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Contents About This Guide v CHAPTER 1 Introducing Dragon NaturallySpeaking 1 What's new in version 5? 2 What should I expect from Dragon NaturallySpeaking? 6 Do I still need my mouse and keyboard? 7 CHAPTER 2 Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully 9 How Dragon NaturallySpeaking works 10 Seven habits for success with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Positioning your microphone correctly 11 Speaking properly to the computer 12 Correcting recognition mistakes 15 Playing back your dictation 23 Using text-to-speech 28 CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition 31 Working with the Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabulary 31 Quick and easy ways to add new words 34 Advanced tools for building and editing vocabularies 41 Managing vocabularies 54 Training Dragon NaturallySpeaking to recognize problem words 59 Running General Training again 63 CHAPTER 4 Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation 65 Dictating names of people, places, and events 65 Dictating abbreviations and acronyms 67 Dictating hyphenated words 68 Dictating compound words 69 Dictating words that end with 's 70 Dictating e-mail and Web addresses 72 Dictating special characters 73 Dictating foreign words 75 Dictating numbers 76 CHAPTER 5 Editing and Revising Text 87 Moving around in a document 87 Selecting text 90 Dragon NaturallySpeaking User's Guide iii

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Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
iii
Contents
About This Guide
v
CHAPTER 1
Introducing Dragon NaturallySpeaking 1
What’s new in version 5?
2
What should I expect from Dragon NaturallySpeaking?
6
Do I still need my mouse and keyboard?
7
CHAPTER 2
Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking Successfully 9
How Dragon NaturallySpeaking works
10
Seven habits for success with Dragon NaturallySpeaking
11
Positioning your microphone correctly
11
Speaking properly to the computer
12
Correcting recognition mistakes
15
Playing back your dictation
23
Using text-to-speech
28
CHAPTER 3
Improving Your Speech Recognition 31
Working with the Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabulary
31
Quick and easy ways to add new words
34
Advanced tools for building and editing vocabularies
41
Managing vocabularies
54
Training Dragon NaturallySpeaking to recognize problem words
59
Running General Training again
63
CHAPTER 4
Dictating Names, Numbers & Punctuation 65
Dictating names of people, places, and events
65
Dictating abbreviations and acronyms
67
Dictating hyphenated words
68
Dictating compound words
69
Dictating words that end with ’s
70
Dictating e-mail and Web addresses
72
Dictating special characters
73
Dictating foreign words
75
Dictating numbers
76
CHAPTER 5
Editing and Revising Text 87
Moving around in a document
87
Selecting text
90