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Contents Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon NaturallySpeaking 5 11 Getting started with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 What's new for administrators 12 Auto-saving end-user recognition history data 15 Creation and management of the recognition history log files 16 Contents of the recognition history log files 16 Enabling or disabling the logging of recognition history for an end-user 17 Removing the recognition history log files 17 Enable auto-saving of recognition history during a Dr
Contents What you should know before upgrading from a previous version 69 Installing on or upgrading to Windows 7 or Windows 8 69 Upgrading multiple User Profiles 70 Upgrading Roaming User Profiles: Overview 73 Preparing to upgrade Roaming User Profiles 75 Upgrading master Roaming User Profiles 76 Upgrading end-user systems 80 Upgrading User Profiles that use third-party vocabularies 81 Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) 6 84 Overview of Installing Dragon usin
Contents Feature Variables to Set Through the ADDLOCAL or ADVERTISE Properties Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles 152 158 Setting up the Roaming feature 158 Overview of the Roaming feature 160 Setting up the Roaming feature 164 Creating a network storage location for the Master Roaming User Profiles 165 Where to install and configure Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 167 Storage space required for the Master and Local Roaming User Profiles 169 How Drago
Contents Updating earlier versions of Dragon to support audio redirection 233 Using the PowerMic II through a remote desktop connection 233 Keyboard keys you can assign to PowerMic II buttons 236 System Requirements for using Dragon through a remote desktop connection 237 Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile Adding words, commands, or Vocabularies to User Profiles 240 Using the Data Distribution Tool 240 Creating the Data Distribution Directory 241 Starting the Data Distribution Tool 242 A
Contents Administrative Settings: Miscellaneous tab 276 Administrative Settings: Scheduled Tasks tab 278 Glossary 280 9
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon NaturallySpeaking The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Administrator guide is intended for administrators that deploy and manage installations of: n Professional edition n Legal edition n Dragon Medical Practice Edition The administrator guide refers to these products generically as Dragon NaturallySpeaking. We will mention when a feature applies specifically to one or more of these products editions.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Getting started with Dragon NaturallySpeaking What's New for administrators Dragon on the Web The Nuance web site (www.nuance.com) gives you access to many resources, including frequently asked questions, usage tips, customer stories, customer service information, technical support content, and a detailed comparison between Dragon editions.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon NaturallySpeaking New features Updates to vocabularies and speech models Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 does not include support for Bluetooth-specific speech models or Enhanced Bluetooth. Canadian vocabulary For Canadian customers: When creating a profile, you can now pick Canada as your region to have Dragon's vocabulary supports the unique spellings of Canadian English. For example, "honour" instead of "honor.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide New features Dragon now detects audio devices better. In most cases, when Dragon presents the list of detected devices, you can just pick the device it shows as recommended and continue. In addition, the Microphone Check is now just one screen and its text is easier to read. Important: Using more than one input device is now done by picking Manage Dictation Sources on the DragonBar’s Profile menu.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon NaturallySpeaking New features Server. For details, see Using Dragon through a remote desktop connection and Dragon system requirements. Updated system requirements Updates to the system requirements include support for: -Microsoft® Internet Explorer 9 or higher or the current version of Chrome or Firefox for Online Help -Office 2010 and Office 2013 For details, see Dragon system requirements.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Dragon writes the end-user recognition data into two recognition history log text files. Dragon always stores the recognition history log files in the end-user’s local User Profile directory on the Dragon client computer. Dragon stores the files in this location regardless if the end-user is a roaming or non-roaming end-user. You can only consider the data in the recognition history log files as valid when the User Profile is not loaded.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon NaturallySpeaking In addition, each log file includes the following information: n The name of the User Profile used to create the recognition data. n The name of the vocabulary used to create the recognition data. n The name of the dictation audio source used to create the recognition data.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide n In the local User Profile directory: C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\Users n In the backup locations for the User Profiles: C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\Users\backup Enable auto-saving of recognition history during a Dragon push installation You can enable auto-saving of recognition history when you install Dragon to workstations using an MSI push install. 1. Use administrator privileges to install Dragon on a Windows computer. 2. Start Dragon. 3.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon NaturallySpeaking n Google Chrome 16 or higher Supported web applications Dragon NaturallySpeaking recognizes unique commands for the following Web applications: n Gmail n Hotmail Non-supported browsers and non-supported web applications In non-supported web browsers, an end-user can still use Dragon's basic commands with the Web application, but they won't have access to the commands that work specifically with that application.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Enabling Web application support in a supported browser Dragon's Rich Internet Application extensions install on a computer when you install Dragon. Afterwards, the extension must be enabled to work with a supported web browser. After installing Dragon, the easiest way to enable the extensions is for the end-user to click or say "Yes" to the prompt to enable them the first time the end-user opens one of the supported browsers.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon NaturallySpeaking Enabling Web application support in Google Chrome 16 or higher After installing Dragon, a Dragon end-user performs the following steps to enable web application support or to check the extension settings with Google Chrome: 1. Open Google Chrome. 2. Click the Wrench icon beside the Address bar to open the Google Customization and Control menu. 3. Click "Settings." 4. Click "Extensions." The Dragon RIA Extension for Chrome displays. 5.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Managing Smart Format Rules Dragon NaturallySpeaking can learn from the corrections an end-user makes. If the corrections are format related or related to alternate written forms, Smart Format Rules may display a prompt to allow an end-user to set up corresponding format rules for future dictation.