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Chapter 18: Improving recognition accuracy
Personalizing your Dragon Vocabulary
Thissectioncontainsthefollowingtopics:
AboutpersonalizingyourVocabulary 250
AddingwordsorphrasestoyourVocabulary 251
Learningfromspecificdocuments 252
Importinglistsofwordsorphrases 253
AddingwordswiththeSpellingwindow 253
LearnFromSentE-mails 254
AddingcontactnamestotheVocabulary 255
Deletingwords 256
UsingtheDon'tRecognizeThatWordCommand 256
About personalizing your Vocabulary
YoucanpersonalizetheVocabularytomorecloselymatchyourwritingstyleandto
recognizeanyspecialwordswhichyoudictate.Youcandothisinseveralways,byadding
wordsorphrases(orlistsofthem),orbyhavingDragonanalyzedocumentsthatreflectwhat
youwrite,andbyusingSmartFormatRules.DragoncanupdatetheVocabularytoreflect
yourusageofwordsandphrases;thisimprovesthelikelihoodthatitwillcorrectlytranscribe
whatyousayinthefuture.
YoucanusethefollowingmethodstoaddordeleteentriesintheVocabulary.
AddingwordsorphrasestoyourVocabulary
Learningfromspecificdocuments
Importinglistsofwordsorphrases
Addingwordsbyspelling
Deletingwords
UsingtheDon'tRecognizeThatWordCommand
Notes
n YouarenotrequiredtotrainnewwordsbecauseDragonNaturallySpeaking
automatically"guesses"thepronunciationsbasedontheirspelling.If,however,your
newwordsarenotrecognizedcorrectly,youshouldtrainthem.
n BesuretosaveyourUserProfileafteraddingnewwordsorthenewwordswillnotbe
saved.
n IfyoumakeunwantedchangestoaVocabulary,youcancreateanewoneorrestore
yourUserProfilefromabackupcopy.
n Ifyouusemultiple-wordphraseswithunusualcapitalization(forexample,
"ComputerWeek"),youcanimproverecognitionaccuracybyaddingthesephrasesto
theVocabularybeforeDragonNaturallySpeakinganalyzesyourdocuments.Add
thesephrasesbyusingthe(say"OpenVocabularyEditor"orclickVocabulary>Open
VocabularyEditorontheNewDragonBarorClassicDragonBar.)orbyincluding
theminlistsofitemsyouimportintotheVocabulary.
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