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3. When the Help Dragon understand how your pronounce words page
appears, select your accent.
The accents you can choose from are:
n Standard — Select if your accent is not covered by another choice or
your are not sure which accent to select.
n Australian accented English
n British accented English
n Indian accented English
n Inland Northern US (Great Lakes area)— Upstate New York through
the Chicago area
n SEAsian accented English—South East Asian
n Southern US— Most of Southern United States, including Texas
n Spanish accented English
Determining your own accent can be difficult. For example, say you grew up in
one part of the United States but have lived long enough in another part to
lessen your original regional accent. If you have any doubt about picking an
accent, select Standard and allow Dragon to learn your accent.
If you do not select a specific accent (in other words, you select the Standard
accent), you may want to perform Acoustic Optimization after using the
product for several hours. Acoustic Optimization updates your user profile with
accumulated acoustic data from any corrections and additional training you
may have done. Running Acoustic Optimization will increase your overall
accuracy. In the process of increasing your accuracy, Acoustic Optimization
may select a different accent for you.
If you select a specific accent, Acoustic Optimization will still increase your
overall accuracy, but will not change your accent. Once you have selected a
specific accent for a user, you cannot change it later.
Dragon lets you create and train users in multiple languages. If you have
purchased an edition with support for more than one language, you can add
languages by later choosing Custom during the installation and having the
Dragon DVD available to install the language files during the process of
creating user profiles.
4. When the How do you talk to your computer? page appears, select your
type of microphone from the list of Microphones. If you record your speech
using a recording device, select a recorder from the list of Recorders.
5. In the Review your choices page, be sure the information is correct before
you proceed.
6. Dragon automatically chooses a speech model to use as the foundation for
your individual user profile. It also selects the vocabulary it uses to rec-
ognize words correctly based not only on their sound, but also on their con-
text. However, if you want to select a particular speech model and
vocabulary, you can click the Advanced button and in the Choose models
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