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User Guide
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The text-to-speech engine should not affect performance, so
generally you will not need to unload it.
Miscellaneous tab—Actions on open/close user
Under the Miscellaneous tab, you can:
■ Set the microphone to initialize in Sleep mode, requiring you
say “Wake Up” or “Listen to Me” before you can dictate
■ Open DragonPad on startup
■ Save user files whenever you exit, without prompting you
■ Set the balance between speed and accuracy
■ Turn on a screen reader for visually impaired users
■ Turn on Microsoft Active Accessibility feature, required to
control menus and dialog boxes of some Windows applications
■ Launch Dragon in QuickStart mode
Data tab—Archiving and space usage options
Under the Data tab, you can choose to:
■ Store corrections in an archive for use by optimizer engines
and set the maximum size that the archive is allowed to reach
■ Maintain smaller user files to easily move to other computers
■ Use only new training data when optimizing after training,
rather than using all data available for that user
■ Set amount of extra space on the disk to reserve for holding
dictation after dictation fills your random access memory
■ Save audio files as well as the recognized text
■ Automatically back up audio files after a certain number of
saves
■ Run optimizations on the schedule set by the administrator
■ Collect data about this user’s acoustic and language model
optimizations to Nuance for improving future accuracy
■ Delete the data stored about the user’s acoustic and language
model
■ Create a usability log
■ Always save audio files