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NaturallySpeaking
Using the Dictation Box
Relative to: Version 10.x Professional and Medical
Rev 1.0

Why use the Dictation Box commands?
Dictation Box Commands (Unanchored Mode)
What You Say
 What You Get
Show Dictation Box
 Displays the NaturallySpeaking Dictation Box.

After dictating the text, place the cursor in the target application where the text is to be placed and say "transfer Text"

See the Dragon Help for more information.
Transfer Text
 Transfers the text to the destination Application.

Place the cursor at the position in the destination application where the Dictation Box text should be placed, then say Transfer Text.
Hidden Mode On/Off
 Not available in non-medical and Medical Small Practice editions

Starts Hidden Mode for the Dictation box. All speech will be transcribed into the hidden Dictation Box until the Hidden Mode Off, Show Dictation Box or Transfer Text commands are issued.  Very few commands are available when using Hidden Mode -- See the Dragon Help for more information.

Notes:
  • Dragon Medical 10.0: Say Hidden Mode Off to turn off Hidden Mode and allow dictation to return to the current application
  • Dragon Medical 10.1: Hidden Mode automatically turned off when text is transferred.

Hint  Productivity Hint:
If the Dictation Box content is not pasted into the desired application or somehow "lost", return the cursor to where the text was to have been placed,  then say  "Past That" to retrieve the last Dictation Box contents.  This technique can also be used to restore the text to the Dictation Box itself.
Requires that the Dictation box be configured to place text in the Windows Clipboard.


Show Dictation Box


 

Why use the Dictation Box commands?
Certain application may be very difficult to dictate into because NaturallySpeaking has one or more of these problems:
  • The cursor jumps around unexpectedly to a new spot on the page.
  • The Select ... and Correct ... Commands do not work
  • The Insert Before ... and Insert After ... commands do not work.
The Dictation Box commands may help in these situations.  The command "Show Dictation Box" will display the Dictation Box Screen.  You can dictate into this box with full NaturallySpeaking functionality.  Once the dictation is completed with all revisions and corrections, click into the application at the point where the text is to be inserted and simply say "Transfer text".  The text will be "dropped" into the application wherever the cursor is placed.


Additional Dictation Box commands
Dictation Box Configuration
When the dictation box text is transferred, the Dictation Box is closed.  With the default settings, if the text should fail to transfer properly for any reason the text is no longer available.  To protect against this situation, check the box marked Keep transferred text in clipboard in the Dictation Box Options screen (On the Dragon Bar, click Tools, Options, Dictation Box tab).

Dictation Box configuration




Dictation Box "Anchored" and "Unanchored" Modes
Dictation Box Anchored Mode anchors the Dictation Box to the application from which it was stated and the text will be transferred automatically to that application.  In Unanchored Mode the Dictation Box text is transferred into the application selected with the mouse.
  • The default Anchor Mode is Unanchored.
  • Hidden Mode is not available when in Anchored Mode.
  • The Anchor Mode is set in the Miscellaneous Tab of Administrative Settings and is only available to someone with Admin rights for the computer.
  • The Anchor Mode setting applies to all users on that computer.
  • Individual Dictation Box settings can configured in the Dictation Box Tab of the Options Screen (Dragon Bar, Tools, Options)
See the Dragon Help for Dictation Box for more information.

Revisions:
  • 1.0, 03/01/10 Initial release

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