Drago NaturallySpeakig Versio 11.5 User Guide
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Cotets C H A P T E R 1 Itroductio 1 About this guide 2 What should I expect from Drago? 3 C H A P T E R 2 Istallatio ad User Profile Creatio 5 Pluggig i the microphoe 5 What you should kow before istallig 6 Before istallig the software 7 Choosig type of istallatio 8 Istallig software Typical Istallatio 9 Istallig software Custom Istallatio 10 Modifyig applicatio settigs for all users 14 Modifyig admiistrative settigs 14 Modifyig formattig optios for all users 15 Creatig your user profile 16 Traiig a ew user profile 21 Adaptig to your writig style, schedulig tuig 23 How Drago automatically cofigures user profile 25 Upgradig User Profiles 26 Versio 11.5 File Structure 28 Accessig log files, samples, ad tools 29 C H A P T E R 3 Startig to Dictate 31 Startig Drago 31 Turig o the microphoe 32 Startig to dictate 33 Gettig Help 36 Troubleshootig 40 The DragoBar 40 Usig QuickStart 44 C H A P T E R 4 Workig o Your Desktop 47 Programs, documets, ad folders 47 Switchig betwee ope widows 48 Opeig ad closig meus 50 Selectig buttos, tabs, ad optios 51 Usig Widows Desktop commads 52 Selectig icos o the desktop 54 Resizig ad closig widows 55 Scrollig i popular programs 56 Scrollig i widows ad list boxes 57 Opeig lists ad makig selectios 57 iii
Cotets Pressig keyboard keys 58 Movig the mouse poiter ad clickig the mouse 63 C H A P T E R 5 Correctig ad Editig 69 Correctig mistakes 69 Selectig text by voice 74 Movig aroud i a documet 78 Copyig, cuttig, ad pastig text 80 Deletig text 80 Spellig as you dictate 83 Playig back your dictatio 85 Usig text-to-speech 91 C H A P T E R 6 Formattig 93 Capitalizig text 94 Formattig text 96 C H A P T E R 7 Dictatig Numbers, Puctuatio, ad Special Characters 101 Dictatig umbers 101 Puctuatio 111 Dictatig hypheated words 113 Dictatig compoud words 115 Dictatig ames 116 Dictatig abbreviatios ad acroyms 116 Dictatig e-mail ad Web addresses 117 Dictatig special characters 118 Switchig recogitio modes 119 Iformatio, Sales, Services ad Techical Support 127 iv
Itroductio C H A P T E R 1 D rago NaturallySpeakig let you talk to your computer istead of typig. As you talk, your words are trascribed oto your scree ad ito your documets or e-mail messages. Talkig to a computer while it types what you say is called dictatig. You ca dictate, rather tha type, ito ay program that accepts text. You ca use Drago to: Compose letters, memos, ad sed e-mail messages Cut ad paste iside your documets as well as revise ad format text. Just thik about what you wat to say, ad the say it ito the microphoe. Eter data ito forms or spreadsheets. (Available i Professioal ad higher editios) Most people ca dictate umbers faster tha they ca type. Usig Drago Professioal or higher editios, you ca create custom voice commads to let you move from field to field o your form by voice. Work o the Web Search the Web, access iformatio, ad avigate Web pages by speakig URLs ad liks. Start programs ad ope meus. Use hadheld recorders to dictate while you are away from your computer. Drago ca the trascribe what you said. 1
Itroductio About this guide This guide covers all editios of Drago. Most iformatio preseted applies to all the editios, ad the maua otes ay differeces betwee the editios. Covetios used i this guide 1 This guide cotais may examples of words ad phrases you ca say whe usig Drago. These examples appear i italics with quotatio marks, for example: Format That Bold. 2 Some procedures also iclude sample text for you to dictate. Sample text appears i a differet typeface, with puctuatio i square brackets. 3 This guide applies to the all Eglish dialects that ship with Drago: US Eglish UK Eglish Australia Eglish Idia Eglish Southeast Asia Eglish US Eglish uses US spellig, puctuatio, ad time ad currecy formats. We recommed US Eglish for Caadia users sice this dialect formats umbers (icludig times, telephoe umbers, ad currecy) i North America formats. All other dialects use UK spellig, puctuatio, ad time ad currecy formats (some umber settigs deped o your Widows Regioal Settigs). Where multiple dialects are used i dictatio examples, those dialects appear i a differet fot style. For example: You ca also correct a loger phrase by sayig Correct [text] Through [text] (US/Caada) or Correct [text] To [text] (Other Dialects). 4 This guide uses US spellig ad puctuatio for cosistecy. 2
User Guide 5 This guide also icludes tips ad otes to help you use the software more effectively. Tips ad otes appear like this: NOTE: If you pause correctly, but Drago still types a commad as dictatio, you ca force it to recogize what you say as a commad by holdig dow the CTRL key. With Numbers Mode o, Drago tries to iterpret everythig you say as a umber. If you dictate words, the results will be upredictable. However, you ca still avigate meus ad switch betwee programs by voice whe Numbers Mode is o. What should I expect from Drago? Oe reaso to use Drago is to boost your productivity. Aother is to reduce the strai usig a computer puts o hads, eyes, shoulders, etc. Maybe you like the idea of beig able to lea back i your chair, put your feet up o the desk, ad still get work doe. Drago works by usig sophisticated acoustic ad statistical models; it ca quickly adapt to you i various ways, becomig familiar with the soud of your voice as well as the particular words you use i your dictatios. For best results, you should develop simple habits such as positioig your microphoe cosistetly, dictatig puctuatio, speakig clearly ad evely, pausig briefly before ad after voice commads, ad takig advatage of the easy tools Drago offers to optimize accuracy: for istace, addig to Drago's vocabulary your ow jargo, acroyms, phrases or words for which you wat a special prouciatio or spellig. Drago lets you import lists of vocabulary etries all at oce; you ca eve poit Drago to texts that are similar to what you pla to dictate ad it will quickly "study" them. Persoalizig Drago's vocabulary is easy, ad very importat for productivity, sice it preempts recogitio errors. (If a word you dictate is ot i Drago's vocabulary, the software caot trascribe it.) Properly correctig Drago's errors will also help it lear. The more you use Drago, the more opportuities the software will have to adapt to you, both i terms of acoustics ad i terms of laguage. 3
Itroductio Do I still eed my keyboard ad mouse? Although you ca use Drago to do almost everythig o your computer by voice, some thigs are still easier to do usig the mouse or keyboard. If usig a mouse ad keyboard is a optio for you, try experimetig with usig your voice ad usig your hads for differet tasks, to see what works best. What if I ca t use a keyboard ad mouse? If usig a mouse ad keyboard is ot a optio, Chapter 4, Workig o Your Desktop o page 47. 4
Istallatio ad User Profile Creatio T C H A P T E R 2 his chapter presets how to istall ad set up Drago, ad the how to trai Drago to uderstad your voice. The istallatio process checks to make sure your system meets the miimum system requiremets eeded for Drago. These system requiremets are listed i the iformatio that came with your copy of Drago. If your system does ot meet these requiremets, Drago will ot be istalled. Multiple users o oe computer Drago is licesed o a per idividual basis. You are permitted to istall the software o more tha oe computer (such as o a desktop ad a laptop computer, or o a work ad a home computer), but you caot use the software cocurretly o more tha oe computer. You are permitted to create multiple voice profiles, so log as each voice profile is for you. If someoe else wats to create a voice profile, that perso must purchase a separate Drago licese. Volume licese agreemets are available. Pluggig i the microphoe To use Drago, you will eed to plug i your microphoe. If you are ot sure how to plug i your microphoe, cosult the documetatio that came with your microphoe. NOTE: If you already have speakers for your computer, you ca also use these to playback recorded speech istead of your headphoes. 5
Istallatio ad User Profile Creatio What you should kow before istallig Istallig Drago to a custom locatio The default istallatio directory for Drago is: C:\Program Files\Nuace\NaturallySpeakig11 Durig the istallatio procedure, you ca choose to istall Drago to a differet directory or drive o your machie. Choosig a differet directory durig istallatio oly istalls the Drago program files to that locatio. Regardless of where you istall the Drago program files, Drago always istalls the laguages ad vocabularies that you selected durig the istallatio to the C: drive, as well as creatig the locatio where your users profiles will be created. These profiles ca cosume a large amout of disk space o your C: drive. For more iformatio o the Drago istallatio directories, see Versio 11.5 File Structure o page 28. You ca customize your istallatio to reduce the amout of disk space used o your C: drive by ot istallig uwated laguages ad vocabularies. For more iformatio, see Istallig software Custom Istallatio o page 10. Istallig o Widows Vista/Widows 7 Drago Versio 11.5 is compatible with all editios of Widows Vista. If you upgrade a machie from a previous versio of Widows to Widows Vista/Widows 7 ad that machie has Versio 9.x, 10.x or 11.0 of Drago istalled, that versio of Drago will ot work after upgradig to Widows Vista. All your user profiles from these previous versios remai itact ad ca be upgraded whe you istall Drago Versio 11.5 or higher. 6
User Guide Coexistece with other Drago products Coexistece with previous versios of Drago You ca have oly oe versio of Drago istalled o your system. NOTE: Ruig Versio 9.x, 10.x, or 11.0 cocurretly with Versio 11.5 is ot supported. Coexistece with the Drago SDK Cliet Editio You ca istall Drago SDK Cliet Editio 11 o the same machie where Drago 11 is istalled. I additio, Drago 11 ad Drago SDK Cliet Editio 11 ca share users ad vocabularies. You ca oly ru oe product at a time. For example, if you are ruig Drago, you caot ru ay of the SDK Cliet tools or samples. NOTE: Coexistece of Versio 11.5 with Drago SDK Cliet Editio Versio 9.x or 10.x is ot supported. Before istallig the software Before istallig, modifyig, or upgradig Drago: 1 Close all ope applicatios. 2 Tur off or disable ativirus software; the istallatio process ca sometimes trigger a false virus report. NOTE: You must have Admiistrator rights to istall or uistall Drago o Widows XP, Widows Vista, or Widows 7. Admiistrator rights are ot required to create a user profile or use the software after istallatio. O Widows XP Professioal, Widows Vista, ad Widows 7 systems, if as a admiistrator you wat to create a Drago user profile for a Widows limited user (user with restricted privileges), you must log o usig that Widows limited user accout before creatig the Drago user profile. 7
Istallatio ad User Profile Creatio If you create a Drago user profile for a limited user while logged i as a Widows admiistrator, the limited user will ot be able to access that user profile. These restrictios also apply to a upgrade istallatio. 3 Choose the type of istallatio to carry out. Choose Istallatio Type Choose whether to istall the etire product or oly particular features of the product, as explaied i the ext sectio. You ca also carry out a MSI istallatio. Refer to the olie Drago System Admiistrator Guide PDF or Help file for details. Choosig type of istallatio Whe you istall Drago, you ca either do a complete (typical) istallatio or a custom istallatio. Nuace recommeds you do a complete istallatio uless you are experieced with the product. The table below tells more about each istallatio type. TYPE Typical/ Complete Custom DESCRIPTION Istalls all optios ad speech profiles. Requires the maximum disk space. Lets you select particular optios ad vocabularies to istall. Ca greatly reduce the disk space required. Durig a custom istallatio, i the Professioal editio, you ca modify settigs that are the applied to all user profiles created with this istallatio, icludig Widows limited accout users. NOTE: If you decide ot to istall some Drago compoets by selectig Custom istallatio, you ca istall them later by ruig the Setup program agai ad choosig Modify. If you are istallig the product for multiple users, you should choose a Custom istallatio rather tha a Typical/Complete istallatio. To carry out a custom istallatio, proceed to Istallig software Custom Istallatio o page 10. 8
User Guide Otherwise, proceed with Istallig software Typical Istallatio o page 9. Istallig software Typical Istallatio To istall all features of Drago: 1 Isert the Drago DVD ito your DVD drive. If the istallatio does ot start automatically, use Widows Explorer to fid ad double-click setup.exe o the DVD. NOTE: Widows Vista: Whe you start the istallatio o Widows Vista, you may see the message sayig A program eeds your permissio to cotiue. Click Cotiue to start the istallatio. 2 After the Widows Istaller begis, it istalls two software packages if they are ot already istalled: Visual C++ Versio 9.0 Rutime 3 After the Wizard begis, click Next to proceed to the Licese Agreemet page. Read the text ad select I accept the terms..., the click Next. 4 Eter your User Name ad Orgaizatio, ad the Serial Number supplied to your istallatio. 5 (Optioal) Whe the Setup Type page appears, click the Chage butto ad choose where to istall the product. If o earlier versios of Drago are istalled o your system, the default directory is: C:\Program Files\Nuace\NaturallySpeakig11 For a list of directories created by istallatio, see Versio 11.5 File Structure o page 28. 6 While you are still o the Setup Type page, select Typical. 7 profileclick Istall to start the istallatio. 9
Istallatio ad User Profile Creatio 8 Whe prompted, click Fiish to complete the istallatio. (If you are prompted to restart your computer, restart it ow.) 9 Select Start > All Programs > Drago NaturallySpeakig 11.5 > Drago NaturallySpeakig 11.5. The DragoBar appears o your desktop. 10(optioal) If you have users from Versio 9.x or 10.x that you would like to upgrade before proceedig, refer to Upgradig User Profiles o page 26. 11If you have o previously existig users, the Profile Creatio wizard starts immediately after you ru the product. Proceed to Creatig your user profile o page 16 to set up a user profile, the cotiue as istructed, to trai that user profile. You are ow ready to create a user profile, as explaied uder Creatig your user profile o page 16. Istallig software Custom Istallatio To istall portios of Drago or to istall it for multiple user profiles: 1 Isert the Drago DVD ito your DVD drive. If the istallatio does ot start automatically, use Widows Explorer to fid ad double-click setup.exe o the DVD. NOTE: Widows Vista: Whe you start the istallatio o Widows Vista, if you see a message sayig A program eeds your permissio to cotiue, click Cotiue to start the istallatio. 2 After the Widows Istaller begis, it istalls two software packages if they are ot already istalled: Visual C++ Versio 9.0 Rutime 3 After the Wizard begis click Next to proceed to the Licese Agreemet page. Read the text ad select I accept the terms..., the click Next. 4 Eter your User Name ad Orgaizatio, ad the Serial Number supplied to your istallatio. 10
User Guide 5 (Optioal) Whe the Setup Type page appears, click the Chage butto ad choose where to istall the product. If o earlier versios of Drago are istalled o your system, the default directory is: C:\Program Files\Nuace\NaturallySpeakig11 For a list of directories created by istallatio, see Versio 11.5 File Structure o page 28. 6 While you are still o the Setup Type page, select Custom for the type of istallatio. NOTE: If you decide ot to istall some Drago compoets by selectig Custom istallatio, you ca istall them later by ruig the Setup program agai ad choosig Modify. 7 Click Next ad you see a tree where you ca select ay particular feature of the product ad click the dow arrow to its left to choose where/whe to istall it: Istall ow, o local hard drive Istall ow, with all subfeatures o local hard drive Istall whe it is eeded o a just-i-time basis These optios are particularly useful for istallig multiple laguages ad/or multiple vocabularies. 11
Istallatio ad User Profile Creatio For example, see the selectios for the Southeast Asia Eglish vocabulary show i the illustratio below. Istallig other laguages, dialects, ad specialized vocabularies To istall user files for the other laguages or dialects supplied with your editio, choose Custom o the Setup Type page. The user files for each laguage or dialect cotai both spelligs ad prouciatios specific to that regio. For example, users who wish to dictate US Eglish spelligs icludig users with accets should istall the US (America) Eglish user files. 8 Click Next agai ad, if you do ot have the Professioal editio, skip to the ext step. Otherwise, choose ay check boxes uder Additioal optios to have additioal dialog boxes pop up at the ed of the istallatio, where you ca make chages that affect all users dictatig o this computer. OPTION DESCRIPTION Modify the applicatio s settigs for all users Displays the Optios dialog box at the ed of the istallatio; here you set several optios for all user profiles at oce (see olie Help for details). Useful for a istallatio i a shared area; for example, i a coferece room where multiple professioals could dictate. Modify the admiistrative settigs 12
