Dragon is a flexible productivity tool that allows you to get work without lifting a finger. In this article we take a look at three ways you can take full advantage and have fun while doing it!
1. Kick Your Feet Up
One of the best ways to make using Dragon fun is by realising the power you have by going hands-free. It’s obviously much easier to shuffle papers around your desk while you’re using a headset. If paging through books, files and manuscripts is very much a part of your day – you’ll love Dragon’s ability to allow you to carry one working when you’re getting through physical media – documents and the like.
So go on – kick your feet up. Sit back in your chair, pull up an even comfier chair or bean bag to get work done in style. Your back will thank you later and so will your hands, wrists and arms with the reduced typing.
2. Breeze Through Your Inbox
Another great thing about using speech recognition software is that you can just speak everything. This means you can respond to emails easily and at a good speed by just systematically moving from one email to the next. Email is generally a more casual environment, meaning that no one’s expecting the Queen’s English… or very few are going to be bothered by the odd mistake.
Don’t forget to scan through your emails, especially with out-of-context misrecognitions a possibility, but enjoy the process and get through your full inbox without breaking a sweat. It’s easy to talk your emails and wonderful to clear your inbox to start your day with a clean slate.
3. Take a Drive
Dragon is a portable product, meaning you can take it almost anywhere you can speak clearly. Use a hands-free car kit to allow you to dictate emails, take notes or even draft a to-do list while you drive to your next meeting. The software requires a reasonably quiet sound atmosphere so it’s best if you’re not engaged in conversation with a passenger or have the radio off.
What’s great is that you can get work done while on-the-go. Once you’ve completed your recording, share the file with your email or upload it back at the office to have it automatically transcribed. It can be great to fill unused hours or “dead time” spent driving longer distances or stuck in traffic but can also be quite liberating to dictate a chapter for a book or an article you’re thinking of submitting to a journal.