An inside look at the new features offered in Dragon NaturallySpeaking V12 Professional & Legal

1. What’s New in
Dragon NaturallySpeaking V12
JOSHUA STEWART
Branch Manager
August 30, 2012

2. What’s New in Version 12
• More Accurate
• Faster Than Ever
• Enhanced Web Mail
• Interactive Tutorial
• Wideband Bluetooth Support
• Smart Format Rules
• More Natural Text-to-Speech
• Faster Correction
• Dragon Remote Mic – Now for Android

3. What makes it more accurate?
Initial accuracy without training will result in 20% fewer errors compared to DNS11.
BestMatch V is the latest and greatest speech model. DNS picks it automatically on powerful PCs.
Additional “accuracy” factors include:
• Ability to turn off more command functions
• Better distinction of commands vs. dictation
• Correction process: more choices in list (and Smart Format Rules* prevent format-related errors)
• Reminders to take advantage of analysis (existing documents and mail) and optimization (from existing
usage)

4. Smart Format Rules
Set up auto-formatting and word properties on the fly!
Dragon's new Smart Format Rules display when Dragon notices that you make a correction that is
associated with an Auto-Formatting option or Word Property. Smart Format Rules offer you ways to
customize the settings to suit your needs.

5. Rich Internet Application (RIA) Support
New plug-ins, add voice usability to Gmail & Hotmail within specific browsers
Dragon now includes Rich Internet Application extensions, which support Full Text Control
with Dictation and Commands within Google Gmail and Hotmail.
Supported Web Browsers
Internet Explorer 9 (32-bit)
Mozilla Firefox 12+
Chrome 16+

6. Dictation Box
Is there when you need it!
When you dictate into unsupported
applications or windows, Dragon now
automatically displays the Dictation Box
to provide Full Text Control. After you
finish dictating, you can transfer the text
from the Dictation Box to the
unsupported program.
The setting can be turned on and off in
the Options dialog box Miscellaneous
tab.

7. Android Support
Use your Android device as a
wireless microphone
Android users can perform dictation
wirelessly by installing the Dragon
Remote Microphone application on
their Android devices. The App is
free and can be downloaded
through Google Play.

8. Require “Click”
Always, sometimes, or never!
Now you say "Click" by default
To distinguish commands from dictation, Dragon now
waits for you to say "Click <menu or tab name>" to open
menus or ribbon tabs, or "Click <button name or list box
name>" to select dialog box controls. For example, with
the Microsoft Office ribbon, to open the Home tab, you
say "Click Home" rather than just "Home."

9. DragonBar in the System Tray
New Command opens the Menu If you like to set the DragonBar to display from the
Tray Icon only, now you can display it by voice as
well.

10. Multiple Text Matches
More Control
Dragon's multiple text matching feature enables
you to apply changes to multiple instances of
matching text in your documents. Dragon now
includes an option to turn the feature off as
required.

11. Open Top Website
A new command to find the most popular web sites
This new command directly opens the top-ranked page for the keywords you include when you dictate

12. Disable Unused Voice Commands
Turn off what you're not using & Dragon runs Faster
If you don't use commands to open programs and folders, or to
control menus, buttons, and other controls in your programs, now
Dragon has options to turn them off.
With Dragon no longer listening for those types of commands; the
speed of dictation recognition increases.

13. Optimization Reminders
Give your vocabulary a tune-up
Dragon can now help you to improve its
accuracy and speed by using a new
reminder window that prompts you to
scan your local computer system and adapt
your vocabulary based on words and
writing styles in typical documents and
your sent e-mail messages.

14. New Accuracy Center Verbiage
The two Dragon Vocabulary tools that you'll be using to
make improvements – the former Increase Accuracy From
E-Mail and Add Words From Documents tools – are
renamed in this release as "Learn From Sent E-mails" and
"Learn From Specific Documents."
In addition to the reminder option, you can click Tools on
the DragonBar to run them when you choose.

