Besides Sleep mode, another way to pause your work is to turn the microphone off entirely.
The advantage of turning the microphone off (as opposed to Sleep mode) is that no voice input can be interpreted, even accidentally, as a command to turn the microphone on. All voice input is ignored.
The disadvantage of turning the microphone off is that you can’t turn it on again using your voice; you must use your hands. Sleep mode, on the other hand, lets you speak to resume work.
To turn the microphone off:
Say Microphone Off.
Choose Speech > Microphone Off.
Choose Microphone Off from the Dock menu.
Click the microphone icon in the Status window so that it appears with a red “stop sign”.
Click the optional
status
menu item in the menu bar so that it appears with a red
“stop sign” (
).
Press the keyboard shortcut for toggling the microphone.
Tap the icon on the screen in the Dragon Remote Microphone app
on your iOS or Android device.
To turn the microphone on, when the microphone is off:
Choose Speech > Microphone On.
Choose Microphone On from the Dock menu.
Click the microphone icon in the Status window so that it appears with a green “go button”.
Click the optional
status
menu item in the menu bar so that it appears with a green
“go button” (
).
Press the keyboard shortcut for toggling the microphone.
Tap the icon on the screen in the Dragon Remote Microphone app on your iOS or Android device.
To learn whether the microphone is on or off:
Look at the Status window. The microphone icon displays the microphone’s status.
Look at the optional status menu item in the menu bar. It is a miniature version of the Status window microphone icon, and displays the microphone’s status.
Look at the Dock icon for Dragon Dictate. It appears, optionally, with a microphone icon displaying the microphone’s status.
Look in the Speech menu. If the microphone is on, the first menu item will read Microphone Off; if the microphone is off, the first menu item will read Microphone On.
Look in the Dock menu. It contains menu items that work just like the Speech menu.