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon NaturallySpeaking 5. To have Dragon display the close confirmation dialog box again, delete the Confirm Dictation Box Close line from the options.ini file. 6. Save the options.ini file. Hide the Dictation Box close confirmation for all created end-users 1. Start Dragon. 2. In Windows 7 or Windows 8, on the Dragon workstation, navigate to C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13 3. Use a text editor to open the nsdefaults.ini file. 4.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Example cmd file content @echo off Echo "Output directory - " %1 Echo "Output filename - " %2 Echo "Output format - " %3 If "%3" == "TXT" ( mapisend.exe -u Microsoft Outlook Profile - p ********* -r %4 -s "Transcribing has been completed" ) If "%3" == "RTF" ( mapisend.exe -u Microsoft Outlook Profile - p ********* -r %4 -s "Transcribing has been completed" ) If "%3" == "DOC" ( mapisend.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon NaturallySpeaking Echo “Output format - ” %3 If “%3” == “TXT” ( bmail.exe -s smtp.companyname.com -t %4 -a "Transcribing has been completed" ) If “%3” == “RTF” ( bmail.exe -s smtp.companyname.com -t %4 -a "Transcribing has been completed" ) If “%3” == “DOC” ( bmail.exe -s smtp.companyname.com -t %4 -a "Transcribing has been completed" ) bmail.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide automatically presses Proceed. 1. On the Start Menu, select Dragon NaturallySpeaking > Dragon NaturallySpeaking Tools > Gather files for support. 2. In the Choose the User Profile to investigate dialog box, select a User Profile. 3. 4. 5. 6. Click Proceed. In the Save As dialog, Choose a place to save the Dragon archive file. Click Save. When the progress bar reaches 100%, click Finished. 7. Find the .dgnarc file and email it to Nuance Technical Support.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon NaturallySpeaking What to do if the Dragon Support Packager produces an error The Dragon Support Packager creates a log file every time it runs. If the packager fails to run properly, the packager creates a log file. You can use the log file and the dump file to view error information if the packager crashes. Every time the packager runs, it overwrites both the log file and the dump file. Location of the Dragon Support Packager log file \DragonSuppo
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide "C:\Program Files (x86) \Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\Program\Natspeak.exe/user "David"" for Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows Server 2008. David is the name of the User Profile. For Roaming User Profiles: Or, if Roaming User is enabled, type the path to the Master Roaming User Profile location, then /user, then the sub-folder if applicable, and then the User Profile name on the network. The text in the target box should look similar to the following: "C:\Program Files (x86) \Nu
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon NaturallySpeaking "C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\Program\Natspeak.exe" /user "http://\" For example: "C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\Program\Natspeak.exe" /user "http://test01.roam.test\Roaming1" n The path to an HTTP or HTTPS location must only contain forward slashes - the same as the Network Location dialog. n Precede the username with a backslash.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Multiple acoustic models and User Profiles on single and multi-core computers If an end-user creates a User Profile on a multi-core computer, when the end-user opens the User Profile on a single-core computer, Dragon uses the first acoustic model for recognition. Dragon does not load the second acoustic model.
Installing, modifying and upgrading Dragon To install Dragon NaturallySpeaking: 1. Be sure your systems meet the system requirements. 2. Prepare for the installation or upgrade by backing up User Profiles before upgrading. 3. Install or upgrade the software by choosing the type of installation. See the table below for installation options. 4. Become familiar with the Dragon file structure and carry out other post installation tasks.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Installation topic Topic link Installation checklists n Installation checklists System requirements n System requirements Preparing for an installation or upgrade n Preparing for an installation or upgrade Installing Dragon on a single computer This topic describes the basics steps for installing Dragon on a single computer. It covers both a Typical/Complete installation and a Custom installation, sometimes linking you to further detail in another topic.
4. Scroll through to the bottom of the log file to view information about the installation error. 5. In the Temp directory, find the msi*.log file with a 'last modified' date and time stamp that is similar to the 'last modified' date and time stamp of the dgnsetup.log file. 6. Use a text editor like Notepad to open the msi*.log file. 7. Scroll through to the bottom of the log file to view information about the installation error.
Chapter 2: Preparing to Install Dragon This section contains information on the prerequisites for installing Dragon, Dragon system requirements, and information on which Dragon products you can install on the same computer. Preparing for an installation or upgrade Before installing, modifying, or upgrading Dragon NaturallySpeaking: n Close all open applications. n Turn off or disable any antivirus software; installation can sometimes trigger a false virus report.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide single individual. If someone else wants to create or use another User Profile, that person must purchase a separate license for Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Volume license agreements are available. File Structure Upgrading from Dragon 11.x or 12.x automatically relocates some Dragon directories and files. For information, see Dragon File Structure.
Chapter 2: Preparing to Install Dragon Profiles, such as running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer or upgrading User Profiles to a new version.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Dragon system requirements During the installation process, the software checks that your system meets the following requirements. If they are not met, Dragon will not be installed. Dragon supports Microsoft Office 2010 & 2013. - RAM: Minimum: 2 GB for 32-bitWindows 7, 8 & 8.1.4 GB for 64-bitWindows 7, 8 & 8.1 and Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012. - CPU: Minimum: 2.2 GHz Intel® dual core or equivalent AMD processor. Faster processors yield faster performance.
Chapter 2: Preparing to Install Dragon Operating systems and RAM Operating system 32-bit 64-bit RAM min Windows Server 2012 X √ 4 GB Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP2 or higher) X √ 4 GB Windows 8, 8.1 X √ 4 GB Windows 8, 8.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide option settings. The space needs to exist on: n Stand-alone installations where end-users work on dedicated computers. n File servers where Master Roaming User Profiles are stored. n Only for Enterprise Profile Management Central computers (sometimes servers) where Master Roaming User Profiles are stored.
