Dragon NaturallySpeaking For Dummies, 4th Edition

Chapter 7

Proofreading and Listening to Your Text

In This Chapter

Using voice commands to play back

Proofreading and correcting with playback

Converting text to speech

On one hand, NaturallySpeaking never misspells a word. On the other hand, NaturallySpeaking can make some mistakes by choosing the wrong (if perfectly spelled) word. A person who writes to the bank, “I have trouble paying this year” rather than, “I am double paying this year” is going to have a big problem. No computerized grammar checker or other kind of checker is likely to catch that error. Proofreading is the only answer.

Of course, you don’t need to hear your text in order to proofread it, but in NaturallySpeaking, you can hear your dictation in one of two ways:

• Playback of your voice: NaturallySpeaking records your voice as you dictate and can play it back to help you proofread (not available in the Home edition).
• Reading the text: You can read what NaturallySpeaking has generated from your dictation — or of any other text that you bring into the NaturallySpeaking DragonPad or any other supported application. The NaturallySpeaking text-to-speech feature uses a computer-synthesized voice to convert any text ...