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Dragon Administrator Guide version 11.5
Adding custom commands from a command line
Custom commands are voice commands that you can create and modify to enter text, insert graph-
ics, or activate menus and keystrokes in any application. You can use the MyCommands Editor
to create custom commands or the Command Browser to modify custom commands.
You can use the nsadmin utility to copy a set of custom commands to the data distribution direc-
tory and make the set of custom commands available to all users of a particular installation of
Dragon
Before you use the nsadmin utility, you must have already created a data distribution directory, as
explained in Creating the Data Distribution Directory.
Notes:
n The default installation of Dragon places custom commands for existing Dragon User Profiles
here:
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\Custom\<language>
n After you import the custom commands to Dragon, for the changes to become available to those
User Profiles, you must close your User Profiles, then re-open the User Profiles, and save the
User Profiles.
n You can enter a path as a complete local path, a relative path, a mapped network drive, a UNC
path, or the path to removable media, such as a DVD, CD, or ZIP drive. For more information,
see Using paths with nsadmin.
Use the command line to add custom commands
1. In Dragon, create custom commands.
2. Use the Command Browser to export the custom commands to a .dat file, for example, New-
Commands.dat .
3. If you have not already created it, create the data distribution directory. For more information,
see Creating the Data Distribution Directory.
4. On each computer that a user uses for dictation, in a command prompt, type a command line
using the following syntax, to add the custom commands from the .dat file. In the command,
reference the network address of the data distribution directory in the command:
<PATH>\nsadmin /commands G:\NsAdmin\NewCommands.dat
The next time you open a User Profile, Dragon updates the commands in the User Profiles for the
user.
Use the command line to add custom commands to a language
other than English
Use the /language option to associate commands with a non-English language.
The following command associates the NewCommands.dat file with the language of French.
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