Dragon Systems DRAGON NATURALLYSPEAKING, Manual

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Contents
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
iv
Training Dragon NaturallySpeaking to recognize problem words 38
Training words after making corrections 38
Training words when using Find New Words or Vocabulary Builder
40
Training words from Vocabulary Editor 40
Training words from the Tools menu 41
Training a voice command 41
Running General Training again 43
Creating specialized vocabularies 44
Creating vocabularies 45
Opening vocabularies 46
Renaming vocabularies 46
Deleting vocabularies 46
Importing and exporting vocabularies 47
C H A P T E R 3 More About Dictating 49
Preventing vocal strain 49
Dictating names of people, places, and events 50
Dictating abbreviations and acronyms 51
Dictating hyphenated words 52
Including hyphens as you dictate 52
Adding hyphens later 52
Removing hyphens 53
Preventing hyphens 53
Dictating compound words 53
Compounding words as you dictate 54
Compounding words later 54
Dictating words that end with ’s 55
Including ’s as you dictate 55
Adding ’s later 55
Dictating e-mail and Web addresses 56
Dictating special characters 57
Dictating common special characters 57
Dictating uncommon special characters 57
Dictating foreign words 60
Dictating numbers 61
Numerals and Zip codes 61
Dates 63
Times of day 63
Telephone numbers 64
Currency and coin
64
Fractions 65
Roman numerals 65
Creating dictation shorthands 66