11.5

Chapter 9: Maintaining a Dragon installation
Using Acoustic and Language Model
Optimizer and Scheduler Tools
You run Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler to:
n Choose to optimize the acoustic files for the user profile
n Choose to optimize the language model for the user profile
n Schedule one or both types of optimization to occur on a particular day or time at particular
intervals
n Enable or disable the scheduled optimizations
n Separate procedures exist for running the optimization on a Non-Roaming User Profile (see
Running Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on Non-Roaming User Profiles) or a
Roaming User Profile (see Running Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on Roaming User Profiles
on page 308).
Running Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on
Non-Roaming User Profiles
An open local user cannot run the optimizer tools on User Profiles. Only an administrator can run
the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer or the associated Scheduler tools. You must
have Windows Administrator privileges (at the operating system level) on the computer where
you are running the Scheduler . If you want to optimize a Roaming User Profile on the computer
where you are running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer, disable roaming and browse
to the Master Roaming User Profile location as if it were local.
As system administrator, you are responsible for running the Acoustic and Language Model
Optimizer on the network location of the Master Roaming User Profiles. You can install Dragon
on the computer where the Master Roaming User Profiles are located or on any computer that has
network access to the Master Roaming User Profiles, then run the Scheduler . Later, any opti-
mizations that result from running these tools are copied to the Local Roaming User Profile when
Dragon synchronizes it with the Master Roaming User Profile.
You can run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer from the Windows Start menu
without opening a User Profile, or you can run it from the DragonBar using the Tools menu
when a User Profile is open as indicated here.
Select Start > All Programs > Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 > Dragon Nat-
urallySpeaking Tools > Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler .
Running the Acoustic and Language Model
Optimizer on a multi-core computer
If a non-Roaming User Profile with a BestMatch IV speech model is created and used on a multi-
core computer, when an administrator runs the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on that
profile on a single-core computer, all accuracy improvements may not be applied to the profile.
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