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Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide 151
Though Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
cannot transcribe recordings
directly, you can still use the software to make transcribing faster and
less tedious than typing. To do this, listen to the recording and pause
after each passage or sentence. Then repeat the words you heard,
dictating them into the computer. Include punctuation and speak clearly
as you translate the recording to speech that Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
can recognize. Depending on your goals, you may not have to transcribe
the whole recording verbatim. Reviewing a recorded interview, for
example, you might dictate only key facts or notable quotations.
This verbal “shadowing” can be a great timesaver. With practice, some
people can dictate to the computer while simultaneously listening to the
recording, as a United Nations interpreter might speak in French while
listening to a speech in English.
Text-to-speech
Dragon NaturallySpeaking ® can read any text to you in a synthesized
voice, which some people find helpful for proofreading. This feature,
available in Microsoft
®
Word, Corel
®
WordPerfect
®
, the DragonPad, and
some other applications, is called text-to-speech .
To use text-to-speech, select the text you want Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
® to read. Then do one of the following:
■
Say “ Read That .”
■
From the Sound menu on the DragonBar, click Read That.
You can also have parts of the text read to you by saying any of the
following commands:
■ “ Read Line ”
■
“ Read Paragraph ”
■
“ Read Document ”
■
“ Read Window ” (only the words in view)
■
“ Read To Here ” (read from the top of the window to the insertion
point)
■
“ Read From Here ” (read from the insertion point to the bottom of the
window)
To stop Dragon NaturallySpeaking ® as it reads, press the
ESC
key or
click the Stop Playback button on the Extras toolbar on the
DragonBar. You cannot stop playback of text-to-speech by voice. To