Chapter 2: Preparing to Install Dragon User Profile and stores the copy on the local computer. On the other hand, a Roaming User Profile is stored in a network storage location and Dragon does not create a backup copy of a Roaming User Profile. An administrator should create backup copies of all Roaming User Profiles on a regular basis. Coexistence with other Dragon products Coexistence with previous versions of Dragon You can have only one version of Dragon installed on your system.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon This section provides information on how to install Dragon, post-installation tasks, the Dragon file structure, sample commands. Note: Upgrading from Dragon 10.x or earlier to Dragon 13 is not supported. Installing Dragon on a single computer This topic presents the basic steps for installing Dragon NaturallySpeaking on a single computer.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide setup.exe on the DVD. When you start the installation, you might see a message from your operating system about a program that needs your permission to continue. Click Continue to start the installation. 2. After the installation Wizard begins, click Next to proceed to the License Agreement screen. Read the text of the agreement and select I accept..., then click Next. 3.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon log boxes that let you set the options. 7. On the next screen, click Install. 8. Continue following the on-screen instructions. The setup program will install the files for Dragon on your computer. 9. If you did a Custom installation, one or more of the following windows appears: 1. If you checked Modify the application's settings for all users, the installation process will display the Options dialog box.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide selected. Click Finish. 12. On the Product Registration screen, choose to register Dragon online now or register Dragon in seven days, then click OK. 13. To start Dragon, select Start > All Programs > Dragon NaturallySpeaking > Dragon NaturallySpeaking Activating Dragon The first time you start Dragon, you will be prompted to activate your copy of Dragon. If you do not activate the software, Dragon will stop working after you start the product fives times.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon required. l To install and enable the Dragon interactive tutorial and turn off the language tutorial, click the down arrow beside Tutorial and select This feature will be installed when required. 2. Click Next.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Sample custom installation of Dragon Note: This is an example only and is provided to give administrators an overview of a typical installation and the kind of decisions you have to make. Though the example provides recommendations it is not meant as a substitute for your own planning.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon following settings during a custom installation. These settings are applied to all User Profiles created with this installation of Dragon, including User Profiles created using Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 and R2, and Windows Server 2012 limited accounts. 5. Click Next. 6. If you chose the Custom setup type, the installer displays a screen that lets you select the features to install. Select features and click Next.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 1. See Administrative Settings: Roaming tab 2. See Administrative Settings: Miscellaneous 3. See Administrative Settings: Scheduled Tasks 3. If you checked Modify the formatting options for all users, the installation process will display the Auto-Formatting dialog box. For more information on the Auto-Formatting dialog box, see the main Dragon Help file. 11. When installation of Dragon is complete, the installer displays the InstallShield Wizard Completed screen.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon The Commands tab: You use this tab to set options that control how Dragon interprets commands. Unless otherwise indicated, changing these options only affects user profiles created in the future; any other end-users keep their existing settings.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide The View tab: You use the View tab to control the behavior and appearance of the DragonBar and the Results Box.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon The Hot keys tab: You use the Hot keys tab to specify hot key assignments. If your end-users will be using Dragon on a Notebook, then click Microphone on/off and hit the F10 key to change the hotkey.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide The Playback/Text-to-Speech tab: You use the Playback/Text-to-speech tab to adjust the attributes of text-to-speech and playback. In this example, increase the Speed slider slightly. The default value is a little too slow.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon The Miscellaneous tab: You use this tab to set miscellaneous options. In this example n Leave the Have the microphone on but asleep option unchecked unless the enduser cannot or does not want to use their hands to turn the microphone on and off.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide The Data tab: You use the Data tab to instruct Dragon to store corrections in an archive, conserve disk space for better portability of User Profiles, and control how Dragon adapts training, saves recorded dictation, and backs up User Profiles. In this example: n Set the Automatically back up user profile every "n" saves to nothing if your endusers are using the Roaming feature.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon Setting the Administrative Options: Roaming User Profiles The second dialog to open at the end of the installation is the Administrative Settings dialog box. This section describes the Roaming tab of the Administrative options dialog box You use the Roaming tab of the Administrative Settings dialog box to set up the Roaming feature. You must set up the Roaming feature on each computer where you want end-users to dictate with a Roaming User Profile.
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Chapter 3: Installing Dragon 3. The Administrative Settings dialog box also contains several options that you can choose from to indicate how you want a Roaming User Profile to function at each Roaming User Profile location. In addition to the default settings, also enable the Access network at user profile open/close only. 4. You will be prompted to create the default directory if it does not already exist.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Setting the Administrative Options: Scheduled Tasks When the installation is complete, the three customization dialog boxes will open. The second to open is the Administrative Settings dialog box.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon For more information, see the Dragon Help file. Setting Auto-Formatting Options The third dialog to open at the end of the installation is the Auto-Formatting dialog box.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide To set Auto-Formatting Options 1. Set the Auto-Formatting options. 2. Click OK to save your changes in the current tab, close the Auto-Formatting dialog box, and have the changes take effect. Your changes do not take effect until after you close the dialog box. Nuance recommends that you review these tabs to make appropriate choices for your site.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon Post Installation Tasks Once you have installed or upgraded Dragon, you might want to carry out some of these tasks before you proceed: n Cleaning up after uninstalling Dragon n Dragon File Structure n Turning off Dragon's use of Microsoft Active Accessibility Service Cleaning up after uninstalling Dragon NaturallySpeaking The following files will remain on your computer after you uninstall Dragon NaturallySpeaking. C:\Windows\Speech n VText.dll n Vdict.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide User Profiles C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\Users Roaming User Profiles (local folder) C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\RoamingUsers Vocabularies and Acoustic Models C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\Data Custom words and commands C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\Custom\\NewW ords.txt Program files For 32-bit systems For 64-bit systems C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\Program C:\Program Files (x86)\Nuance\Natural
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon Use a command line to turn off Active Accessibility in Dragon for specific applications 1. Exit Dragon. 2. Open nssystem.ini in a text editor. By default, nssystem.ini is located in: C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking1313 See Dragon file structure for information on Dragon paths in other Windows operating systems. 3.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide When an end-user dictates with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Dragon automatically saves all audio and transcribed text in Dragon Recorded Audio (.DRA) files. If the end-user corrects any of the dictated text, Dragon automatically stores these corrections in .enwv files. Both these files are saved in the background. These automatically created .DRA and .enwv files are used by Dragon to optimize the User Profile.
