Dragon Version 11 Dragon Administrator Guide 1
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Copyright 2010. Dragon version 11.0 This material may not include some last-minute technical changes and/or revisions to the software. Changes are periodically made to the information provided here. Future versions of this material will incorporate these changes.
Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon 11 1 Getting started with Dragon 11.
Contents Run Dragon SDK Client Edition 9.x on a computer with Dragon 11 31 Run Dragon 11 on a computer with Dragon SDK Client Edition Dragon 9.
Contents Step 1: Upgrade the Dragon 9.x or 10.x Master Roaming User Profiles 79 Step 2: Clean up the Dragon 9.x or 10.
Contents Install the Same Configuration on Additional computers 120 Creating Custom Installation Using Microsoft Custom Install Wizard 122 Installing the Microsoft Custom Installation Wizard 122 Modifying setup Properties for Custom Installation 122 Installation using the Dragon command line Running natspeak.exe to Set Options 130 131 Natspeak.
Contents Installing Text-to-Speech Feature 164 Reinstalling Dragon with Particular Set of Features 164 Setting Day/Time for Scheduled Tasks 165 Launching Online Registration Form After Installation 165 MSI Options Specific to Dragon 167 MSI Options for Installing Dragon Features/Advanced Options 171 MSI Options for Roaming User Profile, Tuning, and Data Collection Setup 174 Feature Variables to Set Through the ADDLOCAL or ADVERTISE Properties 177 Installing Visual C++ Runtime for Dragon 18
Contents Estimating Network traffic caused by synchronization 207 Enabling the Roaming feature on each computer where a user will dictate 210 Step 1: Start Dragon 210 Step 2: If already Dragon is running, select Administrative Settings 210 Step 3: Turn on the Roaming feature 210 Step 4: Set the location of Master Roaming User Profiles 211 Step 5: Set location of Local Roaming User Profiles 211 Step 6: Set Roaming feature options 212 Notes: 213 Administrative Settings: Roaming tab 214 Ad
Contents Running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on a User Profile with two acoustic models 237 To run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer to optimize Roaming User Profiles Controlling user access to other user's profiles Making it easier for users to select their User Profiles 238 239 239 Configuring Internet Information Services and WebDAV for HTTP Roaming 242 Configuring Internet Information Services and WebDAV 243 Installing and configuring WebDAV on Internet Information Services
Contents Accessing the Dragon Knowledge Database 294 Hardware Compatibility List 295 Managing user administrative privileges 296 Chapter 10: Working with Custom commands 297 Managing and Securing Custom Commands 298 Using the Convert XML to DAT tool 299 Using the MyCommands Protection Utility 301 Chapter 11: Commands that perform actions based on the application state 303 Using Structured Commands 304 Structured Command Samples 305 Importing Sample Structured Commands 307 Chapter 12:
Contents Hidden Mode (definition) 338 Language Model optimization (definition) 339 Language Model Optimizer (definition) 340 Normal Mode (definition) 341 Numbers mode (definition) 342 QuickStart (definition) 343 Recognition Modes (definition) 344 Roaming User (definition) 345 Spell Mode (definition) 346 User Profile (definition) 347 11
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon 11 Dragon version 11 contains new features and improvements that enhance your ability to talk to, control, and interact with your computer. This section contains general information on Dragon and information on the exciting new features of Dragon 11. Getting started with Dragon 11.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Getting started with Dragon 11.0 Dragon version 11.0 - What's New for administrators This section describes the new administrator features of Dragon Version 11.0. For more information about Dragon Medical, see http://www.nuance.co.uk/healthcare/dragonmedical/ For more information about Dragon NaturallySpeaking, see http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/ Dragon on the Web The Nuance Web site (www.nuance.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon 11 Dragon version 11 - What's New for administrator The following table lists details about the new features and changes in Dragon 11 in the following categories: n n n n Accuracy and speed improvements New User Interface Productivity enhancements Other improved features and changes Accuracy and speed improvements Reduced training time for recorder-based User Profiles With improvements to recognition accuracy in version 11, the minimum reading time required to train Drag
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Easier access to recent profiles, shortcuts n n The Open Recent User Profile menu is improved to show up to 10 recent User Profiles and to give faster access for large networked Dragon installations. The menu now also includes options to select an alternate Vocabulary or Dictation Source if they are defined for the User Profile. In addition, now administrators and users can create Windows Shortcuts to Roaming User Profiles.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon 11 The Text Control Indicator shows the current level of dictation, selection, and formatting support. When a user dictates, they either have Full Text Control (a green checkmark Text Control (a gray checkmark ) or Basic ). Previoius versions of Dragon indicated the current dic- tation support level with the Select-and-Say indicator (a green ball ).
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 n n options to control playback/rewind/fast forward speed (in %) options to control playback/rewind/fast forward volume (in %) See "The Options dialog box Text-to-speech tab" in the Dragon Help for details. Other improved features and changes Selecting a language when installing Dragon 11 When installing Dragon 11 , Dragon uses the primary language for the product. An administrator cannot install Dragon using a language that is different than the primary language.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon 11 Upgrading User Profiles to Dragon 11 Dragon 11 supports upgrading User Profiles from versions 9, 9.1, 9.5, 9.6, 10.0, and 10.1. An administrator cannot upgrade User Profiles from earlier versions to Dragon 11 . An administrator updates User Profiles after Dragon 11 is installed on a computer. Dragon User Profiles can no longer be upgraded during installation, as was possible in previous versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 If an administrator disables the Save acoustic information option, the .usr and .sig files created during dictation sessions, are not saved. When an administrator runs the ACO on the master User Profile, the User Profile is not updated with the acoustic data from the dictation sessions. If the Save acoustic information option is always enabled, different .usr and .sig files will exist on each computer that a user dictates on.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon 11 Dragon now keeps the Administrative Settings menu item available even when a User Profile is open. In Dragon 11, when a user chooses Tools > Administrative Settings, if a User Profile is open Dragon offers to close it so that the user can continue to the Administrative Settings dialog box. In Dragon 10, the Administrative Settings command was greyed out and unavailable when a User Profile was open.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Australian, Indian, and Southeast Asian vocabularies In Dragon 11 , Australian (AUS), Indian (IND), and Southeast Asian (SEA) vocabularies are separate languages with dialect-specific acoustic models and dialect-specific vocabularies. See Using Australian, Indian and Southeast Asian for more information on updating 9.x and 10.x User Profiles that contain Australian, Indian and Southeast Asian acoustic models to Dragon 11 .
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon 11 Creating Windows shortcuts to User Profiles and Vocabularies If Dragon is shared Dragon with other people, or if a person has more than one User Profile, you can create Windows Shortcuts on the Desktop to start Dragon and open particular User Profiles. If User Profiles have multiple Vocabularies, you can also specify the Vocabulary to open. To create a shortcut to a User Profile and Vocabulary 1.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Types of Paths The path can be a UNC, HTTP, or HTTPs path: UNC "C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\Program\Natspeak.exe" /user "\\\\" For example: "C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\Program\Natspeak.exe" /user "\\Roaming\Profiles\Roaming1" HTTP or HTTPS "C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\Program\Natspeak.exe" /user "http://\" For example: "C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon 11 Using multiple acoustic models with a User Profile If the computer that a user dictates on meets certain system requirements, Dragon 11 uses two acoustic models with a User Profile. Using two acoustic models instead of one improves recognition and dictation accuracy. Acoustic models that can be added in pairs to a User Profile are called BestMatch IV models.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 If a user creates a User Profile on a single-core computer, when the user opens the User Profile on a multi-core computer, Dragon uses the single acoustic model for recognition. If a user selects BestMatch IV models for a User Profile and trains the profile on a multi-core computer, when the user opens the User Profile on a single-core computer, Dragon displays the following warning message: "Your computer has a single core processor.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon 11 Using Australian, Indian, and Southeast Asian vocabularies in Dragon 11 In Dragon 10, Service Pack 1, Australian, Indian and Southeast Asian were implemented as dialects, or “Accents”. In Dragon 11 , Australian, Indian, and Southeast Asian vocabularies are separate “languages” with dialect-specific acoustic models and dialect-specific vocabularies. In Dragon 11 , a user selects one of the following languages in the Region section of the Profile Creation wizard.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Dragon 9.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon 11 Dragon 10 Acoustic Model Dragon 11 Acoustic Model Dragon 11 Vocabulary UK English | BestMatch | SE Asian accented English Southeast Asian English | BestMatch III/IV Southeast Asian English | Large | General UK English | BestMatch UK English | BestMatch III/IV UK English | Large | General UK English | BestMatch III UK English | BestMatch III/IV UK English | Large | General UK English | Bluetooth 8 kHz UK English | Bluetooth 8 kHz UK English | Large | Genera
Installing, modifying and upgrading Dragon To install Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Medical: 1. Be sure your systems meet the system requirements. 2. Prepare for the installation or upgrade by backing up User Profiles before upgrading. 3. Install or upgrade the software by choosing the type of installation. See the table below for installation options. 4. Become familiar with the Dragon file structure and carry out other post installation tasks.
Chapter 2: Preparing to Install Dragon This section contains information on the prerequisites for installing Dragon, Dragon system requirements, and information on which Dragon products you can install on the same computer.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Preparing for an installation or upgrade Before installing, modifying, or upgrading Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Medical: n n n Close all open applications. Turn off or disable any antivirus software; installation can sometimes trigger a false virus report. Look at the supplied Installation Checklist. Installation restrictions n n n n Be sure your system meets the hardware requirements before attempting to install Dragon.
Chapter 2: Preparing to Install Dragon Installation checklist Installation checklist Do all of your workstations meet the recommended system requirements for Dragon? Will you install the Dragon software manually at each computer or will installation be unattended? (If the latter, read Installing, modifying, and upgrading Dragon for information on setup or MSI command-line parameters.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Where will you place the data distribution directory for distributing word lists and command sets? Will you be collecting data for the acoustic optimizer? Will you restrict users from modifying commands and vocabularies? Which default user-specific options will you set at installation time? (See the Dragon Help on the Options dialog.) Which Administrative options will you set?. Note: Where you store User Profiles will also depend on other factors.
Chapter 2: Preparing to Install Dragon Dragon system requirements During the installation process, the software checks that your system meets the following requirements. If they are not met, Dragon will not be installed. Note that at least 2 GB of RAM is required for installation in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. See Operating systems and RAM, below. NOTE The Professional and Legal editions of Dragon do not support dictation directly into Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Systems.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Operating system RAM min RAM recommended √ 2 GB 4 GB √ 2 GB 4 GB 32-bit 64-bit Windows Server 2003 (SP2 or greater, R2) √ Windows Server 2008, including SP1 and SP2 √ Note: Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows XP 64-bit are not supported and installation is blocked on those systems.
Chapter 2: Preparing to Install Dragon n An Internet connection for product activation. Note that product activation is not required for Enterprise editions.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Storage space required for User Profiles Adequate storage space must be available for Dragon User Profiles (that store information about each particular person's voice, vocabulary, custom commands (if applicable), and option settings). The space needs to exist on: n n Stand-alone installations where end-users work on dedicated computers. AND Only for Enterprise Profile Management Central computers (sometimes servers) where Master Roaming User Profiles are stored.
Chapter 2: Preparing to Install Dragon 1. To set the number of minutes of audio to retain locally, click the Archive size... button and position the slider. 2. To turn off retaining this data locally, check the Conserve disk space required by User profile (for portability) option. A non-Roaming User Profile requires approximately twice as much disk space as a local Roaming User Profile. Dragon periodically creates a backup copy of a non-Roaming User Profile and stores the copy on the local computer.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Installing on or Upgrading to Windows Vista and Windows 7 Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Medical Versions 9.5 and higher are compatible with all editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Dragon runs on 32-bit and 64-bit computers for these operating systems. Earlier versions of Dragon (version 8.x, 9.0, 9.1) will not install or run on Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Chapter 2: Preparing to Install Dragon Coexistence with other Dragon products Coexistence with previous versions of Dragon You can have only one version of Dragon installed on your system. Note: Running Dragon 9.x or 10.x concurrently with Dragon 11 is not supported. Coexistence with Dragon SDK Client Edition You can install Dragon SDK Client Edition 10 on the same computer where Dragon 11 is installed. In addition, Dragon and Dragon SDK Client Edition can share vocabularies and User Profiles.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon This section provides information on how to install Dragon, post-installation tasks, the Dragon file structure, sample commands, and medical vocabularies (for Dragon Medical edition).
