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Using Multiple Vocabularies (editions Professional and up)

Every Dragon user automatically has at least one Vocabulary. Editions Professional and above, allow you to have

several Vocabularies. The advantage of having several Vocabularies is being able to customize each one to

perform best for very different topics or styles of dictation. (It is relatively rare for a person to need more than

three or four.)

For instance, suppose an architect uses Dragon to dictate business letters and site reports, but also frequently

uses it for his community theater group. In his work-related dictations, he might use formal business language and

mention technical terms, brands of materials, the abbreviations for building codes, as well as the names of clients,

contractors and other work contacts. When writing for his theater group, however, his dictation style might

become significantly more casual and the words he uses most frequently would be different.

The documentation contains many details about creating and managing vocabularies. This lesson presents the

essentials.

Creating a vocabulary

The process starts in the Manage Vocabularies dialog

box.

Step 1: Say Manage Vocabularies or use the

DragonBar’s Vocabulary menu. Click New.

(Note: this dialog box also enables you to

manage vocabularies: import, rename,

delete… See the next section.)

Step 2: In the New Vocabulary window, enter a

descriptive name in the Name field. From the

drop-down list, choose the vocabulary on

which you want to base your new vocabulary

(what you see in the list varies if you have the

Legal edition):

 If you want your new vocabulary to contain the customizations already present in your existing

vocabulary, choose this existing vocabulary: e.g. General – Large.

 Otherwise, choose the Base vocabulary.