Dragon Professional Individual For Dummies

Stop typing and get more done with Dragon Professional Individual voice recognition software

Tired of typing, but afraid to take the leap into voice recognition software? No problem! Dragon Professional Individual For Dummies, 5th Edition gives you a great overview of the industry-leading speech recognition software so you can start talking instead of typing in no time at all. With this easy-to-use guide, you'll quickly find out how to use Professional Individual to open documents, write emails and notes, update your Facebook status, and much more. The book includes everything you need to get started, from launching the software and basic dictating to controlling your desktop by voice, and tips for improving accuracy.

Available for both Windows and Mac, Dragon Professional Individual is the gold standard for home and professional voice recognition software. Easy to use and much more efficient than typing, the software can take your productivity to the next level.

• Get an introduction to everything you'll need to know to get started with Dragon Professional Individual voice recognition software

• Find out how to access documents, write emails, and even update your Facebook status with nothing more than your voice

• Includes the most updated information on the latest version of the software

• Offers information for programmers and developers who want to use the software for mobile app development

Dragon Professional Individual For Dummies, 5th Edition is your go-to resource to get up and running with this great voice recognition software in no time.

Auteur

Stephanie Diamond is a thought leader, management marketing professional, and founder of Digital Media Works, Inc., an online marketing company that helps business owners discover the hidden profits in their businesses. She has worked with small business owners and multibillion-dollar corporations.

Contenu
Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Conventions Used in This Book 2

Foolish Assumptions 3

Icons Used in This Book 3

Beyond the Book 4

Where to Go from Here 4

Part I: Getting Started with Dragon Professional Individual 5

Chapter 1: Knowing What to Expect 7

Clarifying What Dragon Professional Individual Can Do for You 7

Figuring Out What Dragon Professional Individual Can't Do 9

Selecting the Right Dragon Product 11

Expanding the use of speech recognition 11

The latest generation of the Dragon family 12

Understanding Speech Recognition in Dragon 14

What's so hard about recognizing speech, anyway? 15

What's a computer to do? 16

Onward to Customizing! 18

Chapter 2: Installing Dragon and Starting Basic Training 19

Installing Dragon Professional Individual on Your Computer 20

Creating a User Profile 25

Chapter 3: Launching and Controlling Dragon 33

Launching Dragon Professional Individual 33

Choosing or Switching User Profiles 34

Meeting the Face of Your Dragon Professional Individual Assistant 35

A closer look at the DragonBar 36

Choosing options 38

Why Use the Dragon Professional Individual DragonPad? 41

Using the word-processor features of the Dragon Professional Individual DragonPad 41

Choosing from the menu bar and toolbar 42

Editing: Cut, paste, and the usual suspects 43

Formatting: Fonts, indentations, alignments, bullets, and tabs 43

Saving and opening documents 44

Customizing the window 45

Tools and When to Use Them 46

Part II: Creating Documents and Spreadsheets 51

Chapter 4: Simply Dictating 53

Dictating 101: How to Dictate 54

Distinguishing between Text and Commands 56

Controlling Your (Cough! Sneeze!) Microphone 57

Tips for Talking 58

Punctuating and Capitalizing 59

Punctuating your remarks 59

Discovering Natural Punctuation 62

Capitalizing on your text 62

Taking Up Space 63

Controlling paragraph spacing 64

Controlling spaces and tabs 64

Entering Different Numbers and Dates 65

Making Quick Corrections 67

Scratching your bloopers 67

Resuming dictation with an earlier word 69

Correcting a Dragon Professional Individual error 69

Tackling Common Dictation Problems 70

Chapter 5: Selecting, Editing, and Correcting in DragonPad 73

Moving Around in a Document 74

Giving the cursor directions and distances 75

Going to the head of the line 76

Specifying a destination by quoting text 76

Editing by Voice 77

Selecting text 77

Deleting text 79

Sharp tongues: Cutting and pasting by voice 80

Just undo it 80

Fixing Dragon Professional Individual's Mistakes 81

Correcting a Dragon Professional Individual recognition error 81

Casting a spell 83

Recurring errors 85

Playing back an error 85

Chapter 6: Basic Formatting in Text-Editing Applications 87

Knowing the Short Formatting Commands 87

Left, Right, and Center: Getting into Alignment 88

Using Bullets and Numbered Lists 90

Changing Font 91

Changing your style: Bold, italic, and underlined text 91

Changing font size 92

Changing font family 93

Changing everything at one time 94

Understanding Smart Formatting 95

Chapter 7: Proofreading and Listening to Your Text 97

Using Voice Commands for Playback 98

Proofreading and Correcting with Playback 99

Using the Text-to-Speech Feature 102 **Chapter 8: Dictating into Other Applicatio...