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Installing Dragon on a single computer This topic presents the basic steps for installing Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Medical on a single computer. For a complete step-by-step procedure of installing Dragon on a single computer, please see the Dragon Getting Started Guide, available in printed form, or the Dragon User Guide for version 11 , available on the DVD in \documentation\enx\UG11.pdf.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon 4. Enter your customer information—User Name and Organization—then the Serial Number supplied to your Dragon installation. 5. Choose your installation directory. If there are no previous versions of Dragon on your system, the default directory in Windows XP is: C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11 See Dragon file structure on page 54 6.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 If you checked Modify the administrative settings, the Administrative Settings dialog box opens.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon Sample custom installation of Dragon Medical This topic shows an example of a typical custom installation of Dragon Medical for the Roaming environment. Note: This is an example only and is provided to give administrators an overview of a typical installation and the kind of decisions you have to make. Though the example provides recommendations it is not meant as a substitute for your own planning.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Click Next to continue. 3. On the Additional options screen, select all three options. For example: Click Next to continue. Setting the Dragon Options When the installation is complete, the three customization dialog boxes will open. The first to open is the Options dialog box. Corrections tab: You use this tab to control how the correction feature and spelling features work. In this example: n n 38 Check Enable double-click to correct.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon The Commands tab: You use this tab to set options that control how Dragon interprets commands. Unless otherwise indicated, changing these options only affects the current user; any other users keep their existing settings.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 The View tab: You use the View tab to control the behavior and appearance of the DragonBar and the Results Box. In this example, change Auto-hide delay from Never Hide to 5 seconds.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon The Hot Keys tab: You use the Hot keys tab to specify hot key assignments. If your users will be using Dragon on a Notebook, then click Microphone on/off and hit the F10 key to change the hotkey.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 The PowerMic I and II tabs: If you are using Dragon and you are using a Dictaphone PowerMic for dictation, the Options dialog box displays the PowerMic I and II tabs. Dragon has built-in support for PowerMic or PowerMic II microphones. You can use the PowerMic II microphone buttons to perform predefined actions (described in the table below) or program the buttons to take custom actions.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon The Playback/Text-to-Speech tab: You use the Playback/Text-to-speech tab to adjust the attributes of text-to-speech and playback. In this example, increase the Speed slider slightly. The default value is a little too slow.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 The Miscellaneous tab: You use this tab to set miscellaneous options. In this example n n Leave the Have the microphone on but asleep option unchecked unless the user cannot or does not want to use their hands to turn the microphone on and off. Check Automatically save the profile changes to automatically save the user's profiles when Dragon is closed.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon The Dictation Box tab: On the Dictation tab, you can define how the Dictation Box operates. You access the Dictation tab by selecting Tools > Dictation Box from the Dragon menu. For more information on the Dictation Box, see the Using the Dictation Box topic in Dragon help file.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 The Data tab: You use the Data tab to instruct Dragon to store corrections in an archive, conserve disk space for better portability of User Profiles, and control how Dragon adapts training, saves recorded dictation, and backs up User Profiles. In this example: n n Set the Save recorded dictation with document option to Never .
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon Setting the Administrative Options: Roaming User Profiles The second dialog to open at the end of the installation is the Administrative Settings dialog box. This section describes the Roaming tab of the Administrative options dialog box You use the Roaming tab of the Administrative Settings dialog box to set up the Roaming feature. You must set up the Roaming feature on each computer where you want users to dictate with a Roaming User Profile.
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Chapter 3: Installing Dragon 3. The Administrative Settings dialog box also contains several options that you can choose from to indicate how you want a Roaming User Profile to function at each Roaming User Profile location. In addition to the default settings, also enable the Access network at user profile open/close only and Always copy acoustic information to network options. For example: 4.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Also make sure to deselect the Check for product updates at startup option to disable Dragon from automatically checking the Nuance web site for product updates if you want to control which updates your users can get. Setting the Administrative Options: Scheduled Tasks When the installation is complete, the three customization dialog boxes will open. The second to open is the Administrative Settings dialog box.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon In Dragon Medical, when you are using a medical Vocabulary, the Auto-Formatting dialog box displays multiple tabs (General, Capitalization, Numbers, Units, and Dates, Abbreviations, and Miscellaneous): n n n n n General Tab—Controls general settings like how number, dates and times, and common number related abbreviations are formatted. Also on this tab is the option to spell out (expand) English contractions.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 3. Click OK to save your changes in the current tab, close the Auto-Formatting dialog box, and have the changes take effect. Your changes do not take effect until after you close the dialog box. Nuance recommends that you review these tabs to make appropriate choices for your site.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon Post Installation Tasks Once you have installed or upgraded Dragon, you might want to carry out some of these tasks before you proceed: n n n n Cleaning up after uninstalling Dragon Dragon File Structure Turning off Dragon's use of Microsoft Active Accessibility Service Choosing Medical Vocabulary to Support Your Specialty (Dragon Medical only) Cleaning up after uninstalling Dragon The following files will remain on your computer after you uninstall Dragon NaturallySpeaking o
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Dragon file structure Upgrading from Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.x or 10.x to Dragon 11 will automatically relocate some Dragon NaturallySpeaking directories and files. You can only upgrade from Dragon 9.x or greater to Dragon 11 . The following directory structures and file locations assume an installation to a default location. V9.0/V9.1 Windows 2000/XP Pro/XP Home/Windows Server 2003 directory structure The V9.0/V9.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking9\ \Results V9.5 Windows Vista directory structure The V9.5 directory structure on Windows Vista before upgrading to Dragon 11 : C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking9 \Ereg \Help \Program \Tutorial (optional) C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking9\ \Custom \Data \Data\Training \Users C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking9\ \Results V10 Windows 2000/XP Pro/XP Home/Windows Server 2003 directory structure The V10 directo
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking10 \Ereg \Help \Program \Tutorial (optional) C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking10\ \Custom \Data \Data\Training \Users C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking10\ \Results Dragon 11 Windows XP Pro/XP Home/Windows Server 2003 directory structure The Dragon 11 directory structure on Windows XP Pro/XP Home/Windows Server 2003: C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11 \Ereg \Help \Program \Tutorial (opti
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon \Tutorial (optional) C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\ \Custom \Data \Data\Training \Users C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\ \results 57
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Turning off Dragon's use of Microsoft Active Accessibility Service Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Medical use Microsoft Active Accessibility Service to let you control certain menus and dialog boxes by voice. Without Microsoft Active Accessibility Service, you would be unable to use Dragon to select menu commands and dialog box controls with your voice.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon [MSAA Modules Disabled] winword.exe=1 excel.exe=1 Note: If you do not know the name of an application's executable file, you can start the application from the Windows Start menu and then use the Windows Task Manager to view the list of current Windows applications. The executable names are listed under Image Name on the Processes tab. You can also right-click the application's icon and select the shortcut tab—the Target field will provide the name of the executable.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Choosing a Medical Vocabulary to Support Your Specialty If you are using Dragon Medical, you should know which medical vocabulary supports your specialty, so that you can readily select the correct vocabulary from the list provided. See Using Australian, Indian and Southeast Asian vocabularies in Dragon for information on upgrading User Profiles that contain Australian, Indian, or Southeast Asian acoustic models to Dragon 11 .
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon Specialty Medical Vocabulary to Choose Cardiovascular Disease Internal Medicine Chemical Pathology Pathology 1 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Psychiatry Child Abuse Pediatrics Pediatrics Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Cardiology Critical Care Medicine Anesthesiology or Internal Medicine Dentistry Dentistry Dermatology Dermatology Dermatopathology Pathology 1 DevelopmentalBehavioral Pediatrics Pediatrics Diagnostic Radiology Radiology 1 ENT ENT Ear
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Specialty 62 Medical Vocabulary to Choose Geriatric Psychiatry Psychiatry Hand Surgery Hand Surgery or Plastic Surgery Hematology Hematology Hospice and Palliative Medicine Pain Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, or Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2 Infectious Disease Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Internal Medicine Interventional Cardiology Internal Medicine Medical Education and Writing Medical E
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon Specialty Medical Vocabulary to Choose Nuclear Radiology Radiology 1 Nursing Nursing Obstetrics and Gynecology Obstetrics and Gynecology Oncology Oncology Ophthalmology Ophthalmology Oral and Facial Surgery Oral and Facial Surgery Orthopaedic Surgery Orthopaedic Surgery Osteopathy Osteopathy Otolaryngology ENT Pain Medicine Pain Medicine Pathology Pathology 1 Pediatric Cardiology Pediatric Cardiology Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Pediatrics Pediat
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Specialty 64 Medical Vocabulary to Choose Pediatric Pathology Pathology 1 Pediatric Pulmonology Pediatrics Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2 Pediatric Rheumatology Pediatrics Pediatric Surgery Surgery Pediatric Transplant Hepatology Pediatrics Pediatric Urology Urology Pediatrics Pediatrics Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2 Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgery Plastic Sur
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon Specialty Medical Vocabulary to Choose Spinal Cord Injury Medicine Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2 Sports Medicine Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, or Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Surgery Surgery Thoracic Surgery Thoracic Surgery Transplant Hepatology Internal Medicine Trauma Surgery Surgery Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Emergency Medicine Urology Urology Vascular Surgery Vascular Surgery Vascular and Interventional Radiology Vascular
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Enhancing the privacy of patient data When a user dictates using Dragon Medical, Dragon automatically saves all audio and transcribed text in Dragon Recorded Audio (.DRA) files. If the user corrects any of the dictated text, Dragon automatically stores these corrections in .enwv files. Both these files are saved in the background. These automatically created .DRA and .enwv files are used by Dragon to optimize the User Profile.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon For more information, see the Miscellaneous tab of the Administrative Settings dialog box. Turning on/off creation of .dra patient data files You can choose to turn off creation of the .DRA files containing patient data to further protect the patient's privacy when other security measure are in place, by: n Turning off data collection, which sends data to Nuance for future product improvements.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon This section contains information on how to upgrade Dragon and Roaming User Profiles, as well as how to upgrade third-party Vocabularies. You can update Dragon 9.x and 10.x User Profiles to Dragon 11 or greater.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Upgrading Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Medical An administrator performs the following steps to upgrade a User Profile from Dragon 9.x or 10.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon Upgrading from Dragon 9.x The Dragon 11 installation installs in the Dragon 9.x directories and overwrites the files in those directories. Upgrading from Version 10.x Uninstall Dragon version 10.x before installing Dragon 11 . Edition considerations An administrator must upgrade to the same edition or greater and to the same language. For example, if upgrading from Version 9.1 German/English to Dragon 11 English only, the Dragon 9.1 German User Profiles are not upgraded.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Installing on or Upgrading to Windows Vista and Windows 7 Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Medical Versions 9.5 and higher are compatible with all editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Dragon runs on 32-bit and 64-bit computers for these operating systems. Earlier versions of Dragon (version 8.x, 9.0, 9.1) will not install or run on Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon Upgrading multiple User Profiles You use the User Profile Upgrade Wizard to upgrade a Dragon 9.x or 10.x User Profile to Dragon 11 . There are two ways you can start the User Profile Upgrade Wizard: n n In the Open User profile dialog box, select a User Profile to upgrade. Dragon displays a dialog that gives you the option of upgrading the User Profile now (by pressing OK) or upgrading the User Profile later (by pressing Cancel). If the user selects OK.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Browse to add a profile Opens a Browse for Folder window that you use to locate additional User Profiles for the wizard to upgrade. Remove from list Deletes the User Profile you select from the User Profile Upgrade Wizard. Once you have made a selection, click Next. If you choose to upgrade only one User Profile, the wizard displays the number of minutes the upgrade requires to complete.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon Location for upgraded profile(s) Click the Browse button or select a new destination from the list if you want to choose a destination other than the suggested destination. Advanced Click the Advanced button to open the Advanced Options dialog box where you can change how the wizard upgrades the User Profile. User Profile Upgrade Wizard: Advanced Options The Advanced Options dialog box lets you make finer adjustments to how the wizard upgrades User Profiles.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Setting a new acoustic model for a User Profile When you click on an Acoustic model line in the User profiles to list box, Dragon displays the New Acoustic Model text box. The text box displays the current language (such as US English), language model, and accent of the User Profile. You can choose a new acoustic model from the drop-down list.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon Preparing to upgrade Roaming User Profiles Step 1: Install Dragon 11 on the computer where you upgrade the Dragon 9.x or 10.x Master Roaming User Profiles Nuance recommends that administrators install Dragon 11 on the computer where the Dragon 9.x or 10.x Master Roaming User Profiles are located. If that is not possible, Nuance recommends that administrators install Dragon 11 on a separate computer where they will perform the upgrades.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 User Profiles dialog. Note: You do not need to back up the Roaming User Profiles because the upgrade retains the Dragon 9.x or 10.x User Profiles in a directory that is separate from the Dragon 11 User Profiles. 2. Create a new directory on the shared network drive to store the upgraded Dragon 11 Master Roaming User Profiles.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon Upgrading master Roaming User Profiles You must use the User Profile Upgrade Wizard to upgrade Dragon 9.x or 10.x master Roaming User Profiles to Dragon 11 . Before you proceed with the tasks in this topic, complete the procedure in Preparing to upgrade Roaming User Profiles. After you upgrade the Dragon 9.x or 10.x Master Roaming User Profiles and optionally copy them back to their network location, you can proceed to upgrade your end-user systems that use the Roaming feature.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Continue to add User Profiles from other local locations or use the Remove from list button to remove specific User Profiles. Click Next to continue.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon 3. If you choose to upgrade only one User Profile, the wizard displays the number of minutes the upgrade requires to complete the upgrade. 4. If you upgrade a UK User Profile, the wizard displays a page that lets you select a region for the profile. 5. On the Choose where to store the upgraded profile(s) page, in the Location for upgraded profile(s) text box, choose the local location you previously created to contain the upgrade Dragon 11 master Roaming User Profiles.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 rect location, and click Next. 6. The Begin profile upgrading page displays the number of User Profiles that the wizard is prepared to upgrade. Click Begin upgrading to start the upgrade process. The upgrade process can take 2-3 minutes or more per User Profile, depending on the speed of the computer system and the speed of the network. Click Stop at any time to interrupt this process.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon An administrator can optionally rename or remove the Dragon 9.x or 10.x master Roaming User Profiles through the Manage User Profiles dialog box. Step 3: Copy the Dragon 11 Master Roaming User Profiles to their network location (Optional) If you were unable to install Dragon 11 where you store the Dragon 9.x or 10.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Upgrading multiple User Profiles You use the User Profile Upgrade Wizard to upgrade a Dragon 9.x or 10.x User Profile to Dragon 11 . There are two ways you can start the User Profile Upgrade Wizard: n n In the Open User profile dialog box, select a User Profile to upgrade. Dragon displays a dialog that gives you the option of upgrading the User Profile now (by pressing OK) or upgrading the User Profile later (by pressing Cancel). If the user selects OK.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon Browse to add a profile Opens a Browse for Folder window that you use to locate additional User Profiles for the wizard to upgrade. Remove from list Deletes the User Profile you select from the User Profile Upgrade Wizard. Once you have made a selection, click Next. If you choose to upgrade only one User Profile, the wizard displays the number of minutes the upgrade requires to complete.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Location for upgraded profile(s) Click the Browse button or select a new destination from the list if you want to choose a destination other than the suggested destination. Advanced Click the Advanced button to open the Advanced Options dialog box where you can change how the wizard upgrades the User Profile. User Profile Upgrade Wizard: Advanced Options The Advanced Options dialog box lets you make finer adjustments to how the wizard upgrades User Profiles.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon Setting a new acoustic model for a User Profile When you click on an Acoustic model line in the User profiles to list box, Dragon displays the New Acoustic Model text box. The text box displays the current language (such as US English), language model, and accent of the User Profile. You can choose a new acoustic model from the drop-down list. After you modify the information for each User Profile in the list box, click OK to return to the wizard, and click Next to proceed.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Step 1: Export custom words added to the custom vocabulary If you added any additional custom words to the vocabulary created by a third party, you must first export those words. To export custom words: n On the DragonBar menu, select Vocabulary > Export custom word and phrase list This action displays the Export Custom Words dialog box.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon 4. In the Manage Vocabularies dialog box, select the vocabulary you want to export and then export it. 5. Locate and open the target folder, enter a name for the exported vocabulary in the File Name box, and then save it. 6. In the Manage Vocabularies dialog box, click or say "Close" to save and close it. Note: Exporting a vocabulary creates a copy of the four files that make up the vocabulary in the new location.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) This section provides information on using MSI files to install Dragon over a network, modifying Roaming User and other options, using .ini file to install Dragon with a specific configuration, creating and using MST files to install Dragon, installing Dragon from a command-line using natspeak.exe or msiexec.exe, upgrading Dragon and Roaming User Profiles from the command-line, and other related topics.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 92 Modifying Default Installation Directory 137 Configuring Installation of Product Updates 138 Suppressing Reboot of the computer After Installation 139 Installing the same Roaming User Profile Configuration on Additional computer(s) 140 Revising Day/Time of Scheduled Tasks (Optional) 141 Configuring Local or On-Demand Install of Vocabularies/Text-to-Speech (Optional) 143 Upgrading Your Dragon Installation from the Command Line 145 Step-by-Step Process
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Overview of Installing Dragon using the Windows Installer (MSI) Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Medical include a native Windows Installer (MSI) that lets you customize your installations as well as install across a network to multiple client computers. In addition, you use this service to modify, repair, or remove any existing installations.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 n SDK Server Edition (DSS): Dragon SDK Server Edition 10.msi You can double click on one of these .msi files to start the InstallShield Wizard; however, to instead take advantage of available command line options, you can pass the file name as the application to install to the msiexec.exe command using the /i option: msiexec.exe /i "Dragon NaturallySpeaking11.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Overview of the Network Installation of Dragon from a Server Overview of Pushing Client Installation from a Server You can push a Dragon installation to client computers on a network and avoid having to install Dragon separately on each computer. Dragon includes a native Windows Installer (MSI) that lets you both install across a network to multiple client computers and customize your installations.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Overview of Alternative Ways to Carry Out Administrative Installation Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Medical include a native Windows Installer (MSI) that lets you install across a network to multiple client computers and customize your installation in the process. In addition, you can use this service to modify, repair, or remove any existing installations.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Modifying Roaming User Profile, Miscellaneous, Schedule Settings in the INI File Suppose you have a large installation that involves several departments. Three departments require one group of configure settings and two others require modifications. After you complete the installation on the three departments requiring the same configuration, you might want to edit your configuration files before using them on the additional two departments.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 In the Roaming, Miscellaneous, and Schedule tabs of the Administrative Settings dialog box, you set default values for the Roaming User options in the table below. The default values are then written to the nsdefaults.ini file, the roamingdef.ini file, and the roaminguser.ini file. After the MSI installation is finished, you can use the nsdefaults.ini file, the roamingdef.ini file, and the roaming.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Option Description and UI equivalent Roaming User Incorporate Voc Delta=0 (or 1) When the vocdelta.dat file reaches 90% of its maximum size (1000 KB, or 1 GB), incorporates the contents of the local vocdelta.dat file into the master Roaming User Profiles (acoustic model for the User Profile), without running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Option Description and UI equivalent Default 0 = Off. Nuance recommends you set this option to 1. Same as the Roaming Tab - Set audio levels on each machine option. Roaming ASW Override =0 (or 1) Runs a Volume and Quality Check on the microphone each time you open a Roaming User Profile. Set to 1 if the Roaming feature is enabled and ASW Override is 1. ASW Override and Roaming ASW Override should always have the same setting.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Option Description and UI equivalent locations. The contains the names of an individual master Roaming User Profile. Default 0 = Off.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Option Description and UI equivalent Data Distribution Tool or the nsadmin command. The Data Distribution directory can be set to any directory that Windows has read and write access to. This includes portable devices such as Zip drives and CD/DVD burners. In enterprise installations, the Data Distribution directory is likely set to mapped network drives and UNC paths. Same as the Miscellaneous Tab - Data Distribution location option.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Editing Miscellaneous and Scheduled Task Settings in nsdefaults.ini File Of the settings in the nsdefaults.ini file retrieved from the Administrative Settings dialog box, several settings are from the Miscellaneous and Scheduled Tasks tabs of the dialog box. You can modify the following settings in the nsdefaults.ini file: Options AO Archive Time Limit Description Maximum audio archive size in minutes. The same option in the options.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Options 104 Description UI Current Status Ctfmngr=0 (or 1) Turns on or off Windows advanced text services. Turning off these services prevents conflict between them and Dragon. Disable Windows advanced text services No Dictation=0 or 1 When No Dictation is on (set to 1) the user cannot dictate, but can only correct dictation; used to designate a user as a transcriptionist.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Options Description UI able to dictate with those commands, even when not allowed to modify them. enx ACO uses Auto Accent AM selection=0 or 1. When set to 1, the Acoustic Optimizer engine can automatically select an acoustic model that it believes is more suited to your speech. To avoid having this switch occur, set the option to 0.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Options Description UI collects data to help improve speech recognition in the future. The process sends the data to Nuance over the Internet, but does not send any personal information - it collects recorded dictation and the corresponding text. Collecting data for Nuance is optional. 106 Allow Users to Optimize=0 or 1 When set to 1, turns on a process that automatically runs an optimization process on speech recognition for the currently open User Profile.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Understanding Network and Connection Settings in roamingdef.ini File Although you cannot edit the roamingdef.ini file because it is encrypted, you should know that the following information is in the file. You can modify these settings through the Administrative Settings dialog only.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Options Description and UI proxy Use Proxy Server check box. Set if checked. proxyserver Network Location. URL to the web server. firewalltype Type. Type of firewall represented by a number. firewallhost Server. Name of server for the firewall. firewallport=1080 Port. Port used by the proxy server or firewall. 1080 is the default. firewalluser Username. Login name of the admin user who can access the firewall. firewallpassword Password.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Carrying Out an Administrative Installation with .bat File A straightforward way to install Dragon from the command line to a server is to carry out an administrative installation using a .bat file. Caution: Only advanced users should attempt any type of administrative Installation. Note: A script for carrying out a full administrative installation, including installation of Visual C++ Runtime for Dragon, is provided in the admininstall.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 To install Visual C++ Runtime for Dragon, the script uses the full path to vcruntime.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) echo Installing Dragon NaturallySpeaking... setup.exe /a /s /v"/qb TARGETDIR=%NETWORK_DNS_DIR% /L*v %TEMP%\admininstall.log" When the installation of Dragon succeeds or fails, the batch file displays an appropriate message. The remainder of the file handles errors and cases where bad arguments are passed on the command line. Modifying admininstall.bat You can modify the admininstall.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Install Dragon on an initial computer and choose the default settings Before you proceed, you should be familiar with installing the product on a single computer from the DVD. For more information, see Installing, modifying and upgrading Dragon. The initial installation is used to set default values for the Administrative, User and Auto-Formatting options. These options can then be used to install on other computers using the same values.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Extracting MSI/MST Files from the Dragon setup.exe Some minor release of Dragon, Service Pack 1 of Dragon 10 for example, do not include a .MSI file, they are supplied with a setup.exe. You can carry out an administrative installation using setup.exe, as follows: n n Create a server image of Dragon files for later installing clients. You create the image by executing setup.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Option Description instead of a normal installation. This option is required when trying to extract the .msi files. An administrative installation installs a source image of the application onto the network. The image is similar to a source image on a CD or DVD. Users in the workgroup who have access can then install the product over the network from this source image. /v"" Passes msiexec options to Windows Installer.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Option Description TARGETDIR=”C:\xyz” Use with administrative installations only. Indicates the full path to where to install the image of Dragon.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Using .MSI/.MST Files for Custom Installations Example Using .MST files you can tailor the MSI installation without changing the setup.exe file that Nuance provides. Note: When you install Dragon 11 , Dragon installs using the primary language for the product. You cannot install Dragon using a language that is different than the primary language. For example, when you install Dragon 11 , Professional - English version, Dragon installs using the English language.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) 2. Copy the vcruntime files to your server or to another accessible location. These .exe files install Visual C++ Runtime for Dragon. Run vcruntime.exe on each 32-bit computer where you intend to install Dragon and vcruntime_x64.exe on each 64-bit computer. Caution: Do not attempt to extract the .msi file from either vcruntime.exe or vcruntime_ x64.exe. Installing the Visual C++ Runtime for Dragon as part of an msiexec.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Installation using the Dragon installation process Perform the following steps to use the user interface of the Dragon installation process: 1. Insert the product DVD in the DVD drive. If the installation does not start, run setup.exe from the DVD. 2. Choose the Custom installation with appropriate languages and vocabularies. 3. Choose the Custom installation with appropriate vocabularies. 4.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Profiles). You can find these .ini files under C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\. These .ini files are now considered customized files, because they now they contain the custom settings that will be applied to each of the DNS client installations you deploy. Retrieve the nsdefaults.ini and roamingdef.ini files and copy them to a directory where you can access them from the other client computers.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Install the Same Configuration on Additional computers Note: If you chose Enable Desktop Search Commands on the Commands tab during the initial installation, you must install Google Desktop or Microsoft Vista Search before you install Dragon; otherwise, that option does not take effect.. 1. Be sure you can access the .
