“XYZ” = any word(s)

Items marked in red are new in Version 10

TOPIC  SKILLS

 Connect/place microphone: facing corner of mouth, comfortable, stable, consistent

 Turn microphone off when not dictating: use hot key (+), ‘stop listening’
Microphone /
 Choose your first or additional Dictation Source (USB, Bluetooth mic, recorder…)
Acoustics  Read additional Training text from Accuracy Center; train individually if needed
 Check Audio Settings if your hardware or environment changes

 Enunciate clearly but naturally. Stay silent if hesitating. Aim for full phrases.
 Punctuate: open paren, close quote, hyphen, ellipsis, section|pound|at sign…
 Pause briefly before and after commands, don’t pause within commands.
 ‘New Paragraph’ (skips a line), ‘New Line’ (carriage return), Tab
 ‘Scratch that’, ‘Scratch that n times’, ‘Undo that’

Dictation,  Time (AM/PM), ‘Roman numeral n, %, units, ‘numeral n’, contractions… See Formatting
Punctuation, Options (DragonBar’s Tools menu) & Word Properties (Vocabulary Editor).
Capitalization,  Command ‘Spell <characters>’ incl. alpha-bravo-charlie, slash, asterisk, dot…
and  Numbers Mode On, Switch to Spell | Command | Dictation | Normal Mode
Navigation
 ‘Caps On’, ‘ALL CAPS OFF’, ‘Cap <word>’, ‘ALL CAPS <word>’, ‘no caps <Word>’

 ‘Go to top|bottom’, ‘Go to end of line’, ’Move left n words’, ‘Move up n lines’
 ‘Insert before|after XYZ’
 ‘Mousegrid n n’, ‘Mousegrid window’, ‘Mouse right-click’, ‘Move mouse lower right’
 ‘Press Enter | Escape | F6 | Tab | Alt Down | Down Arrow | Page Up‘

 ‘Correct XYZ’ (the wrong word(s) on the screen)

Correcting  If already highlighted or just spoken: ‘Correct That’ (or hotkey, DragonBar extras)
a Misrecognition
 Use Play back  Double-click to select/correct words

 ‘Delete line’, ‘Backspace n’, ‘Delete last|next n characters|words|lines’

Editing  ‘Select line’, ‘Select XYZ’, ’Select start through end’, ‘Select again’
 Replace text to revise (select by voice or hand, then overwrite)
and  ‘X That’: ‘Select | Delete | Copy | Bold | Paste | Hyphenate | Cap That’
Formatting  Direct commands: ‘Delete | Cut | Copy | Underline | Bold | Italicize XYZ’ or range
 ‘Open Dictation Box’

Personalizing the  Open Accuracy Center: access tools to optimize the accuracy.
 Open Vocabulary Editor to add, modify, or delete entries (and their Properties)
Vocabulary
 Create Spoken Forms (CSAT\see sat, Hseuh-tze\shoe tsee, interrogatories\rogs)
(for accuracy and  Import|Export custom words (plain .txt, backslash for spoken forms)
ease)  Adapt Vocabulary from relevant text documents; Increase Accuracy From Email

 ‘Show Sample Commands’. ‘Open Command Browser’. ‘Give Me Help’

Finding,  ‘Add new command’ Boilerplate (Text & Graphics), Step-by-Step sequences
*Editing/Managing  Modify or clone commands: Edit or New Copy (Script tab of the Command Browser)
Commands  Import custom commands (Manage tab of the Command Browser)

*Shortcuts for  ‘Search news | maps | Google | the Web for XYZ’. ‘Find a site about XYZ’.
Web/PC Search &  ‘Search computer | files| e-mail for XYZ’
Outlook®  ‘Compose e-mail to <contact name(s)>’. ‘Compose e-mail about XYZ’
 ‘Schedule appointment with <contact name(s)>’

Some features *not in all editions*.See Dragon’s Help resources for more details.
Nuance Communications, Inc. 2009 All rights reserved.
 Common Dragon Voice Commands
SAY... TO... SAY... TO...

Navigate Cutting / Pasting / Deleting Text

New line Press the Enter key Copy That Copy selected text
once
Cut That Cut selected text
New paragraph Press the Enter key
Paste That Paste cut or copied
twice
text
Space bar Press the Space Key
Scratch That Delete the last thing
you said
Tab key Press the Tab key
Inserting Basic Punctuation

Go to bottom Move to insertion Period or Full stop .

point to the end of the Comma ,
document
Question Mark ?

Insert before Move the insertion Exclamation point !

/ Insert after point before or after
Colon :
<word or words) certain text to insert
text there. Semicolon ;
Hyphen -
Selecting text
Dash --
Select <word or Select a particular
<words> word or words to Open quote “
replace, correct, or for-
mat. Example: “Select Close quote ”
Mary had a little lamb” Open parenthesis (
Select Again Select the same word Close parenthesis )
or words again but in a
different place For more information, see the User’s Guide
or the online help
Formatting
Sample Commands
Bold That Apply bold to selected
text What can I say? Brings up a partial
list of available
Italicize That Apply italics to se- commands that
lected text work in the active
Underline That Apply underlining to application
selected text For a complete list of commands, start the
Restore That Remove formatting Command Browser.
from selected text
Cap <word>” Start the next word
or “Cap Next with a capital. Ex-
<word>” ample: “Cap hot Cap
dog” = Hot Dog
All Caps <word> Type the next word in
all capitals.
www.Nuance.com/NaturallySpeaking
Example: “All Caps Copyright © 1997-2008 Nuance Communications, Inc.
yikes” = YIKES All rights reserved.