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Dragon Administrator Guide version 11.5
Adding words, commands, or
vocabularies to User Profiles
You use the nsadmin utility or the Data Distribution Tool to make new words, customized
vocabularies, or new commands available to all User Profiles on a particular installation of Dragon.
Both the nsadmin utility and Data Distribution Tool can work across a network. .
The nsadmin utility lets you use the command line to make new words, commands, and vocab-
ularies available to users. The nsadmin utility can perform only one action at a time. However,
you can create a batch file or script that can perform multiple nsadmin operations on a computer.
The Data Distribution Tool lets you use a GUI to interact with the nsadmin utility and make
new words, commands, and vocabularies available to users.
Note: You can use the Voctool to customize a vocabulary by adding new words or optimizing the
language model for a particular User Profile. For more information, see the Voctool Help.
Using the Data Distribution Tool
With the Dragon Professional, Legal, and Medical editions, you can use the Data Distribution
Tool to interactively make new words, customized vocabularies, or custom commands available
to all users on a particular installation of Dragon.
You run the Data Distribution Tool on each installation of Dragon where you want the new
words or vocabularies to be available to Dragon users.
This section describes:
n Creating the Data Distribution Directory
n Starting the Data Distribution Tool
n Adding and removing custom words
n Adding and removing custom vocabularies
n Adding and removing custom commands
You can also run the nsadmin utility from the command line. For more information, see The
Nsadmin utility for new words, vocabularies, and commands.
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