Chapter 3: Installing Dragon Turning on/off creation of .dra patient data files You can choose to turn off creation of the .DRA files containing patient data to further protect the patient's privacy when other security measures are in place, by: n Turning off data collection, which sends data to Nuance for future product improvements. The check box to enable/disable data collection is on the Scheduled Tasks tab of the Administrative Settings dialog box.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon This section contains information on how to upgrade Dragon and Roaming User Profiles, as well as how to upgrade profiles that use third-party Vocabularies. You can update Dragon 11.x and 12.x User Profiles to Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide What you should know before upgrading from a previous version An administrator can upgrade to Dragon NaturallySpeaking from Dragon 11.x or 12.x by following the installation instructions for Dragon NaturallySpeaking, but first, be sure to: n Retain existing User Profiles, to be updated after the installation completes. n Check that it is possible to upgrade from the existing edition to the edition the administrator is installing. For details, see Upgrading Dragon.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon Windows XP 64-bit. Earlier versions of Dragon (version 8.x, 9.0, 9.1) will not install or run on Windows 7, or Windows 8. Upgrade considerations If you upgrade a computer from: n Windows XP to Windows 7 n Windows XP or Windows 7 to Windows 8 and the computer has Version 8.x, 9.x, or 10.x of Dragon installed, that version of Dragon will not work after the upgrade. You cannot upgrade User profiles from Dragon Medical 10.x or earlier to Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide the list by selecting them and clicking the Remove from list button. Once the list of User Profiles contains the profiles you want to upgrade, click Next. Note: If you have end-users with roaming User Profiles in your network, see Upgrading Roaming User Profiles: Overview Current Location The location of the User Profiles to upgrade. User Profile Displays the names of all the User Profiles to upgrade.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon If you upgrade a UK User Profile, the wizard displays a page that lets you select a region for the profile. User Profile Upgrade Wizard: Choose where to store the upgraded profile(s) As the User Profile Upgrade Wizard updates a User Profile to Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the wizard can move a copy of the upgraded User Profile to another location without modifying the old profile. This allows you to use the original profile if you need to a.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Profile or the one that the User Profile Upgrade Wizard assigns to the upgraded User Profile if Dragon does not support the old vocabulary. You can select a new base vocabulary from the drop-down list. Setting a new acoustic model for a User Profile When you click on an Acoustic model line in the User profiles to list box, Dragon displays the New Acoustic Model text box.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon upgrade. n Plan to upgrade the master Roaming User Profiles at a time when they are not being opened by end-users, for example during the night or on a weekend. n Even though the Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 User Profile Upgrade Wizard supports both mapped drives and UNC paths, Nuance strongly recommends that you upgrade your Master Roaming User Profiles on a drive on a computer where Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 is locally installed.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Preparing to upgrade Roaming User Profiles Step 1: Install Dragon NaturallySpeaking13 on the computer where you upgrade Dragon 11.x or 12.x User Profiles Nuance recommends that administrators install Dragon NaturallySpeaking13 on the computer where the Dragon 11.x or 12.x Master Roaming User Profiles are located. If that is not possible, Nuance recommends that administrators install Dragon NaturallySpeaking13 on a separate computer where they will perform the upgrades.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon Step 4: Copy the current Master Roaming User Profiles to the Dragon NaturallySpeaking13 client computer If you install Dragon NaturallySpeaking13 on the computer where the Dragon 11.x or 12.x Master Roaming User Profiles are located, then proceed to Step 5 below. If Dragon NaturallySpeaking13 is not installed on the computer where the Dragon 11.x or 12.x Master Roaming User Profiles are located, perform the following steps on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking13 client computer: 1.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Continue to add User Profiles from other local locations or use the Remove from list button to remove specific User Profiles. Click Next to continue.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon 3. If you choose to upgrade only one User Profile, the wizard displays the number of minutes the upgrade requires to complete the upgrade. 4. If you upgrade a UK User Profile, the wizard displays a page that lets you select a region for the profile. 5.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide is not visible, click Browse, find the correct location, and click Next. 6. The Begin profile upgrading page displays the number of User Profiles that the wizard is prepared to upgrade. Click Begin upgrading to start the upgrade process. The upgrade process can take 2-24 minutes or more per User Profile, depending on the speed of the computer system and the speed of the network. Click Stop at any time to interrupt this process.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon An administrator can optionally rename or remove the Dragon 11.x or 12.x master Roaming User Profiles through the Manage User Profiles dialog box. Step 3: Copy the Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 Master Roaming User Profiles to their network location (Optional) If you were unable to install Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 where you store the Dragon 11.x or 12.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 5. The Network Directories list displays the network location of the current master Roaming User Profiles. If you created a new network directory for the Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 master Roaming User Profiles, you can either click the Add button to add the new network location or select a listed directory and then click Edit to change the path to the new location. When you have finished, click OK to close the Administrative Settings dialog box.
Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon model. End-users may not achieve the same accuracy as they did with the custom vocabulary. To take advantage of the custom language model, contact the third party to obtain a new version of the vocabulary. Step 1: Export custom words added to the custom vocabulary If you added any additional custom words to the vocabulary created by a third party, you must first export those words.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Note: Exporting a vocabulary creates a copy of the four files that make up the vocabulary in the new location. You can access these files via the Data Distribution Tool or the nsadmin tool to create new custom base vocabularies. Step 5: Use nsadmin or the Data Distribution tool to copy the vocabulary you export Using the nsadmin command line or the Data Distribution Tool, you can import the vocabulary you created in Step 2 as a base vocabulary on any Dragon installation.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) This section provides information on using MSI files to install Dragon over a network, modifying Roaming User and other options, using .ini file to install Dragon with a specific configuration, creating and using MST files to install Dragon, installing Dragon from a command-line using natspeak.exe or msiexec.exe, upgrading Dragon and Roaming User Profiles from the command-line, and other related topics.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide n Path to and/or mapped drive of the location where Roaming User Profiles are stored or are going to be stored, are normally set in the Network Settings sub-dialog of the Roaming tab in the Administrative Settings dialog box.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Select Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt (without releasing the mouse), then right click Command Prompt and select Run As.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Overview of Alternative Ways to Carry Out Administrative Installation Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 includes a native Windows Installer (MSI) that lets you install across a network to multiple client computers and customize your installation in the process. In addition, you can use this service to modify, repair, or remove any existing installations.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Understanding and applying the Roaming User Options You can set Roaming User options during an MSI installation of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13. In the command line: n Set the /SETDEFAULTS option to 1 display the Options dialog box at the end of the installation.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Option Roaming UserOn= 0 (or 1) Description and UI equivalent Turns on the Roaming feature. Default 0 = Off Same as the Roaming Tab Enable option. Roaming User Local Cache Directory ="" Sets the location of the local copy of the Roaming User Profile. The default location is: Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\Dragon NaturallySpeaking13\Roami ngUsers\ Same as the Roaming Tab Local directory (for cache) option.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Option Description and UI equivalent (acoustic model for the User Profile), without running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer. After it incorporates the contents of the file into the master Roaming User Profile, it clears that data from the local User Profile, where new data is pulled from subsequent dictation. If the data is being incorporated when you open a roaming User Profile, the process can be time consuming.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Option Description and UI equivalent Access network at user profile open/close only option. Roaming User Always Break Lock=0 (or 1) Ask before breaking locks on network User Profiles (recommended). A network lock prevents opening a Roaming User Profile that is already open. Network problems can cause a lock to become "stuck" and not release even after opening the User Profile is complete.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Option Description and UI equivalent machine option. Roaming ASW Override =0 (or 1) Runs a Volume and Quality Check on the microphone each time you open a Roaming User Profile. Set to 1 if the Roaming feature is enabled and ASW Override is 1. ASW Override and Roaming ASW Override should always have the same setting. Same as the Roaming Tab Set audio levels on each machine option.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Option Log=0 (or 1) Description and UI equivalent same time that the program synchronizes the local and the master Roaming User Profiles. Default 0 = Off Same as the Roaming Tab Copy Dragon log to network option. Roaming UserCop yAcoustic Always=0 (or 1) Copies the User Profile’s acoustic information to the master Roaming User Profile location when you do not want to run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on the master Roaming User Profiles.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Option Description and UI equivalent until you run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on the master Roaming User Profile location and the local and master Roaming User Profile synchronize. When this option is set to 1 (on), the latest acoustic information is always available and automatically synchronized when the master Roaming User Profile is opened from another location.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Option Allow Users to Configure Tasks=0 or 1 Description and UI equivalent An administrators enables this option to allow end-users to access the Scheduled Tasks tab in the Administrative Settings dialog box. Users can use the options in the Scheduled Tasks tab to set schedules for tasks, including the accuracy tuning task and the data collection task.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) can modify the following settings in the nsdefaults.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Options AO Archive Time Limit Description Maximum audio archive size in minutes. The same option in the options.ini file for a particular enduser contains the size of the current audio archive for that end-user. UI Archive Size dialog box, displaying the range of audio archive sizes Default max is 3600000 minutes. 97 Disable command changes for restricted users=0 (or 1) Turns on or off the option that lets nonadministrative endusers add or modify commands.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Options Description UI No Dictation=0 or 1 When No Dictation is on (set to 1) the end-user cannot dictate, but can only correct dictation; used to designate an enduser as a transcriptionist. Correction Only Mode Global MyCommands MacroRecorder=0 or 1 Allows or does not allow the end-user to modify Macro Recorder commands. The end-user should still be able to dictate with those commands, even when not allowed to modify them.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Options Auto Accent AM selection=0 or 1. Description Acoustic Optimizer engine can automatically select an acoustic model that it believes is more suited to your speech. To avoid having this switch occur, set the option to 0. UI acoustic model selection in Acoustic Optimizer In Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13, special conditions apply if you run the Acoustic Optimizer on a User Profile that has two acoustic models.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Options Description UI that automatically runs an optimization process on speech recognition for the currently open User Profile. Allow Users to Configure Tasks=0 or 1 Turning this option on lets end-users set the schedule for accuracy tuning and data collection tasks. Otherwise, these tasks take place on a default schedule.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Options Description and UI [] Display Name assigned to the network directory where Roaming User Profiles are stored, in the Network Directories box. location Address. Path to a network directory, web server, or secure web server where Roaming User Profiles are stored. HTTP Settings (HTTP) 101 type Authentication Type. authscheme=1 Indicates authentication is required. queryforuserpassword Prompt for user and password check box.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Options Description and UI firewalluser Username. Login name of the administrator that can access the firewall. firewallpassword Password. Password to log in to the firewall. firewalldata Firewall Data or Proxy Authorization. Special authentication string for firewall or proxy server, if applicable. SSL Settings (HTTPS) sslcertstore Certificate store text box with no label. Name of the certificate.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide To run the batch file, you enter admininstall.bat and follow it with the location of the Dragon .msi file. Near the top of the batch file, you see the lines that check the parameters entered and if the parameters passed are not acceptable, execute a routine that handles that situation: :rem //Check and analyze input parameters if .%1.==.. goto bad_ args if .%2.==.. goto bad_args if .%3.==..
