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# Sleep Mode

Sleep mode is a special state in which Dragon Dictate responds only to a very limited set of commands. They are:

- Wake Up

- Turn [the] Microphone On

Anything else you say will be ignored. This allows you to pause your work and have Dragon Dictate ignore microphone input until you are ready to resume work.

To learn whether you are in Sleep mode:

- Look at the Status window. Its mode button shows the Sleep icon, and the microphone appears with a blue “sleep balloon” with a crescent moon.

- Look at the Dock icon for Dragon Dictate. (Alternatively, use Command-Tab to display the application switcher.) If you have chosen the option to badge the Dock icon to display the microphone status, it appears with a crescent moon.

- Look at the optional status menu item. It appears with a crescent moon ().

- Look in the Speech menu. The fifth mode menu item says “Wake Up”.

- Look in the Dock menu. It contains menu items that work just like the Speech menu.

When in Sleep mode, you can resume work by doing any of the following:

- Say Wake Up or Turn [the] Microphone On.

- Choose Speech > Microphone On or Speech > Wake Up.

- Choose Microphone On or Wake Up from the Dock menu.

- Click the microphone icon in the Status window so that it appears with a green “go button”.

- Click the optional status menu item so that it appears with a green “go button” ().

- Press the keyboard shortcut for toggling the microphone.

It is also possible to turn the microphone off entirely, or you can choose an Auto Sleep setting in the Recognition pane in the Preferences window, enabling you to tell Dragon Dictate to go to sleep after a certain amount of time has passed.