Nuance ScanSoft Dragon Professional Command Cheat Sheet
Dragon speech recognition
Nuance Dragon for Mac, v5
Command Cheat Sheet
Controlling the microphone
Go to sleep
Wake up
Microphone off
Selecting text
Select “text” [through/to “text”]
Select next/previous
Select all
Unselect that
Editing and formating
Cut selection
Copy selection
Paste from clipboard
Bold/underline/italicize “text”
Undoing and deleting
Scratch that
Undo last action / Redo last action
Correcting text
Correct “text” [through/to “text”]
Read document /Read the selection
Inserting lines and spaces
New line
New paragraph
Press the Enter key/Press OK
Tab key/Press the key Tab
Capitalizing
Capitalize “text” [through/to “text”]
Caps on/Caps off
All caps on/All caps off
Uppercase “text” [through/to “text”]
Lowercase “text” [through/to “text”]
Go to beginning; Go to end
Move to beginning of document
Move to end of document
Insert before [text]; insert after [text]
Controlling the desktop
Activate [application name]
Open [application name]
Launch [application name]
Quit [application name]
Kill [application name]
Hide this/the application
Minimize window
Zoom window
Close this window
Switch to next/previous application
Search Mac for [text]
Search Spotlight for [text]
Punctuation
Period
Comma
Question mark
Exclamation point or exclamation
mark
Colon
Semi-colon
Open quote/close quote
Open parenthesis/close parenthesis
Ellipsis
Ampersand
Dash
Hyphen
Put brackets around [text]
Put parentheses around [text]
Put quotes around [text]
How to issue commands
When issuing voice commands, be
sure to pause before and after the
full text of the command, but do not
pause in the middle of the command.
Do not include additional words within
your command.
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Moving around in documents
Move forward/backward [number]
words
Move left/right [number] words
Dragon speech recognition
Command Cheat Sheet
Nuance Dragon for Mac, v5
Dragon Dictate window commands
Show/hide Status Window The Status window is the primary user interface for Dragon.
Show/hide Available Commands window
The Available Commands Window serves as a “cheat sheet” on your desktop to remind you
about the voice commands that you can use to control your computer.
Button/keyboard commands
Press Cancel/Don’t Save/OK Selects and clicks a specic button within a dialog box.
Press the key [key name]
Press the key [modiers] [key name] [key
name]
Enters the key name as though the key had been pressed on the keyboard. Key names are
alphabet keys, numbers, function keys, or other named keys.
Enters the key combination as though the keys had been pressed on the keyboard. Modiers
are Control, Shift, Command, Option, Function, and Caps Lock.
Working on the Web - Safari
Scroll One Screen Down/Up Scroll the current page down or up
Working in your Gmail inbox*
Show Links Displays a number next to all clickable links in your Gmail inbox.
Choose <n> Click on the numbered link after you have displayed the links using the “Show Links” command.
Click <link> Click on available links simply by speaking “Click” followed by the name of the link. For example,
you can say “Click Inbox”, “Click Sent Mail” or “Click Back to Inbox.” You can also click on emails
in your inbox by saying “Click” followed by the rst 3-5 words in the email subject.
Managing email
Consult your Address Book in Mail. Dragon for Mac allows you to say the name of any person
Send email to [name]
or group having an email address in your Address Book. “Name” is the primary addressee of
your message. You can specify multiple recipients by appending and [Name] to your command.
After you’ve dictated your text, say Send message to send your mail. NOTE: Enable Email
Commands in Dragon for Mac’s Preferences rst.
*Firefox browsers only. You must have Dragon Web Extensions installed. Visit www.nuance.com/extensions to install the
latest versions.
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