Fact · Accessibility and health
Yale's dyslexia resource recommends that, if dyslexia makes the training passages hard to read, someone preview the challenging words with you before you train Dragon.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“it is recommended that someone preview challenging words with you, so that you are familiar with them and can read them accurately when training”
Dragon Naturally Speaking, Yale University dyslexia resources, n.d., Voice training section.
Open the original- What it measures
- Dragon's voice training asks you to read aloud a set of passages. Yale's tip applies to people whose reading difficulty affects how well they can read those passages.
- What it does not show
- This is Yale's guidance for Dragon, not a study of its results. The tip does not say how much previewing words improves accuracy.