User Guide OPTION 9 Click Next. DESCRIPTION Displays the Admiistrative Settigs dialog box at the ed of the istallatio, where you set up the Roamig User feature, where to backup your files, ad who ca modify commads/vocabularies. Modify the formattig optios Displays Auto-Formattig dialog box at ed of istallatio, where you apply uiform formattig to all documets dictated at this istallatio; for example, formats for dates, times, ad phoe umbers. You also set whether to expad cotractios, apply abbreviatios, ad isert commas automatically. See olie Help for more details. 10Click Istall to start the istallatio. 11Whe the istallatio completes, proceed with ay of the followig sectios that apply to your custom istallatio: Modifyig applicatio settigs for all users o page 14 Modifyig admiistrative settigs o page 14 Modifyig formattig optios for all users o page 15 12Whe you are prompted to register the product, select oe of the registratio optios. 13Click OK to register the product ad click it agai to proceed. 14Check Yes, check for program updates after the setup completes to dowload ay updates after the setup completes ad click Fiish to complete the istallatio. 15If you chose to upgrade user profiles earlier, whe the message about upgradig your user profiles pops up, click OK. (The message might tell you that the istallatio will ot be complete util after your system is restarted.) 16If you were told you eed to reboot i order to complete the istallatio, reboot your computer ow. 13
Istallatio ad User Profile Creatio 17Select Start > All Programs > Drago NaturallySpeakig 11.5 > Drago NaturallySpeakig 11.5 or click o the Drago desktop ico. 18If you have users from Versio 9.x, 10.x or 11.0 that you would like to upgrade before proceedig, refer to Upgradig User Profiles o page 26. Otherwise, if you have o previously existig users, the Profile Creatio wizard starts immediately ad you ca create a user profile as explaied uder Creatig your user profile o page 16. Modifyig applicatio settigs for all users If you checked off Modify the applicatio s settigs for all users durig a custom istallatio, the Optios dialog box opes immediately after the istallatio completes. NOTE: If you did a typical istallatio, ope the Optios dialog box by ruig Drago ad selectig Tools > Optios. I the Optios dialog box, you see several tabs you ca use to set up various aspects of dictatig with the product: Correctio Commads View Hot keys Playback/ Text-to-speech For more iformatio o each tab, see the olie Help. Modifyig admiistrative settigs If you checked Modify the admiistrative settigs durig a custom istallatio, the Admiistrative Settigs dialog box opes immediately after the istallatio eds. NOTE: If you did a typical istallatio, ope the Admiistrative Settigs dialog box by ruig Drago without opeig a user ad selectig Tools > Admiistrative Settigs. I the Admiistrative Settigs dialog box, you see these tabs: Roamig To set up roamig users. Miscellaeous Data Miscellaeous To create backup/distributio directories ad cotrol who ca modify custom commads. 14
User Guide Scheduled Tasks To schedule voice recogitio optimizatio ad data collectio for improved accuracy, ad let users modify the schedule. For details, refer to the Help by clickig the Help butto. Modifyig formattig optios for all users If you chose to modify formattig optios o the Custom Setup page durig a custom istallatio, the Auto-Formattig dialog box opes after the istallatio completes. NOTE: If you did ot do a custom istallatio, to set up formattig: Ru Drago, ope a user, ad select Tools > Formattig. The Auto-Formattig dialog box for all versios of Drago NaturallySpeakig appears as show below. Choose the optios to apply to your dictated documets. 15
Istallatio ad User Profile Creatio Creatig your user profile Before you ca begi usig Drago, you must let Drago create a user profile for each perso who is dictatig. Your user profile stores acoustic iformatio about your voice that Drago uses to recogize what you say. This profile also stores ay chages you make to the stadard vocabulary ay special words, ames, acroyms, ad abbreviatios you add. Whe you lauch the software for the first time, the Profile Creatio wizard starts ad leads you through creatig your user profile: NOTE: If you upgraded a sigle user from a earlier versio, Drago opes that user s profile. If you upgraded multiple users, it displays profiles for all upgraded users i the Ope User dialog box. To create a user profile: 1 I the Creatig a user profile page, click Next i the lower right corer to proceed. 2 Proceed through the wizard, fillig i the iformatio it requests ad clickig Next to proceed. 16
User Guide Whe the wizard asks for your ame, you ca eter your first ame oly, a ickame, or your first ad last ame. The wizard asks for your age to help Drago work with vocal differeces it associates with differet age rages. The wizard also asks for regio of the world you live i to help Drago iterpret your speech based o regioal differeces. 3 Whe the Help Drago uderstad how your proouce words page appears, select your accet. The accets you ca choose from are: Stadard Select if your accet is ot covered by aother choice or your are ot sure which accet to select. Australia acceted Eglish British acceted Eglish Idia acceted Eglish Ilad Norther US (Great Lakes area) Upstate New York through the Chicago area SEAsia acceted Eglish South East Asia Souther US Most of Souther Uited States, icludig Texas Spaish acceted Eglish Determiig your ow accet ca be difficult. For example, say you grew up i oe part of the Uited States but have lived log eough i aother part to lesse your origial regioal accet. If you have ay doubt about pickig a accet, select Stadard ad allow Drago to lear your accet. If you do ot select a specific accet (i other words, you select the Stadard accet), you may wat to perform Acoustic Optimizatio after usig the product for several hours. Acoustic Optimizatio updates your user profile with accumulated acoustic data from ay correctios ad additioal traiig you may have doe. Ruig Acoustic Optimizatio will icrease your overall accuracy. I the 17
Istallatio ad User Profile Creatio process of icreasig your accuracy, Acoustic Optimizatio may select a differet accet for you. If you select a specific accet, Acoustic Optimizatio will still icrease your overall accuracy, but will ot chage your accet. Oce you have selected a specific accet for a user, you caot chage it later. Drago Versio 11.5 lets you create ad trai users i multiple laguages. If you have purchased a editio with support for more tha oe laguage, you ca add laguages by later choosig Custom durig the istallatio ad havig the Drago DVD available to istall the laguage files durig the process of creatig user profiles. 4 Whe the How do you talk to your computer? page appears, select your type of microphoe from the list of Microphoes. If you record your speech usig a recordig device, select a recorder from the list of Recorders. 5 I the Review your choices page, be sure the iformatio is correct before you proceed. 6 Drago automatically chooses a speech model to use as the foudatio for your idividual user profile. It also selects the vocabulary it uses to recogize words correctly based ot oly o their soud, but also o their cotext. However, if you wat to select a particular speech model ad vocabulary, you ca click the Advaced butto ad i the Choose models page select a: Speech model from the drop-dow list for Speech model. Drago uses the speech model to adapt to your voice durig traiig. Drago automatically recommeds the type of speech model ad vocabulary that is appropriate for your computer s speed/memory. Usually, you should follow Drago s recommedatio Type of vocabulary from the Vocabulary type list: Medium Requires at least 512 MB of RAM. Large Requires at least 1 GB of RAM. 18
User Guide Empty Dictatio (Professioal editio oly) Vocabulary with a laguage model but without ay words, desiged for experieced users or resellers who wat to create highly specialized vocabularies. 7 Click OK to save your selectios i the Choose models page ad retur to the Profile Creatio wizard. 8 Click the Create butto i the lower right corer of the page to create your user profile. Whe Drago fiishes creatig your user profile, it takes you through the ext part of the process. Proceed to Settig up/ positioig your microphoe o page 19. Settig up/positioig your microphoe Whe Drago fiishes creatig your user profile, it displays the Positio your microphoe properly page, where it begis to lead you through the process of settig up your microphoe. Followig the wizard s istructios, positio your microphoe. Positioig the microphoe correctly is importat. If the microphoe is out of place, Drago might ot be able to hear you clearly ad make mistakes. Cosistet positioig is also importat. Make sure that you positio the microphoe the same way each time you dictate. Here are some tips o usig particular types of microphoes: Usig a headset microphoe Positio the microphoe about a half-ich (approximately the width of your thumb) from your mouth ad a little off to the side. The microphoe should ot touch your mouth, but it ca be almost touchig your lips. If you eed to move the microphoe out of the way, lift the boom up ad over your head, rather tha bedig it out of positio or removig the headset. Usig a hadheld microphoe Hold the microphoe oe to three iches from your mouth ad a little off to the side. 19
Istallatio ad User Profile Creatio If the volume display o the DragoBar TM turs red, try holdig the microphoe slightly farther from your mouth. Usig a array microphoe Positio the array 18 to 30 iches from/poited at your mouth. Avoid blockig the path betwee your mouth ad the array, for example by holdig a book or paper i frot of your face. Avoid havig ay source of oise or sigal other tha your voice directly facig the array withi at least 15 feet. 9 After you have positioed the microphoe, click Next to cotiue with Checkig microphoe volume/soud quality o page 20. Checkig microphoe volume/soud quality After you have positioed the microphoe ad clicked Next, you see the Drago will adjust your volume page. 1 Click the Start Volume Check butto ad the read aloud the text displayed i the box. 2 Whe the program beeps to idicate it has fiished checkig the volume, click Next. 3 Whe the Drago will test the quality of your soud system page appears, click Start Quality Check ad the read aloud the text displayed i the box. 4 The program beeps whe it has fiished evaluatig the soud quality of your system. If Drago displays Passed, click Next to cotiue. NOTE: Widows Vista or XP: If you get a Soud level is too low error while creatig a Drago user profile, to boost the microphoe s volume: 1. Select Start > Cotrol Pael > Soud ad Audio Devices. 2. O the Voice tab, click the Volume... butto uder Voice recordig to ope the Recordig Cotrol dialog box. 3. Set the volume level for the appropriate iput device type. 20
User Guide 5 Cotiue with Traiig a ew user profile o page 21. Traiig a ew user profile Immediately after you create your profile, before you begi dictatig, you trai Drago to uderstad your voice. Performig traiig either durig or after creatig a user profile ehaces your recogitio accuracy. I iitial traiig you read aloud for several miutes from oe of the available texts. NOTE: For iformatio o traiig a mobile user, see the olie help. If you skipped traiig earlier to ope a user profile, from the DragoBar meu, select Profile > Ope User Profile ad select your ame i the list; the click Ope to proceed. Sice you have ot completed traiig, optios for Traiig appear. To trai a ew user: 1 Whe the Read text aloud to trai Drago page of the wizard appears, choose from these traiig optios: Show text with promptig Show text without promptig Skip traiig (ot recommeded) 2 I the Read Traiig Text page of the wizard, click Go. 3 If you chose the first traiig optio (Show text with promptig): A yellow arrow showig you where to start readig appears. Click Go ad begi readig the text. To take breaks while you re traiig the program, click Pause. NOTE: To advace through the first two screes, you must say the seteces without pausig. For the rest of the screes, it s okay to pause i the middle of a setece. Whe the words chage color, it meas the computer has heard ad recogized them. 21
Istallatio ad User Profile Creatio If you eed to re-read the same words, click Redo, the reread them. If the computer still does t get it, just click Skip. Otherwise, click Next to cotiue. 4 If you chose the secod traiig optio (Show text without promptig): I the Read Traiig Text page, uder Choosig text to read, choose a text to read aloud ad click Next. Whe the Text Display page appears, choose how you wat to read the text, from the scree or from a prited page. If you choose to read from a prited page, click Prit to prit the text. Click Next to cotiue. If you chose to read the text from the scree, the Speakig to the computer page appears ad advises you to positio your microphoe. After you positio your microphoe, click Trai to begi. I the Speakig to the Computer popup, click Begi Traiig ad read the text i the box. Click Next page to proceed from page to page. 5 Whe the list pops up, choose a text to read aloud ad click OK. You eed to read for oly about 5 miutes to trai Drago to recogize your voice. You ca take breaks durig this traiig by clickig Pause. Do t worry if you make mistakes or laugh. You should try to read exactly what you see o the scree, but it s okay if you read somethig icorrectly. The computer either igores the mistake or positios the yellow arrow at the begiig of the text for you to reread it. The progress bar shows how much text is left to dictate. NOTE: Durig traiig, dictatig puctuatio is ot ecessary. 6 Whe you ve read eough, the Traiig wizard displays a cogratulatios message. Click OK ad Drago starts adaptig to your voice. 22
User Guide 7 Proceed to Adaptig to your writig style, schedulig tuig o page 23. Adaptig to your writig style, schedulig tuig After it adapts to your voice, Drago s Accuracy wizard appears ad prompts you to first adapt Drago to your writig style, the schedule regular Acoustic ad Laguage Model tuig, ad optioally schedule Data Collectio. Adaptig to your writig style (Let Drago search for words ad add them ow) Drago ca aalyze your writig style to icrease your overall recogitio accuracy. This tool scas documets i your My Documets directory Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, text files, html files, ad rich text files (.rtf). Adaptig to your writig style ca add 5 to 30 miutes to user traiig. Close all other programs whe you ru this step. NOTE: Though we recommed that you ru this part of the New User Wizard, if you pla to skip this step, select Skip this step rather tha Cacel. 1 I the Let Drago search for words ad add them ow page of the Accuracy wizard, to have Drago search for words ad phrases you use i your email messages, select the Set E-mails check box. To have Drago search your word processig ad text files, select the My Documets check box. 2 Click Start to iitiate the search for words. While scaig your files, the dialog box displays the process s status. Whe Drago fiishes searchig, it displays a message tellig you to click Next to cotiue ad proceed with Let Drago automatically improve your accuracy o page 24. 23
Istallatio ad User Profile Creatio Let Drago automatically improve your accuracy 24 After it adapts to your writig style, the Accuracy wizard gives you the optio of settig up a schedule to automatically ru Acoustic ad Laguage Model tuig processes: NOTE: Acoustic ad Laguage Model tuig processes add commoly used word sequeces the user dictates as well as acoustic data from ay correctios ad additioal traiig the user executes. Schedulig tuig processes helps Drago lear from you ad makes your dictatio more accurate. 1 I the Let Drago automatically improve your accuracy page, to have Drago periodically tue your user profile to improve your accuracy, be sure to check the Automatically improve accuracy check box. If you do ot chage the schedules, by default Drago iitiates Acoustic tuig every Moday at 2 AM ad Laguage Model tuig every day at 3 AM. 2 If you wat to have Drago tue your user profile at a differet time or more or less ofte, click the Chage Schedule butto ad, i the Select Time ad Frequecy dialog box, set the schedules o both the Acoustics ad Laguage Model tabs. The schedules do ot have to be the same. As a rule, you should try to ru these processes whe you are ot dictatig ad ru the Laguage Model tuig more ofte. 3 Be sure that you check the Eable check box o both the Acoustics ad Laguage Model tabs or the tuig processes occur o the default schedule, rather tha the schedule you set. 4 Click Next to cotiue. Schedulig data collectio (Help us improve Drago) After it lets you set the schedule for accuracy tuig, the Accuracy wizard lets you set whether or ot to collect data ad schedule whe it should be collected: NOTE: Whe you set Data Collectio to ru, it collects up to 500 MB of acoustic data ad text from your dictatio sessios. Oce the data is collected, you have the optio of sedig it to Nuace to help improve
User Guide the accuracy of future versios of Drago. No persoal iformatio is ever set to Nuace ad participatio i data collectio is completely volutary. 1 I the Help us improve Drago page, you ca choose: Ru Data Collectio Do t ru Data Collectio but remid about this later Do t ru Data Collectio 2 If you choose Ru Data Collectio, click Chage Schedule ad set what time ad how ofte the data is set to Nuace i the Select Time ad Frequecy dialog box (Daily, Weekly or Mothly). If you do collect data, by default Drago iitiates the process every Wedesday at 12:30 AM. 3 Be sure that you check the Eable check box i the Select Time ad Frequecy dialog box or the collected data is set to Nuace o the default schedule, rather tha o the schedule you set. 4 Click Next to cotiue. 5 Whe the Cogratulatios, your profile is ready to use page appears, you ca ow: Choose to ru the tutorial. Lear about the may improvemets i Versio 11.5. Modify how Drago presets itself to you. Begi dictatig. 6 Click Fiish to close the wizard. To upgrade existig user profiles before dictatig, proceed to Upgradig User Profiles o page 26. Or to begi dictatig, proceed to the ext chapter, Startig to Dictate o page 31. How Drago automatically cofigures user profile After you create a user, Drago automatically aalyzes your hardware ad chages the default settigs of your users to optimize performace. 25
