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Step 2: Your user prole
If you are new to Dragon: A series of screens will guide
you to create the best possible prole for you. Don’t rush
through it. It will determine your initial accuracy.
Once your prole is created, Dragon offers ways to rene
it, including designating specic text to analyze.
If you used Dragon 11 or 12: Dragon 13 will detect
proles on your PC and start its Upgrade Wizard. (If
you do not want to upgrade any prole now, close the
wizard. You can launch it later from the Start menu.)
Important: Once the upgrade completes, we strongly
recommend you launch Accuracy Tuning (see the Audio
menu) and read the What’s New.
Step 3: Before you start dictating
Go through the Interactive Tutorial (its simulations
include practice for dictating, editing and using voice
commands).
Then click the DragonBar’s Help menu and see its
content.
Step 4: Personalize your prole’s
vocabulary
In order to dictate efciently, you should let Dragon learn
what you use: nicknames, jargon, capitalized phrases,
email addresses, etc.
Personalizing your Prole will prevent many errors.
There are several means to do it including having Dragon
analyze text similar to what you plan to dictate. See
“Improve my accuracy” in the Help menu.
The Learning Center
The Learning Center displays sample commands
(global and application-specic).
It contains clickable links to related Help topics.
You can open the Learning Center by saying “Dragon
Learning Center” or “What Can I Say?”
Once installation is nished, make sure your microphone
is connected, then start Dragon (double-click its desktop
icon).