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Install Dragon on an initial computer and choose the default settings Before you proceed, you should be familiar with installing the product on a single computer from the DVD. For more information, see Installing, modifying and upgrading Dragon. The initial installation is used to set default values for the Administrative, end-user, and AutoFormatting options. These options can then be used to install on other computers using the same values.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide These options do not install any files, but rather extract an installable set of files into the server directory you specify.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Option Description /a Administrative installation. Instructs setup.exe to perform an administrative installation to a network for use by a workgroup instead of a normal installation. This option is required when trying to extract the .msi files. An administrative installation installs a source image of the application onto the network. The image is similar to a source image on a CD or DVD.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Option Description Also creates an MST file for the language you specify, such as 1036.MST. EXTRACTFILES="c:\xyz" Indicates the directory where the extracted .msi/.mst files are to be written. Long path names containing spaces need to be in quotation marks escaped by having a backslash precede each quotation mark (\"). This property is required to extract the .msi files. If the directory you specify does not exist, the installer creates it.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Step 2: Passing MST File to setup.exe to Install Dragon This sample command line launches setup and installs Dragon into the C:\Dragon directory: setup /a /s /v"INSTALLDIR=\"C:\\Dragon\" /qn Installation using the Dragon installation process Perform the following steps to use the user interface of the Dragon installation process: 1. Insert the product DVD in the DVD drive. If the installation does not start, run setup.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Roaming User Profiles). You can find these .ini files under C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\. These .ini files are now considered customized files, because they now contain the custom settings that will be applied to each of the DNS client installations you deploy. Retrieve the nsdefaults.ini and roamingdef.ini files and copy them to a directory where you can access them from the other client computers.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) 6. Insert the product DVD in the DVD drive and search the DVD for the path where the Dragon setup.exe is located. 7. On the computer where you are installing Dragon, to install the same configuration you created during the initial installation, enter the following on the command line (using the customized nsdefaults.ini file) of a single client. You pass the Dragon serial number for the SERIALNUMBER option and the full path to the nsdefaults.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide path>\nsdefaults.ini\" ROAMINGUSERINI=\"C:\\roamingdef.ini\" /L*v C:\Logs\logfile.log /qn Creating Custom Installation Using Microsoft Custom Install Wizard If you are installing Dragon on a network, you can create a custom installation program using a set of tools available from Microsoft. 1. Download and install the tools 2. Run the wizard You are then ready to use the custom installer to install the product.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) 2. Click Next. 3. On the Open the MSI File page of the wizard, shown below, select the .MSI file you want to use to create a custom installation. The compiled .MSI file is located on your installation CD. The files are named: n Dragon NaturallySpeaking : Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 4. The following example uses Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.msi. 5. Click Next. 6. Click Yes when you see the following message: 7. On the Open the MST File page of the wizard, select Create a new MST file. 8. Click Next to continue. 9.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) 10. Click Next. 11. On the Specify a Default Path and Organization page, select the default path for the installation. By default, Dragon installs in \Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 12. Click Next. 13. On the Remove Previous Versions page, keep the default selections and click Next. This page applies only to Microsoft Office and does not affect the Dragon installation. 14. Click Next to keep all the defaults when you come to the Set Features Installation States page, where you select particular components to install. 15. On the next several pages of the wizard, click Next on each, and proceed until you reach the Modify Setup Properties page.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) 16. Use the Modify Setup Properties page, shown below, to add, modify, and set the MSI options of your custom installation. 17. Click the Add button to display the Add/Modify Property Value dialog box, where you modify the MSI installation options. In this example, we add and set the SERIALNUMBER option. 18. In the following Add/Modify Property Value page, enter the new property name SERIALNUMBER and a valid serial number, then click OK: 19.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 20. Continue adding or modifying other MSI options that apply for your environment. Once you are done, click Next. 21. On the Save Changes page, click Finish. 22. When the Custom Installation Wizard page appears, click Exit. This screen displays the location of Windows Installer transform (.MST file) that you created. After you save changes, you can use the resulting .MST file to manage an installation through a Group Policy in Active Directory Services.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) 3. Enter the following command line to install Dragon on this initial computer (ignore any errors you receive regarding the serial number, as it is not required for this in initial installation, unless you plan to dictate later): setup.exe /s /v"INSTALLDIR=c:\Dragon13 /L*v C:\Logs\logfile.log /qn" The /s option sets the silent option for every .exe that setup.exe provides a wrapper for - so that no GUI pops up.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Sub-option Message type sent to log file i Status messages w Nonfatal warnings e All error messages a Start up actions r Action-specific records u User requests c Initial UI parameters m Out-of-memory or fatal exit information o Out-of-disk-space messages p Terminal properties v Verbose output x Extra debugging info (Windows Server 2000 only) + Append to existing log file * Wildcard.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) 4. Enter the following natspeak command: natspeak.exe /setdefaultsoptions 5. When the Options dialog box appears, select the default options that should apply to all client installations and click OK. This dialog box is where you set up all the options under the various tabs (Correction, Command, and so on). In Dragon, you can also program custom actions into the buttons on the PowerMic I and PowerMic II microphones.