four training stories to read. Each is geared toward different types of users. Click the one that best suits your needs and click the right arrow to continue.

The Voice Training window in which you select the story that best suits your needs.

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In the next window, the microphone is off, as signiﬁ ed by a red “stop sign” icon, and training will not begin until you click the icon.

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 signiﬁ es its understanding by turning 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 happens, you need to read the (the same text remains

red), you can click Skip Word to proceed past that text. If you feel

red text again. If Dragon Dictate still doesn’t understand

red. If this

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.

Warning. The speech recognition engine has no experience with your voice to build on during the ﬁ rst few pages of a new proﬁ 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: “Hi. Carolyn. Here are some. New tips. To post on our website.” After the ﬁ rst couple of pages, you will ﬁ nd that you can start speaking much more naturally.

The ﬁ rst page of the Voice Training story for a new proﬁ le. This is the sales-oriented training story. The ﬁ rst few words have been read and have turned green.

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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 ﬁ rst Voice Training story. You can tell the story is nearly ﬁ 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 ﬁ 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 proﬁ le. (Actually, this might happen in the middle of the last page, or an earlier page, if Dragon Dictate feels it has sufﬁ cient data.)

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Dragon Dictate analyzes your reading of the story and feeds the analysis into your proﬁ le. Be patient while processing proceeds.

Please note that Dragon Dictate’s analysis of your reading of the story is extremely calculation-intensive and can take a long time (possibly as long as it took you to read the story). We recommend that you do not do anything else with your computer while this is happening. Do not force quit Dragon Dictate (doing so may ruin your proﬁ le).

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, reﬁ ning the way you speak, and improving recognition through Recognition Training. Most users do not ﬁ nd it necessary to do any Voice Training beyond the ﬁ rst story.

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

Analysis of your reading is complete. Click Tutorial to proceed, or click the personalizing the vocabulary or What’s new in Dictate 3.5 links to learn more.

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If you have just completed the ﬁ rst Voice Training of your ﬁ rst proﬁ le, Dragon Dictate presents the Welcome screen of the Interactive Tutorial. This tutorial walks you through the features you need to be aware of before you begin using the software for the ﬁ rst time. It includes some simple hands-on exercises.

The Welcome to the Interactive Tutorial window. Click Next to begin.

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The Interactive Tutorial provides simulations that get you familiar with the basic functions found in Dragon Dictate, including good dictation habits, how to make corrections with your voice, how to add words to the software’s vocabulary with Spelling mode, and more. We strongly recommend that you complete all the exercises so you are ready to begin using Dragon Dictate when you are done.

After you complete the Interactive Tutorial, you return to your working, active proﬁ le. 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 ﬁ rst time and are curious about where its parts were installed, read

“What’s Installed Where.”

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

You can also change the images associated with your proﬁ les. In the Proﬁ les window, click the image to the left of a proﬁ 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 or Messages user images as well as images associated with your OS X account. You can also click “Choose…” to ﬁ nd an image located elsewhere on your Mac, or you can click the camera icon to use your Mac’s built-in iSight or FaceTime camera, or another camera connected to your computer, to snap a photo of yourself.

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 satisﬁ ed, click “Set” to use it, or click “Cancel” if you’d rather return to the image you’re currently using.

Transcription Training

If you decide to train a transcription audio source ﬁ rst, rather than a dictation micro- phone, or if you later need to add a transcription audio source to your proﬁ le, you’ll have to supply an audio ﬁ le that’s at least 90 seconds long, without signiﬁ cant gaps of silence.

The ﬁ le needs to be in the aif, aiff, m4a, m4v, mp3, mp4, or wav format. It should have been dictated into an iPhone (3G or later), iPod touch (4th generation or later), iPad, Android or other smartphone -- or any other digital recording device, or into a computer microphone.

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Note that if you don’t train an audio source while creating a proﬁ le and you later click Transcription... in the Tools menu, you will automatically be asked to supply an audio ﬁ le that’s at least 90 seconds long for training.

A dialog will open and ask you to ﬁ nd the audio ﬁ le you want to use for training. Select it and click Open. The Transcription Training window will open; a transcription of the audio will begin appearing and a progress bar at the bottom will let you know when it is done.

When it’s ﬁ nished, you can click anywhere in the text, which will cause the phrase to become highlighted, with a dialog box pointing at it. In that dialog box, you can choose to ignore or accept the text, with the option to click the triangular play button to hear it played back. You can also type in the text box to change the text, if it was analyzed incorrectly; doing so helps train Dragon Dictate for future transcriptions.

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Notice that as you accept text for transcription training, Dragon Dictate keeps track of the 60 seconds of accepted text that it needs to perform the necessary training. The text turns green as you accept it, the same way the text turns green as you read the initial training story when you set up your proﬁ le, and when you have accepted enough text, the bottom of the training window says “You can Train at any time,” with a Train button to the right.

You will see the following progress bar after you click the Train button:

When Dragon Dictate has ﬁ nished training, it begins transcribing the ﬁ le into a new Note Pad window. When transcription has ﬁ nished, a dialog appears asking if you want to go to the Proﬁ les window to select another proﬁ le or audio source, transcribe another audio ﬁ le, or edit your transcription results. If you decide to open the Proﬁ les window or transcribe another audipo ﬁ le, your transcription results will still be in the open Note Pad window, so you can return to work with it further or copy and paste it into another application.

Your audio source is now trained to work with the current proﬁ le. You can add more transcription audio sources any time through the Proﬁ les window.

