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Dragon Professional Individual For Dummies, 5th Edition

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015956888

ISBN: 978-1-119-17103-4

ISBN 978-1-119-17107-2 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-17106-5 (ebk)

1. Table of Contents

Finally! Someone has freed you from that medieval torture rack, the keyboard, and its contemporary accessory, the mouse. Youve been muttering epithets at your computer. Now you can actually speak to it. Although it still wont take your epithets to heart, it will now at least write them down for your future convenience.

For those who cant type or spell (or at least, not well), and for those whose bodies have been punished by keyboarding, Dragon Professional Individual spells relief (and other words, too). Dragon Professional Individual gives your lips their job back: being your principal data output device. In fact, with Dragon Professional Individual, you may be able to type faster with your lips than with your fingers. At the same time, you can eliminate spelling errors (and spell checking) from your life. Yes, its true!

Dragon Professional Individual can do great things soon after you open the box, but too often, its talents lie hidden. Recognizing speech is one of those human talents that is still very complex to a computer. Recognizing human speech is as much a miracle for a computer as computing the precise value of pi is for a human. (Computing the highly abstract value of pie, oddly enough, is much easier for a human.)

Dragon Professional Individual borders on being miraculous, but to get really practical results, you have to meet this miracle halfway. Perhaps you have been wondering what all the excitement is about, either because you are thinking of getting Dragon Professional Individual or because, so far, Dragon Professional Individual hasnt excited you. Dragon Professional Individual For Dummies is here to help.

This book reveals the stuff you need to know to turn Dragon Professional Individual from a technical miracle into a working tool on your Windows computer. I also cover how to use Dragon Professional Individual on your smartphone and tablet. Following are a dozen things this book can help you do:

• Discover what Dragon Professional Individual can and cant do.
• Help Dragon Professional Individual to recognize your voice.
• Run Dragon Professional Individual in the best way for your application.
• Use voice commands to get the formatting you want.
• Correct Dragon Professional Individual when it makes a mistake.
• Add to or customize Dragon Professional Individuals vocabulary.
• Speak better for better recognition.
• Control your desktop by voice.
• Transcribe speech from a portable recorder.
• Use Playback and text-to-speech tools to help proofread.
• Choose hardware for better performance.
• Create your own dictation shortcuts and custom commands.

Ever try to describe something basically simple and discover that the description made it ridiculously complex instead? Well, its that way with describing Dragon Professional Individual commands, so I try to simplify the job by using some typographic conventions. You wont really need to think about the typography much (let alone go to any conventions about it), but in case youre wondering about it, heres what it means:

• I put Dragon Professional Individual commands (the ones you speak, not the menu choices) in bold and initial capitals, enclosed in quotation marks, such as Scratch That.
• When part of a Dragon Professional Individual command varies according to what you are trying to do, I indicate the variable part in angle brackets (<and>), as in: Format That <font>. The term <font> here represents one of the many fonts allowed by that command, like Arial.