Istallatio ad User Profile Creatio Depedig o your hardware, you might receive a message that the amout of RAM (memory) o your computer is relatively low for the operatig system. Whe you use Drago o such a computer, try ot to have more tha oe or two applicatios ope. Upgradig User Profiles If you chose to upgrade existig users durig the istallatio, the User Upgrade Wizard appears the first time you ru Versio 11.5. NOTE: If you do ot wat to upgrade users right ow, you ca exit from the wizard ad do it later. Otherwise, you ca start the User Upgrade Wizard from the Widows Start meu at ay time. To upgrade existig users: 1 To start the User Upgrade Wizard, select Start > All Programs > Drago NaturallySpeakig 11.5 > Drago NaturallySpeakig Tools > Upgrade Users. The User Upgrade Wizard appears. 2 O the Select Users to Upgrade page, modify the list of users to iclude users that you wat to upgrade. The wizard starts by icludig all users i the curret folder as cadidates to upgrade. You add users to the list by clickig the Add butto ad browsig for additioal users i other locatios. You remove users from the list by selectig them ad clickig the Remove butto. After the list cotais oly the users you wat to upgrade, click Next. 26
User Guide 3 Click Next ad choose the locatio for the upgraded user profiles. As the User Upgrade Wizard modifies your user files to work with the ewest versio, it ca place the upgraded user i aother locatio while keepig the old files utouched, i case you eed them agai. 4 Click the Browse butto i the Choose Destiatio page of the wizard to select the locatio for the upgraded user profiles. If you do ot set a locatio, Drago places the profiles i the default locatio (see Versio 11.5 File Structure o page 28). 5 (Optioal) If you wat to make chages to the user locatios, base vocabularies, ad/or acoustic models, click the Advaced butto ad the Advaced Optios dialog box opes. I this dialog box, you ca make fier adjustmets to how the wizard upgrades particular users. You see a list of the users beig upgraded. For each user you see the user ame, old locatio, vocabulary, ad oe or more acoustic models. Whe you click o the locatio lie of a user i the list, the New Locatio text box below the list becomes available. You ca click Browse ad select a ew locatio. Whe you click o the vocabulary lie of a user i the list, the New Base Vocabulary text box below the list becomes available. You ca choose a ew base vocabulary from the drop-dow list. Whe you click o the acoustic model lie of a user i the list, the New Acoustic Model text box below the list becomes available. You ca choose a ew combiatio laguage, laguage model, ad accet from the drop-dow list. 6 Click OK to retur to the wizard. 7 Click Next to proceed to the Upgrade Users page where you click Begi to begi the upgrade process. Expect to wait approximately 5 miutes for each user beig upgraded. 8 Whe the upgrade process is complete, click Fiish. 27
Istallatio ad User Profile Creatio Versio 11.5 File Structure NOTE: File locatios show apply to istallatios i the default locatio. The ext two sectios tell you where Drago places files o your computer. The locatios vary, depedig o your operatig system. Widows XP Pro/XP Home/Widows Server 2003/2008 directory structure Drago Program directory You ca specify this locatio durig the istallatio. C:\Program Files\Nuace\NaturallySpeakig11 \Ereg \Help \Program \Tutorial (optioal) Data ad user directories You caot chage this locatio Drago always istalls these directories to your \Documet ad Settigs directory. C:\Documets ad Settigs\All Users\Applicatio Data\Nuace\NaturallySpeakig11\ \Data \Data\Traiig \results Roamig Users \Users C:\Documets ad Settigs\<userame>\Applicatio Data\Nuace\NaturallySpeakig11\Results Widows Vista ad Widows 7 directory structure Drago Program directory You ca specify this locatio durig the istallatio. C:\Program Files\Nuace\NaturallySpeakig11 \Ereg \Help 28
User Guide \Program \Tutorial (optioal) Data ad user directories You caot chage this locatio Drago always istalls these directories to your \Documet ad Settigs directory. C:\ProgramData\Nuace\NaturallySpeakig11\ \Data \Data\Traiig \results Roamig Users \Users C:\Users\<userame>\AppData\Roamig\Nuace\ NaturallySpeakig11\Results Cleaig up after uistallig The followig files remai o your machie after you uistall: \Widows\Speech\ VText.dll Vdict.dll WrapSAPI.dll XTel.Dll Xcommad.dll Xliste.dll Xvoice.dll spchtel.dll speech.ct speech.dll Drago istalls these files for Microsoft SAPI4 support. You do ot eed these files if you do ot have other speech applicatios that require SAPI4. If you do have applicatios that require SAPI4 support, you might eed to re-istall those applicatios if you remove these files. Accessig log files, samples, ad tools speech.hlp vcauto.tlb vcmd.exe vcmshl.dll vtxtauto.tlb You ca ope log files ad samples from the desktop: NaturallySpeakig log file (drago.log) Select Start > Programs > Drago NaturallySpeakig 11.5 > Show Drago Log. NaturallySpeakig setup files (dgsetup.log) Select Start > Programs > Drago NaturallySpeakig 11.5 > Show Setup Log. 29
Istallatio ad User Profile Creatio Structured commad samples Select Start > Programs > Drago NaturallySpeakig 11.5 > MyCommads Samples. (Professioal editio oly) Tools Select Start > All Programs > Drago NaturallySpeakig 11.5 > Drago NaturallySpeakig Tools. (Professioal editio oly) 30
Startig to Dictate N Startig Drago C H A P T E R ow that you ve istalled the software ad completed traiig, you re ready to dictate your first setece. 3 If Drago NaturallySpeakig is ot already ruig, you ca start it by: Double-clickig the Drago ico o the desktop. Selectig Start > Programs > Drago NaturallySpeakig 11.5 > Drago NaturallySpeakig 11.5. If the QuickStart optio is eabled, right-clickig the QuickStart taskbar tray ico ad selectig Start Drago. For more o usig the QuickStart optio, see Usig QuickStart o page 44. NOTE: You ca start Drago over a Remote Desktop coectio (Widows XP Professioal ad Widows XP Home), but iteractive dictatio is ot supported. Usig a Remote Desktop coectio, you ca access the DragoBar ad trascribe dictatio but you caot use a microphoe attached to the remote machie to dictate. 31
Startig to Dictate Turig o the microphoe Before you ca dictate, you eed to tur o the microphoe. To tur o the microphoe, you: Click the microphoe ico o the DragoBar. You ca click this ico agai to tur it off. Press the plus (+) key o the umeric keypad to Microphoe ico tur the microphoe o, ad the press it agai to tur the microphoe off. Click the microphoe ico i the Widows task bar. The butto ad the volume meter o the DragoBar chage to show if the microphoe is off or o. Shows that the microphoe is off Shows that the microphoe is o NOTE: voice. Sleepig ad wakig up Oce the microphoe is off, you caot tur it o agai by To make Drago stop listeig temporarily: 1 Say Go to Sleep or Stop Listeig. The Drago igores everythig except the Wake Up or Liste To Me commads. 2 To reactivate the microphoe, say Wake Up or Liste To Me. You ca also press the umeric plus (+) key to tur o/off the microphoe. 32
User Guide Startig to dictate To begi dictatig, start a word processor (such as Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect ) ad begi a ew documet. Make sure your text isertio poit is at the start of the ew documet. DragoPad You ca use the DragoPad, a simple word processor icluded with Drago. To ope the DragoPad, from the Tools meu o the DragoBar, click DragoPad. TIP: Remember to click i the widow you wat to talk to before you speak. Start talkig. As you speak, Drago 11.5 idicates that it is processig by displayig a small Drago logo at your isertio poit, ad whe you pause, your dictated words appear i your documet. Our research shows that this eables may users to dictate better, without beig distracted by seeig the prelimiary results accumulatig i the Results Box, as i previous versios. The traditioal Results Box is still available from the View tab of the Optios dialog box. (From What s ew) Do t worry about mistakes at this poit; Drago improves as you use it. Usig Natural Puctuatio Drago ca automatically add periods ad commas at the appropriate places i your dictatio without you havig to explicitly speak that puctuatio. The Natural Puctuatio feature ca be useful i helpig you get used to dictatio by focusig o what you are sayig rather tha how your speech is puctuated. Natural Puctuatio iserts oly periods ad commas. You have to dictate other puctuatio marks. Eve with Natural Puctuatio tured o, you ca still dictate periods ad commas. As you become more adept at dictatio ad wat more 33
Startig to Dictate cotrol over where puctuatio appears, you may wat to explicitly dictate all your puctuatio. NOTE: You ca tur Natural Puctuatio o ad off by voice by sayig "autopuctuatio o" ad "autopuctuatio off" or by selectig Tools > Auto-Formattig Optios from the meu of the DragoBar ad clickig Automatically add commas ad periods. For more iformatio o Natural Puctuatio see Usig Natural Puctuatio o page 111. Dictatig puctuatio You ca dictate puctuatio at ay time while you are usig Drago, eve whe Natural Puctuatio is eabled. Use the followig list as a guide to dictatig the most commo puctuatio marks. (For a complete list of puctuatio, see the olie help.) TO ENTER SAY (US/Caada) SAY (Other Dialects), comma comma. period full stop! exclamatio poit or exclamatio mark Startig ew lies ad paragraph exclamatio mark? questio mark questio mark - hyphe hyphe : colo colo While you are dictatig, you ca use the followig commads to duplicate the actio of pressig the ENTER key oce (to add a ew lie) or twice (to add a ew paragraph). TO Add a ew lie Add a ew paragraph SAY New Lie New Paragraph 34
User Guide Tips for dictatig text Sayig "New Paragraph" presses the ENTER key twice ad capitalizes the ext word you dictate. To erase the last thig you said, say Scratch That. You ca repeat Scratch That to udo a sequece of phrases. To udo the effects of a commad, say Udo That. If Udo That fails to udo a actio, try repeatig the commad util you completely udo the operatio. To stop a recogitio i progress (ad tur the microphoe off), click the small red butto iside the Results Box. You ca chage the very last phrase you spoke by sayig Bold That, Cap That, Correct That, ad so o; you do ot have to select the text first. To remove a trailig space after a word, you ca say Delete Previous Character. You ca create a spoke form for words you prefer ot to say aloud. For example, you ca create a commad that types Sookums wheever you say Mary's ickame. To clear (deselect) your last selectio, say Uselect That. For iformatio o correctig ay mistakes, see Chapter 5, Correctig ad Editig o page 69. Usig the Dictatio Box Normally you ca dictate ad use Drago voice commads i ay text widow of ay applicatio. However, you may occasioally fid a applicatio or a specific widow i a applicatio where some voice commads wo t work or wo t work cosistetly. I these situatios, you ca use a special widow, called the Dictatio Box. You use the Dictatio Box to dictate ad edit text i these o-stadard widows without the difficulties you might otherwise experiece. 35
Startig to Dictate To start the Dictatio Box: 1 Place you cursor where you wat to put the text. 2 Start the Dictatio Box by either: Sayig Show Dictatio Box Select Tools > Dictatio Box from the DragoBar Use CTRL + SHIFT + D 3 Whe the Dictatio Box displays, you ca dictate ad edit text iside the Dictatio Box usig all Drago commads. 4 Oce you are doe dictatig ad editig the text, say or click Trasfer. The text you dictated i the Dictatio Box is trasferred to the applicatio. For more iformatio o usig the Dictatio Box with a ostadard widow, see the olie help. Pritig ad savig your dictated text Pritig From the File meu of your word processor, use the mouse to choose Prit. Or say Click File, pause, ad say Prit. You ca also simply say Prit Documet or Prit File if the Natural Laguage Commads are eabled. See the olie help for more iformatio. Savig Gettig Help From the File meu, choose Save. You ca also say Click File ad the say Save. Remember, you have to pause betwee the Click File ad the Save commads to have Drago recogize them as two separate commads. If the Natural Laguage Commads have bee eabled, you ca say Save Documet. To access the olie Help for Drago, click the Help meu o the DragoBar ad choose Help Topics. Alteratively, you ca say Give Me Help. 36
User Guide You ca prit idividual Help topics with the Prit butto i the Help widow. To ope the olie Help liks, just say their ames. The liks display ext to the applicatio widow ad give you examples of the most commo commads that work i the applicatio you are curretly usig. The olie help icludes the followig iformatio ot foud i this user guide: Creatig ad Maagig Users Dictatio Guidelies Dictatig usig a Portable Recorder Dictatig with a Roamig User Correctig Recogitio Errors Revisig Text Improvig Recogitio Accuracy Workig o Your Desktop Workig i Programs Creatig Commads with MyCommads Drago Tools What Ca I Say? Sayig What Ca I Say? brigs up the Drago Sidebar with Drago Tips displayig below it. The Drago Sidebar displays a selectio of useful commads that Drago recogizes for the curret cotext, whether it is a particular program you are usig or the Widows desktop. To ope the Drago Sidebar: 1 Choose Drago Sidebar from the Help meu o the DragoBar or say either What ca I say or Show SideBar. 37
Startig to Dictate 2 The Drago Sidebar opes, displayig a selectio of commads ext to the widow you are workig i. The cotets of the Drago Sidebar chage depedig o the applicatio that is active. For example, whe you switch betwee Microsoft Outlook ad the DragoBar, the cotets of the Drago Sidebar chage accordigly. DragoBar commads MS Outlook commads NOTE: Commads marked with a asterisk (*) are available oly if you selected the Eable Natural Laguage Commads check box o the Commads tab of the Optios dialog box. 3 To see commads for the Widows Desktop, click o the desktop ad watch the commads i the Drago Sidebar chage. 38
User Guide NOTE: A list of Global commads (available everywhere) appears if there are o Drago commads available for the active program. Widows Desktop commads available o the desktop ad Global commads available i all widows. Global commads Desktop commads 4 To see additioal commads for the curret program, click the Mouse or MyCommads tab alog the top of the Drago Sidebar. Or click oe of the icos to the upper right (see ext illustratio) to ope: Commad Browser Vocabulary Editor Optios dialog box Drago Help 39
Startig to Dictate Mouse Commads MyCommads Icos to the top far right o Sidebar ope various fuctios iside Drago.} Vocabulary Commad Editor Browser Optios dialog box Drago Help Tutorial Troubleshootig The DragoBar 5 For more iformatio, see the olie help. To start the Tutorial, choose Tutorial from the Help meu o the DragoBar. The Tutorial icludes a umber of lessos coverig the basics of Drago. If you are havig problems usig Drago, or if you are gettig uexpected results, please refer to the Resolvig Problems ad Tips sectios of the olie help. The DragoBar gives you access to Drago fuctios ad TM features. Volume Display Meus Microphoe Status Extras 40
User Guide Microphoe butto ad volume display Volume display Whe the microphoe is o, the Volume Display shows the soud level: Yellow meas silece or that you are speakig too softly. Gree meas that you are speakig at a proper level Red meas that you are speakig too loudly. The Full Text Cotrol idicator The DragoBar icludes a Full Text Cotrol idicator that turs gree whe you are i a applicatio or widow where all of Drago s fuctioality is supported. Full Text Cotrol idicator (looks like check mark) displays i gree to show that you ca dictate. Normally you ca dictate ad use Drago voice commads i ay text widow of ay applicatio. However, you may occasioally fid a applicatio or a particular widow i a applicatio where some voice commads wo t work or wo t work cosistetly. Whe you are i a o-stadard widow, the Full Text Cotrol idicator goes out, idicatig that you may have some difficulty selectig ad editig dictated text. Also, whe you start dictatig ito a o-stadard widow, the DragoBar will display Dictatig ito a o-stadard widow. If you have difficulty i dictatig or correctig i oe of these o-stadard widows, use the Dictatio Box. See the olie help for more iformatio o usig the Dictatio Box. 41
Startig to Dictate Extras toolbar If the butto is i your editio of Drago, you ca click the Extras butto o the far right of the DragoBar to ope the Extras toolbar. The Extras toolbar displays buttos for trascribig had-held recorder audio ad playig back your dictatio. Stop Start Playback Playback Correctio Butto Skip Forward Skip Back Read That Trascribe Butto Correctio Clickig the Correctio butto opes the Correctio meu to teach the computer what you said. See Chapter 5, Correctig ad Editig o page 69. Trascribe Use this butto to trascribe your speech from a hadheld recorder. See the olie help for more iformatio. Start Playback ad Stop Playback Whe you select text ad click the Start Playback butto, you hear a recordig of your dictatio. A yellow arrow displays o your scree durig playback, followig what you said. Click the Stop Playback butto to stop the recorded speech playback. Read That Whe you select text ad click the Read That butto, Drago reads the text to you. Skip Back ad Skip Forward Use these buttos to skip backward or forward oe utterace. To Drago, a utterace is a group of words said together without pausig. You ca display the Extras meu items i the mai DragoBar. See the olie help for more iformatio. 42
