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    Quick Cheats for Writing With Dragon - Hidden Tricks to Help You Dictate Your Book, Work Anywhere and Set Your Words Free with Speech Recognition: Dictation Mastery for PC and Mac
    Quick Cheats for Writing With Dragon - Hidden Tricks to Help You Dictate Your Book, Work Anywhere and Set Your Words Free with Speech Recognition: Dictation Mastery for PC and Mac
    Quick Cheats for Writing With Dragon - Hidden Tricks to Help You Dictate Your Book, Work Anywhere and Set Your Words Free with Speech Recognition: Dictation Mastery for PC and Mac
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    Quick Cheats for Writing With Dragon - Hidden Tricks to Help You Dictate Your Book, Work Anywhere and Set Your Words Free with Speech Recognition: Dictation Mastery for PC and Mac

    By Scott Baker

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    No jargon. No confusion. Just solid, fail-safe tips for writers to take their dictation to the next level.

    From the author of "The Writer's Guide to Training Your Dragon", this mini-guide will help you choose the right microphone, transcribe on-the-go with Dragon and put you on the path to sky-high word counts. You will also learn little-known tricks, such as:

    - Dictating into programs Dragon doesn't support - such as Scrivener;
    - Preventing a crash from taking your dictated text with it;
    - Creating a "Quiet Profile" for when you need to dictate without disturbing others;
    - Using the same profile on multiple computers - and keeping it updated;
    - Running your desktop Dragon app on an iPad or Android tablet - anywhere, anytime.

    Designed to get you up-and-running with this powerful software in no time, "Quick Cheats for Writing with Dragon" may make you want to never look at a keyboard again!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAshe Publishing
    Release dateApr 2, 2016
    ISBN9781524259242
    Quick Cheats for Writing With Dragon - Hidden Tricks to Help You Dictate Your Book, Work Anywhere and Set Your Words Free with Speech Recognition: Dictation Mastery for PC and Mac

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      Quick Cheats for Writing With Dragon - Hidden Tricks to Help You Dictate Your Book, Work Anywhere and Set Your Words Free with Speech Recognition - Scott Baker

      Contents

      Contents

      Introduction

      Part One: Microphones

      Get Your Mic Right

      Part Two: Transcription

      Why Transcribe?

      Smartphone vs Voice Recorder

      Using External Microphones

      Part Three: Dictating in Apps

      The Problem with Dragon, Macs and Full Text Control

      Dictating in Scrivener? Here’s a Hack

      Don’t let a crash trash your work

      Part Four: Dragon Productivity Hacks

      Quiet Profiles for Quiet Times

      Using One Profile On Multiple Computers

      Dragon on an iPad or Android Tablet

      Afterword

      Introduction

      How many words do you want to write today?

      1000? 2000? How long will that take you? A couple of hours or half a day? How about being able to get all of your writing done in just one hour for an entire day? Within that 60 minutes you could generate 3000 words or more – if you're really proficient, maybe even as many as 5000. Within 10 days, that's 50,000 words.

      Staggering, right? Some would say unbelievable.

      Not really. These are the kinds of word counts being generated by writers just like yourself using dictation software on a Mac or PC. I personally know of one writer who put together the 60,000 word draft of her new novel in just nine short days. Don't get me wrong – it takes a fair bit of practice and equipment tweaking to get to that point. But once you've done it, you'll never look back.

      This little guide isn't designed to train your brain to use Dragon or to go into intricate detail about the types of equipment needed to perfect your setup. For that, I'm going to shamelessly direct you to "The Writer's Guide to Training Your Dragon". In that book, I comprehensively detail how to achieve 99% accuracy from the software from the moment you start using it. Go on, grab a copy – you know you want to. I even supplement it regularly with video training you can access free of charge.

      What you are about to read contains a fraction of the information in that book. It is, however, exactly what it says on the tin – a set of quick cheats that can unleash powerful features in Dragon you may have never been aware of. The software can dramatically improve your word count and writing workflow – but only if you know how.

      This

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