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Punctuation
Using Natural Punctuation
Dragon can automatically add commas and periods at the
appropriate places in your dictation without your having to
explicitly speak that punctuation. This Natural Punctuation
feature can be useful in helping you get used to dictation by
focusing on what you are saying rather than how your speech is
punctuated.
Natural Punctuation only inserts periods and commas. You still
have to dictate other punctuation marks. Even with Natural
Punctuation turned on, you can still dictate periods and
commas. As you become more adept at dictation and want more
control over where punctuation appears, you may want to
explicitly dictate all your punctuation.
For information on correcting punctuation, see Correcting
Punctuation on page 74.
Periods will only appear at the end of a sentence once you have
started the next utterance or said “New Line” or “New Paragraph.”
Enabling and disabling automatic punctuation
Natural Punctuation is turned on by default.
There are two ways of turning Natural Punctuation on and off:
n Select Auto-Formatting Options from the Tools menu of the
DragonBar and click Automatically add commas and periods.
n By saying “autopunctuation on” and “autopunctuation off.”
Turning Natural Punctuation on and off by voice sets the
option above in the Auto-Formatting dialog box. If you disable
Natural Punctuation by voice, it stays disabled until you
enable it again.
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