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User Guide
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■ Inland Northern US (Great Lakes area) - This accent
model covers Upstate New York through the Chicago
area.
■ SEAsian accented English - South East Asian
■ Southern US - This accent model covers most of the
Southern United States, including Texas.
■ Spanish Accented English.
Determining your own accent can be difficult. For example, say
you grew up in one part of the United States but have lived long
enough in another part to lessen your original regional accent. If
you have any doubt about picking an accent, select General.
If you do not select a specific accent (in other words, you select
the default General accent), you may want to perform Acoustic
Optimization after using the product for several hours. Acoustic
Optimization updates your user files with accumulated acoustic
data from any corrections and additional training you may have
done. Running Acoustic Optimization will increase your overall
accuracy. In the process of increasing your accuracy, Acoustic
Optimization may select a different accent for you.
If you select a specific accent, Acoustic Optimization will still
increase your overall accuracy, but will not change your accent.
Once you have selected a specific accent for the user, you
cannot change it later.
4 Select your microphone or other audio input device from the
Dictation source drop-down list.
5 Vocabulary—Select the appropriate vocabulary from the drop-
down list. Dragon uses the vocabulary to recognize words
correctly based not only on their sound, but also on their
context.
6 When you create a user, Dragon chooses the vocabulary and
speech model that best fit your computer’s speed/memory.
Usually, you should follow this recommendation. For a Gen-
eral vocabulary, you see an Advanced button that you can
click to change the speech model type and vocabulary size: