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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.
These files are only copied from the Local Roaming User Profile to the Master Roaming User Pro-
file; they are never copied from the Master Roaming User Profile to the Local Roaming User Pro-
file.
Always copy acoustic information to network
Select this box to copy the user profile’s acoustic model (.usr and .sig files) to the Master Roaming
User Profile location.
If you chose not to copy the user profile’s acoustic information to the network, updates to the
acoustic model that you make on one computer (for example by correcting and training words)
will not be available on other computers used by that particular Roaming User Profile until you
run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on the Master Roaming User Profile loca-
tion and the Local and Master Roaming User Profiles synchronize. Therefore, if you do not run
the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on the Master Roaming User Profiles regularly,
you should set this option.
By always copying the acoustic information to the Master Roaming User Profile location, you
ensure these accuracy improvements will be available when the Master Roaming User Profile is
opened from another location. However, setting this option can increase the amount of time it
takes to close a Roaming User Profile.
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.
The transfer of acoustic information based on this option's setting is not limited by setting the
Disk space reserved for network archive option.
Setting this option will copy approximately 15 MB across the network at synchronization if the
Roaming and Local copies are different.
Conserve archive size on network
Select this box to prevent copying of .DRA files (files that contain the acoustic data from the
latest dictation session) to the Master Roaming User Profile location when the program syn-
chronizes the Local and Master Roaming User Profiles. Leaving this box unchecked allows the
local .DRA files to synchronize with the Master Roaming User Profile, which makes the .DRA
files available to the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer when it is run on the Master
Roaming User Profile locations and provides increased accuracy.
However, because .DRA files can be large, if you experience excessive network slowdowns,
checking this option may solve the problem by eliminating the copying of these files each time
the Master and Local Roaming User Profiles synchronize. You can still run the Acoustic and Lan-
guage Model Optimizer on the Master Roaming User Profile, but since it will not have the
.DRA files to process, the accuracy gains will be less.
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