Giving Dragon Access to Your Email Contacts

The ﬁ rst time you launch Dragon Dictate, a dialog will appear that says Dragon Dictate would like to access your contacts. Click OK to allow Dragon to access your email

contacts for use with such generated commands as Send an Email To XXX or Create a

Note For XXX, where “XXX” is the primary addressee. See “Generated Commands.” to

learn more.

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After clicking OK, you still need to check the box next to Generate Email Commands in the Preference window’s Command pane.

If you click Don’t Allow, you won’t be able to use those commands. If you decide later that you want to allow Dragon access to your email contacts, open System Preferences

in OS X and click on Security & Privacy. Click on the Privacy tab and grant access to Dragon there.

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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 Proﬁ les Window

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

The Proﬁ les window. If you see this window at startup, choose your proﬁ le

and click

Continue.

The Status Window

The Status window is your control center for Dragon Dictate. It ﬂ 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 ﬂ oats over all applications.

The Available Commands Window

The Available Commands window lists the commands you can say to Dragon at the moment. Any custom commands you’ve added are shown there too. It ﬂ 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.

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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, unless you are using the Dragon Remote Microphone app, in which case clicking it displays the barcode you can use to connect your proﬁ le to the app. It provides a simple and convenient 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 deﬁ ne global keyboard shortcuts (“hot keys”) to perform each of the following tasks:

— Turn the microphone on or off.

— Switch between Dictation mode, Spelling mode, Command mode, and Numbers

mode.

— Show or hide the Recognition window.

— Dismiss the MouseGrid.

The Shortcuts Preferences pane. Click the “X” to delete the current shortcut and record a new one. After recording a new shortcut, click the curved arrow to revert to the original one.

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.

Important note: When changing a keyboard shortcut, you should never assign a key sequence that is the same as the one used to invoke Apple’s built-in dictation capabilities found in OS X 10.8 and later. You should also not assign Apple’s built-in dictation capability with a key sequence that includes Command-F9, Command-F10, Command-F11, or Command-F12.

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In addition, before using F-key keyboard shortcuts in Dragon Dictate, you should doublecheck your settings in the OS X Keyboard preference pane:

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Using the Dragon or Android Remote App as a Microphone

You can use your iPhone (3G or later), iPod touch (4th generation or later), or iPad, or Android smartphone, as a microphone by downloading the Dragon Remote Microphone app from Apple’s App Store or Google Play (formerly called the Android Market). (iOS 4.2 or Android OS 2.2 or higher is required.)

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 proﬁ le by clicking the plus sign next to Dictation under Audio Sources, or you can create a new proﬁ le and choose it as your microphone.

Click the dropdown next to Microphone and select Dragon Remote Microphone.

After you have selected the Dragon Remote app as your microphone in Dragon Dictate, you need to set it up on your device. The iOS app supports Bonjour, networking technology from Apple that allows supported devices on a network to see each other; you can use that method to quickly and easily set up your iOS device.

Make sure your device is connected to your home or ofﬁ ce network before continuing. You can’t use the app over a 3G cellular connection. If you’re in a location, 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. 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 difﬁ culty connecting the app and your Mac.

Setting Up the Dragon Remote App

Launch the Dragon Remote app on your device. On an iOS device, tap the gears icon in the bottom right corner; on an Android device, tap the Menu button and then tap the gears icon.

On an iOS device, you can tap “Find computer” to see a list of found Dragon Dictate proﬁ les and computers on your network. The easiest way to connect the app with Dragon Dictate is to ﬁ nd the applicable proﬁ 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 ﬁ eld and type in the name of the proﬁ le or Mac you’re looking for.

Should you need to manually establish the connection on either an iOS or Android device, tap “Manual Entry” and enter the necessary information. You can ﬁ nd the com- puter’s IP address in the Network pane of System Preferences in OS X; ignore the port number ﬁ eld, as it can’t be changed. You can ﬁ nd your Mac’s name in System Prefer- ences’ Sharing pane; it’s shown at the top of the window.

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Tap “Find Computer” to locate your Mac or Dragon Dictate proﬁ le.

Locating a Dragon Dictate proﬁ le and the Mac it is running on.

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

The Manual Entry screen.

On either iOS or Android, you can also tap the “Use a barcode” button to connect with your proﬁ le. (All iPhones have cameras, but not all iPod touch and iPad models do, nor do all Android smartphones.) On your Mac, click the Dragon Dictate icon at the top of

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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 display of your iOS device.

Generating a barcode on your Mac’s display after clicking the Dragon Dictate icon at the top of the screen.

Lining up the barcode in the “Use a barcode” feature.

After you establish a connection with your Dragon Dictate proﬁ le through the Remote Microphone app through any setup method on iOS or Android, you will be prompted to conﬁ 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.

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

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You will see the message to the left if the Dragon Remote Microphone app has not been launched when you begin voice training.

As with any other microphone you set up with Dragon Dictate, you will need to complete voice training by speaking into your device and reading the story presented on the screen. If this is your ﬁ rst time doing so, refer to the “Voice Training” section earlier in this chapter.

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The default setting for this option is to have the checkbox unchecked, which means you need to add the fn (Function) to your Command-F-key presses in Dictate. If you check that box, you don’t need to use the fn key with your Command-F-Key presses in Dictate, but you do need to use the fn key when trying to access the features printed on the F keys, such as the volume controls found on F10, F11, and F12 on most Mac keyboards.

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 ﬁ ve modes, so that’s the subject of the next section.

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 ﬁ ve modes. These settings 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 command, it obeys the command. Otherwise, Dragon Dictate interprets your words as dictation, and types those words at the insertion point in the frontmost application.