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) You include the bolded portion of the above command lines so that if something goes wrong during the installation, you receive messages about it. You pass /L and a series of sub-options followed by a log file name to have the installation log errors and other messages related to the process. (You can send the log file to technical support should any issues arise.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Creating Custom Installation Using Microsoft Custom Install Wizard If you are installing Dragon on a network, you can create a custom installation program using a set of tools available from Microsoft. 1. Download and install the tools 2. Run the wizard You are then ready to use the custom installer to install the product. Installing the Microsoft Custom Installation Wizard The Microsoft Custom Installation Wizard is part of the Microsoft Office Resource Kit Tools.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) 2. Click Next. 3. On the Open the MSI File page of the wizard, shown below, select the .MSI file you want to use to create a custom installation. The compiled .MSI file is located on your installation CD. The files are named: n Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Medical: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.msi n Dragon SDK Client Edition (DSC): Dragon SDK Client Edition11.msi n Dragon SDK Server Edition (DSS): Dragon SDK Server Edition11.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 4. The following example uses Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.msi. 5. Click Next. 6. Click Yes when you see the following message: 7. On the Open the MST File page of the wizard, select Create a new MST file. 8. Click Next to continue. 9.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) 10. Click Next. 11. On the Specify a Default Path and Organization page, select the default path for the installation. By default, Dragon installs in \Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 12. Click Next. 13. On the Remove Previous Versions page, keep the default selections and click Next. This page applies only to Microsoft Office and does not affect the Dragon installation. 14. Click Next to keep all the defaults when you come to the Set Features Installation States page, where you select particular components to install.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) ical vocabularies you might choose: 15. On the next several pages of the wizard, click Next on each, and proceed until you reach the Modify Setup Properties page. All the pages in between apply only to Microsoft Office or do not affect the Dragon SDK Client Edition installation.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 16. Use the Modify Setup Properties page, shown below, to add, modify, and set the MSI options of your custom installation. 17. Click the Add... button to display the Add/Modify Property Value dialog box, where you modify the MSI installation options. In this example, we add and set the SERIALNUMBER option. 18. In the following Add/Modify Property Value page, enter the new property name SERIALNUMBER and a valid serial number, then click OK: 19.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) 21. On the Save Changes page, click Finish. 22. When the Custom Installation Wizard page appears, click Exit. This screen displays the location of Windows Installer transform (.MST file) that you created. After you save changes, you can use the resulting .MST file to manage an installation through a Group Policy in Active Directory Services. You are now ready to use the custom installer you created to install the product.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Installation using the Dragon command line When you install Dragon 11 , Dragon installs using the primary language for the product. You cannot install Dragon using a language that is different than the primary language. For example, when you install Dragon 11 , Professional - English version, Dragon installs using the English language. If you attempt to use the /l option with setup.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Logging errors and other messages Sub-options for /L indicate the types of messages to send to the log: Sub-option Message type sent to log file i Status messages w Nonfatal warnings e All error messages a Start up actions r Action-specific records u User requests c Initial UI parameters m Out-of-memory or fatal exit information o Out-of-disk-space messages p Terminal properties v Verbose output x Extra debugging info (
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 4. Enter the following natspeak command: natspeak.exe /setdefaultsoptions 5. When the Options dialog box appears, select the default options that should apply to all client installations and click OK. This dialog box is where you set up all the options under the various tabs (Correction, Command, and so on). In Dragon Medical, you can also program custom actions into the buttons on the PowerMic I and PowerMic II microphones.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) 8. Enter a final natspeak command: natspeak.exe /setdefaultadministrativeoptions 9.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 All Users.WINDOWS, or administrator, or any other Documents and Settings sub-folders for other users on this workstation until you locate the nsdefaults.ini file. It’s possible that the workstation was configured so that a different “user” folder is the default for application data for Nuance and other applications. These .
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Natspeak.exe command line reference You can use command line options to modify the way that Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Medical starts up. These switches are used in the following syntax: natspeak /switch where /switch is one or more switches from table below (each switch is a single word without spaces or hyphens): Switch Function /diagnose Runs Dragon in diagnostic mode to output info to Dragon.log file and exits.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Other Actions You Can Take on Command Line Here are other (optional) actions you can take on the command line as part of a silent installation: Note: In Dragon 11 , the installation process does not present the QuickStart option. If you wish to enable this option, you can do so after Dragon is installed.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Modifying Default Installation Directory If you want to set an installation directory other than the default, pass INSTALLDIR="" on the command line (note that the quotation marks are required only if you have spaces in the path): setup.exe /s /v"SERIALNUMBER=#####-###-####-####-## DEFAULTSINI=\"C:\\nsdefaults.ini\" INSTALLDIR=\"C:\\Dragon11\" /L*v C:\Logs\logfile.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Configuring Installation of Product Updates If you want the individual client computer to download product updates to Dragon over the web, you would set the PRODUCTUPDATEFLAG option to 1 (option checks the check box). If you prefer to install the updates on the servers and later distribute them to client computers, set this option to 0 (unchecks the check box).
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Suppressing Reboot of the computer After Installation To suppress rebooting of the computer after installation of Dragon completes, you can pass Microsoft's REBOOT option set to ReallySuppress. Using this option also suppresses the reboot sometimes required by the installation of Visual C++ Runtime for Dragon, which setup.exe installs in the background.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Installing the same Roaming User Profile Configuration on Additional computer(s) Use the roamingdef.ini file you created during the initial installation as the input for the ROAMINGUSERINI option in this format (be sure to use the full path to the file when you pass the option): ROAMINGUSERINI=\"C:\\roamingdef.ini\" The default is empty (no .ini file will be used). Include the ROAMINGUSERINI option in the installation command line: setup.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Revising Day/Time of Scheduled Tasks (Optional) This section describes how to modify the schedule for Dragon tasks to later take place on each dictation client computer by passing particular options in a command line installation. This section is a continuation of Installation using the Dragon command line. When you finish this section, you might want to proceed to Configuring Local or On-Demand Install of Vocabularies/Text-toSpeech (Optional).
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 setup.exe /s /v"SERIALNUMBER=#####-###-####-####-## DEFAULTSINI=\"C:\\nsdefaults.ini\" INSTALLDIR=\"C:\\Dragon11\" ROAMINGUSERINI=\"C:\\roamingdef.ini\" PERIODIC_TASK="aco|lmo;admin;pswd;Mon, 01:00|Mon, 06:00" /L*v C:\Logs\logfile.log /qn" For more information on the PERIODIC_TASK option, refer to MSI Options for Roaming User Profile, Tuning, and Data Collection Setup.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Configuring Local or On-Demand Install of Vocabularies/Text-toSpeech (Optional) This section describes how to enable Roaming User Profiles in a command line installation and is a continuation of Installation using the Dragon command line. Note: You take the following actions on the client computer where you want to install Dragon, not on the computer where you carry out the initial installation.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 name of the vocabulary, such as ENU for English and Cardiology to form ENUCardiology. For a list of the exact names for features/vocabularies you can assign to ADDLOCAL or ADVERTISE on the command line, refer to MSI Options for Installing Dragon Features/Advanced Options.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Upgrading Your Dragon Installation from the Command Line There are two command line upgrade scenarios: n n Major Upgrade—Upgrading from Version 9, 9.x, 10, or 10.x to Dragon 11 Minor Upgrade—Upgrading to a higher point release within the same edition and version of Dragon. For example, upgrading from Dragon 11.0 to Dragon 11.x.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 n n n Even though the Dragon 11 User Profile Upgrade Wizard supports both mapped drives and UNC paths, Nuance strongly recommends upgrading the Master Roaming User Profiles on a drive on a computer where Dragon 11 is locally installed. Nuance does not recommend upgrading the Master Roaming User Profiles across a network to either a mapped drive or UNC path; upgrading over a network will take a undetermined length of time.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Step-by-Step Process for Upgrading Roaming User Profiles 1. Plan to upgrade the master Roaming User Profiles at a time when they are not being opened by end users, for example during the night or on a weekend. Nuance recommends backing-up User Profiles before upgrading them. 2. Install Dragon 11 on the computer where the Dragon 9.x or 10.x Master Roaming User Profiles are located.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 7. On the administrator system where you upgrade the Master Roaming profiles to Dragon 11 , start Dragon 11 and make sure the Roaming feature is turned off. To turn off the Roaming feature: n Close any open User Profiles. n Click Tools > Administrative Settings on the menu to display the Administrative Settings dialog box. n On the Roaming tab, make sure Enable is not selected. 8. Close Dragon. 9. On the computer where both the 9.x or 10.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) 11. If you choose to upgrade only one User Profile, the wizard displays the number of minutes the upgrade requires to complete the upgrade. 12. If you upgrade a UK User Profile, the wizard displays a page that lets you select a region for the profile. 13.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 find the correct location, and click Next. 14. The Begin profile upgrading page displays the number of User Profiles that the wizard is prepared to upgrade. Click Begin upgrading to start the upgrade process. The upgrade process can take 2-3 minutes or more per User Profile, depending on the speed of the computer system and the speed of the network. Click Stop at any time to interrupt this process.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) If upgrading from Dragon version 8.x or earlier to Dragon 11 , Dragon 8.x or earlier custom words and commands can be re-used in Dragon 11 : 1. In Dragon 8.x or earlier, export the custom words and commands 2. In Dragon 11 , create a new User Profile 3. In Dragon 11 , import the custom words and commands See the Dragon Help for information on exporting and importing custom words and commands.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Major and Minor Upgrades: Silent Upgrade To upgrade from Dragon Version 10.x to Dragon Version 11 (major upgrade), you can use either msiexec.exe or setup.exe. You can carry out this installation with a GUI or silently. The procedure presented here shows how to upgrade silently using msiexec.exe. Note: A Minor upgrade involves upgrading to a higher point release within the same edition and version of Dragon. For example, upgrading from Dragon 11.0 to Dragon 11.x.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Step-by-Step Upgrade Process You must follow these steps to set options for your users: 1. If you are upgrading from a previous version of Dragon, copy the nsdefaults.ini and roamingdef.ini files to a central location so they can accessed later. 2. Open a command line window (Start > Run and enter cmd). 3. Uninstall Dragon Version 10.x with msiexec.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 %TEMP%\vcruntime.log" If you are installing Version 10 rather than Version 10.x or 11, you have only the 32-bit version and use a slightly different path: ISSetupPrerequisites\{1FAD9007-0FF1-4B05-B7CE-ADE12FB7DEC5}\vcruntime.exe /S /v"qn /l*v %TEMP%\vcruntime.log" 10. If you are performing a minor upgrade, skip this step. If you are performing a major upgrade from Dragon 9.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) /L*v "C:\logfile.log" /qn Caution: If you do not pass the REINSTALL and REINSTALLMODE options, the minor upgrade will fail.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Using setup.exe for Upgrades When installing both major and minor upgrades, the setup.exe installer automatically installs Visual C++ Runtime for Dragon before installing Dragon. Note: A Minor upgrade involves upgrading to a higher point release within the same edition and version of Dragon. For example, upgrading from Dragon 11.0 to Dragon 11.x.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Step-by-Step Command Line Installation with msiexec.exe Another way to install Dragon from the command line on several dictation client computers is to use the msiexec.exe program from Microsoft. You are required to use msiexec.exe instead of setup.exe if you are installing Dragon from a server across a network to a single or multiple computers.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 3. Be sure all mapped drives you plan to use are mapped on individual client computers where you are distributing the installation. 4. Install any pending Windows updates/reboot the computer. 5. Open a command line window by selecting Start > Run and entering cmd. 6. Insert the product DVD in the DVD drive and search the DVD for the path where the Dragon setup.exe file is located. 7. In the command window, switch to the ISSetupPrerequisites\VCRuntime\ directory inside
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Notes: n n For an administrative installation, you pass the /a option to msiexec rather than the /i option. You also need to pass the TARGETDIR option instead of the INSTALLDIR option. The first time you test this installation, you should pass /q rather than /qn so that if you have neglected to provide information about a setting that does not have a default, you receive a prompt asking for that information.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Additional Options for Installations with msiexec.exe Note: In Dragon 11 , the installation process does not present the QuickStart option. If you wish to enable this option, you can do so after Dragon is installed.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Additional Options for Silent Installations Note: In Dragon 11 , the installation process does not present the QuickStart option. If you wish to enable this option, you can do so after Dragon is installed.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 INSTALLDIR="C:\\Dragon11" PRODUCTUPDATEFLAG=-1 /L*v "C:\Logs\logfile.log" /qn Suppressing Reboot of computer After Installation To suppress rebooting of the computer after installation of Dragon completes, you can pass Microsoft's REBOOT option set to ReallySuppress. Using this option also suppresses the reboot sometimes required by the installation of Visual C++ Runtime for Dragon, which setup.exe installs in the background.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Optionally include the ROAMINGUSERINI option in the installation command line. If you do not use this property, default settings are assumed. msiexec /i "Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.msi" SERIALNUMBER=#####-###-####-####-## DEFAULTSINI="C:\\nsdefaults.ini" INSTALLDIR="C:\\Dragon11" ROAMINGUSERINI="C:\\roamingdef.ini" /L*v "C:\nuanceLogs\logfile.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 DEFAULTSINI="C:\\nsdefaults.ini" INSTALLDIR="C:\\Dragon11" PRODUCTUPDATEFLAG=-1 REBOOT=ReallySuppress ADDLOCAL=NatSpeak,ENUMedical /L*v "C:\Logs\logfile.log" /qn Separate the features/vocabularies for ADDLOCAL with commas, but do not put spaces in the list. The names you must use for the vocabularies consist of a prefix for the language, then the name of the vocabulary, such as ENU for English and Cardiology to form ENUCardiology.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) msiexec /i "Dragon NaturallySpeaking11.msi" REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vamus /qn The vemus options: v indicates to reinstall from the source (reupdating cache), e indicates to install the newer file if one is available, mu means to rewrite the registry settings, and s means to reinstall all shortcuts and re-cache all icons.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 REBOOT=ReallySuppress WEBREGISTRATION=1 /L*v "C:\Logs\logfile.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) MSI Options Specific to Dragon This section describes the fundamental msiexec.exe options that apply to Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Medical.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Options Description Install Dragon on a computer with Windows administrator privileges. Set options in the Options and Administrative Settings dialog boxes as required in your environment and save them by closing Dragon. Copy the nsdefaults.ini file created by this installation of Dragon to a separate location. By default, the nsdefaults.ini is located in: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\ Use the copied nsdefaults.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Options QUICKSTART=0 (or 1) Description Set the default state of Enable QuickStart Mode check box to enable QuickStart and to create shortcut for Dragon in the Windows Startup folder. A value of 0/1 will turn check box off/on, respectively. SETDEFAULTS=0 (or 1) If set to 1, sets the default state of Modify the application’s settings for all users check box to display the Options dialog box at the end of the installation.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Options Description the end of the installation. The Auto-Formatting dialog box lets you set up visual formats for the output of the recognized text, including standard abbreviations and other preferences. Applies only if your installation displays the Installation Wizard. A value of 0/1 will turn check box off/on accordingly. With SETFORMATTINGS=1, no dialogs display during installation if /qn is used for Quiet mode installation.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) MSI Options for Installing Dragon Features/Advanced Options This section describes additional msiexec.exe options that apply to Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Medical. Although these options are for msiexec.exe, they are also available for setup.exe if you use them with the /v“ option. Other options are listed under: n n n Summary: MSI Windows Installer Options Summary: MSI Options Specific to Dragon.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Options Description If you set the REINSTALL property, you should also set the REINSTALLMODE property, to indicate the type of reinstall to be performed. If the REINSTALLMODE property is not set, then by default all files that are currently installed are reinstalled only if the currently installed file is an earlier version (or is not present). By default, no registry entries are rewritten.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) o — Reinstall if the file is missing or is an older version. e — Reinstall if the file is missing or is an equal or older version. d — Reinstall if the file is missing or a different version is present. c — Reinstall only files whose checksums are missing or corrupt. a — Force all files to be reinstalled, regardless of checksum or version.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 MSI Options for Roaming User Profile, Tuning, and Data Collection Setup This section summarizes the Roaming User Profile, acoustic/language model tuning, and data collection options for command line installations of Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Medical.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Default Schedules Acoustic model optimization (ACO) — Mon, 02:00 Language model optimization (LMO) — Every day, 03:00 Data collection (DC) — Fri, 01:00 Examples of PERIODIC_TASK Settings A string setting this option to perform an acoustic model optimization every Monday at 1 AM and a language model optimization the same day at 4 AM is (notice the comma between the day of the week and the time): PERIODIC_TASK="aco|lmo;admin;pswd;Mon, 01:00|Mon,