User Guide Chagig the DragoBar positio To chage the positio of the DragoBar, click the Drago ico at the far left of the DragoBar. A meu displays that lets you move the DragoBar to various positios o your display: S EL ECT... T O... Docked to Top (default) mode lock the DragoBar to the top of the scree. Docked to Bottom mode lock the DragoBar to the bottom of the scree. Floatig mode freely positio the DragoBar. Clig mode make the DragoBar appear just above the widow you are dictatig ito. Tray Ico Oly mode hide the DragoBar completely ad display the Microphoe ico oly i the Widows task bar. NOTE: You ca also hide the DragoBar by sayig Switch to Tray Ico Oly Mode. To make a hidde DragoBar reappear, right-click o the small microphoe i the lower right corer of the scree. From the meu that appears, click Restore Previous DragoBar Mode. Cotrollig Drago with voice commads You ca operate Drago with voice commads. For example, to show the Extras toolbar, say Show Extras Bar. For a list of other voice commads that cotrol Drago, see Cotrollig the DragoBar i the olie help. 43
Startig to Dictate Usig QuickStart The Drago QuickStart taskbar tray ico gives you quick access to Drago ad recet users. Right-clickig the QuickStart ico displays the QuickStart meu. NOTE: This optio is istalled at the ed of Drago setup process. Whe i QuickStart mode, Drago lauches automatically at system startup time ad adds the Drago ico to the Widows taskbar. To eable QuickStart: Two ways to eable QuickStart mode are: Durig Custom istallatio. If durig the istallatio you choose to set Drago optios, whe the istallatio is complete. By clickig the Drago ico i the upper left corer of the DragoBar ad selectig Tray Ico Oly Mode. See Usig QuickStart o page 45 for more iformatio. To shut off/permaetly disable QuickStart: 1 I the DragoBar meu, select Tools > Optios ad click the Miscellaeous tab of the Optios dialog box. 2 De-select Lauch i QuickStart mode o Widows startup. To Redisplay the DragoBar: To display the DragoBar while the product is ruig i QuickStart mode, right-click o the microphoe ico i the QuickStart taskbar tray ad select Restore Previous DragoBar Mode. To Temporarily Disable QuickStart: To temporarily disable QuickStart, right-click the QuickStart taskbar tray ico ad select Exit. This actio exists Drago ad removes the QuickStart tray ico from the Widows taskbar. Whe you re-start Widows, the QuickStart taskbar tray ico re-displays. 44
User Guide Usig QuickStart You access QuickStart by right-clickig the Drago QuickStart taskbar tray ico. This actio displays QuickStart meus that parallel the meus i the DragoBar. S EL ECT... TO... Tur Drago s Microphoe O/Off Tur o or off the microphoe. Profile > Take ay actio you would otherwise takefrom the Profile meu. Add a audio source; add a vocabulary; ope, close, save,,maage. backup or restore a user profile. Tools > Ope ay optio from the Tools meu. Vocabulary > Ope ay optio from the Vocabulary meu. Modes > Ope ay optio from the Modes meu. Audio > Ope ay optio from the Audio meu. Help > Ope ay optio from the Help meu. Close DragoBar Shut dow Drago if it is curretly ruig. If the QuickStart ico becomes uavailable for ay reaso, you ca always start Drago from the Widows Start meu. 45
CHAPTER 4 Workig o Your Desktop T his chapter describes how to cotrol almost everythig o your computer with Drago NaturallySpeakig voice commads. Programs, documets, ad folders Usig voice commads, you ca start programs ad ope documets ad folders that appear i your Start meu or desktop. You ca t start Drago by voice. However, you ca have Drago automatically start i Sleep mode wheever you start Widows by selectig Microphoe o (asleep) optio i the Miscellaeous tab of the Optios dialog box. See the olie help for more iformatio. Startig a program To start a program from the Start meu, say Start ad the the ame of the program exactly as it appears o the meu or submeu of the Start meu. You ca also say the ame displayed below the ico o your desktop. For example, to start Microsoft Iteret Explorer, say Start Iteret Explorer. Shorter ames for popular programs From start_ad_exit_programs For the popular Widows programs listed here, you ca use shorter program ames i additio to the stadard program label show o the Start meu or uder the program ico o the Desktop. For other programs you'll eed to say the stadard program label. 47
Workig o Your Desktop MS Word, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office Word MS Excel, Microsoft Excel MS Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Outlook Express MS PowerPoit, Microsoft PowerPoit MS Access, Microsoft Access MS IfoPath, Microsoft IfoPath Iteret Explorer, Microsoft Iteret Explorer Firefox, Mozilla Firefox Corel WordPerfect, WordPerfect Acrobat Reader Lotus Notes Opeig documets ad folders from the Start meu To ope a documet or folder from the Start meu, say Start ad the the ame of the documet or folder exactly as it appears o the meu. For example, to ope a documet amed sales.doc, you could say Start Sales dot doc. To ope a documet amed joural.wpd, you could say Start joural dot w p d. To ope a documet or folder from your Widows desktop, just say Start ad the the ame below the ico. For example, to ope a folder amed Projects, say Start Projects. Say Start Projects to ope the folder. Switchig betwee ope widows You ca switch betwee the widows you have ope by sayig Switch to ad the say the ame of the program or documet widow exactly as it appears i the title bar. 48
User Guide For example, if Microsoft Word is ruig, you ca switch to it by sayig Switch to Microsoft word. You ca also switch betwee ope widows by sayig Switch to Previous Widow (same as pressig ALT +TAB ) ad Switch to Next Widow (same as pressig ALT +SHIFT +TAB ). S AY THI S TO Switch to Next Widow Switch to the ext applicatio. Switch to Previous Widow Switch to the previous applicatio. Switch to Microsoft Word Make Microsoft Word the active applicatio. Switch to (ame of applicatio) Switch to the ope applicatio you say. Say the ame of the applicatio as it appears i the title bar of the applicatio widow. From list_apps_dlg To switch betwee ope programs or widows To list all ope programs: Say "List Programs" or "List all widows." The List of Ope Applicatios widow opes. To list ope widows of multi-documet applicatios: Say "List widows for <program ame>" For example, say "List widows for Microsoft Word" The List of Widows opes. To switch to a ope program or widow: Say "Choose," where is the umber of the program or widow you wat to switch to, or just say the umber ext to the word. For example, say "Choose 2" or "2" OR Choose the umber of the program or widow from the list ad click OK. 49
Workig o Your Desktop Opeig ad closig meus You ca activate ay meu by sayig the meu ame. To ope a meu: 1 Ope a program widow (for example, Microsoft Word) ad make it active. Say the ame of the meu you wat to ope (for example, say File ). If the commad does ot work, try sayig Click ad the the ame of the meu you wat to ope (for example, say Click File ). Say File or Click File Say Save 2 I this example, the File meu should ope. If the commad does t work (for example, if the word click is typed ito your documet), you may have paused i the middle of the commad. 3 Say the ame of a meu item to activate it (for example, say Save ). 4 To close a meu, say Cacel. TIP: To ope the Start meu, say Click Start or Click Start Meu. NOTE: If commads are ofte typed ito your documet istead of recogized as commads, you ca make Drago recogize commads oly whe they are preceded by sayig Click. To do this, select the Require Click to select meus ad cotrols check box o the Commads tab of the Optios dialog box. For more iformatio, see the olie help. 50
User Guide Selectig buttos, tabs, ad optios Whe Drago is ruig, you ca select ay butto, check box, text box, or other dialog box optio you see by sayig its ame. If that does t work, say Click ad the its ame. For example, to select a check box labeled Toolbar, say Toolbar or Click Toolbar. To clear the check box (deselect it), say its ame agai. Say Toolbar or Click Toolbar to select check box. Say Wrap to widow or Click Wrap to widow You ca select tabs by sayig the ame of the tab, aloe or preceded by Click. I the dialog box pictured, you could say Optios or Click Optios to select the Optios tab. You ca also move betwee tabs by sayig Go to Next Tab ad Go to Previous Tab. NOTE: I some programs, you may ot be able to select dialog box items by sayig their ames. If this happes, the followig method of selectig items may work: say Tab Key repeatedly to move to the item you wat, the say Press Space Bar to select it. See also Movig the mouse poiter ad clickig the mouse o page 63. 51
Workig o Your Desktop Usig Widows Desktop commads You ca use voice commads to perform may actios o the Widows Desktop, as show i the table below. TO D O THIS YO U CAN S AY Ope Widows special folders Ope your My Computer widow "Ope My Computer" Ope your My Documets folder "Ope My Documets" Ope your My Pictures folder "Ope My Pictures" Ope your My Music folder "Ope My Music" Ope your My Videos folder "Ope My Videos" Start applicatios ad utilities Start a program by ame "Ope <program ame>" Ope Widows Explorer "Ope Widows Explorer" Ope Widows Help ad Support Ceter "Ope Widows Help" Ope the Widows Task Maager "Ope Task Maager" Ope the Widows Ru dialog box "Ope Ru dialog" 52
User Guide Ope the Widows System Cofiguratio Utility (mscofig) "Ope System Cofiguratio Utility" Ope the Widows Cotrol Pael "Ope Cotrol Pael" Ope the Widows Prit Maager "Ope Prit Maager" Add a priter to your Widows system "Add a ew priter" Add or remove programs to your Widows system "Ope Add or Remove Programs widow" Chage the Widows Display Settigs "Chage Display Settigs" Chage the Widows scree resolutio "Chage scree resolutio" Chage Widows Power Settigs "Chage power settigs" Navigate betwee widows Switch betwee widows "Choose," where is the umber of the widow you wat to switch to. For example, say "Choose 2" OR "Switch to previous widow" OR "Switch to ext widow." 53
Workig o Your Desktop Switch to a specific program or documet "Switch to <program ame>" For example, say "Switch to Microsoft Word" OR "Switch to <documet ame>" OR "List widows for <program ame>" Work with widows Elarge the active widow to the size of your moitor's scree "Maximize widow" Miimize the active widow "Miimize widow" Close the active widow "Close widow" Miimize all widows ad display the Widows Desktop "Show Desktop" "Miimize [all] widows" Retur a maximized widow to its origial size "Restore widow" Restore all miimized widows "Restore [all] widows" Selectig icos o the desktop You ca use voice commads to select icos o the Widows desktop. To select a ico o the desktop: 1 Switch to the Widows desktop. To do this by voice, miimize all ope applicatios ad place the mouse poiter over the desktop ico. Say Mouse Click to make the desktop active. 54
User Guide 2 Say the ame of the ico (for example, My Computer ). Drago types the ico ame ad Widows selects it. 3 To select aother ico, say Move ad the the directio (up, dow, left, right) ad umber of icos (up to 20). For example: Say Move Right 1, Move Dow 2, or Move Up 3. Say My Computer to select the My Computer ico Say Move Dow 2 to select Recycle Bi After you select a ico, you ca say Press Eter to start or ope the program ad Press Shift F10 to display its rightclick meu (as if you had right-clicked the ico with the mouse). You ca also use voice commads for these actios. See Markig ad draggig objects o page 65. Resizig ad closig widows To resize ad close widows, say Click ad the oe of the followig widow commads: S AY THI S TO Click Miimize or Click Cotrol Meu (pause) Miimize Miimize the active widow. Click Maximize or Click Cotrol Meu (pause) Maximize Maximize the active widow. 55
Workig o Your Desktop S AY THIS TO Click Restore or Click Cotrol Meu (pause) Restore Restore widow to previous size. Click Close or Press ALT F4 Close the active program. Press CTRL F4 Close the active documet, ot the whole program (works i may programs). Click Start Meu or Click Start or Press CTRL ESC Ope the Widows Start Meu. NOTE: Click is required for the Cotrol meu commads. TIP: If you have trouble gettig Drago to recogize ay of the widow commads, you ca first ope the Cotrol meu by sayig Click Cotrol Meu, the say the commad. Scrollig i popular programs You ca use the followig commads i may programs to scroll ad move the view through the program's work area. These voice scrollig commads work with Microsoft Office 2003 ad 2007 programs, icludig Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoit, ad IfoPath. From scroll_i_programs TO S AY Start automatic upward scrollig "Start Scrollig Up" Start automatic dowward scrollig "Start Scrollig Dow" Stop automatic scrollig "Stop Scrollig" Icrease the speed of automatic scrollig "Scroll Faster" 56
User Guide Reduce the speed of automatic scrollig "Scroll Slower" Move the visible page up oe lie "Scroll Up" Move the visible page dow oe lie "Scroll Dow" Move up oe lie i the text "Lie Up" Move dow oe lie i the text "Lie Dow" Move the page up by a scree "Page Up" Move the page dow by a scree "Page Dow" Scrollig i widows ad list boxes You ca scroll vertically i a widow (for example, a olie Help widow) or list box by sayig Move Dow ad Move Up ad the a umber of scroll bar arrow clicks (up to 20). For example, say Move Dow 4 or Move Up 10. You ca scroll horizotally by sayig Move Left ad Move Right ad the a umber of scroll bar arrow clicks (up to 20). For example, say Move Left 10 or Move Right 5. Opeig lists ad makig selectios You ca activate ay list box by sayig the list box ame. To ope a list box: 1 Say the ame of the list box you wat to ope. 2 Say Show Choices, Drop List, or Ope List. The list box opes to show all the choices available i the list. To make a selectio from a ope list: 1 Say the full ame of the selectio. 2 Say Move Dow or Move Up ad the umber of places your selectio is from the curret selectio. 57
Workig o Your Desktop Pressig keyboard keys You ca activate Widows meus ad cotrols by pressig keys. With Drago you ca press ay key o your keyboard by voice. You ca press letters, umbers, modifier keys (SHIFT, CTRL, ad ALT ), ad so o. You ca say Press, Press Key, or Type all three voice commads work the same way. NOTE: Scratch That will ot erase keystrokes dictated with the Press Key commads. You must select the text by voice or mouse ad delete it or say Press Delete. Pressig letters You ca press ay letter o your keyboard by sayig Press ad the the letter. Whe you re pressig letters, you must say Press before each oe. For example, to eter txt, say Press t, Press x, Press t, pausig betwee letters. TIP: You ca also spell words usig Spell mode. See Switchig recogitio modes o page 119 for more iformatio. For similar-soudig letters (such as B, D, ad V), you ca use the Iteratioal Commuicatios Alphabet to spell the letter keys, for example, Press alpha or Press bravo or say Press d as i David or Press d for David, ad so o) as if you were spellig to aother perso over the phoe. S AY THEN Press a b ay letter a z or ay iteratioal alphabet word alpha through zulu a as i Albert/Alice/alpha b as i Bill/Buffalo/bravo c as i Cathy/Carl/Charlie d as i David/daughter/delta e as i Edgar/eter/echo 58
User Guide S AY THEN f as i Frak/facy/foxtrot g as i George/gopher/golf h as i Hery/helmet/hotel i as i Iris/Irelad/Idia j as i Joh/justice/Juliet k as i Kare/kitche/kilo l as i Larry/lemo/lima m as i Mickey/magic/Mike as i Nacy/obody/November o as i Otto/over/Oscar p as i Paul/people/papa q as i Queti/questio/Quebec r as i Robert/Rachel/Romeo s as i Sam/Sigapore/sierra t as i Terry/Tyler/tago u as i Ursula/uit/uiform v as i Valerie/visit/Victor w as i Wedy/wake/whiskey x as i Xavier/Xerxes/xray y as i Yolada/Yvoe/yakee z as i Zachary/zookeeper/zulu (you ca also say for istead of as i ) NOTE: You ca say Press c or Press Charlie but you caot say Press Cathy or Press Carl. Capitalizig a letter You ca capitalize a letter by sayig Press Cap, the the letter. 59
Workig o Your Desktop For example, to eter 28K say twety eight ad the Press Cap K (or Press Cap K for Kare ). Pressig umbers You ca press umbers (0 to 9) by sayig Press ad the the umber. For example, say Press 8. Pressig key combiatios Whe you re pressig keys, you ca press ay combiatio of the modifier keys (SHIFT, CTRL, ad ALT ) at the same time as aother key, such as a letter. For example, you ca say: Press Cotrol Z (udoes last actio) Press Alt F (opes File meu) Press Shift Tab (moves backward through dialog box optios) NOTE: Drago igores the commad Press Cotrol Alt Delete (the keyboard shortcut for restartig a computer). 60
User Guide Pressig fuctio ad umeric keypad keys To press a fuctio key (F1 to F12 ), say Press Fuctio ad the the ame of the key. For example, say Press Fuctio 1 to brig up the olie Help. To press the keys o the umeric keypad, say Press Keypad ad the the ame of the key. For example, you ca say Press Keypad Mius to press the keyboard shortcut that opes the Correctio meu. See the complete list below: S AY T HEN Press Keypad 1 Keypad 9 (you ca say ay umber from 0 to 9) All Dialects: Keypad Poit (.) US/Caada: Keypad Period (.) Other Dialects: Keypad Full Stop (.) Keypad Slash (/) Keypad Asterisk (*) Keypad Mius (-) (opes the Correctio meu) Keypad Plus (+) (turs the microphoe o or off) Keypad Star (*) (opes the Drago meu o the DragoBar) Keypad Eter NOTE: Num Lock must be o for the Press Keypad commads to work. You ca say Press Num Lock to tur Num Lock o. 61
Workig o Your Desktop Pressig other keys Here s a list of other keys you ca press by voice: S AY THEN Press Up Arrow Dow Arrow Right Arrow Left Arrow Home Key Ed Key Page Up Page Dow Isert Key Delete Key Cotrol Key Shift Key Alt Key Prit Scree Scroll Lock Pause Key Num Lock Caps Lock 62
