Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Training Guide on CD-ROM
Prices: Volumes 1 & 2= $99.00
Volumes 1, 2, & 3 = $149.00
The Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Video Guide is a CD-ROM-based video presentation (consisting of 3 CDs) that runs on your computer, designed for both new and experienced users of Dragon software. In the Video Guide, Dan Newman guides you visually through key topics and skills, demonstrating expert techniques and insider secrets.
Three hours of video lessons! You will learn how to fix mistakes quickly, automate tedious tasks, browse the Web hands-free, boost accuracy, and more.
- Automate your work with custom commands
- Learn the fastest ways to correct
- Dictate on-the-go with a portable digital recorder
- Edit and format by voice
- Create forms and templates to speed your work
- Learn key techniques to boost accuracy
- Browse the Web by voice in Internet Explorer
- Control your applications with lessons on e-mail, Word, and Excel
- Learn how to speak and dictate most effectively
- Mouse by voice with mouse motion commands
- Explore thousands of voice commands with the new Command Browser
- Learn the most efficient workflow for dictating and correcting
- Top tips for healthy computing
- And much more!
Video, audio, and moving screencams show you just what to do!
Simple VCR-like controls let you start, stop, rewind, and replay to
learn at your own pace.
Volume I
- Introduction (6 minutes)
- Installation and Training (10 minutes)
- Installing the software with the correct options
- Completing initial training
- Starting to Dictate (6 minutes)
- Microphone placement
- The DragonBar
- Dictating your first sentence
- Quick Tour (15 minutes)
- Turning the microphone on and off
- What's on the screen
- Overview of menus and commands
- The Results box
- Getting Help
- Editing by Voice (11 minutes)
- Moving around your document
- Scratch That
- Insert Before, Insert After
- Selecting
- Copy, paste and delete
- Formatting (12 minutes)
- Punctuation
- Capitalization
- Bold, italics, and other formatting
- Changing the font and font size
- Spelling and Numbers (16 minutes)
- Spelling as you dictate
- The Spell dialog box
- Spell Mode
- Numbers
- Zip codes and postal codes
- Percents and currency
- Times, dates, phone numbers and fractions
- Conclusion (2 minutes)
Total running time: 78 minutes
Volume II
- Introduction
- Correcting by Keyboard (10 minutes)
- The Correction Menu
- Selecting and correcting
- Fastest workflow
- Audio playback
- Correcting by Voice (11 minutes)
- Selecting and correcting by voice
- Using the Correction voice commands
- Fastest workflow
- Audio playback
- Internet Explorer (5 minutes)
- Going to a Web address
- Going to Favorites
- Links, buttons, and images
- Page Up and other navigation commands
- Tips for Speaking and Dictating (10 minutes)
- How to speak for best accuracy
- Ways to work most effectively
- Learning to compose out loud
- Using outlines for better dictation
- Hands-Free Computing (17 minutes)
- Starting programs and documents
- Opening menus, resizing windows
- Using dialog boxes by voice
- Pressing keys with voice commands
- Top tips for effective hands-free computing
- Mouse Control by Voice (8 minutes)
- Mouse nudge commands
- MouseGrid
- Dragging the mouse with voice commands
- Mouse movement commands
- Clicking the mouse by voice
- The Command Browser (6 minutes)
- Sample commands in Microsoft Word
- Natural language commands
- How to tell what commands Dragon will recognize
- Navigating the Command Browser
- Searching for commands
- Conclusion
Total running time: 67 minutes
Volume III
- Introduction
- Improving Accuracy (7 minutes)
- What affects accuracy
- Trouble spots to watch out for
- Accuracy tips
- The Accuracy Center (14 minutes)
- One minute to better accuracy
- Building your vocabulary
- The Acoustic Optimizer
- Editing the vocabulary
- Other accuracy tools
- Creating Commands (27 minutes)
- Writing a letter with custom commands
- Text and Graphics commands and example
- Step-by-Step commands and example
- Macro Recorder commands and example
- Advanced Scripting commands (mentioned only briefly)
- Options Settings (25 minutes)
- Using options to customize Dragon
- Correction options
- Startup and Shutdown options
- View options
- Hot keys options
- Text-to-speech options
- Miscellaneous options
- Formatting options
- Healthy Computing (5 minutes)
- Speaking and breathing
- Position and movement
- Taking care of your voice
- Conclusion
Total running time: 78 minutes
All three volumes: 3 hours 43 minutes
Customer Testimonials
A pleasure, and
that's not a word I use frequently in connection with computer
training. …A nice, down-home and un-intimidating series of
easy to follow lessons. Your lessons sure beat trying to read a
manual!
—Laura Miner, New York, NY
Great
materials. I have purchased a lot of computer
based training for my company, and this is the best so far.
—Marvin Stone, San Diego, CA
The quality of
your instruction is excellent, logical, and yes, entertaining! I
would highly recommend your Video Guide to busy professionals who
wish to quickly and efficiently climb the Dragon learning curve and
truly get the most from their investment in voice
recognition.
—John Baxter, Philadelphia, PA
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