I use both DPI 15.3 windows and DPI 6.0.8 Macintosh.

 it would be handy to have a keystroke to exit Dragon  in one or the other or both.

Thank you

Unless you want to try and close it when it's not responding just issue the command Exit Dragon

Thanks Mark

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Are you using Dragon on a real Windows computer or via Parallels in Mac?

If the first is the case, and particularly in cases where speech is no longer responsive, you may want to check out Dragon & VC Restart which is featured in both SP Standard and SP Pro. You can stop, or restart Dragon with a hotkey.

The whole point of speech recognition is to use your voice for everything. That's not to say that an occasional hot key isn't welcomed but a Dragon hotkey exit command doesn't exist. You could create a script to double-click but that's about it. If Dragon freezes, you can End Task through Window's Task Manager.

If you are using SpeechStart+ you can use it to relaunch Dragon when it's frozen and even Dragon and KnowBrainer.


If Dragon isn't frozen, we believe you can say close dragon. If you're using KnowBrainer, you can say Close Dragon and KnowBrainer and you won't even have to deal with saving your user profile.

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Also come to think of it you can ask Cortana to start Windows Speech Recognition..

Thanks Mark

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