User Guide Movig the mouse poiter ad clickig the mouse Drago provides hads-free mouse cotrol with MouseGrid ad the mouse motio voice commads. You ca use these features to positio the mouse poiter aywhere o the scree, click the mouse buttos, ad drag objects all by voice. Movig the mouse poiter with MouseGrid You ca positio the mouse poiter aywhere o the scree by usig MouseGrid. You ca move the poiter relative to the full scree or the active widow. To use MouseGrid: 1 Say MouseGrid to place the MouseGrid over the full scree (as show below) or say MouseGrid Widow to place it over the active widow. For example: 2 Say a grid umber from 1 to 9 to positio the poiter i that umbered area. I this example, to positio the poiter over 63
Workig o Your Desktop the Recycle Bi, say 4. A smaller MouseGrid will appear i the chose grid square. Say 4 to place a smaller MouseGrid over grid square umber 4. 3 To zoom i over the desired area, say aother grid umber. I this example, say 4 to place the poiter over the Recycle Bi ico. 4 Cotiue to say the respective grid umber to zoom i util the mouse poiter is over a ico or other object. You ca use voice commads to click the mouse or mark ad drag the object. See the followig sectios for istructios. TIP: You ca udo the last MouseGrid actio by sayig Udo That. To close MouseGrid, say Cacel. Movig the poiter with the Mouse commad You ca move the mouse poiter up, dow, left, or right a short distace (a few millimeters) by usig the mouse poiter commads. You ca combie movig the mouse poiter ad clickig the mouse i a sigle voice commad. For example, you ca say Mouse Up 3 Click or Mouse Right 2 Double Click. 64
User Guide To move the poiter: 1 Say Mouse followed by the directio ad umber of times to move it (up to 10). For example, say Mouse Up 5 or Mouse Left 10. 2 Whe the poiter is over a ico or other object, you ca use voice commads to click the mouse or mark ad drag the object. Clickig the mouse You ca click, double-click, left-click, ad right-click the mouse buttos by voice. To click the mouse: 1 Positio the mouse poiter over the object you wat to select (for example, say MouseGrid 9 1 or Mouse 2 ). 2 Say Mouse Click, Mouse Double Click, Mouse Left Click, or Mouse Right Click. Whe a object is selected, you ca mark ad drag the object (as described i the ext sectio). Markig ad draggig objects You ca mark a object ad drag it to a differet locatio by voice. To mark ad drag a object: 1 Positio the mouse over the ico or object you wat to drag ad the say Mark (for example, say MouseGrid 9 1 Mark ). 2 Move the mouse poiter to where you wat to drag the object ad the say Drag (for example, say MouseGrid 6 3 Drag ). TIP: Istead of Drag, you ca also say Cotrol Drag ad Shift Drag to drag while holdig dow the CTRL or SHIFT key. 65
Workig o Your Desktop Draggig the mouse You ca use the followig movemet commads if you select the Eable mouse motio commads check box o the Commads tab of the Optios dialog box. S AY THEN A THEN A S PEED D IRE CTI ON ( OPTI ONAL ) "Drag Mouse" (to move) "Up" "Faster" "Mouse Drag" (to move) "Dow" "Very Fast" "Cotrol Mouse Drag" (to copy) or "Cotrol Drag Mouse" "Right" "Much Faster" "Left" "Slower" "Upper Right" "Very Slow" "Upper Left" "Much Slower" "Lower Right" "Lower Left" Movig the poiter with the mouse motio commads I additio to the mouse movemet methods described above, you ca also move the mouse by usig the mouse motio commads. Say, for example, Move Mouse Right. The mouse poiter begis movig to the right ad keeps movig util you say Stop. 66
User Guide Eablig the mouse motio commads To use the mouse motio commads: 1 From the Tools meu o the DragoBar, choose Optios ad the the Commads tab. 2 Select Eable mouse motio commads ad click OK. 3 Click the Speed butto to choose how fast the mouse poiter moves whe you use a mouse motio commad. The mouse motio commads Here is a summary of the available mouse motio commads. S AY THEN A D I RECT ION THEN A SPE ED ( OPTI ONA L) Move Mouse Mouse Move Drag Mouse Mouse Drag Up Dow Right Left Upper Left Lower Left Upper Right Lower Right Fast Faster Much Faster Very Fast Slow Slower Much Slower Very Slow While the mouse is movig, you ca say ay of the commads above. You ca also say: Stop or Cacel to stop the mouse from movig Up, Dow, Left, Right, Upper Left, Lower Left, Upper Right, or Lower Right to chage the directio i which the mouse is movig Faster, Much Faster, Slower, or Much Slower to chage the speed at which the mouse is movig Click, Double Click, Right Click, or Left Click to click the mouse buttos Go to Sleep, Stop Listeig, or Microphoe Off to tur the microphoe off To specify which mouse butto (left, right, or ceter) is beig held dow durig mouse drags or if you wat the SHIFT, CTRL, 67
Workig o Your Desktop or ALT key held dow durig the mouse drag, use oe of these commads before sayig oe of the drag commads i the precedig table: Left Right Right Shift Middle (requires three-butto mouse) Shift Right Cotrol Cotrol Right Alt Alt For example, to drag with the SHIFT key held dow, you could say Shift Mouse Drag Up. To drag with the right ALT key held dow (the ALT key o the right side of the keyboard), you could say Right Alt Drag Mouse Upper Left. 68
CHAPTER 5 Correctig ad Editig W he Drago NaturallySpeakig types the wrog words, you should correct these mistakes. By givig the program the right word, you actually teach the program ot to make the same mistakes agai. Correctig mistakes requires some extra effort, but it saves you time i the log ru by makig Drago more accurate. You ll probably eed to correct mistakes ofte whe you first start dictatig, ad the less frequetly as the program lears from your correctios. Make it a habit to correct mistakes to cotiue to improve the accuracy of the program. Make sure you save your speech files whe prompted, to preserve the adjustmets the program makes. TIP: You must select a word before typig over it. Usig the backspace key ad retypig (or sayig Scratch That ) will ot eable the software to lear from correctios ad improve recogitio accuracy. For accuracy to improve, you must first select text ad the correct it or overwrite it with the words you said. Correctig mistakes There are a umber of ways you ca correct the misrecogitios i a documet. The followig techiques describe the most basic methods, but you ca combie these techiques i ay maer that suits your workig style. To correct text with the keyboard: 1 Move the isertio poit to the begiig of the dictatio you wat to correct. 2 Press the correctio hot key to display the Correctio meu. By default, this is the mius ( ) key o the umeric keypad. 69
Correctig ad Editig You ca chage the hot key assigmet o the Hot keys tab of the Optios dialog box. You ca also click the Correctio butto o the Extras toolbar of the DragoBar. 3 If oe of the alteratives is correct, press the Dow Arrow key to highlight that choice ad the press ENTER to accept it. If o alterative is correct, just type or say the correct text. 4 Cotiue util all the text is correct. Correctig text usig voice commads 1 Say Select or Correct ad the text that is icorrect, the Correctio meu appears with a umber of alteratives. If oe alterative is correct, say Choose ad the umber of that alterative. If oe of the alteratives is correct, say Spell That, spell the correct word or words ito the Spell dialog box, ad the say OK. Selectig a large amout of text or a etire documet ad the sayig Spell That ca produce upredictable results. 2 Verify that the correct text appears i the documet i place of the misrecogized text ad cotiue to the ext misrecogitio. Correctig text while playig back dictatio 1 Move the isertio poit to the begiig of the dictatio you wat to correct. 2 Click Play That Back o the Soud meu of the DragoBar or click the Start Playback butto o the Extras toolbar. You ca also say, Play that back. 3 Whe the playback of your dictatio reaches a recogitio error, press the correctio hot key. By default, this is the mius ( ) key o the umeric keypad. 4 If oe of the alteratives is correct, press the Dow Arrow key to highlight that choice ad the press ENTER to accept it. If o alterative is correct, just type or say the correct text ad 70
User Guide press the Correctio hot key agai. Playback cotiues automatically from the poit where you stopped. 5 Cotiue util all the text is correct. Usig the Correctio meu The Correctio meu shows Drago s best guess of the alteratives to the words you dictated ad selected. To correct a word or phrase with the Correctio meu: 1 Whe you otice a mistake, pause i your dictatio, ad the say "Select" ad the icorrect word or phrase. If the error is 71
Correctig ad Editig i the last thig you said, you ca just say "Select That." Drago highlights the word or phrase, ad the Correctio meu appears. 2 If the correct word or phrase is o the list, start spellig to choose it, or say "Choose" ad the umber of that choice. For example, say "Choose 2." Do ot say "Choose Numeral Two" or Drago will trascribe the phrase as the text "Choose Numeral Two" or "Choose 2" depedig o how you set the umber formattig optios o the Auto-formattig dialog box. 3 If the word or phrase you wat is ot o the list, spell the word, or say "Spell That," or just say the word agai. correctio_dialog_items The Correctio meu cotais the items listed below. You ca choose them by voice, mouse, or usig the dow arrow ad pressig Eter. Numbered list of alterative recogitios Lists alteratives to what Drago thiks it heard. If oe alterative is correct, say "Choose" ad the umber of that alterative. For example, "Choose Two." Do ot say "Choose Numeral Two" or Drago will trascribe the phrase as the text "Choose Numeral Two" or "Choose 2" depedig o how you set the umber formattig optios o the Auto-formattig dialog box. Spell That Sayig "Spell That" opes the Spellig widow, where you ca eter the correct word or phrase by spellig it or typig it. Use the Spellig widow to play back a segmet of dictatio, modify a alterative that is almost correct, or provide acoustic traiig so that Drago better "hears" the differece betwee what you said ad what it had origially trascribed. Note that if you eter a word i the Spellig widow that is ukow to Drago, Drago adds the word to its Vocabulary. 72
User Guide Play That Back Plays back recorded dictatio of the selected word or phrase. All Caps That Capitalizes the iitial letter i the selected word or words. Add that to Vocabulary Displays the "Add Idividual Word" dialog so you ca add the selected word or phrase to the vocabulary. Addig the word or phrase will help Drago recogize it i the future. Uselect That Deselects the selected word or words. Do't Recogize That Word Removes the selected word from your active Vocabulary, so that Drago wo't recogize it agai. This ca save you time if Drago repeatedly replaces words you dictate with words you do't use. For example, if you dictate the ame "Cassity" ofte ad Drago always hears "Cassidy," you could use Do't Recogize That Word from the Correctio meu to tur off recogitio of Cassidy. If you decide later that you do eed to use the word, you ca add it back usig the Vocabulary Editor. Make That a Commad Displays the MyCommads Editor to make the curretly selected word or phrase a Drago Commad. With this optio, you ca associate up to 70 characters of dictatio that you reuse frequetly with a sigle commad. That way, you do't eed to retype it or retrieve it from a file locatio o your computer whe you wat to reuse it. Correctio Optios Opes the Correctio tab of the Drago Optios dialog box where you ca modify the behavior of the Correctio meu ad 73
Correctig ad Editig specify which commad is used to brig it up, "Correct" or "Select." Correctig Puctuatio Note the followig whe correctig puctuatio: Whe you select a phrase (more tha oe word) that has puctuatio, be sure to dictate that puctuatio. For example, say you iitially dictated, Today is Thursday I have a meetig at 11 o clock ad the text was trascribed as Today is Thursday, I have a meetig at 11 o clock. If you wat to chage the comma to a period, say Select Thursday comma. If the correct puctuatio appears i the Correctio meu, select it. Otherwise, you ca dictate over the selectio by, for example, sayig Thursday period. Whe you select puctuatio, the Correctio meu might list alterate puctuatio If Natural Puctuatio is tured o, whe you select a phrase that Drago has added puctuatio to, the choices will iclude puctuatio chages. NOTE: Whe you select a word that has adjacet puctuatio the Natural Puctuatio feature added, the selectio will exted to iclude that puctuatio. Selectig text by voice Usig Full Text Cotrol You ca revise your dictatio without correctig it by selectig the text usig the Select commad ad the sayig ew words to replace the selected text. To use Full Text Cotrol : 1 Dictate the setece below: US/Caada: Let s meet for luch o Tuesday [period] Other Dialects: Let s meet for luch o Tuesday [full stop] 74
User Guide 2 Say Select luch o Tuesday. The words luch o Tuesday should be highlighted o the scree. 3 Say dier o Wedesday. These words should replace luch o Tuesday. Sice Tuesday ad Wedesday soud completely differet, Drago will kow you are ot correctig a recogitio mistake but rather revisig your dictated text. TIP: You ca also select puctuatio marks. 4 Say: Select period (US/Caada) or Select full stop (Other Dialects). If there s more tha oe period or full stop, you ca say Select Agai to select a differet oe. 5 To replace the period or full stop with a exclamatio mark, say exclamatio mark. TIP: It is ofte easier for Drago to fid the matchig text if you select a short phrase rather tha idividual words. If you select some words that are already correct, just say them agai alog with the oes you wat to chage. Selectig the same text agai If the words you re tryig to select appear more tha oce o the scree ad Drago selects the wrog oes, just say Select Agai. The program the looks for aother istace of the same word or words. You ca also say Select Agai if Drago selects a word that souds like the word you wat, but is ot the correct oe (for example, two istead of too ). Uselectig words If the wrog text is selected, say Uselect That. You ca also uselect words by movig your isertio poit (by mouse or voice) to aother part of your documet. For example, say Go to Ed of Lie or click somewhere else i your documet. 75
Correctig ad Editig Selectig a loger phrase You ca select a loger phrase by sayig Select [text] Through [text] (US/Caada) or Select [text] To [text] (Other Dialects). For [text], substitute the actual word or words at the begiig ad the ed of the rage of wrog words. For example, you could correct the uderlied words i the followig setece: With a little practice, who will develop a habit of dictatig a uclear, steady voice, ad the computer will uderstad you better. by sayig: (US/Caada) Select who Through uclear or Select who will Through a uclear (Other Dialects) Select who To uclear or Select who will To a uclear The dictate the correct text: you will develop the habit of dictatig i a clear The fial corrected setece reads: With a little practice, you will develop the habit of dictatig i a clear, steady voice, ad the computer will uderstad you better. NOTE: If you re correctig more tha oe word, the words must all be i sequece (ext to each other). You ca t use a sigle commad to correct words that are i differet parts of your documet. Selectig your whole documet To select all the text i your documet, say Select Documet or Select All. This commad is useful whe you wat to chage the fot or the way text is aliged. Whe you wat to copy all the text i a documet to aother widow, the easiest way to do it is with the Copy All to Clipboard commad. NOTE: Whe a lot of text is selected, the Scratch That ad Cut That commads do t work, or ca you overwrite the selectio by dictatig ew text. This prevets you from accidetally deletig a large part of 76
User Guide your documet. To remove a large selectio, you ca say Delete That istead. Selectig a etire paragraph or lie You ca select the curret paragraph by sayig Select Paragraph. To select the curret lie, say Select Lie. You ca also select a umber of paragraphs or lies (up to 20). For example, you ca say Select Previous 5 Paragraphs. S AY T HEN T HEN Select Next Paragraph Previous 2...20 Paragraphs Forward Lie Back 2.20 Lies Last Selectig a word or character You ca select the curret word by sayig Select Word. To select a character, say Select Next Character or Select Previous Character. You ca also select a umber of words or characters (up to 20). For example, say Select Previous 2 Words. S AY T HEN T HEN Select Next Word Previous 2...20 Words Forward Character Back 2...20 Characters Last 77
Correctig ad Editig Movig aroud i a documet Whe you re editig a documet, you ca move aroud i it by voice. After you place the isertio poit where you wat it, you ca dictate more text, select text, copy ad paste, or apply formattig. Goig to the top or bottom of a page or documet You ca move to the top or bottom of the curret page by sayig Page Up (equivalet to pressig the PAGE UP key) or Page Dow (equivalet to pressig the PAGE DOWN key). You ca move to the top or bottom of your documet by sayig Go to Top or Go to Bottom. S AY T HEN Go to Top Move to Bottom Top of Documet Begiig of Documet Start of Documet Bottom of Documet Ed of Documet Goig to the begiig or ed of a lie You ca move to the begiig or ed of the curret lie by sayig Go to Begiig of Lie or Go to Ed of Lie. S AY THEN Go to Begiig of Lie Move to Start of Lie Ed of Lie 78
