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Instructional Videos from the Dragon team
We’re creating videos to provide instructions, important tips, and little-known tricks for getting the most out of Dragon. These videos reflect the latest recommendations of our trainers and our Research & Development team, as well as the observations of a wide range of new and experienced Dragon users.
To see some of the topics we plan to cover, please scroll to the bottom of this page.
Current Videos
- Title: Installing Dragon NaturallySpeaking
This video covers the installation process, as the software walks you through a series of screens; this includes activation, a short, anonymous step. - Title: Using
the Calisto wireless microphone with Dragon
The Calisto is the Bluetooth wireless microphone that comes with some editions of Dragon. This video covers how to charge and wear the headset, as well as power it up and turn on the connection to its USB wireless adapter. (Technote 6018 in our Knowledgebase also covers this microphone.) - Title: Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking with Email
In addition to dictating, Dragon can be used for many email-related actions such as opening, replying to, forwarding and deleting messages. This video includes launching the default email program, checking for new mail, and creating a new message, and uses Microsoft Outlook Express as an example.
Note: What exactly you can do in different programs depends on what edition of Dragon you have (see your product’s online Help). Editions “Professional” and above make available, at anytime, commands for Microsoft Outlook such as “Send email to Jane Smith and David Jackson”. - Title: Creating
Simple "Boilerplate" Commands
This video covers the creation of custom commands of the type “Text-and-Graphics”, which lets you pre-define content for Dragon to enter whenever you utter the command. This “boilerplate” can include graphics (logos, maps, signatures…) as well as blank lines and formatting. Simple to create, these commands can quickly add to the benefits of dictating: speed, convenience, consistency...
Note: "Text-and-Graphics" commands are available in editions "Preferred" and higher. - Title: Creating a User Profile
To keep all the data it needs to best work with each individual, Dragon uses a set of files which together form a User Profile. This video shows how to create a User Profile that best reflects your voice, audio environment, and audio input device(s); it also introduces important tools Dragon can use to quickly learn how to best recognize what you dictate.
Note: Once the video opens, you can use its menu to jump to particular sections, and its icons at the bottom to pause, maximize the screen, etc.
Some of the topics we plan to cover:
- Editing and formatting your text with Dragon
- Controlling menus and windows by voice
- Using Dragon in Excel
- Optimizing accuracy and speed
- Teaching Dragon from its mistakes
- Upgrading from a previous version of Dragon
- Using Dragon with a digital recorder
- Using Dragon for the Web
- Using Dragon in "non-standard windows"
- Modifying and managing custom commands
- Adding variables to custom commands