December 17, 2005

Why install Natlink/Vocola

Category: Natlink/Vocola for beginners

Vocola and Natlink are developed and maintained as free, open source software by generous souls who wanted to extend the capabilities of Dragon.When used in conjunction, Vocola/Natlink allows non-programmers such as myself to dictate macros by voice and import macros and scripts written by other people.
So far, I have dictated Vocola/Natlink macros to take care of the following:

  • combinations of mouse actions

  • combinations of key presses

  • combinations of Dragon commands

  • combinations of all of the above!

  • This allows me to use applications that aren't compatible with Dragon and automate common tasks without having to purchase the Preferred or Professional editions.

Apparently Vocola happily coexists with DNS commands and macros, and users of the higher editions have found it useful to be able to:import the Vocola macros which are around, saving them from having to reinvent the wheel

Speech wiki has an excellent comparison of Natlink and Dragon Professional at this URL: http://speechwiki.org/NL/NatLinkVocolaDNSComparison.html.

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// posted by Melissa @ 4:38 pm
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You don't have to understand how Natlink/Vocola works to use any of the Vocola commands on this site or on speech wiki

Just follow this procedure to incorporate a Vocola command into your Dragon setup:

1. Install Natlink/Vocola.

2. Restart your computer.

3. If the command is for a particular application, open that application and say "edit VoiceCommands" OR If the command is global, say "edit global VoiceCommands".

A blank command file will display.

4. Copy the Vocola command that you want to use to the clipboard (from this site or from speech wiki).

5. Go back to the command file you just displayed, and paste the command on a new line anywhere in the file.

6. Say "refresh macros" to save the commands.

7. Close the command file window.

You're now able to use the new command.

NOTE: Natlink/Vocola is free, versatile and compatible with all editions of DNS (you can even use it to create commands with Standard editions), but it has its quirks. If you're looking for a complete command set with user support, you may want to consider a buying product like Knowbrainer or hiring an SR professional to customise commands for you.

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