User Guide Placig the isertio poit before or after a specific word You ca place the isertio poit before a specific word by sayig Isert Before ad the the word or words. You ca place the isertio poit after a word by sayig Isert After ad the the word or words. After you move the isertio poit where you wat it, you ca dictate more text, paste text, add puctuatio, ad so o. To place the isertio poit before a specific word: To move the isertio poit before the word lets i the setece below, say Isert Before lets (or Isert Before lets me talk ). Remember ot to pause betwee ay of the words: Drago lets me talk istead of type. To place the isertio poit after a specific word: To move the isertio poit after the word talk i the setece below, say Isert After talk (or Isert After lets me talk ). Drago lets me talk istead of type. Movig up or dow a paragraph or lie You ca move up or dow a paragraph by sayig Move Up a Paragraph or Move Dow a Paragraph. You ca also move up ad dow a umber of paragraphs (up to 20). For example, you ca say Move Up 3 Paragraphs. You ca move up or dow a lie by sayig Move Up a Lie or Move Dow a Lie. You ca also move up ad dow a umber of lies (up to 20). For example, you ca say Move Dow 3 Lies, as delieated i the table below: S AY THE N THEN Move Up a Paragraph or 1 Paragraph Back 2...20 Paragraphs Dow a Lie or 1 Lie Forward 2...20 Lies 79
Correctig ad Editig Movig right or left a word or character You ca move to the right or left of a word by sayig Move Right a Word or Move Left a Word. You ca also move right or left a umber of words (up to 20). For example, you ca say Move Right 3 Words. You ca move to the ext or previous character by sayig Move Right a Character or Move Left a Character. You ca also move forward ad backward a umber of characters (up to 20). For example, you ca say Move Left 4 Characters or Move Back 6 Characters, as delieated i the ext table: S AY T HE N THEN Move Right a Word or 1 Word Forward 2...20 Words Left a Character or 1 Character Back 2...20 Characters Copyig, cuttig, ad pastig text You ca move text from oe place to aother by usig the Copy That, Cut That, ad Paste That commads. To copy, cut, or paste text: 1 Select the text you wat to copy or cut. 2 Say Copy That or Cut That. 3 Move the isertio poit to where you wat to paste the text. 4 Say Paste That. Deletig text Deletig the last words you dictated You ca erase the last words you dictated by sayig Scratch That. Whe you say this commad, Drago deletes the last 80
User Guide thig it typed ito your documet. This may be a full setece, a phrase, or just oe word, if that s all you said before pausig. You ca say Scratch That up to 10 times to delete the last few thigs you said. If you repeat the commad, you must pause before sayig it agai. You ca also say, for example, Scratch That 5 Times. Goig back as you dictate Whe you re dictatig, sometimes you may hesitate or thik of a better way to say somethig right after you ve said it. Whe this happes, you ca use the Resume With commad to retur to where you were before the mistake. Just say Resume With followed immediately by the word or words to which you wat to retur. The, cotiue dictatig. Ay text after the ew positio of the isertio poit will be replaced with your ew dictatio. NOTE: Whe usig the Resume With commad, remember ot to pause i the middle. Say Resume With ad the immediately say the words to which you wat to retur. These words must be i the last three or four seteces (100 characters) you said; you ca t use Resume With to retur to a earlier part of your documet. To go back as you dictate: 1 Suppose you dictate this setece: I have a deadlie this week, but we could meet for luch um er ext Wedesday. 2 To correct the setece, retur to the last correct words you remember dictatig. For example, say Resume With meet for luch. (Remember ot to pause i the middle.) 3 The, dictate the rest of the setece. For example, say ext Wedesday at oo. Deletig specific words You ca delete text by selectig it ad sayig Delete That. To delete text: 1 Select the text you wat to delete. 81
Correctig ad Editig 2 Say Delete That. You ca also say Scratch That to do the same thig. Deletig the ext or previous paragraph or lie You ca delete the ext or previous paragraph by sayig Delete Next Paragraph or Delete Previous Paragraph. You ca delete the ext or previous lie by sayig Delete Next Lie or Delete Previous Lie. You ca also delete a umber of paragraphs or lies (up to 20). For example, you ca say Delete Previous 5 Paragraphs. See the complete list below: S AY THEN THEN Delete Next Paragraph Previous 2...20 Paragraphs Forward Lie Back 2...20 Lies Last Deletig the ext or previous word or character You ca delete the ext or previous word by sayig Delete Next Word or Delete Previous Word. You ca delete the ext or previous character by sayig Delete Next Character or Delete Previous Character. You ca also delete a umber of words or characters (up to 20). For example, you ca say Delete Previous 5 Words. See the complete list below: 82 S AY THEN THEN Delete Next Word Forward 2...20 Words Previous Character Back 2...20 Characters
User Guide S AY THE N THEN Last 2...20 Characters NOTE: Aother way to delete the previous character is by sayig Backspace. This is equivalet to pressig the BACKSPACE key. You ca press it multiple times (up to 20) by sayig, for example, Backspace 5. Spellig as you dictate With the Spell commad i Drago, you ca easily spell a word or phrase you wat to dictate ito your documet. This ca be useful if you are dictatig a word that is ot likely to be i the Drago vocabulary, such as a proprietary term, a proper ame, or a o-eglish word. Say, for example, Spell b-u-o- space g-i-o-r--o. The word you spelled appears right i your documet. You must say Cap if the word cotais a capital letter. For example, say Spell Cap R-u-m-p-e-l-s-t-i-l-s-k-i- to type Rumpelstilski. 83
Correctig ad Editig If you say Spell by itself, without ay letters after it, the Spell dialog box opes. You ca the speak the letters ad Drago will type them or you ca correct ay errors i the word you spelled. Whe spellig, you ca say umbers ad special characters as well as letters. For example, to dictate a automobile licese plate umber, you could say Spell y-h-m-6-0-9. Drago would type yhm609. Say Spell Cap-m-a-c-m-i-l-l-a--trademark to get MacMilla i your documet. Spellig a word adds that word to the active vocabulary. Words that cotai umbers are ot added to the vocabulary. 84
User Guide TIP: To dictate uusual text such as automobile licese plate umbers or product codes, you ca also switch to Spell mode by sayig Switch To Spell Mode, ad the dictate letters. You ca make the Spell dialog box appear wheever you use the Spell commad by settig the Spell commads brig up the Spell dialog box optio o the Correctio tab i the Optios dialog box. See the olie help for more iformatio. You ca also access the Spell dialog box whe usig the Select or Correct commads. For a list of how to spell special characters, see the Spellig topic i the olie Help. Playig back your dictatio Playback commads work i the DragoPad, Microsoft Word (Versios 97, 2000, 2002, 2003, ad 2007), Corel WordPerfect (Versios 8, 9, 10, ad 12), ad Lotus Notes. Although Drago ever makes a spellig mistake, the mistakes it does make ca be challegig to fid ad fix. Sometimes, what the program types looks very differet from what you actually said. To make correctig mistakes easier, Drago records your voice as you dictate. You ca play back your voice wheever you caot tell by lookig at your documet what you origially said. NOTE: Uless you have Drago Professioal or a higher editio, playback is available oly util you close a documet. After you close a documet, Drago deletes the recorded dictatio for that documet. See page 88 for iformatio o savig dictatio for later correctio (Professioal ad higher editios). Playig back dictatio from the Correctio meu Whe you re workig i the Correctio meu, click the Play Back butto or say Play That Back to play the dictatio that goes with the words you re correctig. The edit the text to match what you said. 85
Correctig ad Editig You ca set up Drago to play back dictatio automatically wheever you ope the Correctio meu. O the Drago meu, select Tools > Optios > Correctio tab. O the Correctio tab, select Automatic playback o correctio. Sometimes, there s o dictatio to play back. For example, you caot play back text that was t etered by voice, such as words you typed or pasted ito your documet. NOTE: Eve whe you have etered text by voice, you caot play it back after you have cut it, copied it, pasted it, or otherwise moved it aroud i the documet. If you have Drago Naturally Speakig Professioal or a higher editio, you ca save your dictatio with your documet for later playback (see Dictate ow, correct later o page 88). Otherwise, you caot play back dictatio after closig a documet. If dictatio is ot available, the Play Back butto is dimmed (grayed out). Whe playback is ot available, you may fid textto-speech useful for checkig your work. See Notes o correctig with aother author s user files o page 90. Playig back dictatio i a documet To help you check your work for mistakes, you ca play back a lie, a paragraph, a selectio, or the whole documet. After playback starts, you ca stop it as soo as you otice a mistake ad automatically ope the Correctio meu. The Playback toolbar is a extra sectio of the DragoBar that is ormally hidde. To see the Playback toolbar, click the double chevro ico o the DragoBar to ope the Extras toolbar. Stop Start Playback Playback Correctio Butto 86 Skip Forward Skip Back Read That Trascribe Butto
User Guide To play back dictatio: To play back dictatio, do ay of the followig: Select the text you wat to play back, ad say Play That Back. Click the Start Playback butto o the Playback toolbar. Move the isertio poit to the text you wat to play back ad say ay of the followig commads: S AY TO Play Back Lie Play back dictatio for the curret lie. Play Back Paragraph Play back dictatio for the curret paragraph. Play Back Documet Play back dictatio for the whole documet. Play Back Widow Play back dictatio for the text i view. Play Back to Here Play back dictatio from the top of the documet widow to the isertio poit. Play Back from Here Play back dictatio from the isertio poit to the bottom of the documet widow. To stop playback: To stop playback, do ay of the followig: Click the Stop Playback butto o the Playback toolbar. Click aywhere i the documet widow. Press the ESC key. (It s ot possible to stop playback by voice, because the computer caot hear speech iput whe it is playig back dictatio.) To skip backward or forward: You ca skip backward or forward i your documet by a few words by clickig the Skip Backward ad Skip Forward buttos. 87
Correctig ad Editig To stop playback ad correct a mistake: To stop playback ad correct a mistake, do ay of the followig: Click the Correctio butto o the Playback toolbar. Press the mius ( ) key o the umeric keypad. This stops playback ad simultaeously opes the Correctio meu. There you ca correct the text for the last phrase played back. NOTE: By default, Drago stores about 30 miutes of dictatio (40 MB). If you wat to be able to store more dictatio, you ca chage the amout of disk space that s set aside for storig it. O the Tools meu, click Optios, ad the click the Data tab. Icrease the umber i the Disk space reserved for playback box. Dictate ow, correct later Whe you dictate ito the DragoPad, you ca save your dictatio with your text so either you or someoe else ca correct it later. You must create ad edit your file i the DragoPad to be able to play back dictatio. This feature is available i Drago Professioal ad higher editios. You ca save dictatio with your documet if you select the Save recorded dictatio with documet box o the Data tab of the Optios dialog. The first time you save a documet i DragoPad durig a editig sessio, Drago asks you whether you wat to save your speech data. If you save your speech data, you ca reope the documet at a later time ad play back your dictatio. If you do ot save your speech data, your dictatio is stored oly durig the curret editig sessio. Correctig your ow dictatio If you save your dictatio, you ca ope your file later ad play back ad correct the text as if you had just dictated it. Correctig someoe else s dictatio You ca play back someoe else s dictatio ad correct the text to match the dictatio. You ca do this i two ways: Correct the dictatio usig your ow user files. Correct the dictatio usig the documet author s user files. 88
User Guide Correctig with your ow user files You should use this correctio techique if you regularly correct aother perso s text by voice ad it is ot importat to maximize the author s recogitio accuracy. Whe you use your ow user files to correct someoe else s text, you ca correct the dictatio just as you would correct your ow dictatio, usig ay combiatio of voice commads ad keyboard typig. Eve though you are correctig someoe else s dictatio, your work wo t reduce recogitio accuracy for either you or the perso who dictated the text. But your correctios to the other perso s dictatio wo t improve his or her recogitio either. Correctig with the documet author s user files You should use this correctio techique if you do ot eed to correct by voice ad it is importat to maximize the author s recogitio accuracy. TIP: This techique works if all work is doe o a sigle computer. Cosult your Drago reseller about ways to dictate o oe computer ad correct o aother. If you correct dictatio usig the author s user files, you must ot correct by voice, or you may reduce that perso s recogitio accuracy. You ca, however, improve the author s recogitio accuracy if you make correctios by usig the keyboard ad mouse with the Correctio meu, as i the followig procedure. To correct usig someoe else s user files: 1 Make sure you are ot wearig the microphoe headset, or that the microphoe is ot tured o or plugged i. This actio esures that you do t accidetally reduce the accuracy of someoe else s user files by usig your voice. 2 Be sure the DragoPad Extras toolbar is displayed so you ca see the playback commad buttos. 3 Ope the user files of the perso whose text you will correct. 4 I DragoPad, ope the documet to correct. 89
Correctig ad Editig 5 Use the buttos o the Extras toolbar to play back dictatio. 6 Select the text you wat to correct by mouse or keyboard. 7 Press the correctio hot key (ormally the mius [ ] key o the umeric key pad) or click the Correct butto o the DragoBar Extras toolbar. The Correctio meu appears with the selected text. 8 Use the keyboard to correct the text. 9 Whe you fiish, save the text ad the user s speech files. NOTE: Notes o correctig with aother author s user files This techique is effective if all work is doe o a sigle computer. Cosult your Drago reseller about ways to dictate o oe computer ad correct o aother. Display the DragoBar Extras toolbar by clickig the double chevro ico o the DragoBar (ot possible i Clig mode). I the Correctio meu, you ca use the mouse or keyboard to select ay of the commads displayed below the correctio choices. For example, you ca click Spell That to ope the Spell dialog box ad spell the word. You may wat to select the followig o the Correctio tab of the Optios dialog box: Correct commad brigs up Correctio meu Automatic playback o correctio box With these settigs, Drago automatically plays back the author s dictatio for each selectio of text you correct. The Correctio meu does ot play back dictatio. Whe you correct someoe else s dictatio, be sure that the amout of disk space you have reserved for storig dictatio is at least as large as the amout allocated for the user that created the text. You allocate the disk space o the Data tab of the Optios dialog box. Savig dictatio with documets ca take up more tha a megabyte of disk space per miute of dictatio. To save this space, delete ay dictatio audio you o loger eed. Drago saves dictatio audio i a file with the same ame as the documet, but with the.dra extesio. For example, for a documet 90
User Guide called MyDoc.rtf, Drago saves your dictatio i a file called MyDoc.dra i the same directory as your documet. Usig text-to-speech You ca use text-to-speech to have text displayig o your scree (ot your curret dictatio) read aloud i a computer voice. You ca use this feature to have the product read back a documet that you (or someoe else) dictated while you liste for mistakes ad make ote of sectios you might wat to revise. Text-to-speech is available oly i the DragoPad, Microsoft Word, ad Corel WordPerfect. You ca, however, copy ad paste text from other programs ad the use text-to-speech. To start text-to-speech, do oe of the followig: Select the text you wat to hear (a lie, a paragraph, ad so o), ad the say Read That. Select the text you wat to hear, ad the select Read That from the Advaced submeu (or right-click i your documet ad click Read That from the shortcut meu). Move the isertio poit to the text you wat to hear ad say ay of the followig commads: S AY TO Read Lie Read back the curret lie. Read Paragraph Read back the curret paragraph. Read Documet Read back the whole documet. Read Widow Read back the text i view. Read to Here Read back from the top of the documet widow to the isertio poit. Read from Here Read back from the isertio poit to the bottom of the documet widow. 91
Correctig ad Editig To stop text-to-speech, do oe of the followig: From the NaturallySpeakig meu, poit to Advaced ad click Stop Playback/Readig. Right-click i your documet ad click Stop Playback/Readig from the shortcut meu. Press the ESC key. You ca cotrol the speed, pitch, volume, ad other text-tospeech settigs. From the meu, click Tools > Optios ad select the Text-to-Speech tab. 92