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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 Dictate 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 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 punctuation in this mode.

Sleep Mode. If Dragon Dictate can interpret your words as one of the commands

Wake Up or Turn [the] Microphone On, it returns to one of the four preceding

modes. Otherwise, nothing happens.

Microphone Off and On

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

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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 or Android 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”.

— Press the keyboard shortcut for toggling the microphone.

— Tap the icon in the Dragon Remote Microphone app on your iOS or Android 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 version 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 ﬁ rst menu item will read

Microphone Off; if the microphone is off, the ﬁ 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 or Android

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:

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— Say

Sleep Mode, or Go to Sleep.

— 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.

— Choose an Auto Sleep setting in the Recognition pane in the Preferences window.

To learn whether you are in Sleep mode:

— Look at the Status window. Its mode button shows the Sleep icon, and the

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

— 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 ﬁ fth 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:

— Say

Wake Up or 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 four non-sleep modes — Dictation mode, Spelling mode, Command mode, and Numbers 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.

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— Choose from the Dock menu.

— Press the keyboard shortcut for cycling between modes, as found in the Shortcuts

preference pane. By default, Command-F10 is the shortcut; you can change it in the preference pane.

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 button, 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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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 consider that phrase as a possible command.

For example,

If you say

If you say those words.

But if you say

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

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

Go. To sleep, Dragon Dictate types Go to sleep.

Don’t go to sleep in the middle of the lecture, Dragon Dictate types

Don’t. Go to sleep, Dragon Dictate types Don’t and then switches

“Tips on Speaking” section.

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.)

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 ﬁ ner control over capitalization and spacing, you have it. See

Space Bar.

“Capitalization, Spacing, and Numbers.” To insert a space, say

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 An

alpha hyphen zulu of animals. Even this approach is not entirely reliable, as Dragon

Dictate must allow for the possibility that

alpha means alpha. Spelling mode gets

better results. See “Letter Names in Dictation Mode.”

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

Recognition training commands. You can train the voice model and correct 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

window 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 ﬁ x capitalization. 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:

—

Move Backward(s) NN Word(s), Move Forward(s) NN Word(s) (where “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 speciﬁ ed

by the previous select command)

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—

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

speciﬁ 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 (where “NN” 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”

— Delete “Someword” to “Otherword”

— Delete Next “Someword” (where “Someword” is a word already selected)

—

Delete Previous “Someword” (where “Someword” is a word already selected)

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

speciﬁ ed by the previous select command)

—

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

speciﬁ ed by the previous select command)

—

Lowercase “Someword”

— Lowercase “Someword” Through “Otherword”

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— Lowercase “Someword” to “Otherword”

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

speciﬁ ed by the previous select command)

—

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

speciﬁ 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

speciﬁ ed by the previous select command)

—

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

speciﬁ ed by the previous select command)

In the above commands where you specify the words to select, if those words appear more than once in the document, Dragon Dictate selects the nearest instance. Position

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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.

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 ﬁ ner control when Dictation

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

Tip. Dragon Dictate comes with a large repertory of built-in words with correct 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

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

spell it out!)

In the Status window, the ﬁ 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:

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— Say

Caps On.

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

Caps Off. The indicator light

will go out.

Uppercase

To uppercase (all caps) the next word:

— Say

All Caps.

In the Status window, the ﬁ 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 uppercasing, say the series of words, and turn off uppercasing. To do so:

— Say

All Caps On.

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

All Caps Off. The indicator

light will go out.

Lowercase

To lowercase (no caps) the next word:

— Say

No Caps.

In the Status window, the ﬁ 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.

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

— Say

No Caps On.

In the Status window, the ﬁ rst indicator light will glow green and will read “abc”. Say the series of words, which will be typed lowercased. Finally, say

No Caps Off. The indicator

light will go out.

Spaces

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

— Say

No Space.

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

No Space On.

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

No Space Off. The indicator

light will go out.

To insert a space:

— Say

Space Bar.

In general you should not need to suppress or control spacing merely because of punctuation. For example, to hyphenate two words, say the ﬁ rst word, then

Hyphen,

then the second word. There will be no space on either side of the hyphen, because there is a built-in rule governing how automatic spacing works next to a hyphen.

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 automatically.

Tip. To type

0, say Oh or 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

Numeral One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Seven

MCMXCVII, say Roman

(in one smooth utterance).

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

Numeral Five

Seventeen

Forty Two

What You Say Result

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One Hundred Seventy Nine

Five Thousand Four Hundred and Twenty Three

Numeral Five Comma No Space Four Hundred and Twenty 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

179

5423

5,423

12,537

142,015

35.23

0.03

43.28%

Fractions may be spoken normally, or you can clarify by saying Slash or Over between the numerator and the denominator.

What You Say Result

Numeral One Half 1/2

Numeral One Over Four; Numeral One Quarter

1/4

Fifteen Sixteenths; Fifteen Over Sixteen

Two and Three Fourths 2 3/4

Eleven Over Thirty Two 11/32

Eleven Thirty Seconds 11/32

Three and Seven Eights; Numeral Three Seven Over Eight

Nine Slash Twelve Nine Over Twelve

Numeral Five Space Bar Three Slash Fifty Six 5 3/56

15/16

3 7/8

9/12

What You Say Result

One Thirty Over Seventy 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 $99.55

Forty Five Euros and Thirty Five Cents €45.35

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Pound Sterling Sign One Hundred and Twenty Point Thirty Five

£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 02460

Oh Two Four Six Zero Hyphen One Four Five Eight 02460-1458

US telephone numbers may be spoken normally, digit by digit, and punctuation 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 350-0903

