Sounds like what you need is a second monitor so you can have more screen desktop space. I have a gaming laptop and it has connections 2 external monitors (an hdmi and a display port). If your main laptop with dragon has a hdmi port, you can add a wide-screen monitor to your table.
On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 2:43 PM, DEBRA DEW <[email protected]> wrote: > > An inquiry about using multiple microphones with Dragon naturally speaking. > > > > I have two laptops in front of me and I figured out how to put one > microphone to sleep and turn the other one on, *by* keeping one headset > on my head and one lying on my chest in front of me with the microphone > positioned on top of my left arm. If I turn my head away from the > microphone and whisper very softly into the one on my head, I am able to > leave one microphone on while the other one is off. I just taught myself > had to do this a few days ago out of necessity, because I'm not able at > times to even get a nurse here to take my headset off my head and put the > other one on my head. Sometimes I have to wait many hours before I see a > nurse. > > > What I am inquiring of you is if you know of any way I could control the > microphones on three different laptops consecutively. I have a new laptop > but it is not installed with Dragon yet, but when it is I would like to > have all three of them in front of me. For years I have asked people if > there would be a way to turn one Mike off and the other on and I've always > been told I would have to physically be able to toggle a switch. > > > I'm certain I am not the only paralyzed person in the world that is using > more than one laptop at a time, especially if someone is writing and having > to do research on one and transpose the information to the other while they > are reading it, which is what I am doing because I am writing a book using > the Bible as reference & it requires reference and research constantly > between one source or the other.. Thank goodness for computers or I would > have to have 10 or more volumes of materials open in front of me on the > table constantly looking from one to the other. > > > > > > > > > *Debra Scruggs-Scruggs phalanx-dragon slayers -PRISONER OF HOPE ZECH. 9 > Formerly: Homeschooling mom of 9 and pvt. pilot Currently: tetrapeligic due > to advanced MS and living in a nursing home hell 18 years Phone: 561-58 > 6-9399 SC student 20yrs … can not brag about my love for YHVH God because > I fail Him daily, but I can brag about His love for me because He never > fails me. ROMANS 8:28… Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the > blind can see – Mark Twain* > B.I.B.L.E.-BASIC INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE LEAVING EARTH >