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Set the ROAMINGUSERINI option to the name of the roamingdef.ini file. The default is empty (no .ini file will be used). To set these options using ROAMINGUSERINI, the Roaming feature must be enabled in the nsdefaults.ini file.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Feature Variables to Set Through the ADDLOCAL or ADVERTISE Properties When specifying features on the command line: If a feature does not exist in a particular edition or language, overriding its default property has no effect. Some features (such as Text-to-Speech) have sub-features.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Feature Sub-feature Tutorial TutDEU (German Tutorial ) TutENX (English Tutorial ) TutESP (Spanish Tutorial ) TutFRA (French Tutorial ) TutITA (Italian Tutorial ) TutNLD (Dutch Tutorial ) Speech ENX (Eng- Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Medical: Sub-features for ENU (US English) The ENU sub-feature includes support for the following accents: lish)— ENU (US English) ENULegal (US English Legal Large) ENUGeneral (US English General Medium, US English Empty Dictation
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Feature Sub-feature ENUGeneralPractice ( US English Large Family Medicine, Allergy and Immunology, Dermatology, Epidemiology, Geriatric, Hematology, Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Medical Education and Writing, Nephrology, Nursing, Osteopathy, Pulmonary Disease, Rheumatology, Sleep Lab) ENUMedical ( US English General Medical Large—No Specialty) ENUMentalHealth ( US English Large Medical Addiction Psychiatry; Endocrinology, Diabetes, a
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Feature Sub-feature n n n Speech ENX ( English)— ENG (UK English) Dragon Medical:Subfeatures for ENG (UK English): ENGCardiology ( UK English Cardiology Large) ENGEmergency ( UK English Emergency Large) ENGGastroenterology ( UK English Gastroenterology Large) ENGGeneralPractice ( UK English General Practice Large) ENGMedical ( UK English Medical Large — No Specialty) ENGMentalHealth ( UK English Mental Health Large) ENGNeurology ( UK English Neurology Large) Speec
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Feature Sub-feature Dragon Medical OnlySub-features for NLD (Dutch): NLDCardiology (Dutch Cardiology) NLDGeneralPractice (Dutch General Practice) NLDMedical (Dutch Medical Large) NLDOrthopaedics (Dutch Orthopaedics Large) Speech—FRA ( French) Sub-features for FRA (French): FRAGeneral (French General Large, French Empty Dictation General Large) Speech— ESP (Spanish) NLDPathology (Dutch Pathology Large) NLDPediatrics (Dutch Pediatrics) NLDRa
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Installing Visual C++ Runtime for Dragon Caution: Before you carry out an installation of Dragon using msiexec.exe, you must install Visual C++ Runtime for Dragon on every dictation client computer. You can install it one of the following ways: n n n Use the Dragon setup.exe on the command line, which automatically installs vcruntime.exe for you. Include a vcruntime.exe command line in your admininstall.bat script (see Carrying Out an Administrative Installation).
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) See Overview of Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) for more information on pushing MSI installations and using MSI files from a command prompt. Using an MSI file to install the Visual C++ Runtime from a command line You can use the Visual C++ 9.0 Runtime for Dragon NaturallySpeaking.msi file to install the C++ Runtime from a command line. From a command line, pass the MSI file name as the application to install to the msiexec.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles This section describes how to set up, configure, and enable the Roaming feature on client computers. This section also provides information on how to create, dictate with, and upgrade Roaming User profiles.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 186 Converting a non-roaming local User Profile into a Roaming User Profile 233 Dictating with a Roaming User Profile 234 Opening a Roaming User Profile 235 Using multiple dictation sources with a single User Profile 236 Running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer for Roaming User Profiles 237 Controlling user access to other user's profiles 239 Configuring Internet Information Services and WebDAV for HTTP Roaming 242 Configuring Internet Informati
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Setting up the Roaming feature The Roaming feature lets users dictate with Dragon from different network locations and on different computers without having to create and train individual User Profiles at each location. The Roaming feature works by storing User Profiles in a central network location so that the information Dragon learns from a user dictating on one computer is also available on other computers.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Topic Link Enabling Roaming User Profiles as part of an MSI installation 188 Enabling Roaming User profiles for an MSI installation
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Overview of the Roaming feature The Roaming feature lets users dictate with Dragon from different network locations and on different computers without having to create and train individual User Profiles at each location.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 n n n amount to no more than a few KB of data, as opposed to roughly 25 MB of data if the entire User Profile is opened and closed over the network. Allow the user to use Dragon even if the network directory is unavailable. In that case, Dragon opens the local copy of the Roaming User Profile. Give the administrator precise control over where users can put User Profiles.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles On each PC, you can configure any number of Roaming User Profile locations. Make sure you give each Roaming User Profile location a display name that makes it clear to your users which location to choose from. Controlling user access to other user's profiles If you have multiple Dragon users on an end-user workstation, those users will have multiple User Profilexs to choose from in Dragon's Open User Profile dialog box.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 particular workstation. Make a copy of the Dragon icon for each user, and place the parameter /user ″user name″ on the natspeak.exe command line. In Dragon 11 , you can display and view groups of User Profiles in a tree-style structure. See "Open User Profiles dialog box optimized for Roaming" in Dragon version 11 - What's New for administrators for more information.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles n If you connected to your Roaming User Profile Master Directory over HTTP and you find that the Open User Profile dialog box does not display all the vocabularies and acoustic models for your User Profiles, make sure that you: l Add all file extensions within your Master Roaming User Profile directories and sub-directories to the Registered MIME types list of your IIS server. You could also add a wildcard ( .*) MIME-type.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Setting up the Roaming feature When setting up the Roaming feature, note the following: n n n n n Creating a network storage location for the Master Roaming User Profiles Where to install and configure Dragon Storage space required for the Master and Local Roaming User Profiles Synchronizing Master and Local Roaming User Profiles Estimating Network traffic caused by synchronization Note: To enable the Roaming feature and set the Roaming User Profile options, you must
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Creating a network storage location for the Master Roaming User Profiles For any installation of Dragon, you must first determine where on the network the Master Roaming User Profiles should be located. Dragon lets you store your Master Roaming User Profiles on: n n n n Any networked computer. You are not strictly required to store Master Roaming User Profiles on a server.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 What you'll need to know to configure your local Roaming User Profiles After you have chosen the type of computer to store the Master Roaming User Profiles, you should determine the following information so that you configure your local copies of Dragon to connect to a mapped or shared drive: Mapped Drives UNC paths Using a HTTP or HTTPS web server If you choose to use a HTTP or HTTPS web server, the Roaming feature supports the following types of locations for your M
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles n n The network location: You need to know the URL address of your HTTP server. For more information, see XXXXX. HTTP settings: For your http (or https) connection you need to know authentication, firewall, and proxy server information. For more information, see HTTP Settings.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 /WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/cd3e6b8e-b497-4b8c-b55283a2c180cd32.mspx?mfr=true . l 198 Check that no files in your User Profile directory are locked, password protected, or otherwise access-restricted by your server permissions.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Where to install and configure Dragon Installing Dragon where you plan to dictate using the Roaming feature Dragonmust be installed each computer where you plan to have users dictating with Roaming User Profiles. Installing Dragon on the same computer as your Master Roaming User Profiles Nuance recommends that you install Dragon on the same computer where the Master Roaming User Profiles for your network are located.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 n n n 200 Upgrading Roaming User Profiles: Overview for information how to upgrade Roaming User Profiles from Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Medical 9.x or 10.x to Version 11. The Installation Guide that came with your copy of Dragon for information on installing Dragon on a single computer The System Administrator's Guide for information on how to use MSI to install or upgrade Dragon on multiple computers.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Storage space required for the Master and Local Roaming User Profiles Adequate storage space must be available for User Profiles that store information about each particular user’s speech patterns. You need to plan for storage space on: n n Each computer where you plan to have users dictating with a Roaming User Profile. The network accessible central computer or computers where Master Roaming User Profiles are stored.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 require the following: n n n 25 MB for each set of Roaming User Profiles.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles How Dragon Synchronizes Master and Local Roaming User Profiles When a user that uses a Roaming User Profile exits Dragon, switches User Profiles, closes a User Profile, or saves a User Profile, Dragon saves changes to the Local Roaming User Profile and then synchronizes these changes with the Master Roaming User Profiles on the network. In a networked situation, this occurs at the time one of these operations is performed.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 l l l n On the Miscellaneous tab: l l n Voice enable menus and dialog controls option Launch Dragon in QuickStart mode when Windows starts option On other tabs of Options dialog box: l l n Conserve disk space required by user profile option Create usability log option in the Advanced dialog box Incremental adaptation in general training option All the options on the Playback/Text-to-speech tab All the options on the Hot keys tab Settings in the Auto-Formatting
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles File name or type Copied or updated with the master Roaming User Profile Copied or updated to local cache Acoustic archive created for each dictation session: acarchive.nwv (encryption disabled), acarchive.enwv (encryption enabled) Copied to session folder if it exists; once master voice_container limit is reached, nothing more is copied. The local copy is deleted and a zero-length file is created. Never Audio.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 In Dragon 11 , a user can set the Save Acoustic information option to control if Dragon saves the .usr and .sig files on each computer they dictate on. See "Controlling updates to the acoustic components of a User Profile" in Dragon version 11 - What's New for administrators for more information. Backups It is the responsibility of your local administrator to backup the Master Roaming User Profiles.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Estimating Network traffic caused by synchronization The following table explains how and when individual files are copied or updated to the master Roaming User Profile or to the local cache when the Master and Local Roaming User Profiles are synchronized and how much data is transferred in the process. In addition, this table which option controls whether the data is transferred.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Files copied to the Master Roaming User Profile Acoustic archive created for each dictation session: acarchive.nwv, acarchive.enwv Files copied to the Transfer Direction Local Roaming User & Data Amount Profile 240 MB <------ User Action: Dictation, Correction Transfer time: Copied to session folder if it exists. Once master voice_container limit is reached, nothing more is copied. Copy only happens after saving or closing a User Profile.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Files copied to the Master Roaming User Profile Files copied to the Transfer Direction Local Roaming User & Data Amount Profile soptions.ini, itnoptions.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Enabling the Roaming feature on each computer where a user will dictate After you have set up the network location for the Master Roaming User Profiles and installed or upgrading Dragon on the computers in your network, you must enable the Roaming feature on each computer where the user will dictate using a Roaming User Profile. Step 1: Start Dragon You must start Dragon to enable the Roaming feature.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Note: With the Roaming feature enabled, the Open User Profile dialog box later displays only User Profiles in the Roaming User Profile storage locations. To let the users open both local (nonroaming) and Roaming User Profiles, check the Allow non-roaming user profiles to be opened option in the Administrative Settings dialog box.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 You can set this location, called , from the Administrative Settings dialog box. Nuance recommends leaving this option at the default setting. Note: the location of is per-PC and cannot be changed to a user-specific location. To accept the default location (which Nuance recommends), click OK on the Administrative Settings dialog box.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Notes: n n Once you set up an installation of Dragon to use the Roaming feature, users on that computer can only open Roaming User Profiles; they cannot open any locally created User Profiles unless you choose the "Allow non-roaming user profiles to be opened" option. For a list of the options to choose from, refer to Selecting Roaming User Profile options.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Administrative Settings: Roaming tab You use the Roaming tab of the Administrative Settings dialog box to set up the Roaming feature. You must set up the Roaming feature on each computer where you want users to dictate with a Roaming User Profile. When Roaming is enabled in Administrative Settings by default the Open User Profiles dialog box displays large numbers of User Profiles quickly. They can also be organized into subfolders.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles uance\NaturallySpeaking11\RoamingUsers\\ See Dragon file structure for information on the default location of the RoamingUsers directory for Dragon 11 on Windows Vista and Windows 7. The is a name you assigned as a Master Roaming User Profiles location. You can have multiple network storage locations for your Master Roaming User Profiles.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 n n For more information, see Configuring Internet Information Services and WebDAV for HTTP Roaming.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Administrative Settings: Roaming User Network Location You use the Roaming User Network Location dialog box to define the network location of the master Roaming User Profiles. The location you pick must be accessible to all computers where users will dictate using a Roaming User Profile.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Intranet/Internet connections The Intranet/Internet connection supports both HTTP and HTTP over an encrypted Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). To use an Intranet/Internet connection: 1. Under Network Location, enter the URL address of your HTTP or HTTPS server where your master Roaming User Profiles are located. 2. Click n HTTP Settings...
