# Turning on the Microphone

First things first: in order for Dragon to listen, its microphone must be on. One way to turn on Dragon’s microphone is to click the microphone button in the Status Window.

Once the microphone is on, the microphone button will show a green circle. To turn the microphone off, click the microphone button again or say “microphone off”.

Time to practice: click the microphone button shown here, notice how it changes, then click it again.

Note: When you don’t want Dragon to listen, you can say “go to sleep” or “sleep mode”.