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5 Correcting and Editing
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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(It’s not possible to stop playback by voice, because the computer cannot hear
speech input when it’s playing back dictation.)
To skip backward or forward:
You can skip backward or forward in your document by a few words by clicking the
Skip Backward and Skip Forward buttons.
To stop playback and correct a mistake:
To stop playback and correct a mistake, do any of the following:
■ Click the Correction button on the Playback toolbar.
■
Press the minus (-) key on the numeric keypad.
This stops playback and simultaneously opens the Correction menu. There you can
correct the text for the last phrase played back.
By default, Dragon NaturallySpeaking stores about 30 minutes of dictation (40 MB). If you
want to be able to store more dictation, you can change the amount of disk space that’s set aside for
storing it. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Data tab. Increase the number in the
“Disk space reserved for playback” box.
Dictate now, correct later
When you dictate into the DragonPad, you can save your dictation with your text so
either you or someone else can correct it later. You must create and edit your file in
the DragonPad to be able to play back dictation. This feature is available in Dragon
NaturallySpeaking Professional and higher editions.
You can save dictation with your document if you select the Save recorded dictation
with document box on the Data tab of the Options dialog. The first time you save a
document in DragonPad during an editing session, Dragon NaturallySpeaking asks
you whether you want to save your speech data. If you save your speech data, you
can reopen the document at a later time and play back your dictation. If you do not
save your speech data, your dictation is stored only during the current editing
session.
Correcting your own dictation
If you save your dictation, you can open your file later and play back and correct the
text as if you had just dictated it.
Correcting someone else's dictation
You can play back someone else's dictation and correct the text to match the
dictation. You can do this in two ways:
■
You can correct the dictation using your user files.
■
You can correct the dictation using the document author's user files.
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