CHAPTER 6 Formattig Y ou ca bold text, chage fot sizes ad styles, capitalize text, ad apply other formattig by voice. May Drago NaturallySpeakig formattig commads work for text that is selected (highlighted) i your documet. To select text by voice, say Selectjm plus the words you wat to select. See Selectig text by voice o page 74 for iformatio. Types of commads Most of the commads listed i this chapter are global they are available i virtually every applicatio. I additio to the global commads listed here, Drago icludes may commads for editig ad formattig that work i commo applicatios. For more iformatio o fidig these commads see the olie help. NOTE: You ca chage the formattig properties of a word (such as whether Drago should type a space before or after the word, or whether the word is capitalized i a title) by usig the Word Properties dialog box. See the olie help for more iformatio. 93
Formattig Capitalizig text Capitalizig first letter of ext word you dictate Drago capitalizes may words automatically, such as the first word i a setece (followig a period, questio mark, or exclamatio mark). It capitalizes the first word after you say New Paragraph (ot whe you say New Lie ) ad it capitalizes proper ames (whe these words are already i the Drago vocabulary i capitalized form). NOTE: You ca chage the spacig ad capitalizatio rules for a word i the Word Properties dialog box. See the olie help for more iformatio. Whe you re dictatig, you ca capitalize words that are t automatically capitalized by sayig Cap ad the the word. For example, say Cap zelda to get Zelda. TIP: If sayig Cap <word> does t work, try say Cap Next <word>. TIP: To dictate the word cap, for example, i this setece: The compay is puttig a cap o salary icreases, you must say the compay is puttig a the say Spell c-a-p, ad the say o salary icreases. I this way, Drago kows that you do ot wat to capitalize ay of the words withi the setece. Capitalizig cosecutive words Whe you wat to capitalize cosecutive words (for example, if you re dictatig a book title), you ca tur capitals o ad the tur them off whe you re fiished. This is usually easier tha sayig Cap before each word. Aother way to do cosecutive capitalizatio is to dictate the words, pause, ad the say Capitalize That or Cap That. To capitalize the first letters of cosecutive words: 1 Say Caps O to tur capitals o. NOTE: Whe Caps O is active, Drago uses title case. This meas it capitalizes the first letters all words except for articles ad prepositios (such as the ad to ). 94
User Guide 2 Dictate the words you wat capitalized. For example, say: success is a jourey [colo] seve steps to achievig success i the busiess of life Drago types: Success Is a Jourey: Seve Steps to Achievig Success i the Busiess of Life 3 Say Caps Off to tur capitals off. Dictatig ext word i all capital letters Whe you re dictatig, you ca eter a word i all capital letters by sayig All Caps ad the the word. For example, say All Caps please to get PLEASE. Dictatig cosecutive words i all capital letters Whe you wat to dictate cosecutive words i all capitals, you ca tur all capitals o ad the tur them off whe you ve fiished. To dictate cosecutive words i all capitals: 1 Say All Caps O to tur all capitals o (like pressig the CAPS LOCK key). 2 Dictate the words that you wat to appear i all caps. For example, say the ed ad Drago types THE END 3 Say All Caps Off to tur all capitals off. Dictatig ext word i all lowercase letters Whe you re dictatig, you ca eter a word i all lowercase letters by sayig No Caps ad the the word. For example, say No Caps Jeifer to get jeifer. (Drago ormally capitalizes this ad other proper ames.) Dictatig cosecutive words i all lowercase letters Whe you wat to dictate cosecutive words i lowercase letters (for example, ames of computer files or e-mail addresses), you ca tur the o capitals feature o ad the 95
Formattig tur it off whe you are fiished. This is usually easier tha sayig No Caps before each word. To dictate cosecutive words i all lowercase letters: 1 Say No Caps O to tur o capitals o. 2 Dictate the words you wat to appear i all lowercase. 3 Say No Caps Off to tur o capitals off. Capitalizig (or ucapitalizig) text already i your documet You ca chage the capitalizatio of text already i your documet by selectig it ad the sayig Capitalize That, Cap That, or All Caps That, or Ucapitalize That, Ucap That, or No Caps That. To capitalize or ucapitalize text: 1 Select the text you wat to chage. 2 Say Capitalize That, Cap That, or All Caps That, or Ucapitalize That, Ucap That, or No Caps That. Formattig text You ca use voice commads to specify ay combiatio of fot ame, size, ad style, i that order. These commads chage text you dictate from the o or text you have selected. To set a ew style for text you are about to dictate, use the Set Fot ad Set Size commads. To chage the style of text you have already selected, use the Format That commad. Chagig the fot as you dictate While dictatig, you ca chage the fot face, size, ad style by sayig Set Fot followed by the fot attributes you wat. For example, you ca say Set Fot Times or Set Fot Arial 12 Bold. Whe you cotiue dictatig, the ew text appears with the fot attributes you set. 96
User Guide Chagig fot face S AY THEN Set Fot Arial Courier Courier New Garamod Helvetica Palatio Times Times New Roma Chagig fot size Say Set Size ad the a size from 4 to 100 poits. For example, say Set Size 18. The, cotiue dictatig. Chagig fot style S AY THEN Set Fot Bold Italics Bold Italics Uderlie Strikeout Plai or Plai Text or Normal or Regular Chagig a combiatio of fot face, size, ad style Say Set Fot ad the the attributes you wat (listed i the previous sectios). You ca specify ay combiatio of fot face, size, ad style, but you must specify these attributes i that 97
Formattig order (fot face, the size, the style). See the list of examples below: Set Fot Arial Set Fot Arial 12 or Set Fot Arial 12 Poit Set Size 12 Bold Set Fot Arial Bold Set Fot Bold NOTE: If you re chagig oly the fot size, use the Set Size commads, ot the Set Fot commad. Chagig the fot later You ca go back ad chage the fot face, size, or style of text by selectig it ad the usig the Format That commads. Format That works o selected text with the same combiatios of fot face, size, ad style as the Set Fot commads (see the tables i the previous sectio.) To chage the fot: 1 Select the text you wat to chage. 2 Say Format That ad the the fot attributes you wat to apply as described i the previous sectio. For example, say Format that Arial 18. Bold, italics, ad uderliig You ca apply formattig to text i your documet by selectig it ad the sayig Bold That, Italicize That, or Uderlie That. You ca also say Strikeout That. 98
User Guide To add bold, italics, ad uderliig: 1 Select the text you wat to chage. 2 Say Bold That, Italicize That, Uderlie That, or Strikeout That. To remove formattig: 1 Select the text you wat to chage. 2 Say Restore That to remove formattig. Aligig text You ca chage how text is aliged by placig your isertio poit i the text ad sayig Ceter That, Left Alig That, or Right Alig That. To alig text: 1 Move the isertio poit to the text you wat to alig. 2 Say Ceter That, Left Alig That, or Right Alig That. You ca also use the followig commads o selected text: Format That Cetered, Format That Left Aliged, ad Format That Right Aliged. Bulleted text To add bullets to text, place your isertio poit i the text ad say Format that Bullet Style. To remove bullets, say Format that Bullet Style agai. 99
CHAPTER 7 Dictatig Numbers, Puctuatio, ad Special Characters T his chapter describes how to dictate umbers, puctuatio, Web addresses, ad a few other special items. For complete iformatio o this topic, see the olie help. NOTE: If Drago is ot formattig a word as you would like, you ca chage the formattig properties of the word by usig the Word Properties dialog box. See the olie help for more iformatio. Dictatig umbers I most cases you ca dictate umbers, icludig postal codes, as you ormally say them. Drago will display either a umeral ( 3 ) or the word ( three ), based o the cotext. To force recogitio of digits as umerals istead of text without usig the Numbers Mode, say Numeral before you say the digit, for example, say Numeral Three to get 3. Whe dictatig umbers: You ca use or omit the word ad as part of a umber. For example, say oe hudred fifty istead of oe hudred ad fifty to get the umber 150. You ca use oh ad zero iterchageably to get 0. If you wat a comma i a four-digit umber, you must speak it explicitly. Numbers with five or more digits automatically iclude commas, with the exceptio of US ZIP codes. For a decimal poit, say poit. 101
Dictatig Numbers, Puctuatio, ad Special Characters TIP: If you wat to dictate oly umbers, you ca switch to Numbers Mode. See Switchig recogitio modes o page 119 for more iformatio. TO E NTER S AY 1 oe umeral oe 5 five umeral five 17 sevetee 23 twety three 179 oe hudred sevety ie oe sevety ie 5423 five thousad four hudred ad twety three 5,423 five [comma] four twety three 12,537 twelve thousad five hudred ad thirty seve 142,015 oe hudred ad forty two thousad ad fiftee 35.23 thirty five [poit] two three 0.03 All Dialects: zero [poit] zero three Outside US/Caada: ought [poit] ought three 43.28% forty three [poit] twety eight [percet sig] 02460 oh two four six zero 02460-1458 oh two four six zero [hyphe] oe four five eight 2 3/4 two ad three fourths 11/32 eleve over thirty two $99.50 iety ie dollars ad fifty cets 45.35 120.35 102 45 Euros ad thirty-five cets poud sterlig sig oe hudred ad twety poit thirty five [All Dialects]
User Guide NOTE: If you are havig problems dictatig umbers, currecy, times, or dates, make sure that your Regioal Settigs match the laguage (dialect) you selected whe you created your user. Usig Numbers mode Ay time you eed to dictate a series of umbers ad do ot wat Drago to recogize them as words, you ca tur o Numbers Mode. This could be useful, for example, if you are dictatig i a spreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Excel. To tur o Numbers Mode, say Start Numbers Mode or Numbers Mode O. To tur off Numbers Mode, say, Stop Numbers Mode or Numbers Mode Off or Switch to Normal Mode. For more iformatio o Numbers Mode ad more ways to tur Numbers Mode o ad off, see the sectio Switchig recogitio modes o page 119. Dates You ca dictate most dates the way you would ormally say them. Say oh or zero to eter 0. I dialects other tha US/ Caada, you ca also say ought. T O ENTE R SA Y 22 Jauary 1999 twety two Jauary ietee iety ie April 9, 2001 April 9 [comma] two thousad ad oe 14/07/85 fourtee [slash] oh seve [slash] eighty five 3/11/02 three [slash] eleve [slash] zero two 3/11/2002 three [slash] eleve [slash] two thousad ad two April 1st April first March 22d March twety secod the 1980s the ietee eighties See also Automatic formattig of dates, times, telephoe umbers o page 106. 103
Dictatig Numbers, Puctuatio, ad Special Characters Times of day Dictate the time of day the way you would ormally say it. US/Caada: Drago automatically types the colo (:) if you say a m or p m whe dictatig the time. Say o clock or colo zero zero to eter 00. TO E NTER SA Y 8:30 eight [colo] thirty or eight [umeric colo] thirty 7:45 AM seve forty five a m 10:22 PM te twety two p m 3:00 three o clock or three [colo] zero zero 5:00 PM five o clock p m TIP: Drago will recogize times more accurately if you say umeric colo istead of colo whe dictatig times. Other Dialects: Drago automatically types the poit (.) if you say a m or p m whe dictatig the time, depedig o the regioal settig. Say o clock or poit zero zero to eter.00. TO E NTER S AY 8.30 eight [poit] thirty 7.45 AM seve forty five a m 10.22 PM te twety two p m 3.00 three o clock 5.00 PM five o clock p m NOTE: The format of a.m. ad p.m. depeds o your computer s regioal Widows settigs. See also Automatic formattig of dates, times, telephoe umbers o page 106. 104
User Guide Telephoe umbers North America phoe umbers Say US ad Caadia phoe umbers as you ormally would, pausig briefly betwee each group of umbers. You do t eed to dictate hyphes for most phoe umbers (umbers that are 7, 10, or 11 digits log). Drago will add them automatically. T O ENTE R S AY 965-5200 ie six five fifty two hudred 617-965-5200 six oe seve ie six five fifty two oh oh 1-800-555-1212 oe eight hudred five five five oe two oe two (617) 965-5200 [ope parethesis] six oe seve [close parethesis] ie six five five two zero zero 1-212-555-1212 oe two oe two five five five oe two oe two Telephoe umbers outside North America To dictate other phoe umbers, icludig Europea phoe umbers, you must say all the puctuatio, icludig the hyphes, spaces, ad paretheses. T O ENTE R S AY (01628) 894150 [ope parethesis] oh oe six two eight [close parethesis] eight ie four oe five oh 027 629 8944 oh two seve [space bar] six two ie [space bar] eight ie four four 61-7-4695-2055 six oe [hyphe] seve [hyphe] four six ie five [hyphe] two zero five five (65) 2778590 [ope parethesis] six five [close parethesis] two seve seve eight five ie zero 105
Dictatig Numbers, Puctuatio, ad Special Characters TIP: I dialects other tha US/Caada, you ca say bracket istead of parethesis. See also Automatic formattig of dates, times, telephoe umbers o page 106. Automatic formattig of dates, times, telephoe umbers To idicate how you wat dates, times, telephoe umbers, ad other umbers automatically formatted: 1 O the DragoBar, select Tools > Auto-Formattig. The Auto- Formattig dialog box appears. 2 Click the check box labeled Format Dates ad select the format you wat from its drop-dow list. For istace, select Moth D, YYYY or D/M/YY. 3 Click the check box labeled Format times. Drago the formats times based o your Regioal Settigs i Widows. 4 To have hyphes added to a phoe umber automatically, click the check box labeled Phoe umbers (all other editios). 5 You ca also click the check box for Prefer 5 millio over 5,000,000. 6 Other formats you ca click check boxes for o this tab iclude Uited Kigdom ad Caadia postal codes ad several o-umeric formats that ivolve usig commo abbreviatios, expaded cotractios, abbreviatios of uits of measure ad titles (such as Mr., Ms., Dr.), ad formats for web ad email addresses as well as street addresses. 7 If you have ay editio, click OK to save the settigs ad close the dialog box. Fractios You ca dictate most commo fractios the way you would ormally say them. To dictate 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9, 106
User Guide 1/10, ad 1/16 or a multiple of these fractios, just say the fractio ormally. T O ENTE R S AY 1/2 oe half 1/4 oe fourth or oe quarter 15/16 fiftee sixteeths or fiftee over sixtee 3 7/8 three ad seve eighths or three ad seve over eight If the deomiator (bottom umber i the fractio) is greater tha 10, you ca eter the fractio by sayig slash or over betwee the two umbers. T O ENTE R SA Y 9/12 ie [slash] twelve or ie over twelve 5 3/56 five [space bar] three [slash] fifty six 130/70 oe thirty over sevety A few commo fractios ca also be displayed o your computer as special characters (such as ¼, ½, or ¾) istead of two umbers separated by a slash character (such as 1/4, 1/2, or 3/4). For iformatio about dictatig fractio characters, see Switchig recogitio modes o page 119. Roma umerals You ca dictate Roma umerals by sayig Roma umeral ad the umber. For large umbers, say the umber i small combiatios (as i the examples show here). T O ENTE R S AY I Roma Numeral oe IV Roma Numeral four V Roma Numeral five X Roma Numeral te 107
Dictatig Numbers, Puctuatio, ad Special Characters TO E NTER S AY L Roma Numeral fifty C Roma Numeral oe hudred D Roma Numeral five hudred M Roma Numeral oe thousad XXIV Roma Numeral twety our XXXI Roma Numeral thirty oe MCMXCVII Roma Numeral oe thousad Roma Numeral ie hudred Roma Numeral iety Roma Numeral seve TIP: Do t pause after the word Roma Numeral whe you re dictatig a Roma umeral. If you pause, Drago may eter, for example, Roma umeral three istead of III. Postal ad ZIP Codes Drago ca automatically formats postal codes. This feature is cotrolled from the Auto-Formattig tab of the Optios dialog box. For more iformatio, see the olie help. US ZIP Codes You ca dictate US five-digit ZIP codes just as you dictate ay group of umbers. Whe dictatig ie-digit ZIP codes, you must say the hyphe. TO E NTER S AY 01886 oh oe eight eight six 94704-1150 ie four seve oh four [hyphe] oe oe five oh UK ad Caadia Postal Codes You ca dictate UK postcodes by sayig Postcode followed by the letters ad umbers that make up the postcode. For Caadia postal codes, say Postal code followed by the letters 108
User Guide ad umbers that make up the postal code. Spacig ad formattig will happe automatically. T O ENTE R S AY NG3 2HX Postcode g three two h x E10 7BD Postcode e te seve b d EC2Y 4LK Postcode e c two y four l k K1A 0M5 Postal code k oe a zero m five X0A 0H0 Postal code x oh a oh h oh Currecy ad coi You dictate your ow currecy as you would ormally say it. Currecy i US/Caada (US Eglish dialect) T O ENTE R SA Y $58.00 fifty eight dollars ad zero cets $1.75 oe dollar ad sevety five cets $5.25 five dollars ad twety five cets $3.9 billio three poit ie billio dollars 45 forty five euros 99.50 iety-ie euros ad five cets 2.20 poud sterlig sig two poit two oh 5 millio poud sterlig sig five millio Currecy i Other Dialects (UK, Australia, Idia, ad Southeast Asia Eglish) T O ENTE R SA Y $58.00 dollar sig fifty eight $1.75 dollar sig oe poit sevety five 4.25 four euros ad twety five cets 109
Dictatig Numbers, Puctuatio, ad Special Characters TO E NTER 3.9 billio S AY three poit ie billio euros 45 forty five pouds 99.50 iety ie pouds ad fifty pece 2.20 two pouds twety 5 millio five millio pouds NOTE: Drago uses the currecy symbol ($,, ad so o) specified i your Widows Regioal Settigs as your default currecy. Dictate other currecies by first sayig the currecy symbol followed by the digits. US/Caada: If your Regioal Settigs are set to the Uited States or Caada, your default currecy is $ (dollar). If you wat to dictate a dollar currecy amout, dictate it the way you ormally do. If you wat to dictate a poud sterlig currecy amout, say, for example, poud sterlig sig fifty eight (to eter 58), ad so o. TIP: I US/Caada, you must say poud sterlig sig to eter, sice poud sig meas # i the U.S. vocabulary. I all other dialects, you ca say poud sig to type. Other Dialects: If your Regioal Settigs are set to the Uited Kigdom, your default currecy is (poud sterlig). If you wat to dictate a poud sterlig currecy amout, dictate it the way you ormally do. If you wat to dictate a dollar currecy amout, say, for example, dollar sig fifty eight (to eter $58) ad so o. NOTE: Australia users ca say fifty eight dollars to dictate $58, sice the Australia default currecy is $ i Widows Regioal Settigs. 110
