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1 5 Customizing Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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Speed: Adjusts the speed of text-to-speech playback.
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Voice: Determines the voice to use for text-to-speech playback. You can select a
voice from the list if you have more than one installed on your system.
Preview
Enter or paste text in this box to preview text-to-speech playback.
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Read text: Click Read Text to start playback of the text in the Preview box.
Unload text-to-speech
Removes the text-to-speech engine from memory. Dragon NaturallySpeaking loads
the text-to-speech engine the first time you use a text-to-speech command after
starting Dragon NaturallySpeaking. The text-to-speech engine should not affect
performance, so generally you will not need to unload it.
Restore defaults
Clicking this button restores the values of the Text-to-speech tab to what they were
when you installed Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
Miscellaneous options
Use this tab to set miscellaneous options. Unless otherwise indicated, changing an
option only affects the current user; any other users keep their existing settings.
User Open
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Microphone on (asleep): Specifies that Dragon NaturallySpeaking automatically
puts the microphone in sleep mode when you start the program. You must say