Echalky

I love express scribe it's wonderful, have little glitches every now and then but generally its great. Recently purchased Dragon blah blah to test how well I cd get it to do a broad transcription, but cant figure out how to do it? I have set it up in scribe and the note pad tells me that its working but nothing much happening. A hint tells me to 'activate it' but no clues as to whether you are supposed to much more than tell it to use Dragon Naturally Speaking 8?? Stumped