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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\<user_name>\current
n Vocabulary files end with the *.voc extension.
n If you create a User Profile on a dual core computer that uses a custom vocabulary, make sure
that the User Profile uses the BestMatch IV speech model (BestMatch IV has the greatest
recognition accuracy on dual-core systems with more than 2 GB of RAM). To check this, select
the Advance button on the Create User Profile screen of the Creating a Profile wizard and make
sure that BestMatch IV is selected.
Prepare to use the Data Distribution Tool to add a
vocabulary
1. If you have not already created it, create the data distribution directory. For more information,
see Creating the Data Distribution Directory.
2. On each computer that a user uses for dictation, map a network drive to the network location of
the data distribution directory.
3. Start the Data Distribution Tool . For more information, see Starting the Data Distribution
Tool.
4. In the Data Distribution Tool , add the vocabulary to the data distribution directory. For more
information, see "Use the Data Distribution Tool to add a vocabulary" below.
Use the Data Distribution Tool to add a vocabulary
1. In the Data Distribution Tool , select Add or remove base vocabulary.
2. Click Next .
3. Click Add to add a Base Vocabulary . Dragon displays the Add Base Vocabulary dialog.
4. In the Add Base Vocabulary dialog box:
n Give the vocabulary a name. The name should describe the content of the
vocabulary, such as Astronomy or Marketing .
n Select the location of the vocabulary, either a mapped drive or a UNC address.
n Give the vocabulary an unique numeric ID. Use a value greater than 9000 for the
topic ID parameter.
5. Click OK .
The next time you open a User Profile, Dragon automatically updates the user profile's vocabulary.
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