Six Oh Three Three Five Oh Oh Nine Oh Three 603-350-0903

One Eight Hundred Five Five Five One Two One Two 1-800-555-1212

Open Parenthesis Six Zero Three Close Parenthesis Three Five Zero Zero Nine Zero Three

One Two One Two Five Five Five Twelve Twelve 1-212-555-1212

(603) 350-0903

What You Say Result

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Open Parenthesis Oh One Six Two Eight Close Parenthesis Eight Nine Four One Five Oh

Oh Two Seven Space Bar Six Two Nine Space Bar Eight Nine Four Four

Six One Hyphen Seven Hyphen Four Six Nine Five Hyphen Two Zero Five Five

(01628) 894150

027 629 8944

61-7-4695-2055

Dates and times may mostly be spoken normally. For times, the separator is a colon , and this is entered automatically if you say AM or PM. Alternatively, say punctuation explicitly.

What You Say Result

Twenty Two January Nineteen Ninety Nine 22 January 1999

April Nine Comma Two Thousand And One April 9, 2001

Fourteen Slash Oh Seven Slash Eighty Five 14/07/85

Three Slash Eleven Slash Zero Two 3/11/02

Three Slash Eleven Slash Two Thousand And Two 3/11/2002

April First April 1

March Twenty Second March 22

The Nineteen Eighties the 1980s

The Nineteen Eighty Apostophe Ess the 1980's

Seven Forty Five AM 7:45 AM

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.

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

Capital

or Uppercase followed by the name of the letter. For example, to dictate L. M.

Montgomery, you can say Capital L, Period, Uppercase M, Period, Montgomery.

An acronym (a series of capital letters without any spaces or periods in between) may be entered using successive initials. Thus, for example, to dictate

HAL 9000, you can

say Capital H, Capital A, Capital L, Nine Thousand.

Here are the International Radio Alphabet letter names:

What You Say

Alpha

Bravo

Charlie

Delta

Echo

Foxtrot

Golf

Hotel

India

Juliet

Kilo

Lima

What You Say

Mike

November

Oscar

Papa

Quebec

Romeo

Sierra

Tango

Uniform

Victor

Whiskey

Xray

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Yankee

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 á

Alpha-Accent-Circumflex â

Alpha-Accent-Grave à

Alpha-Accent-Tilde; Alpha-Tilde ã

What You Say Result

Alpha-Accent-Umlaut ä

Alpha-Ring-Above å

Charlie-Accent-Cedilla ç

Echo-Accent-Acute é

Echo-Accent-Circumflex ê

Echo-Accent-Grave è

Echo-Accent-Umlaut ë

India-Accent-Acute í

India-Accent-Circumflex î

India-Accent-Grave ì

India-Accent-Umlaut ï

November-Accent-Tilde ñ

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Oscar-Accent-Acute ó

Oscar-Accent-Circumflex ô

Oscar-Accent-Grave ò

Oscar-Accent-Tilde õ

Oscar-Accent-Umlaut ö

Oscar-Oblique-Stroke ø

Uniform-Accent-Acute ú

Uniform-Accent-Circumflex û

Uniform-Accent-Grave ù

Uniform-Accent-Umlaut ü

Yankee-Accent-Acute ý

Yankee-Accent-Umlaut 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 æ

O E Diphthong; O E Ligature œ

Eszet; German Sharp S ß

S With Caron š

Icelandic Eth ð

Icelandic Thorn þ

Dictionary Deﬁ nition

You can ask Dragon Dictate to ﬁ nd the dictionary deﬁ nition for any word by saying

Show Definition For "Someword." The Dictionary application built into OS X will launch

and display the deﬁ nition of the requested word. This command is also available in Command, Numbers, and Spelling modes.

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Document Search

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

Document For "Someword" or Search Document For "Somephrase." If you want to

just bring up the Find dialog, you can simply say Search Document. You can insert the word The or This between Search and Document. These commands are also available in Command, Numbers, and Spelling modes.

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 proﬁ le’s vocabulary so that you can say it in Dictation mode (see

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.

“Vocabulary Editor Window”).

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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 (or Delete Word).

Undo Dictation.

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

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:

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— Say

Cap followed by the name of the letter.

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, e.g. Letter A, Letter B, Letter Alpha,

Letter Bravo. This can help disambiguate.

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

— You may say the letter name preceded by

Double, e.g. Double A, Double Alpha. (In

case of “u”, say Double Letter U to disambiguate from “w”.)

Here are the International Radio Alphabet letter names:

What You Say

Alpha

Bravo

What You Say

Charlie

Delta

Echo

Foxtrot

Golf

Hotel

India

Juliet

Kilo

Lima

Mike

November

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Oscar

Papa

Quebec

Romeo

Sierra

Tango

Uniform

Victor

Whiskey

Xray

Yankee

Zulu

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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:

A-Acute, Alpha-Acute.

— Optionally, in most cases you may say

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

“Commands Window.”

Letter Diacriticals

A Acute, Circumﬂ ex, Grave, Tilde, Umlaut; Dieresis, Ring

C Cedilla

E Acute, Circumﬂ ex, Grave, Umlaut; Dieresis

I Acute, Circumﬂ ex, Grave, Umlaut; Dieresis

N Tilde

O Acute, Circumﬂ ex, Grave, Tilde, Umlaut; Dieresis, Ring

U Acute, Circumﬂ 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

A E Diphthong; A E Ligature; Ligature A E æ

O Slash ø

What You Say Result

O E Diphthong; O E Ligature; Ligature O E œ

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Eszet; Sharp S; German Sharp; German Sharp S

S Wedge š

Icelandic Eth ð

Icelandic Thorn þ

Numerals

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

— Say the name of the digit, e.g.

