How Do I Set Up the Hot Keys for Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking?

With the Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking Software, the users can set up the Hotkeys. The entire buttons of the Dragon Hotkeys tab work the same wayas if you click a button and a set Hot Key dialog box pops up. When it opens, you must not try to type the names of the keys, instead of that, just press them.

Let’s take an example to understand this better!

Press the Ctrl Key and {Ctrl} would appear. Once it is done, you can click Ok.

With the Hotkeys Set in Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking Software, you may want to use these -

Turn Microphone On or Off

Working on a keyword, you would need to press Ctrl or Alt with the letter you choose to enable this feature.

Else, you can go with the function keys, arrow keys and non-typewriter keys with the combination of Ctrl or Alt.

Correction Dialog Box

This key opens the correction dialog box to correct the word or phrase you spoke right before it.

Force Command Recognition

Continue holding this key to interpret what you instruct as the voice command to the Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

Force Dictation Recognition

In the Force Command Recognition, whatever you say come up in the text format. In Force Dictation Recognition, it goes straight opposite to that.

In the previous versions of Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeakingSoftware, there was a results box that displays what the speech recognition software takes as your dictation.

Later, in the Nuance Dragon version 11, the results box was streamlined to a results display.

As you start the dictation, you will encounter a tiny Dragon icon displaying near your text. To avoid distractions during dictation, Nuance had to remove the result box.

And in results to that, now the users won’t have to switch back to the results box option if they are being new to the Dragon Software.

Still, if you want to see the results box and want to display it, you can do it by your own. All you have to do is to follow the below steps -

Go to Tools, then Options and then View Tab.

Here, you can find the Results Box section.

Now click on the arrow under ‘Auto-hide Delay’and then, select ‘Always Hide’or you can also select some amount of time.

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What is the Difference Between Text and Commands in Nuance Dragon?

As the Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking software lets you mix ‘dictation’ in which the words get converted into textand ‘commands’which are merely the instructions that you send to the computer for easy dictation.

For command, you don’t have to do anything like clicking on the keyword or mouse, you just have to say an instruction.

But as the Nuance Dragon Speech Recognition Software is just a software and works accordingly, you might not get what you expected.

For instance, the “Cap” command can be used differently. However, Dragon takes it as a command to capitalize the letter that you will speak after this command.

So, if you ever say, “We want to cap expenditures this year”, the chances are that you will get the dictation as “We want to Expenditures this year”.

For interpretation, you can use pauses. As many commands include multiple words, so, if you want Dragon to take them as commands only, you can speak those words together as a phrase, else pauses can work.

Similarly, for the above example, if you want Dragon NaturallySpeaking to interpret “cap” as text, you need to pause between the word “cap” and “expenditure” like this – “we want to cap … expenditures this year”.

If you didn’t pause and Dragon did wrong dictation. You can say “Scratch That” as phrase to help it remove the changes what it just made.

And if you’re thinking how much time you must take to pause between the words, then there’s no fixed time duration, you can adjust it accordingly that the NaturallySpeaking software can consider it to be an enough pause.

However, the concept of pausing doesn’t help with punctuation and numbers in Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking Dictation.You can’t dictate ‘He typed a comma and continue’. If you say so, you will get a comma symbol not the word. For such problems, you can use the Dragon’s Vocab Editor to add the word comma or the other punctuations with a new spoken form such as “word comma”. So, whenever you will speak “word comma”, it will add the word not the punctuation.

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