Nuance Dragon Professional Anywhere - Common Voice Commands
There a lots of different voice commands you can use to either add formatting and symbols to your document, or to control what Dragon Professional Anywhere does.
Download the PDF: Command sheet
Microphone control
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Click the red microphone button in Dragon to enable the microphone
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Click the green microphone button in Dragon to disable the microphone
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Press the microphone on/off hotkey to enable/disable
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Press and hold the Push-to-talk hotkey to enable and release the hotkey to disable
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Set hotkeys in Dragon in “Tools> Options> Hotkeys”
SpeechMike control
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Press and hold the red PowerMic talk button to enable the microphone; release the button to turn off the microphone
Dictation best practices
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Speak in full sentences
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Include punctuation
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Pause briefly before and after saying a command
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Treat “new line”, “new paragraph” and punctuation as regular dictation—no pause required
Note: Dragon automatically capitalizes the first word after a period or paragraph
Dictating characters
| Character | What you say | Character | What you say |
| . | Period | ( | Open parenthesis or Open paren |
| , | Comma | ) | Close parenthesis or Close Paren |
| ? | Question mark | & | Ampersand or And sign |
| : | Colon | ! | Exclamation point or Exclamation mark |
| ; | Semi-colon | - | Hypen |
| " | Open quote | -- | Dash |
| " | Closed quote |
Commands
| Command | What it does |
| Cap <XYZ> | Capitalises the first letter of dictated text [“Cap good morning” > “Good morning”] |
| Correct <XYZ> | Opens the correction menu for the selected text |
| Select <XYZ> through <XYZ> | Selects a range of text and opens the correction menu |
| Scratch that | Deletes the last dictated text |
| Undo that | Reverses the last action (like using ctrl-z on your keyboard) |
| New line | Inserts a new line and begins typing as a continuation of the previous text (the first sentence is not capitalized unless it follows a period) |
| New paragraph | Inserts two lines and begins typing as a new paragraph (the first sentence is capitalized regardless of the previous text) |
| Go to end | Cursor goes to the end of the text on the current page |
| What can I say? | Opens the What Can I Say dialog box, displaying available navigation/correction/formatting/punctuation commands |