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Chapter 2: Preparing to Install Dragon

Installation checklist

Do all of your workstations meet the recommended system requirements for Dragon? (

Will you install the Dragon software manually at each computer or will installation be unat-

tended? (If the latter, read Installing, modifying, and upgrading Dragon for information on setup

or MSI command-line parameters.)

Which features will you install on each computer?

Which vocabularies do you need to install on each computer?

Note: Installing only selected vocabularies helps conserve disk space consumption

and shortens setup time. A full installation with all vocabularies uses about 4800 MB

and takes about 20 minutes, while an installation with only one vocabulary uses less

than 1800 MB. See Dragon system requirements for more information on disk size

requirements.

Will you install the tutorial (recommended)?

Will you install the text-to-speech component?

Will you set up roaming User Profiles? (Read Setting up the Roaming feature)

If so, where will you place the User Profiles?

In a shared network directory?

In multiple shared network directories? (for example, one per

department or clinic)

In each user’s Windows home directory?

Note: Placing each user’s profile in his or her Windows home directory

is not recommended, because this makes it more difficult for the admin-

istrator to perform operations on multiple User Profiles, such as running

the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer or upgrading User Profiles

to a new version.

On an Internet server running WebDAV (HTTP roaming)?

If not, what location will you designate as the backup directory for each User

Profile?