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While your dictation is being played back, you can press the left arrow
key to back up, the right arrow key to go faster, and the down arrow key
to open the Correction menu.
Deferred correction
In Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
Professional and higher editions, you can
save your dictation along with the text of your document when dictating
in Microsoft
®
Word, Corel
®
WordPerfect
®
, and the DragonPad. This
feature, called
deferred correction
, lets you dictate now and correct later or
delegate correction to an assistant who can check the Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
®
transcription against the recording of your actual
dictation.
When you save a document in Microsoft
®
Word
®
, Corel
®
WordPerfect
®
,
or the DragonPad, you’ll be asked if you want to save the audio
recording of your speech. If you click Yes, Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
will create a file with the same name as your text document, but with the
extension “.dra.” This .dra file contains the audio. These audio files are
quite large. To conserve hard disk space, be sure to delete them when
they are no longer needed.
Because of memory constraints, Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
can play back
only your last 100 utterances (defined by the pauses in your speech). To increase the
amount of transcribed text you can play back, try speaking in longer phrases without
pausing for a breath or increase the “Pause between phrases” setting. (From the Tools
menu on the DragonBar, choose Options and click the Miscellaneous tab.)
If playback is unavailable
When Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
will not play back your recorded
voice, you still need to figure out what you said so that you can correct
your text.
Try pronouncing the misrecognized words aloud. The sound may
remind you of what the words were supposed to be. For example:
■
The program types: “…make sure speech patterns…”
■
Say it aloud to remember what you said: “…
makes your
speech
patterns…”
For complex or difficult dictation that would be hard to reconstruct, have
a handheld recorder running on your desk as you speak. This serves as a
backup recording of what you said. It’s time-consuming to go back and
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