Tips for Talking to NaturallySpeaking
Dictating text, especially if you’re used to typing on a keyboard, can seem a little clumsy at first. You need to do things a bit differently than when you type. Following are eight tips to make your dictating [more…]
Control Paragraph Spacing in NaturallySpeaking
Dragon NaturallySpeaking automatically does some word, sentence, and paragraph spacing. You can control that spacing, or add space of your own. Understanding a letter or other document depends not only [more…]
Control Spaces and Tabs in NaturallySpeaking
Dragon NaturallySpeaking does a pretty good job of automatic spacing. It usually deals with spaces around punctuation in the way that you want it to. Occasionally, however, you will want to add a few spaces [more…]
How To Punctuate and Capitalize in NaturallySpeaking
Dictating isn’t quite like speaking. Unlike human listeners, Dragon NaturallySpeaking can’t interpret the inflections and pauses in our voices as punctuation. When you dictate, you have to make an effort [more…]
Enter Numbers and Dates in NaturallySpeaking
When people speak about numbers and dates, they use many different forms. Remarkably, Dragon NaturallySpeaking can figure it out. You can say, “eight o’clock AM” [more…]
How To Undo Spoken Mistakes in NaturallySpeaking
Making a verbal mistake or “blooper” that you need to undo is easy to do with speech input in NaturallySpeaking. You call across the office to someone or mutter something sarcastic, and NaturallySpeaking [more…]
How To Correct Dictation as You Go in NaturallySpeaking
It seems that dictating to Dragon NaturallySpeaking should be a far easier way to communicate than by tapping your fingers across a keyboard. And the basics of dictating are, in fact, pretty easy. You [more…]
Move Around in a Document with NaturallySpeaking
You can do all your editing by voice, just as if you were dictating your changes to a real person instead of your virtual NaturallySpeaking assistant. Basically, when you tell NaturallySpeaking where to [more…]
How To Give the Cursor Directions in NaturallySpeaking
You can use the Move command to move the cursor in different directions in Dragon NaturallySpeaking: forward or backward a certain number of characters, words, lines, or paragraphs. The short form of the [more…]
Go to the Head of the Line in NaturallySpeaking
Like telling your cab driver to go to the end of a street, you can tell NaturallySpeaking to go the beginning or end of the document, current paragraph, current line, or whatever block of text is selected [more…]
How To Delete Text with NaturallySpeaking
The simplest way to delete text using Dragon NaturallySpeaking is to use the Scratch That command to delete recently dictated text. You can use Scratch That [more…]
How To Cut, Paste, and Undo in NaturallySpeaking
Editing a document involves using NaturallySpeaking several activities: inserting new text, deleting text, replacing text by dictating over it, and rearranging the document by cutting text from one place [more…]
How to Format Text in NaturallySpeaking
NaturallySpeaking makes formatting text very easy with voice commands. Text that is all the same font, size, and style can be pretty boring. Because of advances in web design, everyone’s expectations for [more…]
How to Align Paragraphs in Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Dragon NaturallySpeaking lets you produce with voice commands many of the same results that formatting buttons and icons produce in other applications. For example, to change the alignment of a paragraph [more…]
How to Format in Applications Other Than NaturallySpeaking
The Dragon NaturallySpeaking formatting commands work only with the NaturallySpeaking word processor and specific other applications: the Natural Language applications [more…]
Bold, Italicize, and Underline Text in NaturallySpeaking
Dragon NaturallySpeaking provides commands like Bold Thatto change the style of a font. You can use the Set or Format commands to change the size or style of a font, to choose a new font family, or to [more…]
How to Undo Formatting Commands in NaturallySpeaking
In Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the commands Bold That, Underline That, Italicize That, and Format That Bullet Style all share a quirky property: They undo themselves. For example, if you select some regular [more…]
Use the Set and Format Commands in NaturallySpeaking
Who said you can't choose your family? NaturallySpeaking recognizes most font families. You can use the Set or Format commands to change from one of these font families to another. For example, [more…]
How to Use the “That” Command in NaturallySpeaking
Dragon NaturallySpeaking treats the command “that” differently depending upon when it is spoken. For example, when you use capitalization, spacing, and hyphenation commands [more…]
Proofread and Listen to Your Text in NaturallySpeaking
Dragon NaturallySpeaking never misspells a word; however, NaturallySpeaking can make some mistakes by choosing the wrong (if perfectly spelled) word. A person who writes to the bank, “I have trouble paying [more…]
Use Voice Commands for Playback in NaturallySpeaking
Dragon NaturallySpeaking makes it easy to play back your voice as you’re dictating. The simplest form of playing back your voice is to speak the command [more…]
Proofread and Correct with Playback in NaturallySpeaking
Voice playback is a nice feature for proofreading and editing your documents. Dragon NaturallySpeaking provides convenient buttons on the DragonBar and hotkeys on the keyboard for controlling the playback [more…]
Playback in the Corrections Dialog Box in NaturallySpeaking
A good reason for playing back your dictation is so that you can properly correct Dragon NaturallySpeaking. You want to be sure that the text you type in the Correction menu box is what you actually said [more…]
How to Use the Text-to-Speech Feature in NaturallySpeaking
The Dragon NaturallySpeaking text-to-speech feature is a great piece of wizardry. While not perfect, it can help your PC do a reasonable job of turning text into speech. It might even be disconcerting [more…]
How NaturallySpeaking Runs in the Background
NaturallySpeaking uses several windows at once. Normally, you launch an application, you get an application window, and you work in that window. End of story. Not so with NaturallySpeaking, and for good [more…]
