I’ve just started using this software.
What I can tell is that it seems to be really easy to use.
I’m brazillian and, although I’m able to read and write mostly anything in English, my speaking abilities are really weak. That’s because I really can’t practice speaking.
Here comes DNS. It looks so amazing that it’s been able to recognize near 100% from what I dictate. And I’m not speaking any slower than normal speed.
The best part is I did nothing more than navigate through few pages from basic tutorial. After that I discovered most commands by logic sense only.
Now, only one day after installation, I’m able to do mostly everything I’d like to do when writing documents, but now it’s hands free. Great!
One question though, I’m unable to find out how to write sentences beginning with the “select” word, like “select the nearest apples.”.
If I dictate that as “select the nearest apples period”, DNS understands that as the select command an tries to search for “the nearest apples.”.

What can I do to make it write the full sentence I want, or at least to write the “select” word alone?

Thanks in advance!

Chuck Eglinton’s answer. That’s an interesting problem. It’s difficult to begin a sentence with the word “Select’ because Dragon assumes you’re not dictating, but you’re instead trying to select a word or words.

How I would probably deal with this is that I would not begin a sentence with the word “Select” instead, I might train myself to say instead, “First Select” then I would return to the document and replace “First Select” with the word “Select” only.

Another (more technical) solution is to use the Dragonbar to select “words > View/Edit > Add” and you can ADD a new word for “Select” but pronounce it differently, for example, you could pronounce it “SEE-lect” or “sa-sa-lect.” Dragon would assume that you’re saying a different word and will type it instead of thinking that you’re issuing a “select” command.