First Use Of Dragon Naturally Speaking Version 15.3. TM1 Bytes DR 0030

In this series contains a series of tutorials and guides relating to a piece of voice control and dictation software called Nuance Dragon Naturally Speaking or Dragon Dictate. We are looking at version 15.3 (the current one at the time of recording) for Windows only.

This episode looks at the things that you will encounter when you start it for the first time after installation. It covers a number of GUI and options settings, an overview of the applications which can (and can't) use Dragon to input to them and control them, and what additional software needs to be enabled for Dragon to do that.

We also look deeper into the question of user profiles.

Contents Listing
01:35 Launching Dragon, and dealing with user profiles. (Including creating a new user profile.)

02:55 What happens when you have multiple User Profiles in the one location.

04:05 Where is the default location for user profiles found?

05:00 Creating a new user profile in a different location.

07:48 To send data back for analysis, or not?

08:10 Managing user profiles, including deleting them.

09:15 The modern Dragon Toolbar

10:10 Sending Dragon's toolbar to the system tray.

10:20 The classic Dragon bar, and other options.

11:10 The Options in the Tools menu.

12:00 Setting hotkeys for Dragon Dictate

13:25 Understanding the use of the Ctrl (Control) and Shift keys to force command and dictation modes.

15:10 The three states of the microphone; Red (Off), Blue (Asleep) and Green (Awake and accepting commands).

16:35 Container applications - where you can dictate to

17:55 Dragon Pad and Dictation Box

18:45 Opening and using Dragon Pad

20:55 Opening and using Dictation Box, using Photoshop as an example

22:25 Unsupported applications like Microsoft Access

22:45 Dragon and Adobe Bridge

23:20 Using Dragon with Microsoft Office applications like Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook

23:50 The add-ins that Dragon adds to Microsoft Office applications. Checking that the add-ins are present and active

25:50 Using Dragon to navigate and enter to web pages in browsers.

26:35 Those hateful little words "Please Say That Again", and what they REALLY mean

27:20 A list of supported browsers (for the Professional Edition, as of the end of 2018)

27:50 Installation of the Firefox extension.

28:35 Installing the Chrome extension from the Google Chrome store.

29:20 Entering to a textbox on a web page in Firefox using Dragon. (And Max's cameo.)

30:10 Selecting from more than one item with your voice

31:00 Episode wrap-up.