Dragon Dictate for Mac V2+ Quick Start Guide

8/2/2019 Dragon Dictate for Mac V2+ Quick Start Guide

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(V2 + Mac Only)

Dragon

DictateQuick-Start Guide

Controlling your Microphone

SAY: TO: Go to Sleep Makes the microphone stop listening temporarily.

Wake Up Reactivates the microphone when its sleeping.

Microphone Off Turns the microphone off (You need to re-activate manually to restart)

Sleep Mode Sets the microphone on sleep mode.

Switch to Sleep Mode Sets Dictate microphone to sleep mode.

Adding paragraphs, lines, and spaces

New Line Presses the Enter key once.

New Paragraph Presses the Enter key twice.

No Space Stops putting spaces between words.

No Space On/ No Space Off Stops putting spaces between words/ Starts Putting spaces between

Selecting Text

Select ____ Selects a specific word or words - (See tool tip at the bottom of page)

Select ____to ______ Selects a series of words that follow on from each other.

Select All Selects all the text in your document.

Select Next/Previous Selects the next or previous word

Deleting Text

Forget That/ ScratchThat Deletes the last thing you said

Forget Word/ Scratch Word Deletes the last word you said

Delete _____ Deletes a specific word

Delete _____to ______ Deletes a series of words that follow on from each other.

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User Tip: Improving Accuracy Where ______ is indicated, this is where you should specify a specific word in your text for the

dragon to select or delete etc.

Try to speak at a natural relaxed pace to improve your accuracy when dictating.


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Moving Around in Document

Move Forward (199) Words Moves forward from the cursor point to a specific word

Move Backward (1...99) Words Moves backward from the cursor point to a specific word

Go to Beginning of Document Goes to the start of document

Go to End of Document Goes to the end of document

Capitalizing text All Caps On/ Caps On Turn all capitals on (like pressing the CAPS LOCK key).

All Caps Off/ Caps Off Turn all capitals off.

Uppercase ____ to ____ Puts in capitals a specific selection of text

Lowercase ____ to ____ Puts in lower case a specific selection of text

No Caps Stops the last word you said being capitalised

All Caps Makes the last thing you said all capitals

Inserting Text Before/ After a word

Insert Before _____ Inserts text BEFORE a specific word

Insert After ______ Inserts text AFTER a specific word

Phrase Training Commands

Show Recognition Window Opens up the Recognition Window (see tool tip at the bottom of page)

Hide Recognition Window Hides the Recognition Window

Choose ___ (e.g. 1, 2, 3 etc.) Chooses a specific Number (next to your word, when correcting)

Pick ___ (e.g. 1, 2, 3 etc.) Picks a specific Number (next to your word, when correcting)

Edit ___ (e.g. 1, 2, 3 etc.) Edits a specific Word (which is next to the number)

Cancel Edit Cancels the Edit Command

Press Play Plays back the Word

Play Back/ Proof Reading Your Document (Note: the text has to be Pre-selected)

Read/ Proof Read _____ Plays back pre-selected word

Read/ Proof Read Selection Plays back pre-selected phrase or selection of words

Read/ Proof Read Document Plays back all the document to you

Cut/ Copy/ Pasting Text

Copy Selection Copies Pre-selected Text

Cut Selection Copies Pre-selected Text

Paste from Clipboard Pastes Text from the Clipboard

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User Tip: Recognition Window

This is a good tool, because this allows you to understand what Dragon has actually understood

what you have said and so you can edit your words more effectively.


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Switching Modes

Dictation Mode Allows you to dictate and carry out commands.

Spelling Mode Allows you to spell in words only.

Command Mode Allows you to carry out commands only.

Dragon Dictate Window Commands

Bring Dictate to the Front Puts the focus on the Dragon Dictate Toolbar

Show Available Commands Window Shows the commands available in the software you are using.

Hide Available Commands Window Hides the command window

Keyboard / Button Commands

Press the Key ______ Presses a specific Keyboard key, e.g. Enter, Tab, Backspace etc.

Press the Key Combo ___ plus ___ Presses a combination of Keys, e.g. Command + P (to print)

Press Cancel Presses the Cancel Button Press Dont Save Presses the Dont Save Button

Press OK Presses the OK Button

Save this Document Saves the Document

Menu Commands

File New Creates a New File

File Open Goes to the Open Menu

File Close Closes a File

Undo Last Action Clicks the Undo Button

Redo Last Action Clicks the Redo Button

About this Application Gives you details of the Application you are in.

Access Find Window Goes to the Find Facility Window

Access Force Quit Use this only if your screen has frozen and you cannot exit normally

Show Date and Time Shows you the date and time

Application Launch/Quit Commands

Activate ______ Activates a specific Application (i.e. specify correct application name)

Open ______ Opens the Application you specify

Launch _____ Launches the Application you specify

Quit/ Kill _______ Quits the Application you specify

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User Tip:Navigating Around your Document

Believe it or not saying commands to navigate around or to delete something is quite

often faster than moving your mouse to the word and then pressing your backspace key.


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Dragon Voice Shortcuts

Search Google for ______ Searches Google for a specific word

Search Bing for ______ Searches Bing for a specific word

Search Yahoo for _____ Searches Yahoo for a specific word

Search Menus for _______ Searches Menu items in the ACTIVE application

Search Mail for ________ Specific Messages

Search Mac for ________ Searches Mac for a specifically named document

Chat Commands

Send Message Sends your specific message after youve dictated it

Smiley Face Inserts a Smiley Face in your message

Winky Face Inserts a Winky Face in your message

Frowny Face Inserts a Frowny Face in your message

Entering punctuation and special characters

FOR: SAY: FOR: SAY: FOR: SAY:

& Ampersand

* Asterisk

Apostrophe

s Apostrophe ess

@ At Sign. Dot/ Point/ Full-stop

` Back-Quote

Open Single Quote

Close Single Quote

Open Quote

Close Quote

\ Back-Slash

/ Slash / Forward Slash

: Colon

, Comma

^ Caret

Dash

(space) Space Bar

(TAB) Tab Key

Pound Sign$ Dollar Sign

Euro Sign

# Hash Sign

= Equal Sign

! Exclamation Mark

- Hyphen

( Open Bracket

) Close Bracket

{ Open Curly Bracket

} Close Curly Bracket

[ Open Square Bracket

] Close Square Bracket

< Less Than

> More Than

- Minus Sign+ Plus Sign

% Percent Sign

? Question Mark

Section Sign

; Semicolon

~ Tilde

_ Underscore

| Vertical Bar

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------User Tip: Punctuation

Dont worry too much about punctuation when you first start using Dragon, as long as you

remember to say fullstop after a sentence, you can go back & edit it later .

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