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Hi, my name is Maddy.
I am a student who is registered at the Fred Smithers Centre.

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I have also been working there part-time

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and I am here today to give you a demo
on how to use the Dragon Assistive technology software.

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Dragon can be really helpful for students with navigating

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and dictating within a document
and even outside a document on the web

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and it can be a hands-free alternative to lots of other pre-existing technologies.

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So, I'll give you a little bit of a demo of how that works.

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I'll start by sharing my screen with you here.

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I'm currently using a laptop that is borrowed from the Fred Smithers Centre

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so it already has a lot of the assistive technology downloaded already on it.

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One of those being Dragon

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and you can see up here in the left

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this is kind of the navigation bar

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for Dragon itself.

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It's currently sleeping,
but I will turn it on for the transcription part of things.

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When you use Dragon for the first time

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you're going to have to set-up your own user profile

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which is relatively quick to do.

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All you have to do is kind of read this paragraph

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that Dragon gives to you in order to

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allow it to calibrate to your voice

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so it can most accurately transcribe

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and dictate for you.

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So, I will start by using the command

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to turn on the Dragon speaker.

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Wake up.

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Open Microsoft Word.

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Dragon can be a helpful form of assistive technology for students in many different scenarios.

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Period.

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I find Dragon helpful in taking and organizing my notes

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when I'm doing class readings, comma,

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and I often find myself thinking

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more quickly than I can physically write notes,

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comma,

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so I find Dragon a helpful tool.

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Period.

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Now, if I didn't like what I've written here,

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I could simply use the command "undo" or "scratch that".

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Scratch that.

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Undo.

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There you go.

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I could also start a new paragraph by using the command

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"next paragraph"

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which automatically jumps two lines.

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You can also say "go to"

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"x line"

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go to whichever line it is you want to go to

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and it will bring you right to the beginning of that line.

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For example now if I wanted to say:

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Go to line one.

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Go to line three.

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You can also specifically select parts of text

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and you can edit them specifically.

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So, if I decided to say for example

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if I wanted to select this section:

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"Dragon helpful in taking and organizing my notes"

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I could say the following:

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"Select Dragon helpful in taking and organizing my notes".

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Now, this shows you an extensive list of selections

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for ways that you can edit or alter this text,

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but I'm just going to show you some of the basics

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that we tend to use a lot in our day-to-day note organization.

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Bold this.

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Underline this.

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Italicize.

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Unitalicize.

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I'll give you another demonstration
of how you could use this in a school environment

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in a note-taking way or an organizational kind of way. 

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To-do list.

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Beginning of line.

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Select line.

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Underline this.

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Next line.

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Hyphen.

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Write essay outline.

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So, obviously here we're seeing that

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there's been a little bit of a mistake in

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what's been heard and what's been written down,

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but that's super easy to fix and it's also a hands-free process and I'll show you how.

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Select right.

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Two.

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Choose one.

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End of line.

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So, that brings up the Dragon navigation system for you as well.

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So, you can take a look at all of the different suggestions and there are a lot of them

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and they do make it very easy for you to navigate via speech alone.

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You can also tap through,
but it is also very easy to use with you voice.

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So, just to show a something a little bit different,

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I will be closing this document and making a search on the web

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just to show you that it is possible. Charlotte's Web.

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Press enter.

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Scroll down.

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Scroll up.

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So, you can make web searches,
you can interact with different content on websites,

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you can also use Dragon to write and send emails

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and it's just a great, very useful tool overall.

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Dragon pretty much has endless features

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in order to accomodate and support any student's unique needs

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or their experiences.

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The navigation is really helpful
and once you're comfortable with using it

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and you get comfortable with the commands, it is really user friendly

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and there are also many guides online 

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of the endless amounts of commands

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that can help each user personalize their experience with Dragon.

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So, that's our introduction demo to Dragon

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and if you are interested in more,

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you can check out the other assistive tech demo videos on our website.