Options and settings
Setting your input preferences
To change your settings, click and select Options; the corresponding dialog box is displayed:
- General: Select options for the speech focus and voice commands.
- Dictation Box: Select options related to recognized text.
- Hotkeys: Select options for pressing keyboard combinations.
- Microphone Buttons: Assign actions to microphone buttons.
Click Apply All to apply your settings.
Click Restore Defaults to undo your settings; the original delivery settings are re-applied to all tabs of the dialog box.
Dictation Box
The Dictation Box is used to display text when you are working with an application that Dragon Medical One cannot directly write the text in. In this case it opens automatically when text is recognized.
Note: If you start by saying voice commands that do not result in text, the Dictation Box is not opened.
In the Dictation Box pane of the Options dialog box, you can make a variety of settings for transferring text to your target application and controlling what happens in the Dictation Box. You can transfer text while your microphone is turned on or off. If you transfer the text back to the Dictation Box, it is not deleted from the target application.
You can decide if you want the Dictation Box to be visible on-screen via voice command, hotkey, microphone button or menu item.
Using hotkeys (keyboard combinations)
Pressing a combination of keys on your keyboard (instead of clicking the user interface) to initiate an action can speed up tasks.
In the Hotkeys pane of the Options dialog box, always assign a combination of keys using one or more of the function keys and a letter/number; alternatively some function and numeric keys can be assigned as stand-alone hotkeys.
In the Microphone Buttons pane of the Options dialog box, you can also map hotkeys to microphone buttons.
Anchoring the speech focus to your application
You can anchor the speech focus automatically; in the Options dialog box, open the General pane and select Anchor the speech focus when recording is started. Before you start recording, place your cursor in the target application; this application will have the speech focus anchored to it. If the Dictation Box is open and automatic anchoring is enabled, when you start recording, it will close. The speech focus is released from an application when recording is stopped or the application is closed.
If Anchor the speech focus when recording is started is not selected, you can manually anchor the speech focus via voice command, hotkeys or microphone button. The speech focus is released from an application when it is closed or you say release speech focus.
If the speech focus is anchored to an application and you open the Dictation Box, the speech focus is released from the application. If the Dictation Box is open when you anchor the speech focus to an application, it is automatically closed.
It is not possible to anchor the speech focus to unsupported applications. If you try to anchor the speech focus to an unsupported application, the Dictation Box opens.
Customizing your speech recognition settings
Factors such as user profile and the type of microphone used influence speech recognition. The settings that you log on with define how the system processes what you say. The options available depend on how Dragon Medical One is configured. This means, for example, that you can only change to another language if the relevant language and lexicon are listed.
To change your settings for speech recognition, click and select Log Off; the corresponding dialog box is displayed:
- Select a different User to change to another user profile. Make sure that you always select your own user profile.
- Select a different Language to change to another speech recognition language.
- Select a different Specialty to change to another specialty.
Click OK to apply your settings.