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Setting up HTTP Connection: HTTP Settings You use the HTTP Settings dialog box to define and configure the connection to your web (HTTP) server. Enter information about your connection in the following sections and text boxes of the dialog box: Authentication Passwords Defines how a user that uses a Roaming User Profile enters the server username and password.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Firewall and Proxy Servers Use Proxy Server Select Use Proxy Server if you are connecting to your HTTP server through a proxy server. Type Select the type of firewall used on the HTTP server from the drop-down list: n n n n HTTP Proxy : Select for a proxy server that specializes in HTML (web page) transactions. Tunnel: Select if you are connecting to the server with tunneling software.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles happens, the next time you try to open that user profile, you see a message informing you of the lock. The Administrator has to break the lock. Connection Number of seconds before Dragon should close the connection to the server either when the connection is idle or after the connection has been open for that duration.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Setting up secure web server connection: SSL Settings You use the SSL Settings dialog box to define and configure the connection to your secure web (HTTPS) server.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles n n If you select PFX Blob for the Certificate Store Type , for the Certificate Store select Other and enter the binary contents of a PFX file (for example, the PKCS12) in the associated text box below it. If you are using OpenSSL, for the Certificate Store select Other and enter the name of the file containing a certificate and a private key in the associated text box.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Testing and troubleshooting an HTTP connection Once you have supplied all the necessary information needed to connect to your HTTP server, press the Test Connection button. The Test Connection button tests the connection to your HTTP server based on the information you supplied in the Roaming User Network Location and HTTP Settings dialog boxes.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Message Could not copy a file from the network location Solution n n n Check permissions on the Local Master Roaming directory. Check that the Local Master Roaming directory exists. MIME types not set to *.* (the file is .txt). Could not get the size of a newly created directory on the network location. n Apache: Make sure DavDepthInfinity directive is set to "on" for Master Roaming directory.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Setting and selecting Roaming User Profile options The Administrative Settings dialog box also contains several options that you can choose from to indicate how you want a Roaming User Profile to function at each Roaming User Profile location. These options can effect how much data is transferred across your network when the Master and Local Roaming User Profiles are synchronized.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Roaming User Profile with vocabulary changes every time that user profile is opened. When you run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on the Master Roaming User Profile, Dragon incorporates the contents of vocdelta.dat into the vocabulary (.voc) file and clears the content of vocdelta.dat. If you check this setting, Dragon monitors the size of the vocdelta.dat file. When the vocdelta.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Dragon displays a message stating that the user profile is locked and giving them the option of overriding it. If you do not want this message displaying and always want to break a network lock in this situation, you can clear this option to prevent the message from appearing. Because the presence of a lock can indicate a problem that needs to be addressed, Nuance recommends that you enable this option.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles amount of acoustic data that can be stored in the network archive. Nuance recommends that you not set this option unless requested by Nuance Technical Support. Selecting this option will transfer 1 MB or less of data across the network at synchronization.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Note: The .DRA files will not be copied once the maximum size is reached in the Disk space reserved for network archive option. At synchronization, setting this option will copy approximately 1.3 MB for each minute of dictation saved in the .DRA files. These files are only copied from the Local Roaming User Profile to the Master Roaming User Profile; they are never copied from the Master Roaming User Profile to the Local Roaming User Profile.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Creating a Roaming User Profile on the local computer There are two ways to create a Roaming User Profile: n n Train a new Roaming User Profile Convert a non-roaming local User Profile into a Roaming User Profile To open or create a Roaming User Profile, your local installation of Dragon must be configured for Roaming User Profiles.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Creating and training a new Roaming User Profile To create and train a new Roaming User Profile: 1. To display the Open User Profile dialog box, select Profile > Open User Profile on the DragonBar . Note: When the Roaming feature is enabled, users can create only Roaming User Profiles. The Location of user profiles field displays only the Roaming User Profile locations you defined in the Administrative Settings dialog box.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Converting a non-roaming local User Profile into a Roaming User Profile You can convert an existing non-roaming local user profile to a Roaming User Profile from the Manage User Profiles dialog box. Converting a non-roaming local User Profile copies that user profile to the Master Roaming User Profile location. To convert a non-Roaming User Profile to a Roaming User Profile: 1.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Dictating with a Roaming User Profile You dictate with a Roaming User Profile the same way you would with any other User Profile.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Opening a Roaming User Profile When the Roaming feature is enabled, you can only open Roaming User Profiles (unless you set an option allowing speakers to open both Roaming and Local User Profiles). To open a Roaming User Profile: 1. On the DragonBar , select Profile > Open User Profile . 2. On the Open User Profile dialog box, select a User Profile from the list, and click Open.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Using multiple dictation sources with a single User Profile It is possible to have a variety of dictation sources (audio input devices) for a single set of User Profiles so that the speaker can deploy various microphones or portable recording devices. This ability is especially useful with the Roaming feature. By allowing multiple dictation sources, you can still have the same User Profiles for each location regardless of the microphone type.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer for Roaming User Profiles When the Roaming feature is enabled on a workstation, that workstation cannot run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer or the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler because the optimizer or scheduler can only be run on the Master Roaming User Profile.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 one increases recognition and dictation accuracy. Acoustic models that can be added in pairs to a User Profile are called Two-pass models. See Using multiple acoustic models with a User Profile for more information. To run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer to optimize Roaming User Profiles 1. Be sure that a copy of Dragon is installed on the computer where you plan to run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer .
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Controlling user access to other user's profiles If you have multiple Dragon users on an end-user workstation, those users will have multiple User Profiles to choose from in Dragon's Open User Profile dialog box.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 In Dragon 11 , you can display and view groups of User Profiles in a tree-style structure. See "Open User Profiles dialog box optimized for Roaming" in Dragon version 11 - What's New for administrators for more information.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles l Check that no files in your User Profile directory are locked, password protected, or otherwise access-restricted by your server permissions.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Configuring Internet Information Services and WebDAV for HTTP Roaming Here we discuss how to configure Internet Information Services (IIS) and Dragon Professional and Medical to allow you to use WebDAV shares as http roaming users profile locations. You must perform two steps to use IIS and WebDAV for Dragon HTTP Roaming: 1. Configuring Internet Information Services and WebDAV 2.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Configuring Internet Information Services and WebDAV To run WebDAV, you must install Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6 or greater on a server operating system such as Windows 2003 Server or Windows Server 2008. In this section we discuss installing and configuring WebDAV on both IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0. Installing and configuring WebDAV on Internet Information Services 6.0 Internet Information Services 6.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 9. Make sure that the files in your Roaming User Profile directory are not locked, password protected, or otherwise restricted for access by server permissions. Installing and configuring WebDAV on Internet Information Services 7.0 Internet Information Services 7.0 - Install WebDAV 1. Install WebDAV on the IIS 7 server. For more information, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc431377.aspx Internet Information Services 7.0 - Configuring WebDAV 1.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles 8. Click Apply to save the changes. 9. Make sure that the files in your Roaming User Profile directory are not locked, password protected, or otherwise restricted for access by server permissions.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Configuring Dragon internet roaming Perform the following steps to configure Dragon internet roaming on all workstations. 1. Start Dragon. 2. Open the Administrative Settings dialog. On the Dragon Bar, select Tools > Administrative Settings. 3. In the Roaming tab, select Enable. 4. Click the Add button to add a new network location. 5. Set the Display Name and the Network Location.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Upgrading Roaming User Profiles: Overview This section describes how to upgrade Roaming User Profiles from Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Medical 9.x or 10.x to Version 11. Since the Local Roaming User Profile is a copy of a subset of the user data taken from the master Roaming User Profile, an administrator cannot directly upgrade the Local Roaming User Profile when they upgrade the local Dragon installation from Dragon 9.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 n n n n Install Dragon 11 on a separate computer where the administrator will perform the upgrades. Copy the Dragon 9.x or 10.x Master Roaming User Profiles from the network location to the computer where Dragon 11 is installed. Upgrade the Dragon 9.x or 10.x Master Roaming User Profiles on the computer where Dragon 11 is installed. Copy the upgraded Dragon 11 Master Roaming User Profiles to a network accessible directory on the original network location.
Chapter 7: Customizing and optimizing Vocabularies This section contains information on how you can add words to a vocabulary, train words in a vocabulary, and optimize language models.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Customizing Vocabularies with the Dragon Vocabulary Tool (Voctool) You use the Dragon Vocabulary Tool to customize a vocabulary by adding new words and by optimizing the language model. This section of the Administrator Guide Help describes the Vocabulary Tool Wizard and includes the following topics: n n n n n n n n n n n Starting Voctool — Starting the Voctool UI and command line.
Chapter 7: Customizing and optimizing Vocabularies Voctool: Introduction You can use the Vocabulary Tool to customize a vocabulary by adding new words and optimizing the language model. You can use the Introduction page in the Vocabulary Tool to find and modify the following information: User The name of the user profile that the Vocabulary Tool modifies. Vocabulary The vocabulary type you apply when you create a User Profile.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 n n Do not change the current user profile or the vocabulary when you run the Vocabulary Tool. If you do try to change the user profile or vocabulary, the Vocabulary Tool stops running and does not save any changes it made. You can use MS-DOS commands to run the Vocabulary Tool from a command line. To view a list of command-line switches for the Vocabulary Tool, on a command line, type voctool.exe /?.
Chapter 7: Customizing and optimizing Vocabularies The View Document button You press the View Document button to view a document in its native application. For example, if you select a document that has a .doc file extension, when you press the View Document button, Dragon starts Microsoft Word to display the document. In order to view a document in its native application, the native application must be installed on the same computer as Dragon.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Word Lists A list of files that contain the word lists that the Vocabulary Tool can process. You can use the buttons on the right of the word lists to add or remove files from the list. You can select Export custom word and phrase list on the Vocabulary menu of the DragonBar to create a word list file from a current Dragon User Profile.