— Or, say

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

One, etc. (Do not say Number, which signiﬁ es the hash sign, “#”.)

Some numeric symbols are discussed as punctuation; see

Zero, One, etc.

“Punctuation.”

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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 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 other things you can say to type them, such as the names of letters and numbers).

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 speciﬁ c series of words, such as “and of things you can say to type them.” For example, you can say

Put Double Quotes Around the Words open quote, or

Put Parentheses Around the Words and Through them.

No Space on. But for ﬁ nest control, use

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

Spaces

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Space Bar

New Line; Next Line

New Paragraph; Next Paragraph

Tab Key

All three Space character

All three Single return character

All three Double return character

All three Tab character

Stops

What You Say Result Mode Comments

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Period .

Full Stop; Dot .

All three US dialect only

All three UK dialect only

Dictation,

Full stop or period followed by

Period Paragraph .

Exclamation Mark !

Exclamation Point !

Numbers

All three

All three US dialect only

Dictation,

double return character

Inverted Exclamation Point ¡

Spelling

Inverted Exclamation Mark ¡

Question Mark ?

Spelling

All three

Dictation,

Inverted Question Mark ¿

Spelling

Pauses and Joins

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Hyphen -

Soft Hyphen

Comma ,

Semicolon ;

Colon; Colon Mark (Dictation and Numbers modes only)

All three

Spelling

All three

No space before or after in Dictation

mode Unicode 173, optional hyphen (not

every application interprets this cor-

rectly)

What You Say Result Mode Comments

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Center Dot; Middle Dot

Dictation,

(Spelling mode only)

Dash --

Em-Dash ---

En-Dash --

Em-Dash —

En-Dash –

Spelling

Dictation,

Two hyphens

Spelling

Dictation Three hyphens

Dictation Two hyphens

Spelling Unicode 8212, a true em-dash

Spelling Unicode 8211, a true en-dash

Apostrophe and Quotes

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Apostrophe '

Dictation,

Spelling Dictation,

Apostrophe-Ess 's

Spelling

Straight apostrophe (no pre-

ceding space)

Straight apostrophe

Open Single Quote; Begin Single Quote

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 ”

‘

’

Spelling Left curly single quote

Spelling Right curly single quote

Spelling Straight single quote

Straight single quote (preceding

Dictation

space)

Straight single quote (no pre-

Dictation

ceding space, like apostrophe)

Spelling Left curly double quote

Spelling Right curly double quote

What You Say Result Mode Comments

63PunctuationDragon Dictate

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; 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

Spelling Straight double quote

Dictation

Dictation,

Straight double quote (preced-

ing space)

Straight double quote (no pre-

ceding space)

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

End Angle Quote; End Angle Quotes; Close Angle Quote; Close Angle

Spelling

Quotes

Enclosures

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Open Paren; Left Paren; Open

(

Parenthesis; Left Parenthesis

Close Paren; Right Paren; Close

)

Parenthesis; Right parenthesis

All three

What You Say Result Mode Comments

64PunctuationDragon Dictate

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

Close Brace; Right Brace; Close

Dictation,

Spelling Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Non-US dialects, like parenthesis

US dialect, like square bracket

[

Spelling

Dictation,

]

Spelling

{

All three

Curly Brace; Right Curly Brace; Close Curly Bracket; Right Curly Bracket

Open Angle Bracket; Left Angle Bracket

Close Angle Bracket; Right Angle Bracket

Open Angle Bracket; Left Angle Bracket

}

‹

All three

Dictation

Spelling Unicode 8249, left angle quote

What You Say Result Mode Comments

65PunctuationDragon Dictate

Close Angle Bracket; Right Angle

›

Spelling Unicode 8250, right angle quote

Bracket

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 £

Pound Sign £

Yen Sign; Yen (Spelling mode only) ¥

Euro Sign; Euro (Spelling mode only) €

Guilder Sign; Guilder (Spelling mode only) ƒ

All three

Spelling

Dictation US dialect

Dictation,

Non-US dialects

Spelling Dictation,

Spelling

Arithmetic

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Equals Sign; Equal (Spelling mode only) =

Plus Sign; Plus (Spelling mode only) +

Minus Sign -

Plus or Minus Sign; Plus or Minus (Spelling

mode only)

Dictation,

Spelling

All three

Dictation,

Spelling

What You Say Result Mode Comments

66PunctuationDragon Dictate

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)

Percent Sign; Percent (Spelling mode only) %

Point .

Logical Not Sign; Logical Not (Spelling mode

only)

Not Sign; Not ¬

Spelling

Dictation

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

All three

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Superscript One ¹

Superscript Two ²

Squared; Square ²

Superscript Three ³

Cubed; Cube ³

One-Half Sign ½

Half Sign; Half; One Half ½

Dictation,

Spelling Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

What You Say Result Mode Comments

67PunctuationDragon Dictate

One-Quarter Sign ¼

Dictation,

Spelling

Quarter Sign; Quarter; One Quarter ¼

Spelling

Dictation,

Three Quarters Sign ¾

Spelling

Three Quarters ¾

Spelling

Octothorpe

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)

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

US dialect only

In Dictation mode, works

only in non-US dialects

Dictation,

In Dictation mode, works

Sharp Sign; Sharp (Spelling mode only) #

Spelling

only in non-US dialects

Other Common Symbols

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Ampersand; And-Sign; Ampersand Sign

(Spelling mode only)

Asterisk; Star (Spelling mode only) *

At Sign; At (Spelling mode only) @

Dictation,

Spelling

All three

Dictation,

Spelling

What You Say Result Mode Comments

68PunctuationDragon Dictate

Backslash \

Backquote; Backtick (Dictation mode only) `

Caret; Hat (Spelling mode only) ^

only)

Degree Sign; Degree (Spelling mode only) °

Ellipsis; Dot-Dot-Dot ...

