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Each time I click somewhere, Dragon NaturallySpeaking capitalizes the next word I dictate (just the first letter). How can I to avoid that?

I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.5, Windows 7 SP1, and this issue only occurs with some non-standard applications. I tried with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 11.0, 11.5, 12.0 and 12.5, all have this issue.

Here are my formatting parameters:

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More details:

Actually, one of my computer does capitalization, while the other doesn't. On the "affected" computer, the issue is specific to Google Chrome (even when all extensions are disabled). No issue with Firefox, MSIE and Opera work. No issue with other applications I have tried except MATLAB editor.

The non-affected computer has the same version of Google Chrome (the latest one: Version 31.0.1650.63 m) and MATLAB (the latest one: R2013b), and is also runnnig Windows 7 SP1 x64 with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 12.5. Also, Dragon there has the same formatting parameters. Export a user from the non-affected computer to the affected computer doesn't solve the issue.

I'm surprised about this issue: since everything works fine on one computer while the other computer has the issue, it seems that Dragon is affected by some other programs or Windows settings. The computer with the issue is quite recent and I installed Windows 7 two months ago so it should be pretty clean though.

Obviously I don't want to have to say "no-caps" each time after I click to force lowercase letters. Also, I don't want to have to use the dictation box.

Update: I've made surprising "discovery": several monitors are connected to my computer. Only the primary monitor is affected by the issue. All the other 5 connected monitors are fine. This 15-second video shows the surprising behavior: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZptdwG9-qc (now at this point of weirdness I feel that I need to mention that I do computer science for a living). I confirmed this behavior by dragging the same window around all monitors, as well as changing the primary monitor.

Also, if all external monitors are disconnected and I only use the laptop standalone, I don't have the issue. More generally, the issue appears whenever I extend the desktop on one or several monitors. Duplicating only doesn't cause the issue. Having a mixture of extend and duplicate does create the issue too. As a result, I uninstalled all my graphic drivers, namely NVIDIA, Intel and DisplayLink (used for the USB/DVI adapters), but it didn't help.

The workaround I use now is setting some far away monitor as the primary monitor, and displaying the task bar on each monitor (with DisplayFusion). But I wish I could understand what causes Dragon NaturallySpeaking to capitalize a word each time after I click.

Franck Dernoncourt
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  • possible duplicate of [How can I prevent Dragon NaturallySpeaking capitalizing a word each time after I hit ctrl+left?](http://superuser.com/questions/709856/how-can-i-prevent-dragon-naturallyspeaking-capitalizing-a-word-each-time-after-i) – That Brazilian Guy Feb 03 '14 at 20:00
  • It is not a duplicate as the solution for the other issue does not work for this issue. – Franck Dernoncourt Feb 03 '14 at 20:03
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    In my experience as a Dragon vendor, any issue that involves non-standard applications can only be "solved" reliably by using the Dictation Box or a different standard app and then transfer the text to where you want it. Any fixes will likely prove temporary. In short, proably no one knows how to solve this specific issue (which I've never encountered). – user 99572 is fine Feb 05 '14 at 20:18
  • @user99572isfine Thanks, indeed my other computer doesn't have the issue. I added three paragraphs in the question to detail that, very weird :/ – Franck Dernoncourt Feb 05 '14 at 22:45
  • Dragon works in mysterious ways... Can't help you here, Franck. – user 99572 is fine Feb 06 '14 at 19:11
  • @user99572isfine The issue is getting even weirder: only the primary monitor is affected by the issue (see the last paragraph I have added). Please let you know if you have any insight following this new information. I'm quite puzzled. – Franck Dernoncourt Feb 07 '14 at 02:43
  • @user99572isfine someone just told me [a way around the issue](http://www.knowbrainer.com/forums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=4&threadid=17986#104587). – Franck Dernoncourt May 12 '14 at 21:58

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It seems to be a bug in Dragon. One way around that I have been told on this fourm is to simply unmaximize the application you're dictating into (just so it's slightly smaller than full screen): Dragon will not capitalize every first word each time you try to dictate into it — even on the Primary monitor.

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  • Yeah the issue is that it's hardly a solution... do you use Dragon 13? – Franck Dernoncourt Apr 10 '15 at 16:56
  • I haven't tried 13 because I've heard they horribly broke its handling for nonstandard applications. I'm just glad to understand the problem better and have a workaround, though of course a fix would be better. – Rick Mohr Apr 10 '15 at 17:50
  • I use 2 monitors, and for me the problem appears to be reversed from you -- the main monitor is fine but the other monitor has the capitalization problem. – Rick Mohr Apr 10 '15 at 18:32
  • I haven't upgraded for the same reason... is your main monitor regarded as the primary monitor by Windows? – Franck Dernoncourt Apr 10 '15 at 18:34
  • In Control Panel > Display > Screen Resolution, for whichever monitor I check "Make this my main display" I have no capitalization problem. Also, unmaximize has no effect for me. – Rick Mohr Apr 10 '15 at 19:00
  • Wow Dragon really some weird bugs... – Franck Dernoncourt Apr 10 '15 at 19:25