Chapter 7: Customizing and optimizing Vocabularies The Vocabulary Tool: Find known words with unknown capitalization You use the Find known words with unknown capitalization option to have the Vocabulary Tool find words that are in the vocabulary but with a different capitalization. Only use the Find known words with unknown capitalization option with word lists that you want to add to a vocabulary. Otherwise, you might add words to a vocabulary unintentionally.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 The File list The file list is a scrollable list that displays the files or documents that the Vocabulary Tool is processing. n n n A check mark next to a file name indicates that the Vocabulary Tool successfully analyzed the file. An X mark next to a file name indicates that the Vocabulary Tool did not successfully complete its analysis of a file.
Chapter 7: Customizing and optimizing Vocabularies Frequency Frequency indicates how many times a word appears in the documents the Vocabulary Tool analyzes. This information appears only if you select the Enable word frequency counting option on the Introduction page of the Vocabulary Tool. Dragon counts up to 100 occurrences of a word. Check All Click the Check All button to check all the words in the Word list. Clear All Click the Clear All button to clear all the words in the Word list.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 This feature is available only when you run the Vocabulary Tool as part of a normal installation of Dragon. You cannot use the Vocabulary Tool to train words if you are running the Dragon SDK Server Edition (DSS) . The following information and buttons appear on this screen: Word The Word list contains the words you selected on the Preview New Words screen. Select the words you want to train from this list.
Chapter 7: Customizing and optimizing Vocabularies Language Model locator If you are building a language model for a Solution Series version of Dragon, you can select either the Middle or the User slot as a location for a language model. If you are building a language model for the Preferred edition of Dragon, select the User slot as the location of the language model.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 User The name of the User Profile the Vocabulary Tool modifies. Vocabulary The base vocabulary type of the User Profile. Language The language of the vocabulary, including any specific variation of that language, such as United States English. Additional information The following information may also appear: n n n n n n The number of documents the Vocabulary Tool analyzed. The names of the documents or word lists that the Vocabulary Tool processed.
Chapter 7: Customizing and optimizing Vocabularies Switch Required with /S ulary. /VN Yes, if vocabulary does not yet exist. Purpose use this switch if the vocabulary exists; otherwise use /VN to create a new vocabulary. Create a new vocabulary if one doesn't exist for this user profile. voctool uses the empty new vocabulary as the base vocabulary. Use this switch if the vocabulary does not yet exist; otherwise, if the vocabulary exists, use /V to use the current vocabulary name.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Switch Required with /S Purpose M=Middle Slot* (default) U=User Slot* N=Non-incremental (default) I=Incremental /LMSIZE No. The size of the Middle Slot language model one of (0.5, 1, 2, 3[default], 4, or 5).* /NS No. Do not save changes to the vocabulary. Applies only in Silent mode. /Summary No. Write summary of session actions to a file. /? No. Displays this list of options.
Chapter 7: Customizing and optimizing Vocabularies Voctool command line examples The following are examples of how to use the Voctool from the command line: Example 1 To use Voctool to add a set of new words to the General vocabulary of a user profile named Katarina Phelps, you would first copy the file that contains the words (NewWords.txt) to the Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\Program directory, then type the following on the command line: voctool.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Example 3 To use Voctool to add a list of drug names to the vocabulary of a medical provider named Jackson Stone, you would first copy the file that contains the drug names (DrugNames.txt) to the Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\Program directory, then type the following on the command line: voctool.exe /S /U "Jackson Stone" /V "Internal Medicine - Large" /WI DrugNames.txt /AW /Summary actions.
Chapter 7: Customizing and optimizing Vocabularies Definition: The language model In addition to a word list, a vocabulary has a language model that contains statistical information. The statistics help predict which words are most likely to occur in the context of a user's speech. This information includes: n n unigram probability: The likelihood that a word occurs in text compared to other words in the same vocabulary.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 About language model slots A vocabulary includes three slots for storing language model information. Not all vocabularies contain information in each slot. n n n base slot - Stores the base language model that ships with Dragon. You cannot modify the information in the base slot. middle slot - Can contain a custom language model based on a significant amount of data, developed for a target group of users.
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile This section contains information on how you can add or remove the custom words, vocabularies, and commands for a User Profile.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Adding words, commands, or vocabularies to User Profiles You use the nsadmin utility or the Data Distribution Tool to make new words, customized vocabularies, or new commands available to all User Profiles on a particular installation of Dragon. Both the nsadmin utility and Data Distribution Tool can work across a network. Dragon Medical Small Practice Edition does not support the nsadmin utility or the Data Distribution Tool.
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile Creating the Data Distribution Directory You create a data distribution directory to store word lists, commands, or both, that you plan to distribute to multiple users of Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Medical. When word lists and commands are in the data distribution directory, as soon as a person opens their User Profiles, Dragon automatically imports words and commands from the data distribution directory into the User Profiles.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 8. In the Data distribution location text box, click Change... and browse to a location where you want Dragon to store custom words and commands. 9. Click OK. 10. Click Apply to save the changes. 11. Click OK to close the dialog box. You can now use the Data Distribution Tool or the nsadmin command line utility to put new words and commands into the data distribution directory.
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile Adding and removing custom words You can use the Data Distribution Tool to make new words available to all users on a particular installation of Dragon. Before you use the Data Distribution Tool, you must create a data distribution directory. For more information, see Creating the Data Distribution Directory.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 3. Start the Data Distribution Tool. For more information, see Starting the Data Distribution Tool. 4. In the Data Distribution Tool, make the appropriate selections to add the list of words to the data distribution directory. For more information, see Use the Data Distribution Tool to add custom words.
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile Notes n The default installation of Dragon places vocabularies for existing Dragon User Profiles here (in Windows XP). See Dragon file structure for information on Windows Vista and other operating systems. \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\users\\current n n Vocabulary files end with the *.voc extension.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Use the Data Distribution Tool to add an exported vocabulary You can use the Data Distribution Tool to distribute a vocabulary that you create using a separate installation of Dragon. A Dragon vocabulary that you export saves as a group of files. One of the exported files has a .top file extension, the other files have .to* file extensions, where * is an integer. 1. In a command prompt, provide the path to the file with the .
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile operating systems. \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\Custom\ n n After you import the custom commands to Dragon, for the changes to become available to those User Profiles, you must close your User Profiles, then re-open and save the User Profiles. You can enter a path as a complete local path, a relative path, a mapped network drive, a UNC path, or the path to removable media, such as a DVD, CD, or ZIP drive.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Use the Data Distribution Tool to remove shared commands 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. In the Data Distribution Tool, select Add or remove shared commands. Click Next. Select the languages for the User Profiles that you will remove words from. Click Next. In the Existing shared commands list, select the command. Click Remove . Click Next. The Data Distribution Tool displays a log of all operations it performs.
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile Starting the nsadmin command line utility You can use the nsadmin utility on a command line to make new words, vocabularies, or commands available to users. The nsadmin utility performs only one operation at a time. However, you can write a batch file or script to execute multiple nsadmin operations on a computer.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Commands and parameters Description /overwrite yes | no | ask Specifies overwrite rules if a file exists with the same name as the file you are adding. The default value is ask. Adding custom words from a command line You can use the nsadmin utility to make new words available to all User Profiles on a particular installation of Dragon.
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile 2. On each computer that a user uses for dictation, map a network drive to the location of the data distribution directory. As an alternative, you may reference the network UNC address of the location of the nsadmin utility. 3. In a command prompt, type a command to add the custom words from the .txt file. The following command copies the NewWords.txt file to the following directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\Custom
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Parameters Description Specifies the size of the vocabulary you are importing. Describes the content of the vocabulary, for example, Astronomy or Marketing. Sets an ID for a topic. The following nsadmin command copies the model name (Large), the category (Nuance), and the topic ID (9005) to the models.ini file and copies the contents of the myvoc directory to \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\Dragon Nat
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile Use the command line to overwrite a vocabulary 1. Use the /overwrite option to overwrite an existing vocabulary file. If the vocabulary file already exists in \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\Dragon NaturallySpeaking11\Custom\enx\Custom9005\, Dragon overwrites it without prompting you. The following command overwrites the myvoc topic: \nsadmin /vocabulary G:\NsAdmin\myvoc "US English | Large | Nuance" 9005 /overwrite=yes Use the command
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 You can use the nsadmin utility to copy a set of custom commands to the data distribution directory and make the set of custom commands available to all users of a particular installation of Dragon Before you use the nsadmin utility, you must have already created a data distribution directory, as explained in Creating the Data Distribution Directory. Notes: n The default installation of Dragon places custom commands for existing Dragon User Profiles here: \Documents a
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile Use the command line to overwrite a custom command file Use the /overwrite option to overwrite an existing command file. The following command overwrites the NewCommands.dat file if it already exists in the G:\NsAdmin directory. Dragon overwrites the file without prompting you. \nsadmin /commands G:\NsAdmin\NewCommands.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Using paths with the nsadmin utility When you use the nsadmin utility, you can use a path that is a complete local path, a relative path, a mapped network drive, a UNC path, or the path to removable media, such as a DVD, CD, or ZIP drive. If a path name includes spaces, you must enclose the path name in quotation marks. When you are running the nsadmin utility from a directory other than the one nsadmin resides in, you must provide the full path to the nsadmin.
Chapter 9: Maintaining a Dragon installation This section contains information on the tools and procedures you can use to maintain Dragon installations, including User Profiles and vocabularies. You can also view information on resources that can help you trouble shoot issues that may occur in Dragon.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Maintaining Installations There are several actions you can take to maintain your Dragon installations: n n n n n n n 286 Run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer and schedule the Optimizer to run automatically (see Using Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer and Scheduler Tools ). Export User Profiles from one computer and import them to another as outlined in Exporting and Importing User Profiles. Work with the Dragon.
Chapter 9: Maintaining a Dragon installation Using Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer and Scheduler Tools You run Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler to: n n n n n Choose to optimize the acoustic files for the user profile Choose to optimize the language model for the user profile Schedule one or both types of optimization to occur on a particular day or time at particular intervals Enable or disable the scheduled optimizations Separate procedures exist for running the optimization on a No
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 The Acoustic model will revert to a single model. When a user opens the profile on a multi-core computer, only the first acoustic model will load. To increase the accuracy of the User Profile, select Audio > Launch Accuracy Tuning from the DragonBar.
Chapter 9: Maintaining a Dragon installation 3. To access the master directory of the Roaming User Profiles you want to optimize, in the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler dialog box, select File > Set User Directory . The Set a Directory Containing User Files dialog box opens. 4. On the Set a Directory Containing User Files dialog box, either enter the path to the directory or click the Browse button and browse to the location of the Master Roaming User Profiles, then click OK.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Removing One or More Optimization Schedules To remove one or more scheduled optimizations from the scheduler: 1. Select the schedule you want to remove. You can select multiple schedules by holding the CTRL key while clicking a schedule. 2. Press the Delete key on your keyboard or select Options > Delete Selected Tasks on the toolbar. 3. Click OK when you are asked to confirm the deletion.
Chapter 9: Maintaining a Dragon installation Exporting and Importing User Profiles You can export User Profiles on one computer and import them for use on another. When you export a user profile to a new location, any custom words added to a Local Roaming User Profile do not accompany the User Profiles unless you first run the Learn from specific documents wizard in the Accuracy Center . Exporting User Profiles To export User Profiles from Dragon: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Handling Dragon Error Messages When Dragon displays an error message: 1. Read the message carefully. It may give you enough information to determine what to do. 2. If you dictated text into your document, click Close to close the error message box and then save your document. 3. Do not save your User Profiles. 4. Copy the error message log file (Dragon.log) to a safe place. To locate this file, click Start > Programs > Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.0 > Show Dragon Log.
Chapter 9: Maintaining a Dragon installation Working with the Usability Log You can set up Dragon to create a usability log that logs all menu commands, toolbar buttons, and voice commands that you use during a dictation session. To set up a usability log: With a user profile open, on the DragonBar , select Tools > Options. Click the Data tab. Click the Advanced button. When the Advanced dialog box opens, check the Create usability log check box and click OK to return to the Data tab. 5.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Accessing the Dragon Knowledge Database Solutions to known problems with Dragon are provided at the Nuance Knowledge Base, located at http://knowledgebase.Nuance.com/. If there are problems using Dragon with Microsoft Word on Windows XP (for example if the program freezes or commands stop working in a Microsoft Office XP application), it may be that the Microsoft Word XP’s built-in speech recognition is interfering with Dragon.
Chapter 9: Maintaining a Dragon installation Hardware Compatibility List You can find a list of headsets and microphones compatible with Dragon at the Nuance Communications web site. To find the hardware compatibility list: 1. Navigate to http://support.nuance.com/compatibility/default.asp 2. At the site, under Select a Product click on the product drop-down list and select Dragon NaturallySpeaking. 3. Click Continue . 4.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Managing user administrative privileges Before You Give Windows Administrator Privileges Before you decide to give a Dragon user Windows Administrator privileges on a laptop computer, note that you are giving that person access to the Administrative Settings dialog box on that computer. Determining Logged In User Has Admin Privileges If the logged in user has Windows Administrator privileges, the following line appears in the Dragon.
