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Dragon 12 Installation and User Guide
Let Dragon automatically improve your accuracy
After it adapts to your writing style, the Accuracy wizard gives you the option of
setting up a schedule to automatically run Acoustic and Language Model tuning
processes:
Note:
Acoustic and Language Model tuning processes add commonly used word
sequences the user dictates as well as acoustic data from any corrections and
additional training the user executes. Scheduling tuning processes helps
Dragon learn from you and makes your dictation more accurate.
1. In the Let Dragon automatically improve your accuracy page, to have Dragon
periodically tune your user profile to improve your accuracy, be sure to check
the Automatically improve accuracy check box. If you do not change the
schedules, by default Dragon initiates Acoustic tuning every Monday at 2 AM
and Language Model tuning every day at 3 AM.
2. If you want to have Dragon tune your user profile at a different time or more
or less often, click the Change Schedule button and, in the Select Time and
Frequency dialog box, set the schedules on both the Acoustics and Language
Model tabs. The schedules do not have to be the same. As a rule, you should
try to run these processes when you are not dictating and run the Language
Model tuning more often.
3. Be sure that you check the Enable check box on both the Acoustics and Lan-
guage Model tabs or the tuning processes occur on the default schedule,
rather than the schedule you set.
4. Click Next to continue.
Scheduling data collection (Help us improve Dragon)
After it lets you set the schedule for accuracy tuning, the Accuracy wizard lets
you set whether or not to collect data and schedule when it should be collected:
Note:
When you set Data Collection to run, it collects up to 500 MB of acoustic data
and text from your dictation sessions. Once the data is collected, you have the
option of sending it to Nuance to help improve the accuracy of future versions
of Dragon. No personal information is ever sent to Nuance and participation in
data collection is completely voluntary.
1. In the Help us improve Dragon page, you can choose:
n Run Data Collection
n Don’t run Data Collection but remind about this later
n Don’t run Data Collection
2. If you choose Run Data Collection, click Change Schedule and set what time
and how often the data is sent to Nuance in the Select Time and Frequency
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