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Dragon 12 Installation and User Guide
About the Accuracy Assistant
The Accuracy Assistant is a screen that helps you determine which tool to use
to improve the recognition accuracy on your system. The Accuracy Assistant
does this by asking a series of questions and, depending on the answers,
provides links to the proper tool.
To run the Accuracy Assistant
1. Click Help> Improve My Accuracy on the DragonBar.
2. In the Accuracy Center, click or say "Which tool should I use?"
3. In the Accuracy Assistant window, click or say the link that best matches the
accuracy problem you are trying to solve and follow the directions on the
screen.
Running the Acoustic and Language Model
Optimizer
Use this procedure to increase Dragon's accuracy with the Acoustic and
Language Model Optimizer.
As you make and train corrections, train new words, use commands, and
perform additional training, Dragon stores the acoustic and language data in an
archive and uses it to enhance recognition accuracy. The Acoustic and
Language Model Optimizer accumulates this data from session to session.
Acoustic Optimization
Perform Acoustic Optimization to update your User Profiles with accumulated
acoustic data from any corrections and additional training you do.
Language Model Optimization
Perform Language Model Optimization to update your language model. The
language model contains statistical information that predicts which words are
most likely to occur in the context of the user’s speech. Language Model
Optimization uses text extracted from a user's .DRA files to add commonly
used word sequences to the language model. Based on the speech data
collected, Language Model Optimization may change the language model you
selected when you created your User Profile. For example, Dragon may change
BestMatch III to Inland Northern US (Great Lakes area) - BestMatch III.
Before you begin
n Because it can take up to an hour to incorporate the analyzed data into
your User Profile, you may want to schedule the optimization when you
are not using your computer. You can schedule optimization using the
Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler. If you are part of an
organization or company and you do not have Dragon administrator
rights, you can request that your Dragon administrator schedule
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