Ellipsis …

Forward Slash; Slash /

Large Center Dot •

Logical And &&

Dictation,

Spelling Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling Dictation,

Three dots

Numbers

Unicode 8230, true

Spelling

ellipsis mark

All three

Dictation Unicode 8226, bullet

Dictation

Logical Or ||

Optional Ess (s)

Paragraph Sign; Paragraph (Spelling mode

only)

Registered Sign; Registered (Spelling mode

only)

Registered Trademark Sign; Registered

Trademark

Section Sign; Section (Spelling mode only) §

Dictation

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

What You Say Result Mode Comments

69PunctuationDragon Dictate

Tilde ~

Trademark Sign; Trademark (Spelling mode

™

only)

Underscore _

Vertical Bar; Bar (Spelling mode only) |

Rarities

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Alternate Comma ‚

Angstrom å

Broken Vertical Bar ¦

Dagger †

Single Dagger Sign †

Spelling Unicode 8218, lowered single quote

Spelling

Dictation

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

All three

Dictation,

Spelling

Double Comma „

Double Dagger ‡

Double Dagger Sign ‡

Feminine Ordinal ª

Feminine Ordinal Sign ª

Macron Sign; Macron (Spelling mode only)

Masculine Ordinal º

Greek Mu μ

Dictation,

Unicode 8222, lowered double quote

Spelling

Dictation

Spelling

Dictation

Dictation,

Spelling

Dictation,

Spelling

What You Say Result Mode Comments

70PunctuationDragon Dictate

Micro μ

Micron; Micro Sign μ

Per Thousand; Permille ‰

Permille Sign ‰

Spelling

Dictation

Spelling

Dictation

Smilies

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Smiley Face;

:-)

Smiley

Frowny Face;

:-(

Frowny

Winky Face; Winky ;-)

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

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Put Quotation

71PunctuationDragon Dictate

Marks Around the Word/Selection/ Words X Through Y

Put Single Quotes Around the Word/ Selection/Words X Through Y

Put Straight Quotes Around the Word/ Selection/Words X Through Y

Put Single Straight Quotes Around the Word/Selection/ Words X Through Y

Put Parentheses

“text”

‘text’

"text"

'text'

Dictation

Around the Word/ Selection/Words X Through Y

Put Curly Brackets Around the Word/ Selection/Words X Through Y

Put Braces Around the Word/Selection/ Words X Through Y

(text)

{text}

Dictation

What You Say Result Mode Comments

Put Curly Braces

72PunctuationDragon Dictate

Around the Word/ Selection/Words X Through Y

Put Square Brackets Around the Word/Selection/ Words X Through Y

Put Brackets Around the Word/ Selection/Words X Through Y

Put Angle Brackets Around the Word/ Selection/Words X Through Y

Put Spanish

{text}

[text]

<text>

Dictation

Exclamation Marks Around the Word/ Selection/Words X Through Y

Put Spanish Question Marks Around the Word/ Selection/Words X Through Y

¡text!

¿text?

Dictation

73CommandsDragon Dictate

Commands

To learn what commands are available at any moment, use the Available Commands window. See

Commands may be edited — modiﬁ 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 them. For example, 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, 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 always available (except in Sleep mode). See

“Available Commands Window.”

Capitalize the Word “Valley” is something you can say in Dictation

Pick 2, to insert the second alternative from

“Global Commands.”

Key commands. Key commands are global commands that let you say the names of keyboard keys or modiﬁ er-key combinations for Dragon Dictate to type. See “Key

Commands.”

Generated commands. Dragon Dictate, as it starts up, will optionally generate additional global commands that let you launch applications or create an email message addressed to someone in your Contacts. See

Application-based commands. Some commands become available only when a certain application is frontmost. For example, you can say Send Message when Messages or Mail is frontmost. Dragon Dictate comes with command sets for

Finder, TextEdit, Safari, Mail,

Messages, Calendar, Notes, Reminders, and

“Generated Commands.”

Notiﬁ cations. See “Application-Based Commands.”

If the command you want to say is not a mode-based command, then the way to be certain that Dragon Dictate understands your words as a command to be obeyed, and

not dictation to be typed, is to switch to Command mode.

Global Commands

These commands are available in every mode (except Sleep mode). Some of them control Dragon Dictate; others control the computer as a whole, or whatever application is frontmost. Dragon Dictate has a lot of ﬂ exibility when recognizing commands; words that are in parentheses are optional.

Dragon Dictate Modes and Microphone

What You Say Comment

74CommandsDragon Dictate

Dictation Mode

Switch To Dictation Mode

Spelling Mode

Switch To Spelling Mode

Command Mode

Switch To Command Mode

Numbers Mode

Go To Sleep

Sleep Mode

Switch To Sleep Mode

Wake Up

Sets Dragon Dictate to Dictation Mode.

Sets Dragon Dictatee to Dictation Mode.

Sets Dragon Dictate to Spelling Mode.

Sets Dragon Dictate to Command Mode.

Sets Dragon Dictate to Numbers Mode.

Sets Dragon Dictate’s microphone to Sleep Mode.

Sets Dictate’s microphone to Sleep Mode.

