Master Dragon Professional Individual

About this course

Welcome and intro

Navigating this course

Practice makes perfect

Creating a new user profile in Dragon

Setting the options for your user profile

How Dragon works

Introduction of the Dragon bar

v16 - Dragon bar in version 16

Controlling the microphone

How to wear your headset

Prepare your browser for use with Dragon

About dictation

How to dictate

About your voice and your microphone


Dictation commands

Dictating punctuation marks (%€#*)?

About Full Text Control

What is the Dictation Box and when to use it

What to do if the dictation box text isn’t transferred to the destination window

Correcting words

What can go wrong in Dragon’s recognition

When not to use the “correct …” command

How to replace words if you should not correct

Correcting words

Useful commands for editing

Moving the cursor around

Selecting text

Deleting text

Vocabulary introduction

Introduction into Dragon’s vocabulary

Build your vocabulary by analysing existing documents

Adding a word or phrase to the vocabulary

Adding phrases with special capitalisation

More about voice commands

What are voice commands

How to pronounce voice commands

Two types of voice commands

3 Common causes of misrecognition of voice commands

Controlling menus, buttons and dialogs

Controlling menus

Clicking buttons by voice

Moving around in dialogs

Clicking menus that have no text (just icons)

Controlling application windows

Opening and closing applications

Minimising, restoring and moving a window to other screen

Switching between windows/applications

Mousing by voice

Moving the pointer with the Mousegrid

Non-mouse mousing: keyboard shortcuts by voice

Moving the mouse by hand, clicking by voice

Moving and dragging the mouse

Microsoft and Outlook (module in progress)

Dragon in Microsoft Word

Opening Outlook and creating and sending a message

Controlling and managing Dragon

Clicking the Dragon bar by voice

Speech command to directly access Dragon menus

Backing up your user profile – and how to restore it

The end :-)

Some final words about this course