Dictating Capabilities in Any Application with NaturallySpeaking
You can get quite a bit done just by dictating into the NaturallySpeaking Dictation Box and then using cut-and-paste techniques to move the text into documents belonging to other applications. But you [more…]
How to Choose Spreadsheet Functions with NaturallySpeaking
All you have to do to apply spreadsheet functions is pick the function out of a list (that the spreadsheet remembers for you) or add the function name to the NaturallySpeaking vocabulary. [more…]
Install Dragon NaturallySpeaking on Your Computer
Whether you’re installing NaturallySpeaking for the first time or installing over a previous version, the process is easy. If you have User Profiles from NaturallySpeaking version 9 or 10, the Upgrade [more…]
Run the NaturallySpeaking New User Wizard
To get yourself properly introduced to your new Dragon NaturallySpeaking software, you use a User Profile Wizard. You can start the wizard in one of two ways: [more…]
Train Dragon to Recognize Your Voice, Vocabulary, and Writing Style
After NaturallySpeaking has tested and adjusted your speakers and microphone, it’s ready to listen to you speak. This training will take all of 4 minutes. Follow these steps: [more…]
How to Dictate to Dragon NaturallySpeaking
After you have installed NaturallySpeaking on a computer with all the necessary system requirements and performed the initial training, you’re on the road to a beautiful friendship with your assistant. [more…]
Correct Errors in NaturallySpeaking
If NaturallySpeaking has misinterpreted something that you said, you can fix that mistake and also help train your NaturallySpeaking assistant. To accomplish this, you have to correct the error rather [more…]
Common Dictation Problems in NaturallySpeaking
Following are some common problems users experience with dictation in NaturallySpeaking. You can fix many of them by using the Correction menu box, or by word or vocabulary training: [more…]
How To Select Text with NaturallySpeaking
Whether you write your documents using a keyboard, or dictate them using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, from time to time you’re probably going to want to insert new text into the middle of the document, delete [more…]
How to Correct a NaturallySpeaking Recognition Error
Depending on how quickly you catch the error, you can correct it in one of the following two ways: [more…]
Levels of Control in Windows with NaturallySpeaking
In addition to entering text into another application’s windows, Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice commands can also control another application’s menus. When you combine these techniques with desktop control [more…]
How To Use the NaturallySpeaking Dictation Box
Wondering when to use the NaturallySpeaking Dictation Box? Work at the Dictation Box level when you find you don’t have all the voice commands you normally use. Pop open the Dictation Box as shown in and [more…]
What to Say to Dragon NaturallySpeaking
If you are new to using Dragon NaturallySpeaking with Word, you want to know the quickest ways to find the right thing to say. Here are some things to do when you’re stumped: [more…]
Get Started in Word with Dragon NaturallySpeaking
If you have used NaturallySpeaking for even a short amount of time, you know that there are many different ways of accomplishing the same thing. Take a look at all the ways you can work in Word or WordPerfect [more…]
What is a Natural Language Command?
The worst thing about dealing with computers is that you have to learn their language. Sure, NaturallySpeaking takes dictation. But when you want to tell it what to do with that dictation, you’re back [more…]
About Dictating Text to Word with NaturallySpeaking
The simplest way to think about dictating with Natural Language Commands is that you can work with your favorite documents in their natural settings. Word and WordPerfect have similar commands, so most [more…]
How to Edit and Format Text using NaturallySpeaking
Dragon's Natural Language Commands bring to Word all the editing and formatting features of the NaturallySpeaking DragonPad. Here’s an overview of those features and a couple of examples of the verbal [more…]
How To Insert in NaturallySpeaking
Natural Language Commands can be used for anything on the Insert menu. You can use the Natural Language Insert <something>command for page and section breaks, by just saying, [more…]
How To Lay Out Pages with NaturallySpeaking
Natural Language Commands are available for various ways of laying out your word processing document. If you want to verbally control those menus and see what’s there, use the command and then choose from [more…]
NaturallySpeaking's Natural Language Commands for Formatting Characters
Formatting is where Natural Language Commands for Word really get interesting, mainly because there is so much more to talk about. You can make things larger or smaller or indent them more or less. [more…]
How To Format Paragraphs with NaturallySpeaking
For formatting paragraphs in Word, many prefer (you guessed it) the Format That <some formatting>command. Because you can use Format That no matter whether you’re formatting paragraphs, fonts, or anything [more…]
Format Styles with NaturallySpeaking
Natural language commands allow you format styles in a document. Want a top-level heading? Say, “Change style to heading 1.” Want to redefine what Heading 1 is? Format a paragraph [more…]
Format Tables with NaturallySpeaking
You can use Natural Language Commands to create Word tables with up to 20 rows or columns. Use the commands Insert, Make, Add, or Create, as you prefer. You may prefer [more…]
Choose OpenOffice.org Writer for Documents
Want an online suite of office products that you don’t have to license? If so, check out OpenOffice.org. It is an open source program that includes a word processor called Writer and several other applications [more…]
Navigate in Word and in Windows with NaturallySpeaking
The objects that you can talk to Natural Language Commands about are the character, word, line, sentence, paragraph, section, page, column, row, cell, table, and document. [more…]