Sets Dragon Dictate’s microphone to Sleep Mode.

Restores Dragon Dictate to its previous mode.

Turns the microphone off. No further voice input is possible until

Microphone Off

microphone is turned on by keyboard or menu item.

Dragon Dictate Dictation and Training

What You Say Comment

Scratch That

Scratch Word

Deletes the utterance or portion of utterance immediately to the left of the

cursor or selection. An utterance is a phrase that you spoke.

Deletes the word just prior to the cursor or left edge of the selection.

What You Say Comment

Reverses the effect of the last dictation or delete dictation command

(Delete, Scratch, Forget). Use of this command removes the correction in-

75CommandsDragon Dictate

Undo Dictation

Redo Dictation

Play the Selection

Train Vocabulary from Selection

Cache Document

Cache Selection

formation from the text involved, so if you “Redo Dictation” you will not be

able to correct the replaced text. If your last dictation replaced text, that

text is restored, but no correction information is restored.

Redo Dictation reverses the effect of the Undo Dictation command.

Play the Selection

Copies the current selection and opens the Vocabulary Training window

and uses the copied text as input.

Tells Dragon Dictate to record the contents of the current window as “user

typed text”. All prior knowledge of the window contents is replaced (dicta-

tion information, spelled letters). This is useful when opening and working

with an existing document. Tells Dragon Dictate to record the selection of the current window as “user

typed text”. All prior knowledge of the window contents is replaced (dicta-

tion information, spelled letters). This is useful when opening and working

with an existing document. Removes all cached information regarding the active window’s contents.

This does not delete the text appearing in the active window, but Dragon

Purge Cache

Dictate now assumes that the window is blank, except for Note Pad win-

dows. When “Purge Cache” is applied to a Note Pad window, a “Cache

Document” command is automatically generated as well because Dragon

Dictate always knows about the contents of its own windows. This is use-

ful when opening and working with an existing document.

Dragon Dictate Windows

What You Say Comment

76CommandsDragon Dictate

Show (This or The) Status Window

Hide or Close Status Window

Show Available Commands Window

Hide or Close Available Commands Window

Show (This or The) Recognition Window

Bring Dictate to the Front

(Show or Open) Express Editor

(Close or Hide) Express Editor

Transfer (the Text)

Shows the Status window for Dragon Dictate.

Hides the Status window for Dragon Dictate.

Shows the Available Commands window for Dragon Dictate.

Hides the Available Commands window for Dragon Dictate.

Displays the Recognition window containing alternatives for

the current selection or the utterance to the left of the cur-

sor.

Makes Dictate the frontmost application.

Opens and activates the Express Editor

Closes the Express Editor, preserving its contents in the

process Transfers text from the Express Editor to the frontmost ap-

plication, as indicated in the Express Editor’s title bar

Navigation

What You Say Comment

Go To Beginning

Move To Beginning Of Document

Go To End

Move To End Of Document

Go Back

Moves the cursor to the ﬁ rst position in the document.

Positions to the beginning of the document.

Moves the cursor to the last position in the document.

Positions to the end of the document.

Returns the cursor to the last position it occupied.

What You Say Comment

77CommandsDragon Dictate

Next Field

Moves the cursor to the next ﬁ eld by sending a tab and

purges the cache. Moves the cursor to the previous ﬁ eld by sending a shift tab

Previous Field

and purges the cache.

Copy and Paste

Outside of a Note Pad window (that is, in an application other than Dragon Dictate), these commands are the same as if you had used your hands. If you have a problem with Dictation mode navigation commands after speaking one of these commands, issue one of the

cache commands documented on previous pages.

What You Say Comment

Copy Selection

Cut Selection

Paste from Clipboard

Mimics the Command-C keypress, which copies whatever is selected to the

clipboard in most applications. Mimics the Command-X keypress, which cuts whatever is selected to the

clipboard in most applications.

Pastes the contents of the clipboard at the insertion point.

Mimics a Command-A keypress. Speciﬁ cally, this command is intended to

Select All

No Leading Space

select all text within a text document or object, or all objects in the frontmost

document. All spaces are removed before the word immediately after the cursor or left

edge of the selection. Does not apply to words that have not been dictated

yet. Use “No Space” for those.

Button and Keyboard Pressing

What You Say Comment

Press Cancel

Press the Cancel Button.

Click Cancel

What You Say Comment

Press Don’t Save

Press the Don’t Save Button.

Click Don't Save

Press OK

Press Enter

Press Return

Press the OK Button.

Click OK

Click Enter

Click Return

Press Continue

Press the Continue button.

Click Continue

78CommandsDragon Dictate

Cancel This Operation

Cancels the current operation.

Mimics a Command-S keypress. This command will save the frontmost

Save This Document

document in most applications.

Menus

What You Say Comment

File New

Selects the New menu item on the File Menu.

New File

File Open

Selects the Open menu item on the File Menu.

Open File

File Close

Selects the Close menu item on the File Menu.

Close File

What You Say Comment

Undoes the last action. This is the same as pressing

79CommandsDragon Dictate

Undo Last Action

Command-Z (undo). You can also say Scratch That or

Undo Dictation.

Redo last action reverses the effect of the “Undo Last

Redo Last Action

Action” command.

About this Application Displays information about the frontmost application.

Opens the Find window. This window will look different

Access Find Window

depending on what version of OS X you are using.

Access Force Quit

Opens the Force Quit window.

Window

Show (This or The) Date and Time

Displays a dialog box with the date and time stamp. Also allows you to put the date stamp on the clipboard.