15. BestMatch V
Maximize your computer's resources
If you have a computer with two or more
processors and more than 4 GB of RAM,
Dragon automatically selects the BestMatch V
speech model for you when you create your
user profile. BestMatch V performs two
recognition passes in parallel.

16. Enhanced Bluetooth Support
Dragon Supports the Best New Devices
The 16 kHz Plantronics Calisto II BT300 Bluetooth
wireless microphone is now supported.
Dragon formerly supported only 8 kHz Bluetooth
devices, but in this release you can gain accuracy if you
have the 16 kHz Calisto II microphone.

17. Remote Connections
Install Dragon on a server and
dictate from anywhere
Now Dragon Professional & Dragon Legal
support remote dictation on Windows
computers running Windows Server 2008
R2 or Windows 7 Ultimate Server. Use
remote dictation when you need to connect
to a remote computer to enter your
dictation, and Dragon is installed there
instead of on your local computer.

18. Exporting Word Properties
The flexibility of XML
You can choose to export word properties in XML format when you export custom word lists for reuse
in other user profiles. Exported word lists do not include trained pronunciations.

19. List All Windows
Now includes Dragon
Dragon's "List All Windows" command
now includes Dragon applications in the
list. And if you want to see just the Dragon
applications, say "List Dragon windows."

20. AutoTranscribe Folder Agent
Better file formats and e-mail notifications
The AutoTranscribe Folder Agent, which automatically writes
text-based copies of recorded dictation copied to a specified
directory, formerly only produced text files. Now output is
available in Microsoft Word .DOC and .RTF formats.
Administrators can also now set up automatic e-mail
notification from the command line when a transcription job
completes.

21. Damaged User Profiles
Better way to Restore
If Dragon was unable to open your user
profile, it presents the Launch Restore
window, where you can choose from
automatically backed up copies of the profile
to restore.

22. Interactive Tutorial
Make friends with your Dragon
Dragon features the new Interactive
Tutorial, where you can learn and practice
some of the basics of dictation and
dictation commands, and correction,
spelling, and editing and using "Go Back"
with Dragon.

23. Enhanced Help Menu
Find everything you need in one place
The DragonBars Help menu provides access to many Help tools, including
the Accuracy Center, the Performance Assistant, Dragon's Help, the Tip of
the Day, the Sidebar, and the tutorials. You'll also find Web links – for
updates to your software, to Dragon on the Web, and Technical Support
pages, and for online registration.

24. Sidebar Font
Now you can change the size of text in Dragon's
Sidebar – make the text smaller if you want to
make the Sidebar thinner and prevent the text for
the commands from wrapping, or larger if you
want to reduce eye strain.

25. Improved Performance Assistant
More helpful if you need to speed up Dragon
The Performance Assistant, a
Help tool you can use to boost
Dragon's and your computer's
speed, is now linked from the
Accuracy Center and includes
many new options for turning
off commands you may not
need.

26. Tip of the Day
Bigger and Better
The Tip of the Day, which displays by
default when you open a Dragon user
profile, and is available from the Help menu
and Sidebar, has improved content and is
resized for easier reading.

27. User Profile Properties
See all your dictation sources
The Manage User Profiles > User Profile Properties
dialog box has been updated to list multiple dictation
sources, such as if you use both a headset and a smart
device as a microphone or recorder.

28. New Text-to-Speech Voices
More choices, more natural
When you use Dragon to read out text, Dragon now provides
more natural text-to-speech voices. To try it, select some text in
an editable document and say "Read That." For details, see
Using text-to-speech. You can set options in The Options dialog
box Playback/Text-to-speech tab.

29. Auto-Saving Recognition History
Administrators Now have More Control
Dragon Administrators can now set up a
recognition history log file to be saved
automatically to the local user profile
directory. Recognition log files can be
useful in compiling objective information
about how people work with Dragon and
help Enterprise sites to better train end-
users.

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36. Contact Information
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME!
Technical, Service & Repair Division
2210 Denton Drive, Ste. 101
Austin, TX 78758
1.800.962.7566 ext. 2202
JOSHUA STEWART
TXAO Branch Manager 1.512.310.7683 fax
j@edist.com