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide values defined for the options you changed. Example: If the Capitalize ‘allergy’ and ‘allergies’ as ‘ALLERGY’ and ‘ALLERGIES’ option has been turned on, the nsdefaults.ini file contains this statement: 12. Include the newly created nsdefaults.ini file in your MSI package to distribute the file to all end-user workstations where Dragon is installed. For more on natspeak.exe command line options, refer to natspeak Command Line Switches.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Switch Function /diagnose Runs Dragon in diagnostic mode to output info to Dragon.log file and exits. /user Automatically loads the User Profile. /topic Automatically loads the topic (Professional/Legal editions only). /quick Runs Dragon in QuickStart mode, a mode that starts Dragon without loading a User Profile or any speech models on startup of your computer. /SetDefaultOptions Displays the Options dialog box.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide setup.exe /s /v"SERIALNUMBER=#####-###-####-####-## DEFAULTSINI=\"C:\\nsdefaults.ini\" INSTALLDIR=\"C:\\Dragon13\" /L*v C:\Logs\logfile.log /qn" Note: If the installation directory does not have spaces, note how the INSTALLDIR directory is designated in the command line: setup.exe /v"INSTALLDIR=C:\Dragon13 ADDLOCAL=ALL" If the installation directory has space(s), it is surrounded in quotation marks that are escaped out by having backslashes precede them
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Installing the same Roaming User Profile Configuration on Additional computer(s) Use the roamingdef.ini file you created during the initial installation as the input for the ROAMINGUSERINI option in this format (be sure to use the full path to the file when you pass the option): ROAMINGUSERINI=\"C:\\roamingdef.ini\" The default is empty (no .ini file will be used).
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide data. This process does not collect your personal information. Data collection is not available in non-US English versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. You turn on/off the above tasks and set the schedule for those you turn on by passing an option called PERIODIC_TASK to the MSI installer. You set PERIODIC_TASK to a string containing short acronyms for the types of tasks, aco | lmo | dc, separated by vertical bars.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) For example, say you want to do a partial installation of Dragon and you only want to install the General vocabulary. You set ADDLOCAL to NatSpeak, ENUGeneral, and the command line would appear as follows (NatSpeak must be in the setting of ADDLOCAL, unless you set ADDLOCAL to ALL; otherwise, the installation fails): setup.exe /s /v"SERIALNUMBER=#####-###-####-####-## DEFAULTSINI=\"C:\\nsdefaults.ini\" INSTALLDIR=\"C:\\Dra
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Upgrading Your Dragon Installation from the Command Line There are two command line upgrade scenarios: n Major Upgrade—Upgrading from Version 11.x or 12.x to Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13. n Minor Upgrade—Upgrading to a higher point release within the same edition and version of Dragon. For example, upgrading from Dragon 10.0 to Dragon 10.x.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Notes: n Even though the User Profile Upgrade Wizard supports both mapped drives and UNC paths, Nuance strongly recommends upgrading the Master Roaming User Profiles on a drive on a computer where Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 is locally installed. Nuance does not recommend upgrading the Master Roaming User Profiles across a network to either a mapped drive or UNC path; upgrading over a network will take a undetermined length of time.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide In Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 or earlier, if the upgrade installation displays an option to upgrade existing User Profiles to work with this installation, ignore the option, as it does not affect Roaming User Profiles. Administrators manually run the User Profile Upgrade Wizard later. 3. On the end-user systems where the end-users dictate, save and close any open User Profiles on each current Dragon system that uses the Roaming feature.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Continue to add User Profiles from other local locations or use the Remove from list button to remove specific User Profiles. Click Next to continue.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 10. If you choose to upgrade only one User Profile, the wizard displays the number of minutes the upgrade requires to complete the upgrade. 11. If you upgrade a UK User Profile, the wizard displays a page that lets you select a region for the profile. 12.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) not visible, click the Browse button, find the correct location, and click Next. 13. The Begin profile upgrading page displays the number of User Profiles that the wizard is prepared to upgrade. Click Begin upgrading to start the upgrade process. The upgrade process can take 224 minutes or more per User Profile, depending on the speed of the computer system and the speed of the network. Click Stop at any time to interrupt this process.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 17. Run Dragon on the end-user system and open a User Profile. Dragon 10.x or earlier custom words and commands can be re-used in Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13: 1. In Dragon 10.x or earlier, export the custom words and commands 2. In Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13, create a new User Profile 3. In Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13, import the custom words and commands See the Dragon Help for information on exporting and importing custom words and commands.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Products and versions GUID DNS V13 {33EA20FB-5389-4938-BA59-2BCD9BB68F41} DNS V12 {D5D422B9-6976-4E98-8DDF-9632CB515D7E} DNS V11 {EFFA53BC-8C04-2E21-3D90-A13B1697B0CA} DNS V10 and 10.x {E7712E53-7A7F-46EB-AA13-70D5987D30F2} DNS V9 and 9.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 6. Be sure all mapped drives you plan to use are mapped on individual client computers where you are distributing the upgrade. 7. Install any pending Windows updates on clients and reboot as needed before continuing. 8. If you are performing a minor upgrade, skip this step. If you are performing a major upgrade, perform an initial installation on a single computer where you configure the settings of User Profile options, Auto-Formatting options, and administrative settings.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Using setup.exe for Upgrades Note: A Minor upgrade involves upgrading to a higher point release within the same edition and version of Dragon. For example, upgrading from Dragon 10.0 to Dragon 10.x. Although the upgrade does not migrate forward the configuration and Roaming User Profile settings from the earlier version, you can reuse the nsdefaults.ini and roamingdef.ini files you used to install Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Finding the MSI Installer on the Dragon DVD The compiled MSI file is located on your installation DVD. The files for each edition are named after the product name. For example: n Dragon NaturallySpeaking (all editions) or Dragon MedicalDragon NaturallySpeaking 13.msi You can double click on one of these .
