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Dragon Installation and User Guide

n Dragoncanauto-formattextandnumbersusingstandardwritingconventionsorapply

WordPropertiestowordsasyoudictate.Forinformationaboutthesesettings,see

Auto-formattingdialogboxandTheWordPropertiesdialogbox.

n Dragon'sSmartFormatRulesappearwhenyoucorrectauto-formattedalphanumeric

textorWordPropertiesusingtheCorrectionmenu,theSpellingwindow,orthe

keyboard.Fordetails,seeUsingSmartFormatRulesandSettingAuto-Formatting

Options.

Adding words or phrases to your Vocabulary

IfDragonNaturallySpeakinggetsawordwrong,itmaybethatthewordisnotinDragon's

Vocabulary.Whenthisisthecase,youcanusethefollowingproceduretoaddthatwordso

thatitisrecognizedinthefuture.

To add individual words

1. Dooneofthefollowing:

l ClickVocabulary>AddNewWordorPhraseontheNewDragonBarorClassic

DragonBar.

l Say"SwitchtoDragonBar"then"Vocabulary"then"AddNewWordorPhrase".

2. IntheAddWordorPhrasedialogbox,spell(byvoice)ortypethewordyouwanttoadd.

3. IncludeaSpokenformofthenewwordifnecessary.Forexample,ifthewordcontainsan

accent,suchas"Gaspé,"youwouldaddaSpokenformlike"gaspay"sothatDragon

recognizesthepronunciationandenterstheWrittenformwhenyoudictatetheword.

4. Optionally,select"Iwanttotrainthepronunciationofthiswordorphrase".

5. ClickAdd.

If you chose to train the word, the word you entered appears in the Train Words

dialog box, and you will be able to teach Dragon NaturallySpeaking your

pronunciation of that word.

See also Automatically add words to Vocabulary in the Dragon Help.

Using punctuation with written and spoken forms

Ifthewrittenformofawordcontainsanypunctuation,youshouldprovideaspokenformso

thatthereisnodoubtastohowtheitemwillbepronounced.Donotuseabbreviations,

symbolsorpunctuationinthespokenform.

Examples:

Written form Spoken form

TheManfromU.N.C.L.E. themanfromuncle

Soddy-Daisy,TN SoddyDaisyTennessee

Trenton-MercerAirport TrentonMercerAirport

IfyouwanttoaddpunctuationtoawordthatalreadyexistsintheVocabularyforuseina

specificsetting,youcancreateanewwrittenformwiththepunctuationincludedandaunique

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