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Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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Starting to Dictate
ow that you’ve installed your software and completed training, you’re ready to 
dictate your first sentence.
Starting Dragon NaturallySpeaking
If Dragon NaturallySpeaking is not already running, you can start it by:
Double-clicking the Dragon NaturallySpeaking icon: 
Selecting Programs>Dragon NaturallySpeaking from the Start menu.
Right-clicking the QuickStart taskbar tray icon 
and selecting Start 
NaturallySpeaking, if the QuickStart option is enabled. For more information 
on using the QuickStart option, see “Using QuickStart” on page 25.
Turning on the microphone
Before you can dictate, you need to turn on the microphone. You turn on the 
microphone by:
Clicking the microphone icon on the DragonBar.  You can click this icon again 
to turn it off.
Pressing the plus (+) key on the numeric keypad to turn the microphone on, 
and then press it again to turn the microphone off.
Clicking the microphone icon in the Windows task bar.
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Microphone