Dragon speech recognition Command cheat sheet

Nuance Dragon Professional Individual

Principles
– To click a button or other interface item, say its name preceded by “click” (see the Commands tab of the Options dialog).
– Pause before and after commands but not within them.

Control the microphone Correct Dragon’s errors Underline <xyz>, Capitalise <xyz>
Go to sleep | Stop listening Correct <xyz> Make this uppercase
Wake up Correct that All caps on | off
Microphone off
Edit text Work with windows
Get help Resume with <xyz> Switch to <window name>
Give me help Delete line Minimise window
What can I say Delete last <n> words Show Desktop
– Show navigation commands Scratch that <n> times Restore windows
– Show correction commands Backspace <n> List all windows
– Show formatting commands Undo that List windows for <program>
– Show punctuation commands Cut that
Start and close items
– Open Help Paste that
(see the options for Start menu and Desktop)
Quote that
Search the computer Click Start
Show Dictation Box
Search the computer for... Start DragonPad
Search documents for... Spell out Start <item name>
Search e-mail for... Spell that Start Microsoft Word
Spell <cap b a hyphen 5> Start Internet Explorer
Working with the web
Spell <Charlie alpha papa> Open Control Panel
(Dragon Web Extensions must be enabled in
Switch to Spell mode Close window, Press alt F4
Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Firefox)
Go to Address Bar, Press alt d Move the insertion point Move the mouse
Click Go, Press Enter Insert before <xyz> Move mouse up
Refresh page, Press F5 Go back Move mouse right
Open new tab, Press control t Go to top | bottom Move mouse down slower
Find on this page, Press control f Move down <n> lines Stop
Click <link name> Go to end of line
Position the mouse
Click link Move left <n> characters
MouseGrid
Click text field or click edit box Page up | down
MouseGrid window
Click [radio] button
Add lines and spaces MouseGrid <1 to 9><1 to 9>
Click checkbox
New line Cancel
Click image
New paragraph
Clickk list box then show choices Click the mouse
Press Enter
– If more than one match: choose Mouse click
Press Tab key
<n> or hide numbers or cancel Mouse double click
Tab <n> times
Mouse right click
Select text
Move in a list
Select all Drag the mouse
Move down <n>
Select <xyz> Drag mouse down faster
Go to bottom | top
Select next <n> words Mouse drag lower right very fast
Press Enter
Select <start> through <end> Mouse drag up very fast
Press right arrow
Select previous paragraph
Select document Format
Unselect that Bullet selection, Unbullet that
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Command type Sample Wording What happens

Your default Web browser displays the
Search the Web (default search engine) “Search the Web for post offices in London.” results of the default search engine for the
given keywords.
Your default Web browser displays the
results of searching eBay for the given
keyword(s). Dragon supports this feature for
Search specific Web sites “Search eBay for notebooks.” many Web sites, including the following:
About.com, Amazon, eBay, MSN, Twitter,
Wikipedia
Your default Web browser opens and
Open the top Web site from Google’s “I’m
“Open top site for writing business plans.” displays Google’s top-ranked page for the
feeling lucky” for given keyword(s)
given keyword(s).
Your default Web browser opens and
displays search results for the given
Search the Web with a specific search keywords. Dragon supports this feature for
“Search Google for 53 divided by 12.”
engine the following search engines:
AOL, Bing, Google, Yahoo!
Your default Web browser opens and
displays the results of a search for the given
keywords in your default search engine’s
video category. Valid categories are:
Search the Web for a specific type of
“Search video for JFK inaugural address.” – Search (news | events) for…
information
– Search (products | shops) for…
– Search (maps | places) for…
– Search (video | movies) for…
– Search (images | pictures | photos) for…
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If you would like to... Just say...

– Delete <text>
** Delete the specified text or a range of text.
– Delete from <text> to <text>

– Cut <text>
** Cut the specified text or a range of text.
– Cut from <text> to <text>

– Copy <text>
** Copy the specified text or a range of text.
– Copy from <text> to <text>

Note: Similar commands exist for “bold,” “italicise,” “underline” and “capitalise.”

– Quote that
– Empty Quotes
Add quotes or brackets.
– Bracket that
– Empty Brackets

**Can be disabled on the Commands tab of the Options dialog.

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