C H A P T E R 3
Starting to Dictate
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Microphone button and volume display
Click the Microphone button to turn the microphone on and off. When
the microphone is on, a colored bar in the Volume Display shows the
current sound level. Yellow indicates silence or speech that is too soft,
green indicates a proper speech level, and red indicates sound that is too
loud to be processed.
Extras toolbar (Available in Preferred edition
only)
Click the Extras button
on the far right of the DragonBar to open
the Extras toolbar. The Extras toolbar includes buttons for transcribing
from a recorder and for proofreading your dictation
.
To hide the Extras toolbar, click the Extras button
again.
Correction
Clicking the Correction button opens the Correction menu to teach the
computer what you said. See chapter 4, “Correcting and Editing.”
Transcribe (Available in Preferred edition only)
Use this button to transcribe your speech from a handheld recorder. See
chapter 15, “Using a Handheld Recorder (Preferred edition only).”
Start Playback, Fast Playback, and Stop Playback (Available in Preferred
edition only)
Select a word, sentence, or paragraph, then click the Start Playback
button to hear a recording of what you said. A yellow arrow points to the
text during playback to show you how the computer interpreted your
words. This button is useful for editing when you don’t remember what
you said. Click the Fast Playback button to play the recording at a faster
speed. Click the Start Playback button to return to a normal speed. Click
the Stop Playback button to stop the recorded speech playback.
Correction
Start Playback
Skip Forward
Stop Playback
Fast Playback
Skip Back
Transcribe
