Hints

Articles, tips, hints, and recommendations related to speech recognition. Most of these hints apply to Releases 8, 9, and 10. In a few cases updates are needed for the newly-released Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.

New Users, New to Speech Recognition

Software

• Which Version is Right for You?
  An informative guide to help you choose which DragonNaturallySpeaking version is best suited for your needs.
  • User Profiles
    • Law Enforcement
    • Legal
    • Medical
    • Organizations
    • Data Collection
    • Buying for a Group of Users
• Who Benefits Most?
  A helpful guide for speech recognition software in the enterprise environment.

Hardware

• Buying or Upgrading a Computer System (for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9)
• Microphones
• Microphone/Sound System Verification
• Setting Up Your Computer
• Sound Cards
• System, Memory Requirements

For earlier version system requirements and related hardware needs, see Release 7 Hints, Release 6 Hints, Release 3, 4, 5 Hints.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Hints

Accuracy

• Acoustic Optimizer
• Accuracy Hints
• Better Accuracy Saves Time
• Capitalization Problems
• Enunciation
• Expectations for Accuracy
• Hardware (related to accuracy)
• Inserting Small Words
• Little Word Errors
• Performing More Training
• Persistent Recognition Errors After Excellent Recognition
• Repeated Extraneous Words
• Troublesome Words
• Wrong/Questionable Vocabulary

Backup & Recovery from SAPI Errors

• Backup basics
• Error recovery

Basics

• The Basics - A "Cheat Sheet"
• Voice Training, Voice Strain
• See also: Getting Started

Converting Documents

• Converting Large Numbers of Documents for Vocabulary Builder

Corrections

• Corrections: Use the Mouse and Keyboard!
• Correcting common mistakes in Word documents after dictation

DragonPad Formatting

• Changing Default Font for NaturallySpeaking

Enterprise and Multi-User Issues

• Phrase Lists for Multiple Users
• Skipping the "Open" Menu
• Large Word Documents
• Who Benefits Most?

Macros

• Lists useful for constructing macros (intermediate-advanced users)
• Macros Available at this site
  • Macros from Scripting for Dragon NaturallySpeaking^® 8
  • Macros from Scripting for Dragon NaturallySpeaking^® 7
  • Macros from Scripting for Dragon NaturallySpeaking^® 6
• Web Links to Macros

Online Assistance: Discussion Lists, Websites

• Online Assistance
• Programming using speech recognition

Vocabulary

Vocabularies and Phrase Lists

• Adding Words with Vocabulary Builder
• Converting Large Numbers of Documents for Vocabulary Builder
• Phrase Lists: Building
• Phrase Lists: Maintaining
• Phrase Lists: Maintaining a Phrase List Manually
• Phrase Lists: Using GetWords/PutWords to Maintain a Phrase List
• Special Characters: Adding Special Characters to NaturallySpeaking
• Special Characters: Changing Characteristics of Symbols, Words, and Phrases
• Special Characters: Unicode Characters
• Special Characters: Using the Keyboard
• Special Characters: Words with Special Characters, including Subscripts and Superscripts

Special Vocabularies and Phrase Lists

Legal

• Code Citation Dictation - Releases 6, 7, 8
• Dictating To Your Computer by Judge Thomas C. Smith, Provincial Court of British Columbia (200KB download, Microsoft Word format, 25 pages, revised January 2002), posted by permission of Judge Smith.

Mathematics, Numbers

• Math: High School through Post-graduate Studies

Medical

• 5, 6, and 10 Point Scale Dictation
• Medical Transcription Resources
• Spellchecker Plus Information
• Dimensional Measurements (also for construction and related fields with measurements)

Programming

• Vocabularies for Programming

Regional Phrases, Vocabularies

• Maricopa County, Arizona

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Odds and Ends

Misc. Hints

• Word-97 with NaturallySpeaking
• Transcribing Interviews...sorry

Just for Fun

• Hitting on Computers, or What if Speech Were First?
• NaturallySpeaking Easter Egg

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