Creating and working with text

Creating text in your application

  1. Open Dragon Medical One.
  2. Make sure that your application has the focus and place the cursor where you want the text to be written.
  3. Click or press the plus sign on your number key pad and start speaking.

The text is written directly in your application. By default, if you are working with an application that Dragon Medical One cannot directly write the text in, the Dictation Box is opened automatically and the text is written there. Edit the text, if necessary, and when you are finished, click or say transfer text. The text is transferred to your application (where you placed the cursor) and deleted from the Dictation Box. To undo the transfer, click or say recall text. The text is moved back to the Dictation Box where it will replace any text written in the meantime. The recalled text will not be deleted from your application.

Alternatively, Dragon Medical One can directly write your text in applications which are not supported by default, if your administrator has enabled dictation in basic text controls. The icon changes to when a basic text control has the speech focus. Only basic speech recognition functionality will be supported; features such as formatting, correction and navigation voice commands will not work. Make sure you stop recording before you move the focus away from the application or you might lose text.

Tips

  • Keep an eye on the volume meter, when it lights up in green you know that the system is picking up your voice, and the progress indicator circles round when speech recognition is taking place.
  • For more information on dictating, say launch help, open the Speech Recognition Help tab and scroll to the "What do you want to say?" section.

Note: When your workstation is locked, recording is stopped and pressing any microphone button will be ignored.

Anchoring the speech focus

When you anchor the speech focus to your target application, you can open and navigate through other applications without removing the speech focus from the target application. You can anchor the speech focus to any application that Dragon Medical One can directly write the text in. The icon changes to when the speech focus is anchored to an application. When recording is on, the icon changes to .

You can change which application has the speech focus anchored to it at any time. Anchoring the speech focus to another application automatically releases the speech focus from the application it was previously anchored to.

When you are working with an application that Dragon Medical One can directly write the text in, do the following:

  1. Open Dragon Medical One and your target application.
  2. Place the cursor in your target application where you want the text to be written and press CTRL + ALT + A to anchor the speech focus to your target application.
  3. Open any other application you need for analysis/reference (for example, your PACS).
  4. Click and start speaking. The text is written directly in your application.

Tip

Editing text

You can use your keyboard and mouse to edit the recognized text:

  • You can manually type new text to correct misrecognized text.
  • You can place the cursor in the middle of text and then record to insert new text.
  • You can select text and then record to overwrite existing text with new text.

If you are working with an application that Dragon Medical One can directly write the text in, you can edit and correct directly in that application.

If you are working with an application that Dragon Medical One cannot directly write the text in, we recommend that you edit and correct the text in the Dictation Box and only transfer the text once it is final. This ensures that your corrections are included in adaptation.

Tip

  • You can also edit text via voice command (for example, by saying scratch that).

Editing text written in another application

When you are working with an application that Dragon Medical One can directly write the text in, you can edit directly in that application. When you are working with an application that Dragon Medical One cannot directly write the text in, you can add the text you want to edit to the Dictation Box and edit it there.

To add text that you have typed in another application, do the following:

  1. In the Options dialog box open the Dictation Box pane, select the Add the selected text from the target application to the Dictation Box check box and click Apply All.
  2. Open your target application and select the text you want to edit.
  3. Open Dragon Medical One and expand the Dictation Box.
  4. The text you selected is available.

  5. Place the cursor where you want new text to be added, click or press the plus sign on your number key pad and start speaking.
  6. Edit the text, if necessary, and when you are finished, click or say transfer text.

The text is transferred to your target application and deleted from the Dictation Box.

Displaying recognized text in the Dictation Box

When you are working with an application that Dragon Medical One cannot directly write the text in, you can decide if you want to see the text being written in the Dictation Box.

To show the Dictation Box, say show dictation box. To hide the Dictation Box, say hide dictation box.

Tips

  • To clear all text from the Dictation Box, click .
  • To re-size the Dictation Box, drag the corners.
  • To format text, use the formatting options.