Chapter 10: Working with Custom commands This section contains information on how you can use tools in Dragon to control access to your custom commands.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Managing and Securing Custom Commands Make your custom commands more secure in two ways: To make the tool available only in Dragon, convert any XML files of commands to DAT format. For details see Using the Convert XML to DAT tool. To prevent any Dragon users from editing the commands, lock access to the file. For details see Using the MyCommands Protection Utility.
Chapter 10: Working with Custom commands Using the Convert XML to DAT tool You can use a text editor to open commands that are in XML format. To allow only Dragon users to access those command files, you can convert them from XML format to DAT format. Dragon uses .dat files to store commands. You can use the XML to DAT tool (mycmdsxml2dat.exe ) to extract user-defined Dragon commands from an XML file. The tool writes the commands to a .dat file.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Parameters Type Description Required The full path to the local copy of the current user's .DAT file Required The full path to the .XML file -v Optional Validates the specified .xml file over the Internet with a Nuance DTD (Document Type Definition) file. Disabled by default. Use the XML to DAT tool to convert data in an XML file 1. Create an XML file that contains the commands to use with Dragon. 2.
Chapter 10: Working with Custom commands Using the MyCommands Protection Utility In Dragon Medical and Dragon Legal, when you export a set of custom Text-and-Graphics, Stepby-Step, Custom Command, and/or Advanced Scripting commands into a .dat file, you can set the permissions on that file so that after a user imports them, that user can dictate the commands but cannot view their source code, edit their source code, or re-export the commands. As a result, the integrity of the commands remains intact.
Chapter 11: Commands that perform actions based on the application state This section contains information how to create and use structured commands that perform actions based on the state of the application.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Using Structured Commands Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional, Dragon Medical, and Dragon Legal include an extension to Text-and-Graphics commands that let you to set the values of variables in text blocks based on voice input. You can create simple Text-and-Graphics commands with variables in the My Commands Editor without having to do extensive programming in Microsoft® VBA.
Chapter 11: Commands that perform actions based on the application state Structured Command Samples Dragon includes several sample Text-and-Graphics commands with variables and sample structured Advanced Scripting commands. You can import the samples into Dragon to use them as templates for your own commands. The sample commands are fully commented. Sample location The sample commands are installed in (Windows XP): \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\Data\Enx\samp
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 state. To read more about this sample and its commands, refer to the code comments in the XML file. SampleBoilerPlate_ColonCancer SampleBoilerPlate_ColonCancer.xml contains Advanced Scripting commands that demonstrate how to use structured commands and the command prompt for boilerplate text. This sample is modeled after a colon cancer checklist and is designed to work in Microsoft Word 2003.
Chapter 11: Commands that perform actions based on the application state Importing Sample Structured Commands You can import existing structured commands, such as the Structured Commands Samples, into Dragon to use as templates for your own commands. Use the following procedure to import the sample structured commands that are supplied with Dragon: To import the sample structured commands: 1. On the DragonBar , select Tools > Command Browser to open the Command Browser window. 2.
Chapter 12: Configuring administrative features in Dragon This section contains information how to use the Administrative options, in the Administrative Settings dialog box, to set and control many administrative features in Dragon.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Summaries of Administrative Settings Dialog Boxes The tabs in the Administrative Settings dialog box are: n n n Roaming Miscellaneous Scheduled Tasks For more on each tab, see the corresponding topic below: n n n 310 Administrative Settings: Roaming tab Administrative Settings: Miscellaneous tab Administrative Settings: Scheduled Tasks tab
Chapter 12: Configuring administrative features in Dragon Administrative Settings: Roaming tab You use the Roaming tab of the Administrative Settings dialog box to set up the Roaming feature. You must set up the Roaming feature on each computer where you want users to dictate with a Roaming User Profile. When Roaming is enabled in Administrative Settings by default the Open User Profiles dialog box displays large numbers of User Profiles quickly. They can also be organized into subfolders.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 uance\NaturallySpeaking11\RoamingUsers\\ See Dragon file structure for information on the default location of the RoamingUsers directory for Dragon 11 on Windows Vista and Windows 7. The is a name you assigned as a Master Roaming User Profiles location. You can have multiple network storage locations for your Master Roaming User Profiles. The is the name of an individual Master Roaming User Profile.
Chapter 12: Configuring administrative features in Dragon n n For more information, see Configuring Internet Information Services and WebDAV for HTTP Roaming.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Administrative Settings: Roaming User Network Location You use the Roaming User Network Location dialog box to define the network location of the master Roaming User Profiles. The location you pick must be accessible to all computers where users will dictate using a Roaming User Profile.
Chapter 12: Configuring administrative features in Dragon Intranet/Internet connections The Intranet/Internet connection supports both HTTP and HTTP over an encrypted Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). To use an Intranet/Internet connection: 1. Under Network Location, enter the URL address of your HTTP or HTTPS server where your master Roaming User Profiles are located. 2. Click n HTTP Settings...
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Administrative Settings: Miscellaneous tab The Miscellaneous tab of the Administrative settings dialog box contains the following options: Check for product updates at startup Automatically looks on the Nuance Web Dragon every time you start the program. Any change to this option does not take effect until you restart Dragon. Backup location for user profiles Shows the location where Dragon will save backup User Profiles.
Chapter 12: Configuring administrative features in Dragon Do not allow restricted users to add or modify commands Select this check box to prevent restricted Windows users from adding or modifying Dragon commands. Selecting this option allows only users logged on with administrator privileges to add or modify commands. (Windows XP Professional). Disable use of Macro Recorder Commands Select this box to prevent users from using macro recorder commands. Users can still run the commands.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Disable automatic acoustic model selection in the Acoustic Optimizer Running the Acoustic Optimizer updates your User Profiles with accumulated acoustic data from any corrections and additional training users may have done. Running Acoustic Optimization increases your overall accuracy. In the process of increasing your accuracy, Acoustic Optimization may select a different acoustic model for your User Profile.
Chapter 12: Configuring administrative features in Dragon Administrative Settings: Scheduled Tasks tab The Scheduled Tasks tab of the Administrative settings dialog box allows you to schedule Accuracy Tuning and Data Collection for all User Profiles created with this installation of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Accuracy Tuning Schedule Accuracy Tuning to help Dragon to learn from you and make your dictation more accurate.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Click this button to restore the default values for Data Collection and Periodic Optimization. Notes: n n n When the User Profile is closed, you cannot use Dragon to dictate or to perform actions by voice.
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Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 322 Spell Mode (definition) 346 User Profile (definition) 347
Glossary .DRA files (definition) Dragon Recorded Audio (DRA) files. By default, Dragon automatically saves audio and text transcripts of your dictation in the DRA files.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Accuracy Center (definition) Offers a central location for tools and information you can use to ensure recognition. The link in the description of each feature opens a topic describing that feature more completely. Say “display Accuracy Center” or click Accuracy Center on the DragonBar Tools menu.
Glossary Accuracy Tuning (definition) A process Dragon can use to adapt to your usage. Once you have been dictating for a period of time, Dragon uses Accuracy Tuning to automatically refine your User Profile, analyzing your dictation, corrections, and any other acoustic training you have done. Accuracy Tuning uses two of Dragon's accuracy tools, the Acoustic Optimizer and the Language Model Optimizer.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Acoustic Optimizer (definition) Looks for any corrections you have made or additional training you may have performed. Optimization enhances recognition accuracy and helps predict words most likely spoken in a given context by a speaker (the language model).
Glossary Advanced Scripting (definition) Supports using programming languages such as Microsoft® VBA to create commands that can perform virtually any function on the computer with voice commands.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Commands-only Vocabulary (definition) A restricted Vocabulary containing only words and phrases that Dragon recognizes as commands. Choose this way of dictation if you want to use Dragon only for command and control of programs and not for dictation.
Glossary Command Browser (definition) A window showing voice commands that Dragon recognizes, including commands that are provided with the software as well as any commands that you or your system administrator might have added (custom commands). The Command Browser is the most comprehensive place to see the commands that are available in each application.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Correction menu (definition) Shows Dragon’s best guess for alternatives to words you dictated and selected. Choose the correct word from the Correction menu by saying “Choose” and the number next to your choice.
Glossary Command Mode (definition) A restricted recognition mode that causes Dragon to interpret everything you say as a command and nothing is interpreted as dictated text. Say "Start Command Mode" or "Command Mode On".
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Correction-only mode (definition) Enables transcriptionists to play back a Dragon user's dictation without having their User Profile loaded. Note that dictation is disabled if you select this option.
Glossary Data Distribution Tool (definition) Enables developers to interactively create new words, customized Vocabularies or commands, and to make them available to all User Profiles on a particular Dragon NaturallySpeaking installation.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Dictation Box (definition) Provides full support for dictating and editing text in non-standard windows. The DictationIBox supports voice commands like Delete, Correct, and Insert, and custom commands as well. When you are finished, the content is transferred to the non-standard window where your cursor was positioned when you opened the Dictation Box. The Dictation Box can operate in Hidden Mode (Medical, only), and can be anchored or unanchored.
Glossary Dictation Mode (definition) A restricted recognition mode that causes Dragon to interpret everything you say as dictation and nothing is interpreted as a command. Dictation Mode can be helpful if you want to dictate as quickly as possible, or dictate without looking at the words Dragon transcribes. Say "Start Dictation Mode" or "Dictation Mode On".
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Dictation Source (definition) An audio input device or multiple devices associated with a User Profile. A user can select a headset microphone at one computer, an array microphone at another, and a portable recorder for transcription at several computers. This way, Dragon supports users who need to move, or “roam”, from computer to computer regardless of the microphone type or differences in ambient noise.
Glossary DragonPad (definition) Dragon’s built-in word processor, optimized for dictation and includes basic text formatting features as well as the ability to save and print documents.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Hidden Mode (definition) A recognition mode that causes Dragon to send all recognized text to the Dictation Box, which is active but does not display. All recognized text is added to the Dictation Box, regardless of the cursor location. Hidden Mode is often used by healthcare providers who are dictating medical reports to be sent to a medical transcriptionist/editor. Say "Start Hidden Mode" or "Start Hidden Mode".
Glossary Language Model optimization (definition) Updates the language model of the current Vocabulary. Language Model Optimization uses text Dragon extracts from the .DRA files that are created when you correct words. Based on the speech data collected, Language Model Optimization applies modifications to the language model to reflect your word usage.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Language Model Optimizer (definition) Performs Language Model Optimization from the Accuracy Center. Any Dragon user with administrator privileges can schedule Dragon to perform optimization periodically.
Glossary Normal Mode (definition) Dragon's default mode of dictation. In Normal Mode, Dragon distinguishes dictation from words, numbers, and commands by analyzing what you say between pauses. Say "Start Normal Mode" or "Normal Mode On".
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Numbers mode (definition) A restricted recognition mode that causes Dragon to recognize only numbers, commands, and punctuation. If you are dictating only numbers (including currencies), working in this mode increases recognition accuracy. Say "Start Numbers Mode" or "Numbers Mode On".
Glossary QuickStart (definition) Allows Dragon to load in the background when you start your computer or log in to your operating system, depending on your version of Windows. When Dragon is launched in QuickStart mode, Dragon is available for use more quickly than when you start in normal mode. The microphone icon appears in the system tray.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Recognition Modes (definition) By default, Dragon functions in Normal Mode, distinguishing dictation from words, numbers, and commands, and analyzing what it hears between pauses. Dragon also offers restricted recognition modes for dictating only commands (Command Mode), numbers (Numbers Mode), characters (Spell Mode), or words (Dictation Mode). You can also use Hidden Mode to have Dragon hide the DictationBox as you dictate into it.
Glossary Roaming User (definition) Enables you to dictate with Dragon from different network locations and on different computers without having to create and train individual User Profiles at each location. User Profiles are stored in a network location available to all computers on the network, so that the information Dragon learns from a user dictating on one computer is also available to the same user when they log in on other computers.
Dragon Administrator Guide version 11 Spell Mode (definition) A restricted recognition mode that causes Dragon to recognize only letters, numbers, commands, and punctuation. Spell mode is useful for dictating unpronounceable alphanumeric strings, such as part numbers and license plate numbers, and other terms you anticipate Dragon may not recognize, such as Web addresses, words in a foreign language, or unusual product names. Say "Start Spell Mode" or "Spell Mode On".
Glossary User Profile (definition) A set of files created the first time you use Dragon, which is subsequently used to reflect your characteristics and adapt to your usage. Each person who uses Dragon must have a User Profile, which the software stores in a set of files containing, among other things, acoustic and lexical data. These data contain information about how you sound, and the words you use, and how often you use them.
