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Installation and User Creation

3 When the Adjust Your Microphone: Quality Check screen

appears, click Start Quality Check and then read aloud the

text displayed in the box.

4 The program beeps when it has finished evaluating the sound

quality of your system. If Dragon displays PASSED, click the

Next button to continue.

Windows Vista or XP: If you get a Sound level is too

low error while creating a Dragon user, to boost the microphone’s

volume:

1. Select Start > Control Panel > Sound.

2. On the Recording tab, double-click the Microphone icon to open

the Microphone Properties dialog.

3. Based on your sound card and microphone, you set the boost from

the Level or Custom tab. If you see a slider to set the boost, move the

slider all the way to the right for the maximum boost. If you see a Boost

checkbox, select the checkbox.

Proceed with Training a new user on page 24.

Training a new user

If you selected Short training when you created the user, you are

prompted to start General Training after you check the volume

and quality of your microphone.

Performing training when creating a user enhances your initial

recognition accuracy. In initial training you read aloud for

several minutes from one of the available texts.

For information on training a mobile user, see the online help.

To train a new user:

1 When the yellow arrow showing you where to start reading

appears, begin reading the text. To take breaks while you’re

training the program, click Pause.

NOTE: