Dragon speech recognition Command cheat sheet

Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13

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 Edit text Work with windows

Go to sleep | Stop listening Resume with <xyz> Switch to <window name>
Wake up Delete line Minimize window
Microphone off Delete last <n> words Show Desktop
Scratch that <n> times Restore windows
Get help
Backspace <n> List all windows
Give me help
Undo that List windows for <program>
What can I say
Cut that
Dragon Learning Center Start and close items
Paste that
Search Dragon Help for… (see the options for Start menu and Desktop)
Quote that
Click Start
Search the computer Show Dictation Box
Start DragonPad
Search the computer for...
Spell out Start <item name>
Search documents for...
Spell that Start Microsoft Word
Search email for...
Spell <cap b a hyphen 5> Start Mail
Working with the web Spell <space Charlie alpha papa> Start Internet Explorer
(Dragon Web Extensions must be enabled in Switch to Spell mode Open Control Panel
Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Firefox) Close window, Press alt F4
Move the insertion point
Go to Address Bar, Press alt d
Insert before <xyz> Move the mouse
Click Go, Press Enter
Go back Move mouse up
Refresh page, Press F5
Go to top | bottom Move mouse right
Open new tab, Press control t
Move down <n> lines Move mouse down slower
Find on this page, Press control f
Go to end of line Stop
click <link name>
Move left <n> characters
click link Position the mouse
Page up | down
click text field or click edit box MouseGrid
click [radio] button Add lines and spaces MouseGrid window
click checkbox New line MouseGrid <1 to 9><1 to 9>
click image New paragraph Cancel
click list box then show choices Press Enter
Click the mouse
– If more than one match: choose Press Tab key
Mouse click
<n> or hide numbers or cancel Tab <n> times
Mouse double click
Select text Move in a list Mouse right click
Select all Move down <n>
Drag the mouse
Select <xyz> Go to bottom | top
Drag mouse down faster
Select next <n> words Press Enter
Mouse drag lower right very fast
Select <start> through <end> Press right arrow
Mouse drag up very fast
Select previous paragraph
Format
Select document
Bullet selection, Unbullet that
Unselect that
Bold the previous line
Correct Dragon’s errors Underline <xyz>, Capitalize <xyz>
Correct <xyz> Make this uppercase, Uncap that
Correct that All caps on | off
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Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13
Command type
Search the Web (default search engine)
Search specific Web sites
Open the top Web site from Google’s “I’m
feeling lucky” for given keyword(s)
Search the Web with a specific search
engine
Search the Web for a specific type of
information
**Post to Facebook
Sample Wording
“Search the Web for Italian restaurants in
Boston.”
“Search eBay for maternity clothes.”
“Open top site for local weather forecast.”
“Search Google for 53 divided by 12.”
“Search video for JFK inaugural address.”
Post to Facebook “Looking forward
to a fun night with friends”
Command cheat sheet
What happens
Your default Web browser displays the
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 13 supports this feature
for many Web sites, including the following:
About.com, Amazon, eBay, MSN, Twitter,
Wikipedia
Your default Web browser opens and
displays Google’s top-ranked page for the
given keyword(s).
Your default Web browser opens and
displays search results for the given
keywords. Dragon 13 supports this feature
for 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 (news | events) for…
– Search (products | shops) for…
– Search (maps | places) for…
– Search (video | movies) for…
– Search (images | pictures | photos) for…
Dragon presents a box. You can also dictate
first and then say “Post that to Facebook.”
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Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13

If you would like to... Just say...

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

Note: Similar commands exist for “bold,” “italicize,” “underline” and “capitalize.”

– 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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