Writing Setup

How I Setup Dragon to Dictate in Emacs

Saving my hands one spoken word at a time

Kristle Chester
2 min readOct 8, 2021

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Author provided image showing her dictating in Emacs.

Making Emacs and Dragon Professional 15 play nicely together requires five minutes and a copy of Window Detective — a freely available open-source program.

This method enables a dumb Dragon without full Select-and-Say capability. I created custom Dragon…

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Kristle Chester

Freelancer. Data geek. Gardener. Baker. Spaniel lover. Georgian. MA International Commerce and Policy.