Spaces, Exposé, and Screen Capture

What You Say Comment

Expose All Windows

Uses Mission Control to expose all windows.

Expose Application Windows

Expose Desktop

Uses Mission Control to expose windows for the active applica-

tion.

Uses Mission Control to expose the Desktop.

Takes a snapshot of the entire screen and saves it on the desk-

Capture Screen

top.

Capture Selection

Allows you to capture a snapshot of a selection.

Application and Window Navigation

What You Say Comment

Hide This or The Application

Hides the frontmost application.

What You Say Comment

80CommandsDragon Dictate

Hide Other Applications

Hide All Applications

Show All Applications

Switch To Next Application

Switch To Previous Application

Next Application Window

Previous Application Window

Quit This Application

Activate [Name of Application]

Hides all applications except the frontmost application.

Hides all applications except the Dragon Dictate; works only

when Dragon Dictate is frontmost.

Shows all applications.

Switches to the next application that is running.

Switches to the previous application that is running.

Activates the next window in the active application.

Activates the previous window in the active application.

Quits the frontmost application, except if it is Dragon Dictate.

Dragon Dictate must be quit using menu or keyboard. Brings the named application to the front. “Activate” commands

are automatically generated for all running applications and ap-

pear in the Applications subgroup of the Available Commands

window. Quits the named application. “Quit” commands are automati-

Quit [Name of Application]

Swipe Left

Swipe Right

(Enter or Switch) to Full Screen

Exit Full Screen

cally generated for all running applications except the Finder and

Dragon Dictate, and appear in the Applications subgroup in the

Available Commands window.

Simulates a left swipe gesture

Simulates a right swipe gesture

Enters full-screen mode, if possible

Exits full-screen mode, if possible

Correction Process

When you need to correct text with Dragon Dictate, the software offers you several options for making changes. Let’s use the following example:

You dictate the text The quick brown fox

jumped over the lazy dog PERIOD

81Correction ProcessDragon Dictate

Note that you click the ear button in the upper right corner to have Dragon Dictate play back how you said the word you want to correct.

Say

Correct dog. The word “dog” is highlighted, and the Recognition window with spell-

ing alternatives appears:

You can say cow to enter it next to number one, or type the word.

82Correction ProcessDragon Dictate

You can say

Edit, with the corresponding number, to change the text to that selection.

When the Recognition window with your spelling alternatives ﬁ rst appears, the list under Related Commands is not visible; click the arrow to reveal them.

The Related Commands list gives you suggestions for commands you can say if, for example, the word you want to change “dog” to does not appear. Let’s say you want to change it to “cow.” Speak

Edit number one and the ﬁ rst option becomes editable. Say

cow and it replaces “dog” next to option one.

Then say Choose one and “cow” will replace “dog” in your text:

Note that depending on the type of change you make, Dragon Dictate may display the Smart Format Rules window afterward. A Smart Format Rule allows you to tell the software how to always handle certain corrections, such as speciﬁ c ways to write numbers, titles, and so forth.

83Correction ProcessDragon Dictate

See Smart Formatting Rules in the Auto Formatting section to learn more.

84Auto FormattingDragon Dictate

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.

85Auto FormattingDragon Dictate

Smart Formatting Rules

In addition to the Auto Formatting options explained below, Dragon Dictate has a Smart Formatting feature that enables you to specify exactly how you want the software to

handle certain text. For example:

You dictate the words

Mister Smith. You say

Correct Mr. and Mr. becomes

highlighted.

The Recognition window appears.

See the Correction Process section to learn more about how this window works.

Say Choose two. “Mr.” turns into “Mister” in your document, and the Smart Formatting Rules window automatically appears:

If you say Choose and a number, Dragon will remember that formatting choice in the future.

If you don’t want to use any of the smart formatting rule choices, you can click the X in the top left corner of the window, or simply resume dictating text, and the window will disappear. Smart Formatting rules are turned on by default when you install Dragon Dictate, but you can turn them off in the Recognition pane in the Preferences window, which is accessible in the Dictate menu.

86Auto FormattingDragon Dictate

Addresses

Street Addresses

Dragon Dictate will automatically format postal addresses when this option is enabled. For example, speaking will produce 49 Orchard Lane, Boston, MA 02446. A separate option enables automatic formatting of UK and Canadian postcodes, such as

W Two Four R J.

49 Orchard Lane, Boston, Massachusetts Oh Two Four Four Six

W2 4RJ, which would be spoken as

Tip. Some addresses, particularly those with a lot of numbers, can be difﬁ cult

to interpret. For example, if you say Dictate may produce

245th Street, 200 45th Street, or 240 5th Street. The

simple addition of the word And

Two Hundred Forty Fifth Street, Dragon

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

87Auto FormattingDragon Dictate

If you say

Name At Nuance Dot Com, Dragon Dictate will produce name@nuance.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 pro-

duces 800-555-1212. (You can also say Eight Zero Zero at the beginning of the se- quence.)

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

88Auto FormattingDragon Dictate

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 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

When you say a time, it’s properly formatted if that option is enabled. For example,

Twenty A M produces 3:20 AM. Without auto-formatting, it would read 320 a.m.

January 5 2011 to display the same result.) From the dropdown, you can select

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,

January 5

(or 5th) produces January 5.

Three

Numbers

The Use Numerals Starting With option has a dropdown that spells out all numbers equal to or less than the selected value, which is set at 10 as the default. The other choices in the dropdown 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

Prices and Currencies

Eight Million will produce 8 million instead of 8,000,000.

89Auto FormattingDragon Dictate

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

Yen

British Pound

Swiss Franc

€

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.

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