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Dragon Naturally Speaking is a commercial speech recognition software for Windows, currently sold by Nuance.

Questions related to this tag should be about using or installing Dragon NaturallySpeaking on computers. This tag also applies to other versions like Dragon Medical, Dragon Legal, Dragon Professional, Dragon Premium, Dragon Home or older variants of the software.

Questions may concern problems with audio devices, compatibility with other programs, accuracy and usage.

Questions about Dragon Dictate for Mac should be under . Questions about speech recognition in general should be placed under .

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How do I remove all proper nouns from the Dragon Naturally Speaking dictionary?

I would like to get rid of all proper nouns, and just add the few that I actually use. The best I have found so far is to display only words containing capitals letters as the screenshot below shows but it also selects like many abbreviations (e.g.…
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Keep getting the error 'Internet Explorer has stopped working...' when scrolling down a page using Dragon voice recognition software

My friend is using Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 on Windows Vista. Whenever she uses Dragon Naturally Speaking to scroll down a page in Internet Explorer 7, the browser gives this error: Restarting doesn't help and she's up to date with Windows…
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Why does audio dictation software like Dragon work only from the speaker's side?

I don't want my laptop or mobile to just dictate/type down what I say, but instead write what the caller on the other end of the line says. Why doesn't Google or Nuance enable that functionality? Is it even possible? What would be needed for that to…
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Manually set the microphone volume in Dragon NaturallySpeaking

Is it possible to manually set the microphone volume in Dragon NaturallySpeaking? The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Audio Setup Wizard automatically determines the supposedly best microphone volume (some integer between 1 and 100), and whenever one turns…
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How can I prevent Dragon NaturallySpeaking capitalizing a word each time after I click?

Each time I click somewhere, Dragon NaturallySpeaking capitalizes the next word I dictate (just the first letter). How can I to avoid that? I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.5, Windows 7 SP1, and this issue only occurs with some non-standard…
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How can I prevent Dragon NaturallySpeaking capitalizing a word each time after I hit ctrl+left?

Each time I hit Ctrl+←, Dragon NaturallySpeaking capitalizes the next word I dictate (just the first letter). What can I do to prevent this from happening? Note that if I hit ←, Dragon won't capitalize. Here is a video showing the issue. I use…
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Dragon Naturally Speaking 11: installing a non-standard language pack

I've installed Dragon Naturally Speaking 11, and it's running perfectly in English. I've been asked to get it to recognize Afrikaans (a local South African language), but I'm having trouble - as far as I understand it shouldn't be too difficult to…
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How can I export my voice commands in Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.5 when the microphone configured for the profile isn't plugged in?

How can I export my voice commands in Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.5 when the microphone configured for the profile isn't plugged in? The "Open Vocabulary Editor" menu is a greyed out when the microphone configured for the profile isn't plugged…
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Are there any problems using Dragon NaturallySpeaking in a VirtualBox Windows guest, Linux host?

I would like to set up Dragon NaturallySpeaking on a Windows XP guest, on an Ubuntu Linux host. Will this work? Are there any issues that I should be aware of? Thinkpad T61p Ubuntu 9.10 host Windows XP guest VirtualBox 3.1.4
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Opening a user profile by default in Dragon NaturallySpeaking

Is there any way to open a user profile by default in Dragon NaturallySpeaking? To put it otherwise, when I launch Dragon, I don't want to have to choose which is a profile to open like in the screenshot below but have one opened by default. I use…
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How I can get Dragon NaturallySpeaking to talk into my Linux virtual machine with VMware?

I run Ubuntu 13.10 as a guest in VMware Workstation 10.0.1. (update 2017-10-25: I still have the issue, now with Kubuntu 16.04 LTS x64 + VMware Workstation Pro 14.0.0.). The host OS is Windows 7 SP1. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.5 is installed on the…
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Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 enters bad characters in certain text editors in Windows XP

I use DNS 10 in Win 7 without any problems for dictating in office XP and office 2007. I have installed it too on a computer under WinXP and there, with office XP and office 2003 it enters wrong characters instead of ê, è, à, ù, while it has no…
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking: Speak the punctuation while training?

When performing the general training in Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the user must read from passages of text such as from "2001: A Space Odyssey". When reading these passages, should the user pronounce punctuation? Should the user state "period",…
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Uac interaction for people with physical disabilities (no keyboard, mouse or foot pedals)

Is there any way for a user to interact with a uac prompt for admin privileges despite not being not able to use a physical keyboard, mouse or foot pedal? I use both voice and eyetracker software, Dragon naturally speaking and Optikey,but neither…
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking takes a few secs to transcribe the first utterance after turning the mic on, but is fast to transcribe the other utterances

Dragon NaturallySpeaking takes a few seconds to transcribe the first utterance after turning the microphone on, but is fast (<0.5s) to transcribe the following utterances, as long as I don't turn off the microphone. How can I make Dragon transcribe…
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