11.5

Dragon Administrator Guide version 11.5
Customizing Vocabularies with the
Vocabulary Tool
You use the Dragon Vocabulary Tool to customize a vocabulary by adding new words and by opti-
mizing the language model. The Vocabulary Tool is only available in VAR and Legal editions of
Dragon.
This section of the Administrator Guide Help describes the Vocabulary Tool Wizard and includes
the following topics:
n Starting Voctool — Starting the Voctool UI and command line.
n Step 1: Introduction— The type of information available that can be modified on the
introduction screen.
n Step 2: Choosing Documents — Selecting documents for the Vocabulary Tool to analyze.
n Step 3:Choosing Word Lists — Selecting word lists for analysis.
n Step 4: Analysis Settings — Specifying how the Dragon Vocabulary Tool analyzes the
documents and word list files you chose.
n Step 5: Analyzing Files — Confirming the file list; stopping and resuming the analysis.
n Step 6:Previewing New Words — Reviewing new words, their frequency, etc.; clearing,
editing, saving, and training words from the word list.
n Step 7: Training Added Words — Selecting the words to train.
n Step 8:Build the Language Model — Building a new language model with the information you
collect.
n Summary Page — Displaying information about the newly-built language model.
n Voctool command line switches — Listing command line switches.
Starting Voctool
There are two ways to start Voctool :
n Click Start> All Programs> Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 > Dragon
NaturallySpeaking Tools > Voctool.
n You can run the Vocabulary Tool using MS-DOS commands. To view a list of command-line
switches for running the Vocabulary Tool , type voctool.exe /? at the prompt inside a
command-prompt window. See Voctool command line switches for a list of switches. By
default, voctool is located in:
C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\Program
Notes
When you start the Vocabulary Tool , you use the Introduction page to select a User Profile and
vocabulary. Before you run the Vocabulary Tool , you can click the Change User/Vocabulary
button to change the user profile. If you try to change the user profile or vocabulary while the
Vocabulary Tool is running, the tool stops and discards any changes it made.
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