ClipWriter window

Click on this symbol after loading a dictation in Player. The ClipWriter window will appear automatically if the appropriate Option for Dragon NaturallySpeaking has been activated in Options/ Speech Recognition.

The window allows the user to type up text easily, even without a footswitch, or correct speech-recognized text and then format the document. The text can be edited and saved, or pasted to another Windows word-processing program using [CTRL + V].
The Save/Complete function, button , will always save the complete text and copy it to the Windows clipboard before moving the dictation to the completed folder.

In Player, speech-recognized texts are indicated by the symbol in Column "A" of Dictation Overview. The window will be opened with this text when the dictation is loaded into the Player.

Dictations from older versions of Dragon (i.e. 5.0, XP, 7.x) are loaded into the ClipWriter window

Dictations from Dragon 8.0 or above will be loaded using the Correction Window.

If Single-User mode is activated in Options / Speech Recognition, then Dragon 8 (or above) dictations are loaded into the ClipWriter window.

Previous versions of Dragon (i.e. 5.0, XP,  7.x) are based on .WAV format and use an alternative process, so ClipWriter uses a different layout for these dictations.  Click on the graphic below to find out more, wherever the cursor turns into a hand.

Using ClipWriter instead of a footswitch

When the "ClipWriter keyboard shortcuts" option is activated, the Function keys  at the top of the keyboard can be used to control playback.  Start the playback with [F3] and the Player will start to play the first 3 seconds of the audio dictation.  Start typing your transcription of this first passage  immediately in the ClipWriter window.  When you stop typing (i.e. when the passage is correctly transcribed) for about 1 second, then the next 3-second block is played back automatically; no need to press any key!  Type this up too and pause when this text block is complete.  The next passage is also played back automatically and so forth, until the complete dictation is transcribed.  If a passage has been completely played back and you accidentally stop typing for more than a second, then the next block will start automatically.  Pause the playback at any time with [F10].

You may wish to practice a little to get into the rhythm but you will soon find that it is quicker than using a conventional footswitch!  Other function keys can be used to stop, start, rewind, QuickBack etc.  Click on the symbol to see the layout (shown below) of ClipWriter keyboard functions.  When you improve your skill, then try [F5] or [F7] to playback 5 or 7-second blocks respectively.  The full list of Function keys for Player is defined in this help.  You could set the rewind on stop option to 1 second on the Player tab in order to repeat the last word of each block.

Formatting

Text can be formatted using the mouse. First select the text to be formatted, then use the following buttons:

Button / Dropdown list	Function
	Select font
	Select font size
B	bold
I	italics
	underline.
	left justify
	center
	right justify
	ClipWriter keyboard help. Check that the  "ClipWriter keyboard shortcuts" option is first activated to use this function.

Save

Click on the symbol to save corrected text to the associated .RTF file and to the clipboard. The text can be pasted using [Ctrl + V] into another word-processing program.
ClipWriter texts are then shown as a symbol in Column "A" of the Dictation Overview.

Discard text changes

Click on the Recycle bin symbol to discard the last text changes and clear the window.  The original text, saved before this dictation was loaded or by the last click on the diskette symbol , is kept intact.

The last saved text is always available in the Windows clipboard.  You could retrieve this by using Paste or  [Ctrl + V].

A backup of the .RTF file is made automatically after 40 keystrokes.

Print

Click on the symbol to print to the default printer.

Green Stars (Dragon V 5.0, XP, 7.x)

The green stars indicate audio passages that contain instructions for the typist from any Author using Speech recognition and should not be transcribed. They will be automatically removed when text is pasted into a word-processing document.

Blue text (Dragon V 5.0, XP, 7.x)

Blue text shows passages that have been manually added in Recorder and do not have any corresponding audio passage. When the text is moved from the Correction Window the blue color will be removed.  If the Author used the special Correction Mode in Recorder, then those corrections will not have any corresponding audio passage.

Correction list (Dragon V 5.0, XP, 7.x)

Click on the symbol to put all selected words into the correction list - this will improve the vocabulary and performance of the speech recognition engine. Only select single words that are correctly spelled.  The list is specifically for the author who dictated the text.  The author can import and train these words later in Recorder, using the Dragon Vocabulary Assistant.