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Dragon 12 Installation and User Guide
Performing training either during or after creating a user profile enhances your
recognition accuracy. In initial training you read aloud for several minutes from
one of the available texts.
Note:
For information on training a mobile user, see (link).
If you skipped training earlier to open a user profile, from the DragonBar menu,
select Profile > Open User Profile and select your name in the list; then click
Open to proceed. Since you have not completed training, options for Training
appear.
To train a new user
1. When the Read text aloud to train Dragon page of the wizard appears,
choose from these training options:
n Show the text with prompting
n Show the text without prompting
n Skip training (not recommended)
2. In the Read Training Text page of the wizard, click Go.
3. If you chose the first training option (Show text with prompting):
n A yellow arrow showing you where to start reading appears.
n Click Go and begin reading the text. To take breaks while you’re train-
ing the program, click Pause.
Note: To advance through the first two screens, you must say the sen-
tences without pausing. For the rest of the screens, it’s okay to pause
in the middle of a sentence.
n When the words change color, it means the computer has heard and
recognized them.
n If you need to re-read the same words, click Redo, then re-read them.
If the computer still doesn’t get it, just click Skip. Otherwise, click Next
to continue.
4. If you chose the second training option (Show text without prompting):
n In the Read Training Text page, under Choosing text to read, choose a
text to read aloud and click Next.
n When the Text Display page appears, choose how you want to read the
text, from the screen or from a printed page. If you choose to read from
a printed page, click Print to print the text.
n Click Next to continue.
n If you chose to read the text from the screen, the Speaking to the com-
puter page appears and advises you to position your microphone.
n After you position your microphone, click Train to begin.
n In the Speaking to the Computer popup, click Begin Training and read
the text in the box.
n Click Next page to proceed from page to page.
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