Dragon enables you to use your voice to dictate, edit, format and insert blocks of saved text without having to type.

Dragon's speech recognition engine is very accurate and optimized for healthcare dictation - but to make your documentation go even faster, you can use voice commands, create custom texts or templates, and more!

Dictate or record your edits

One way to make edits to a note is to dictate. Place your cursor in any note section (or highlight part of a section), select the voice input button  microphone icon, and dictate whatever you want to add to your note section.

That method is fine for making minor edits...​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

BUT... the most efficient way to add content to your note is to create another ambient recording.

WHY? When you add another ambient recording ambient recording icon, you can simply speak naturally about what you want to add instead of dictating the exact words, and you can update information in multiple sections in the same recording.

After Dragon transcribes the new recording, it extracts relevant information from what you added and incorporates that when it re-generates the corresponding note section(s).

Adding another ambient recording instead of dictating can really reduce your editing time.

The voice input microphone and ambient recording buttons in Dragon Copilot.

Use a Text or customizable template

Access the Library to insert saved Texts or apply a template to a note section.

Insert a Text

Place your cursor where you want your Text to go, then:

  1. Select the Library icon  library icon.

  2. Select the Text in your list. <OR> Select the dictation microphone and say the Spoken form for the Text.

Steps 1 and 2 discussed on the left.

Apply a customizable template

  1. Select the Library icon  library icon.

  2. Select the template in your list. Dragon Copilot regenerates the note section.

Note: When you apply a customizable template, the re-generated section will include any manual edits you already made to the content in the section.

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