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Technical Support

Dragon Systems offers free telephone support for 30 days,
and unlimited Web-based support. Your free 30-day period
begins with your first call. You may buy additional telephone
support after the free period.

Before calling Technical Support, please collect the following
information (if you cannot find it, Technical Support can
help):

your product serial number (located on your CD sleeve)

any error message text

sound card name and model

program log files (dragon.log and dgnsetup.log) (attach
them if you send e-mail to Technical Support)

Copyright © 2000 Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.

Dragon Systems, L&H, NaturallySpeaking, Vocabulary Builder, Vocabulary 
Editor, and the L&H and Dragon Systems logos are registered trademarks or
trademarks of L&H in the United States and/or other countries. All other names
and trademarks referenced herein are trademarks of L&H or their respective
owners.

Contact
Dragon
Systems

DRAGON SYSTEMS USA

A Lernout & Hauspie Company
320 Nevada Street
Newton, Massachusetts 02460
USA

TEL

+1-617-965-5200

FAX

+1-617-527-0372

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MAIL

[email protected]

WEB

www.dragonsystems.com

DRAGON SYSTEMS UK

A Lernout & Hauspie Company
Seagate House
Globe Park
Marlow
Buckinghamshire SL7 1LW
United Kingdom

TEL

+44 (0) 1628 894150

FAX

+44 (0) 1628 894151

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MAIL

[email protected]

WORLDWIDE HEADQUARTERS

Lernout & Hauspie Speech
Products N.V.
Flanders Languages Valley, 50
8900 Ieper Belgium 

TEL

+32-57-228-888

FAX

+32-57-208-48

WEB

www.LHSL.com

Web

www.DragonSystems.com/support

Includes product updates, hardware
compatibility information, answers to
frequently asked questions, and
discussion forums.

Telephone

617-965-7670

Contact Information

Contact Method

Quick Start

03-101-50-01

Summary of Contents for DRAGON NATURALLYSPEAKING ESSENTIALS 5

Page 1: ...inning to dictate See page 8 Command Quick Reference See inside back cover Dragon NaturallySpeaking lets you talk to your computer instead of typing You can talk to Microsoft Internet Explorer e mail...

Page 2: ...n a sticker on your CD sleeve 4 Dragon Systems recommends that you register online now if you can so we can notify you of product upgrades and other offers 5 If installation prompts you to restart you...

Page 3: ...king can hear you loud and clear Whenever you use Dragon NaturallySpeaking start by making sure your microphone is in the right position If the microphone is out of place Dragon NaturallySpeaking won...

Page 4: ...r The rest of this section explains each step in the New User Wizard If you have difficulty with any step this section can help answer your questions STEP 1 Create a User 1 Name this user with your na...

Page 5: ...use the default choice General Younger speakers of U S English aged 9 15 should select the Teens vocabulary Most users should not need the Advanced option STEP 2 Check your audio settings Before begi...

Page 6: ...s while you re training the program just click Pause 2 To advance through the first two screens you must say the sentences without pausing For the rest of the screens it s okay to pause in the middle...

Page 7: ...spend a few minutes adapting and saving your speech files Click OK and wait for the program to finish adapting to your voice When adaptation is complete you will see this next screen If you are upgrad...

Page 8: ...aturallySpeaking Some of these commands are also available from other parts of the DragonBar for example opening the online Help Microphone icon and volume display Click on the microphone icon to turn...

Page 9: ...at the bottom of the screen If the Windows taskbar is visible at the bottom of the screen the DragonBar appears just above it Cling mode The DragonBar clings to the top left of the active window When...

Page 10: ...ull stop in place of period For more information on punctuation in different dialects see the online Help Dictate the text below and say comma period and question mark to add the punctuation marks Har...

Page 11: ...You can move to the top or bottom of the current page by saying Page Up equivalent to pressing the PAGE UP key or Page Down equivalent to pressing the PAGE DOWN key You can move to the top or bottom o...

Page 12: ...To delete words you just dictated pause briefly and say Scratch That To delete words anywhere in your document move to the words and select them and then say Delete That Say without pausing I m lookin...

Page 13: ...12 Point or Format That Bold To change the format for the next thing you dictate say for example Set Font Arial 12 Point Italic The change will apply to any text you have selected and from that point...

Page 14: ...e previous steps and the word is still not recognized the program might need some special training Here s how From the NaturallySpeaking menu point to Words then click Train Words Follow the instructi...

Page 15: ...ling headset microphone Dragon NaturallySpeaking is optimized for many popular processors including the Intel Pentium III Intel Pentium II Intel Pentium with MMX Intel Celeron AMD K6 2 AMD K6 III with...

Page 16: ...can force it to type your words as dictation by holding down the SHIFT key while you speak P A G E I Dragon NaturallySpeaking Command Quick Reference Controlling the microphone Go to Sleep Make the mi...

Page 17: ...thing you said Spell g l a s s Spell the next word such as glass Spell That Spell the last thing you said in g l a s s this case glass Correction dialog box commands Choose 2 Select an alternative fr...

Page 18: ...phe s at sign backquote open single quote close single quote begin single quote end single quote SAY FOR SAY FOR TO SAY TO SAY SAY FOR open quote close quote begin quote end quote backslash slash forw...

Page 19: ...e or Previous view Go To Last Field Move to the last field of the view or Last TO SAY TO SAY TO SAY Formatting text Format That Bold Apply bold to either the last thing you said or selected text Forma...

Page 20: ...ered trademarks or trademarks of L H in the United States and or other countries All other names and trademarks referenced herein are trademarks of L H or their respective owners Contact Dragon System...

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