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THE EASY GUIDE TO DRAGON SCRIPTING

This guide is aimed at novice Dragon Professional users who want to get productive creating their own voice commands. Contrary to other books on the subject this is an easy to understand, step-by-step manual that will get you up and running in no time.

It focuses mainly on DVC scripting (Dragon’s native scripting language) and not on Advanced Scripting that came with later versions. Elementary syntax of these languages is very similar and the differences in simple, day-to-day use are minimal. Although DVC scripting is more limited than Advanced Scripting, it will offer more than enough for the average user. Best of all, DVC execution speed is superior!

The book only discusses scripting elements that people will actually use on a day-to-day basis. There's no unnecessary complexity which so often is a turnoff for beginners. Only easy to understand language with lots of practical examples. This book will definitely inspire you to come up with your own creative command ideas!

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The Easy Guide to Dragon Scripting - INDEX
 
1. Cover
2. Back
3. Chapters
4. Introduction
5. Advanced Scripting versus DVC (legacy commands)
7. A note on command names and general use of your voice
8. A note on microphones
9. Dragon’s built in 'easy' command creators
15. About keyboard shortcuts
17. Creating fast voice commands with DVC scripting
19. SendKeys
22. SendSystemKeys
23. AppBringUp
24. ShellExecute
25. HeardWord
27. Combining several techniques in one command
30. List commands
36. List commands with arguments
40. Open Ended commands
42. Mouse commands
47. Additional DVC commands
48. More examples
55. DVC versus Advanced Scripting: Syntax
57. Fast is fun!
58. Appendix 1
61. Appendix 2

Some interesting details about DVC vs Advanced Scripting

Advanced Scripting has always executed much slower than DVC scripting. Particularly up and until DPI 15.3. However, with the introduction of DPG 15.5 and DPI 15.6 the old SAX scripting engine was replaced by the much faster WinWrap engine. Many claimed that Advanced Scripting would now execute as fast as DVC scripting.

I've always claimed otherwise, and it turns out I was right. Even in the most recent DPI 16 version, DVC scripting beats Advanced Scripting speed-wise. According to an experienced and prominent user of the KnowBrainer forum DVC scripting and execution is already built into Dragon itself. Therefore it does not have to go to an outsourced facility. This significantly saves time. And contrary to Advanced Scripting, DVC has (multithreaded) command execution.

The proof is in the pudding:

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