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the original document. Your assistant can open the original document
and can listen to the recorded audio, as long as the .dra file is in the same
directory as the original document.
For higher reliability, use a handheld recorder to capture your speech as
a “backup.” This way you’ll still have an audio copy of your dictation in
case the .dra file is misplaced.
For the user:
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Dictate your text into Microsoft
®
Word
®
, Corel
®
WordPerfect
®
, or the
DragonPad through the headset microphone. (You may wish to have a
handheld recorder running to record your dictation as a backup to the
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
“save audio” feature.)
2
On a removable disk or CD-ROM, save the draft transcription that
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
generates and save the audio file along with
it. (Ordinary floppy disks aren’t big enough to hold the audio files.) Give
the disk to your assistant. If you have an office network, you can save the
draft directly onto the network for access by the assistant. You could
even e-mail the document and audio files to a transcriptionist at another
location.
For the proofreader:
1
Start Microsoft
®
Word, Corel
®
WordPerfect
®
, or the DragonPad, and
open the draft transcription (the text that Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
created).
2
Use the playback commands in Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
to check the
transcript and correct any errors.
Once proofread and corrected, the document can be formatted, printed,
or saved like any other word-processed document.
Transcribing interviews by “shadowing”
People often ask if Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
can transcribe recorded
interviews and lectures. The software cannot transcribe these recordings
directly because conversational speech has neither the clarity nor the
spoken punctuation that Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
requires. Also,
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
needs to be previously trained on the voice
of the person speaking, which is seldom the case in an interview.