User Guide Puctuatio Usig Natural Puctuatio Drago ca automatically add commas ad periods at the appropriate places i your dictatio without your havig to explicitly speak that puctuatio. This Natural Puctuatio feature ca be useful i helpig you get used to dictatio by focusig o what you are sayig rather tha how your speech is puctuated. Natural Puctuatio oly iserts periods ad commas. You still have to dictate other puctuatio marks. Eve with Natural Puctuatio tured o, you ca still dictate periods ad commas. As you become more adept at dictatio ad wat more cotrol over where puctuatio appears, you may wat to explicitly dictate all your puctuatio. For iformatio o correctig puctuatio, see Correctig Puctuatio o page 74. TIP: Periods will oly appear at the ed of a setece oce you have started the ext utterace or said New Lie or New Paragraph. Eablig ad disablig automatic puctuatio Natural Puctuatio is tured o by default. There are two ways of turig Natural Puctuatio o ad off: Select Auto-Formattig Optios from the Tools meu of the DragoBar ad click Automatically add commas ad periods. By sayig autopuctuatio o ad autopuctuatio off. Turig Natural Puctuatio o ad off by voice sets the optio above i the Auto-Formattig dialog box. If you disable Natural Puctuatio by voice, it stays disabled util you eable it agai. 111
Dictatig Numbers, Puctuatio, ad Special Characters Dictatig Puctuatio You ca eter the puctuatio marks ad symbols listed below i text you dictate. For a list of all puctuatio marks, see the olie help. TO E NTER S AY, comma. period dot poit [each oe has differet spacig characteristics]? questio mark! exclamatio mark (All Dialects) exclamatio poit (US/Caada) ope quote close quote ope sigle quote close sigle quote ( ope pare (US/Caada) left pare (US/Caada) left parethesis (All Dialects) ope parethesis (All Dialects) ) close pare (US/Caada) right pare (US/Caada) right parethesis (All Dialects) close parethesis (All Dialects) apostrophe s apostrophe-ess - hyphe mius sig -- [double hyphe] dash space bar 112
User Guide You ca use the Vocabulary Editor to view or chage the formattig properties of the puctuatio. Words that ed with s To dictate a word edig with apostrophe S ( s), just say it as you ormally would. Drago will ofte add it. If Drago does t iclude the s, you ca add it later. T O ENTE R S AY We took Mary s car We took Mary s car that s eough that s eough it s time to go it s time to go Icludig s as you dictate Whe you wat to make sure that Drago types a word with s, say apostrophe ess after sayig the word. For words that already ed i s, say apostrophe after the word, as i the secod example show here. T O ENTE R S AY We took my brother s car We took my brother [apostrophe ess] car I met my frieds childre I met my frieds [apostrophe] childre TIP: You ca add s to a word by selectig it ad the sayig it agai with apostrophe ess. Dictatig hypheated words May hypheated words ad phrases are already i the Drago vocabulary. To dictate a word or phrase that is usually hypheated, just say it as you ormally would. T O ENTE R S AY log-lastig log lastig up-to-date schedule up to date schedule 113
Dictatig Numbers, Puctuatio, ad Special Characters TO E NTER S AY Tokyo-based compay Tokyo based compay ie-year-old boy ie year old boy Icludig hyphes as you dictate To hypheate words that Drago does t hypheate automatically, just say hyphe wherever you wat a hyphe. TO E NTER S AY speech-recogitio software speech [hyphe] recogitio software power-sharig agreemet power [hyphe] sharig agreemet Elizabeth Walker-Smith Elizabeth Walker [hyphe] Smith You ca hypheate words you just dictated with the commad Hypheate That. Select the words you wat to hypheate ad say Hypheate That. If you say this commad whe o words are selected, Drago will usually hypheate the last few words that you said. Removig hyphes You ca remove a hyphe by selectig it ad replacig it with a space. To remove a hyphe: 1 Say Select hyphe. 2 Say Space Bar. Prevetig hyphes You ca prevet Drago from eterig a hyphe by pausig where the hyphe would ormally be. For example, to type log lastig (ormally hypheated) say log, the pause for a momet, ad the say lastig. Or 114
User Guide you ca say log space bar lastig without pausig, to isert a space i place of the hyphe. Dictatig compoud words Drago jois compoud words (such as ote ad book to form otebook ) automatically, based o stadard usage. To dictate a compoud word, just say it as you ormally would. Compoudig words as you dictate To compoud words that Drago does t joi automatically, just say No Space betwee the words. T O ENTE R S AY uitedatios uited [No Space] atios WorldWide Web [Cap] world [No Space] [Cap] wide [Cap] web You ca also dictate cosecutive words without spaces by turig No spaces o ad the turig them off whe you ve fiished. To dictate cosecutive words without spaces: 1 Say No Space O to tur spaces off. 2 Dictate the words you wat to appear without spaces. 3 Say No Space Off to tur spacig back o. Compoudig words later You ca compoud the last words you said or compoud selected words by sayig Compoud That. This commad removes all spaces betwee selected words. Or, if o words are selected, it removes all spaces i the last utterace. Ay tabs or lie breaks are also removed. 115
Dictatig Numbers, Puctuatio, ad Special Characters To compoud words: 1 Select the text you wat to joi. For example, if you wat to joi the words Web TV, say Select Web TV. 2 Say Compoud That. Dictatig ames May ames of people, places, ad evets are already i the Drago vocabulary. For example, you ca dictate Marti Luther Kig, New York Times, ad Bosto. To dictate a ame, first try dictatig the ame. Drago automatically capitalizes the ames it kows. If Drago icorrectly types the ame, correct it by keyboard or by voice (see Correctig ad Editig o page 69). If the program cotiues to type a ame icorrectly after you ve corrected it several times, trai the word idividually usig the Trai Word dialog box. See the olie help for more iformatio. Dictatig abbreviatios ad acroyms Drago kows may commo abbreviatios (such as NYC ad BBC) ad acroyms (such as NATO). To dictate a abbreviatio or acroym, just say it as you ormally would. 116 TO E NTER S AY US/Caada: Dr. Other Dialects: Dr Doctor UK U K (say each letter) RSVP R S V P (say each letter) HTML H T M L (say each letter) 8 cm eight cetimeters US/Caada: pp. 27 33 Other Dialects: pp 27 33 pages 27 hyphe 33 NATO NATO (say as oe word) NASDAQ NASDAQ (say as oe word)
User Guide If Drago types the full word istead of the abbreviatio or acroym, eters the wrog word, or icludes icorrect puctuatio, just correct it i your documet by voice or by keyboard. Dictatig e-mail ad Web addresses Dictate e-mail ad Web addresses as you would ormally say them. Drago automatically formats them for you. T O ENTE R S AY Virgiia@aol.com Virgiia at a o l dot com ifo@samplecompay.com [No Caps O] ifo at sample compay dot com [No Caps Off] http:// www.uace.com [No Caps O] h t t p w w w dot uace dot com [No Caps Off] Here are some guidelies for dictatig e-mail ad Web addresses: Whe you say h t t p or w w w, Drago kows to format the ext words you say as a Web address. Say the followig abbreviatios by prooucig them as words: co, com, gov, mil, et, ad org. Say the followig abbreviatios by sayig each letter: a c, b, c a, e d u, ie, h k, i d, i, j p, m y, p h, s g, t h, ad u k. Use the No Caps O ad No Caps Off commads to eter a e-mail or Web address i all lowercase letters. For more iformatio about cotrollig capitalizatio, see Dictatig cosecutive words i all lowercase letters o page 95. 117
Dictatig Numbers, Puctuatio, ad Special Characters TIP: You ca create Text ad Graphics custom commads for e-mail ad Web addresses you use ofte. See the olie help for more iformatio. Dictatig special characters Dictatig commo special characters The followig special characters are i the Drago vocabulary. To dictate these characters, just say their ames. TO E NTER S AY & ampersad or ad sig * asterisk @ at sig ` backquote copyright sig ^ caret degree sig $ dollar sig or dollar euros or euro sig 118 % percet sig registered sig sectio sig trademark sig + plus sig - mius sig «ope euro quote» close euro quote # All Dialects: hash sig or sharp sig US/Caada: umber sig or poud sig US/Caada: poud sterlig sig Other Dialects: poud sig or poud
User Guide T O ENTE R SA Y :-) smiley face :-( frowy face ;-) wiky face For complete lists of special characters, see the olie Help. Switchig recogitio modes Drago lets you use differet recogitio modes i your dictatio. Drago uses ormal mode by default. I ormal mode, the program distiguishes betwee words, umbers, ad commads. I additio to ormal mode, there are other modes: Numbers mode The software recogizes oly umbers, commads, ad puctuatio. If you are dictatig oly umbers (icludig currecies), workig i this mode icreases recogitio accuracy. Spell mode The software recogizes oly letters, umbers, commads, ad puctuatio. I Spell mode, Drago allows you to say ay combiatio of letters, digits, or symbols you might eed dictate part umbers or licese plate umbers. You ca also say keystrokes such as space bar or backspace key. Spell mode is also useful for dictatig iteret or Web addresses. Commad mode The software iterprets everythig you say as a commad ad othig is iterpreted as dictated text. Dictatio mode The software iterprets everythig you say as dictatio ad othig is iterpreted as a commad, except for a few commads such as New Lie ad New Paragraph. 119
Dictatig Numbers, Puctuatio, ad Special Characters To chages modes, you ca: 1 Select the Words meu o the DragoBar ad click the ame of the mode you wat. 2 Switch modes by voice by sayig oe of these commads: MOD E TO TUR N ON, S AY TO T URN OF F, S AY Numbers mode Numbers mode O or Start Numbers Mode or Switch to Numbers mode Numbers mode Off or Stop Numbers mode or Switch to Normal mode Spell mode Spell mode O or Start Spell mode or Switch to Spell mode Spell Mode Off or Stop Spell Mode or Switch to Normal mode Commad mode Commad mode O or Start Commad mode or Switch to Commad mode Commad mode Off or Stop Commad mode or Switch to Normal mode Dictatio mode Dictatio mode O or Start Dictatio mode or Switch to Dictatio mode Dictatio mode Off or Stop Dictatio mode or Switch to Normal mode Turig a mode off by voice is the same as switchig back to Normal mode. NOTE: 120 You caot dictate fractios i Number mode.
Idex A abbreviatios 116 acroyms 116 All Caps Off 95 All Caps O 95 All Caps That 96 All Caps [text] 95 America Eglish 12 apostrophe s 113 applicatios opeig 47 startig (ad utilities) 52 switchig 48 Audio Setup Wizard 19 Australia Eglish 12 B BACKSPACE key 83 Bold That 98 British Eglish 12 bulleted text 99 buttos, selectig 51 C Cap That 96 94 Capitalize That Cap [word] 96 96 capitalizig text already i a documet 96 applyig lowercase 95 cosecutive words 94-95 ext word 94 Caps Off 95 Caps O 94 Ceter That 99 characters deletig 82-83 movig to ext/previous 80 selectig 77 check boxes, selectig 51 clickig the mouse 65 Capitalize That Coexistece with previous versios 7 Commad Mode 119 commas automatically addig 111 Compoud That 115 compoud words 115 cotractios. See apostrophe s Copy That 80 copyig text 80 Correct [text] Through [text] 2, 76 Correct [text] To [text] 2, 76 Correctio meu 69 creatig a ew user 16 currecy 109 Cut That 76, 80 cuttig text 80 D dates 103 settig automatic formattig 106 deferred correctio 88 Delete That 81 deletig text backig up ad resumig dictatio 81 characters 82-83 last words dictated 80 lies 82 paragraphs 82 specific words 77, 81-82 deselectig text 75 dialects dictatig currecy 109 dictatig times of day 104 spellig ad puctuatio covetios 2 dictate ow, correct later 88 Dictatio Box 35 Dictatio Mode 119 dictatio, savig for later playback 88 documets movig to top/bottom 78 opeig 47-48 selectig all text i 76 121
Idex dollar sig 109 Drago Log 29 DragoBar 32, 40 Extras toolbar o 42 DragoPad 33 hyphes 114 prevetig 114 removig 114 I icos, selectig 54 Idia Eglish 12 Isert After [text] 79 Isert Before [text] 79 istallatio 7 Iteratioal Commuicatios Alphabet Iteret addresses 117 itroductio 1 Italicize That 98 italics, addig or removig 98 E e-mail addresses, dictatig 117 ESC key 87, 92 Extras toolbar 42, 90 F folders opeig 52 folders, opeig 47-48 fots, chagig 96 Format That 98 Format That Cetered 99 K keyboard shortcuts stoppig playback 87-88, 92 keyboard, pressig keys 58-62 Format That Left Aliged 99 Format That Right Aliged 99 formattig text 96 applyig bold 98 applyig italics 98 applyig uderliig 98 chagig fot face, size, ad style removig formattig 99 fractios 106 G Give Me Help Go to Top 78 78 Go to Ed of Lie Go to Sleep 78 32 78 H help olie 36 homophoes, tips for selectig 75 Hypheate That 114 hypheated words 113 dictatig 114 122 Left Alig That 96 99 lies deletig 82 movig to begiig/ed of movig up/dow 79 selectig 77 list boxes 57 lowercase, applyig 95 36 Go to Begiig of Lie Go to Bottom L M makig selectios list boxes 57 measuremets. See abbreviatios meus, opeig ad closig 50 microphoe pluggig i 5 proper positioig 19 sleep mode 32 turig o ad off 32 mius (-) key 88 modes 119 moey 109 78 58
User Guide mouse clickig 65 movig the poiter 63-64, 66 MouseGrid 63 Move to Bottom 78 Move to Top 78 movig aroud a documet before/after specific words 79 to begiig/ed of lie 78 by paragraphs or lies 79 scrollig 57 to top/bottom of page 78 by words or characters 80 N ames dictatig 116 Natural Puctuatio 33, 111 avigatig betwee widows 53 ew user, creatig 16 No Caps Off 96, 117 No Caps O 96, 117 No Caps That 96 No Caps [text] 95 No Space 115 No Space Off 115 No Space O 115 umbers 101 currecy 102, 109 dates 103 fractios 106 Roma umerals 107 settig formats 15 telephoe umbers 105 times of day 104 Numbers Mode 103 O opeig folders 47 opeig applicatios 47 optios, selectig 51 P Page Dow 78 78 pages. See movig aroud a documet paragraphs deletig 82 movig up/dow 79 selectig 77 Paste That 80 pastig text 80 periods automatically addig 111 phoe umbers 105 see Telephoe Numbers Play That Back 87 playback cotrols 85 playig back dictatio 85 correctig mistakes 88 i the Correctio dialog box 85 i a documet 86 skippig backward 87 skippig forward 87 stoppig 87-88 storage space for 88 possessives. See apostrophe s postal ad ZIP codes 108 poud sterlig 109 problems dictatig currecy or time 103 programs, opeig. See opeig applicatios proper ames, dictatig 116 puctuatio 33, 111 automatic 111 Page Up Q QuickStart 44 R Read That 91 Regioal Settigs cotrol pael 103 Restore That 99 Resume With 81 revisig text. See Select-ad-Say Right Alig That 99 Roma umerals 107 123
Idex S s 113 savig dictatio 88 storage space for 90 Scratch That 76, 80 scrollig 57 searchig while selectig 75 Select Agai 75 Select All 76 Select Documet 76 Select [text] 74 Select-ad-Say Select-ad-Say Idicator 41 selectig text 74 agai 75 characters 77 a documet 76 lies 77 paragraphs 77 puctuatio 75 specific words 76-77 Set Fot 96-97 Set Size 97 Setup Log 29 Skip Backward 87 Skip Forward 87 Skip Word butto 22 sleepig 32 software istallatio 7 Southeast Asia Eglish 12 speakers, pluggig i 5 special characters 118 special folders opeig 52 Spell Mode 119 Spell That 70 Spell [text] 83 spellig as you dictate 83 errors 85 startig applicatios. See opeig applicatios Stop Listeig 32 Strikeout That 98 studet voice models 18 124 switchig widows 48 T Tab key 51 tabs (dialog box), selectig 51 teeage voices 18 telephoe umbers 105 settig automatic formattig 106 text see also Formattig Text text-to-speech 91 times of day 104 settig automatic formattig 106 troubleshootig 40 typeface, chagig 96 U UK Eglish 12 Ucapitalize 96 Ucapitalize That 96 98 uselectig text 75 Upgradig 28, 30 directory structure 28 user files creatig 16 utilities startig 52 Uderlie That W Web addresses 117 What Ca I Say 37 Widows ope special folders 52 widows avigatig betwee 53 switchig betwee 48 words deletig 77, 81-82 movig to ext/previous 80 placig isertio poit before/after selectig 76-77 Y years 103 79
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User Guide Iformatio, Sales, Services ad Techical Support Please visit these sites: http://support.uace.com/ http://www.uace.com/help/cotact The Nuace website gives access to may resources, icludig Frequetly Asked Questios, usage tips, customer stories, Customer Service iformatio, Techical Support cotet, ad a detailed compariso betwee Drago editios. It also lists Value-Added Resellers who provide traiig ad customizatio services for Drago, i perso or remotely. These Nuace parters ca help with idividualized recommedatios ad coachig for special equipmet, eviromets, workflows, goals, ad eeds; elistig their services is particularly efficiet for very busy users, very youg users, users who are ew to computers, ad i case of issues with hearig, visio, mobility, or dyslexia, for istace. If you purchased your software from a Value-Added Reseller, cotact them directly for techical support. The Support area of the Nuace website offers a Kowledge Base of Tech Notes cotaiig the latest techical iformatio o the Drago product family, icludig versios predatig Versio 11. It also icludes documetatio (User Guides, Referece Card ) ad listigs of microphoes, digital voice recorders, tablet PCs, ad other compatible hardware devices tested by Nuace ad approved for use with Drago. 127