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.
Autorentext
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.
Inhalt
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...