Dragon: Turning Off Unused Voice Commands

There are a number of types of voice commands in Dragon that you may never use.  For instance, there are voice commands in Dragon to do the following:

• Control mouse movement with voice commands
• Surf the internet with voice commands
• Control a word processor with voice commands
• Use the word "Click" to select menu items

You may be able to speed up the processing time of Dragon by turning off any or all of these features you don't use.  Using voice commands requires more processing power than just recognizing text. If you don't normally use voice commands in certain situations or in certain programs, for example with Internet Explorer, you can speed up Dragon NaturallySpeaking by turning off this ability.

To turn off some of these commands:

On the Dragon menu, goto Tools->Options->Commands.

If you don't use voice commands to surf the internet, clear the "Enable commands in HTML windows" box if it is selected.

If you don't use voice commands to control mouse movements, clear the "Enable mouse motion commands" box if it is selected.

If you don't use voice commands to control word processing, click on the Natural Languange Commands button and clear the "Enable Natural Language Commands" box if it is selected.

If you don't use the word "Click" to control menus and controls, clear the "Require 'Click' to select menus and controls" box if it is selected.

If you don't use voice commands to manage E-mail and calenders, then clear the "Enable E-mail and Calender commands" box if it is selected.

Examine this menu and see if there are any other voice commands you will not use and then clear them.

After making these changes, you will have to exit and restart Dragon for the changes to take effect.