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Dragon 12 Installation and User Guide
n Switching Vocabularies has no effect on the text in the document window.
It does, however, close any open dialog boxes, such as General Training
and Vocabulary Editor.
n Vocabularies that you have created and opened appear in the Profile
menu on the Open Recent Vocabulary submenu. You can quickly switch
between Vocabularies by selecting the appropriate Vocabulary name from
this submenu.
Adding a Vocabulary to a User Profile
With Dragon Professional, Legal and Medical editions, you have the option of
creating new Vocabularies and adding them to your existing User Profile to
improve recognition accuracy. This may be helpful if you use specialized
terminology when you dictate into documents and e-mails. You can only have
one Vocabulary open at a time.
Note
Creating a Vocabulary can take from 5 to 30 minutes depending on the options you select, the
speed of your processor, the amount of RAM in your system, and the amount of e-mail and
data to be scanned. Progress bars display the time remaining in this procedure. If you include
the E-mail option, it is best to create new Vocabularies only when you are not using your
computer for other purposes.
To add a Vocabulary to a User Profile
1. Do one of the following:
n Say "Manage Vocabularies" or click Vocabulary> Manage
Vocabularies on the DragonBar.
n Say "Switch to DragonBar," then "Profile," then "Add Vocab-
ulary to Current User Profile," or on the DragonBar click
Profile> Add Vocabulary to Current User Profile. Go to step 3.
2. On the Manage Vocabularies dialog box, click New.
3. From the Based On list in the New Vocabulary dialog box, select the name of
a Vocabulary on which you want to base the new Vocabulary.
All available Vocabularies are listed. Those beginning with the word "Base" are
the unmodified Vocabularies shipped with Dragon. The Vocabulary you select
will be copied to the new Vocabulary and supplemented with words from your
documents, emails, and added to your User Profile.
2. Enter a descriptive name for the Vocabulary.
A Vocabulary name can contain up to 128 characters, including spaces.
3. Click OK to create the Vocabulary. The Let Dragon search for words tool
opens and prompts you to allow Dragon to improve recognition accuracy by
adapting the Vocabulary based on e-mail messages and documents.
4. Makeyour selections and click Start to begin the optimization.
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