Dragon® Professional Individual For Dummies®

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1. Table of Contents
   1. Cover
   2. Introduction
      1. About This Book
      2. Conventions Used in This Book
      3. Foolish Assumptions
      4. Icons Used in This Book
      5. Beyond the Book
      6. Where to Go from Here
   3. Part I: Getting Started with Dragon Professional Individual
      1. Chapter 1: Knowing What to Expect
         1. Clarifying What Dragon Professional Individual Can Do for You
         2. Figuring Out What Dragon Professional Individual Can’t Do
         3. Selecting the Right Dragon Product
         4. Understanding Speech Recognition in Dragon
      2. Chapter 2: Installing Dragon and Starting Basic Training
         1. Installing Dragon Professional Individual on Your Computer
         2. Creating a User Profile
      3. Chapter 3: Launching and Controlling Dragon
         1. Launching Dragon Professional Individual
         2. Choosing or Switching User Profiles
         3. Meeting the Face of Your Dragon Professional Individual Assistant
         4. Why Use the Dragon Professional Individual DragonPad?
         5. Tools and When to Use Them
   4. Part II: Creating Documents and Spreadsheets
      1. Chapter 4: Simply Dictating
         1. Dictating 101: How to Dictate
         2. Distinguishing between Text and Commands
         3. Controlling Your (Cough! Sneeze!) Microphone
         4. Tips for Talking
         5. Punctuating and Capitalizing
         6. Taking Up Space
         7. Entering Different Numbers and Dates
         8. Making Quick Corrections
         9. Tackling Common Dictation Problems
      2. Chapter 5: Selecting, Editing, and Correcting in DragonPad
         1. Moving Around in a Document
         2. Editing by Voice
         3. Fixing Dragon Professional Individual’s Mistakes
      3. Chapter 6: Basic Formatting in Text-Editing Applications
         1. Knowing the Short Formatting Commands
         2. Left, Right, and Center: Getting into Alignment
         3. Using Bullets and Numbered Lists
         4. Changing Font
         5. Understanding Smart Formatting
      4. Chapter 7: Proofreading and Listening to Your Text
         1. Using Voice Commands for Playback
         2. Proofreading and Correcting with Playback
         3. Using the Text-to-Speech Feature
      5. Chapter 8: Dictating into Other Applications
         1. Finding Levels of Control
         2. Getting Started
         3. Creating Documents with the Dictation Box
         4. Using Full Text Control Applications
         5. Ordering from the Menu
         6. Extending Posts to Facebook and Twitter
      6. Chapter 9: Dipping into Word Processing
         1. Saying the Right Thing
         2. Natural Language Commands for Word
         3. Choosing OpenOffice.org Writer
      7. Chapter 10: Working with Excel
         1. Doing Excel-lent Works with Spreadsheets
         2. Improving Your Vocal Functions
      8. Chapter 11: Using Recorded Speech
         1. Why Record?
         2. Setting Up to Use a Portable Recorder
         3. Recording Your Dictation
         4. Transferring Files from a Digital Recorder
         5. Transcribing Your Recording
         6. Correcting Your Transcription
         7. Transcribing Someone Else’s Voice Recording
   5. Part III: Communicating Online
      1. Chapter 12: Sending and Receiving Email
         1. Creating and Managing Emails
         2. Interacting with Microsoft Outlook
         3. Enhancing Email
      2. Chapter 13: Working the Web
         1. Browsing the Web
         2. Going Places on the Web
         3. Moving around a Web Page
      3. Chapter 14: Dictating the Mobile Way
         1. Dictating with Free Dragon Apps on Apple Mobile Devices
         2. Having Fun with Dragon Go!
         3. Dictating with Android Devices
         4. Considering Dragon Anywhere
   6. Part IV: Working Smarter
      1. Chapter 15: Controlling Your Desktop and Windows by Voice
         1. Ya Wanna Start Something?
         2. Does It Do Windows?
         3. Do Mice Understand English?
         4. Dialoging with a Box
      2. Chapter 16: Speaking More Clearly
         1. Do You Need to Speak Better?
         2. How Do You Do It?
         3. Shouldn’t Dragon Professional Individual Meet You Halfway?
      3. Chapter 17: Additional Training for Accuracy
         1. Using the Accuracy Center
         2. Personalizing Your Vocabulary
         3. Setting Options and Formatting
         4. Adjusting Your Acoustics
         5. Finding or Training Commands
         6. Getting More Information
      4. Chapter 18: Improving Audio Input
         1. Figuring Out Whether You Have an Audio Input Problem
         2. Ensuring a Quiet Environment
      5. Chapter 19: Having Multiple Computers or Users
         1. Creating and Managing Users
         2. Managing User Files
      6. Chapter 20: Creating Your Own Commands
         1. Creating Commands That Insert Text and Graphics
         2. Introducing the Command Browser
      7. Chapter 21: Getting Help from Your Desktop and Online
         1. Getting Help from the DragonBar
         2. Getting Help from Nuance
         3. Dipping into Product Resources
         4. Enhancing Community
   7. Part V: The Part of Tens
      1. Chapter 22: Ten Common Problems
         1. Dictating but Nothing Happens
         2. Dealing with Incorrect Results
         3. Speaking Commands That Get Typed as Text
         4. Failing to Control Text with Full Text Control
         5. Discovering That Dragon Professional Individual Inserts Extra Little Words
         6. Dealing with Slow Dictation
         7. Uncovering Menu Commands That Don’t Work
         8. Tracking Down Natural Language Commands That Don’t Work
         9. Ascertaining That Undo Doesn’t Undo
         10. Realizing That Start Doesn’t Start
      2. Chapter 23: Ten Time- and Sanity-Saving Tips
         1. Using Hotkeys in Dialog Boxes
         2. Positioning the Microphone the Same Way Every Time
         3. Changing Your Mouse Habits
         4. Drinking with a Straw
         5. Turning Off Automatic Spell Checking in Word Processors
         6. Working on Small Pieces of Large Documents
         7. Using Dictation Shortcuts
         8. Turning the Microphone Off When You Stop Dictating
         9. Selecting or Correcting Longer Phrases
         10. Using the Physical Mouse and Keyboard
      3. Chapter 24: Ten Mistakes to Avoid
         1. Running a Lot of Other Programs and Dragon Professional Individual Simultaneously
         2. Telling Dragon Professional Individual to Shut Down the Computer
         3. Correcting What You Ought to Edit
         4. Editing What You Ought to Correct
         5. Cutting Corners on Training
         6. Forgetting to Run Microphone Check Again When the Environment Changes
         7. Using Somebody Else’s Username
         8. Speaking into the Backside of the Microphone
         9. Creating Shortcuts or Macros That Sound Like Single Common Words
         10. Forgetting to Proofread
      4. Chapter 25: Ten Stupid Dragon Tricks
         1. Dictating “Jabberwocky”
         2. Dictating the Gettysburg Address
         3. Dictating Shakespeare
         4. Dictating Proverbs
         5. Dictating Limericks
         6. Dictating “Mairzy Doats”
         7. Turning Dragon Professional Individual into an Oracle
         8. Singing
         9. Dictating in Foreign Languages
         10. Using Playback to Say Silly or Embarrassing Things
   8. About the Author
   9. Cheat Sheet
   10. Advertisement Page
   11. Connect with Dummies
   12. End User License Agreement

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