Dealing with slow dictation. Turn off Natural Language Commands. If you don’t need the Natural Language Commands, just regular old dictation and the dictation commands that work in the Dragon Professional Individual window, turn off Natural Language Commands. Choose Tools→Options in the Dragon Professional Individual window. My assessment is that if you speak very fluidly and know exactly what it is that you want to say, then the Microsoft dictation engine will probably work for you. Better still, unlike Dragon, the.
From time to time, Dragon NaturallySpeaking can only send commands to a Microsoft Word document, and doesn't allow me to dictate in the Microsoft Word document. What could be the issue?
I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.5 Professional with Microsoft Word 2013 on Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate.
I did check that Dragon NaturallySpeaking is in normal mode:
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Your NatSpeak Word Add-in is inactive. This is what allows Dragon to dictate into Word. It's one of the most common errors with Dragon. Why it happens is unclear. Just blame it on Word. Or Dragon. Or both.
Usually this resolves the error. In Word, click on File - Options (or Extras, not sure in English) - Add-ins - Go and check the box next to NatSpeak Word Addin. This should enable it again.
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Speech recognition is using your voice to control the computer and to insert text.
For speech recognition within Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint, buy an Office 365 subscription, which includes Dictation. If you're already an Office 365 subscriber, make sure you have the latest version of Office.
If you are an Office 365 subscriber please see Dictate with your voice in Office. Customers who are not Office 365 subscribers, can use Windows Speech Recognition.
To set up Windows Speech Recognition, go to the instructions for your version of Windows:
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Are you looking for Text-to-speech? See Use the Speak text-to-speech feature to read text aloud. Excel has text-to-speech functionality built in to the program. To use text-to-speech commands in Excel, see Converting text to speech in Excel.
On the Mac, within your Office application, select Edit > Start Dictation.