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) n For an administrative installation, you pass the /a option to msiexec rather than the /i option. You also need to pass the TARGETDIR option instead of the INSTALLDIR option. n The first time you test this installation, you should pass /q rather than /qn so that if you have neglected to provide information about a setting that does not have a default, you receive a prompt asking for that information.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide n Suppressing Reboot of computer After Installation n Installing Same Roaming User Profile Configuration on Additional computer(s) Additional Options with Extensive Settings for Silent Installations n Installing Some Vocabularies Locally/Others Only On Demand n Installing Text-to-Speech Feature n Reinstalling Dragon with Particular Set of Features n Setting Day/Time of Scheduled Tasks Additionally, you can launch the Online Registration Form After Installation Modi
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) setup.exe /s /v"SERIALNUMBER=#####-###-####-####-## DEFAULTSINI=\"C:\\nsdefaults.ini\" INSTALLDIR=\"C:\\Dragon13\" /qn PRODUCTUPDATEFLAG=-1 REBOOT=ReallySuppress /L*v C:\Logs\logfile.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide WEBREGISTRATION=1 The revised command line would look like this: msiexec /i "Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13.msi" SERIALNUMBER=#####-###-####-####-## DEFAULTSINI="C:\\nsdefaults.ini" INSTALLDIR="C:\\Dragon13" PRODUCTUPDATEFLAG=-1 REBOOT=ReallySuppress WEBREGISTRATION=1 /L*v "C:\Logs\logfile.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Reinstalling Dragon with Particular Set of Features Sometimes you want to reinstall Dragon and add or remove particular features of the product. You can also take this action on the command line using the REINSTALL and REINSTALLMODE options of the MSI installer. You set REINSTALL to those features you want to install or to ALL.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide msiexec /i "Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13.msi" SERIALNUMBER=#####-###-####-####-## DEFAULTSINI="C:\\nsdefaults.ini" INSTALLDIR="C:\\Dragon13" PRODUCTUPDATEFLAG=-1 REBOOT=ReallySuppress WEBREGISTRATION=1 /L*v "C:\Logs\logfile.log" MSI Options Specific to Dragon This section describes the fundamental msiexec.exe options that apply to Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Options DEFAULTSINI="c:\ nsdefaults.ini" Description Indicates a default settings (nsdefaults.ini ) file that the installer uses to change the default behavior of the product for all end-users at installation time. This file must be in an .ini file format; any settings you want to take effect on clients must have a section name encased in square brackets as well as the value and data.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Options Description installation, to indicate whether the installation should automatically check the web for product updates. Automatic product updates are not supported for enterprise installations. A value of 0 (zero) turns the check box off by default, 1 (one) turns it on by default. To disable the option entirely (turn the option off and suppress the display of the check box altogether), set the value to – 1.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Options Description commands and vocabularies. Applies only if your installation displays the Installation Wizard. A value of 0/1 will turn checkbooks off/on accordingly. With SETADMINS=1, no dialogs display during installation if /qn is used for Quiet mode installation.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Note: A Minor upgrade involves upgrading to a higher point release within the same edition and version of Dragon. For example, upgrading from Dragon 10.0 to Dragon 10.x. The following table presents options that apply to a Dragon installation where you select particular features to install. Unless noted otherwise, all property values are in UPPERCASE.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Options Description ADDLOCAL=Feature1, Feature2,... or ADDLOCAL=ALL Set the ADDLOCAL property to a list of features to be installed locally, delimited by commas. To install all features locally (including User Profiles), use ADDLOCAL=ALL on the command line. ADVERTISE=Feature1, Feature2, FEATURE3,... Set the ADVERTISE property to a list of features to be available but not locally installed, delimited by commas.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Options Description conjunction with the REINSTALL property. However, this property can also be used during installation, not just during a reinstall. See REINSTALLMODE for more details. REMOVEOLDPROD=1 Removes the old version of the product before installing the new version. Should be used in major upgrades only. /x Un-installs the currently installed version of Dragon.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) To install a minor upgrade using an .msi file, use this command line: msiexec /i "Dragon NaturallySpeaking13.msi" REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vamus For more information on REINSTALLMODE and the reinstall option codes, see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/enus/msi/setup/reinstallmode.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide When to run the task(s), with times for each of multiple tasks separated by a vertical bar (|). Each scheduled time should be in the format DayOfWeek, hh:mm, where the day of the week is the three letter abbreviation (no period), the time is the 24-hour time, and the comma between them is required. The task runs once a week on the day/at the time you indicate. If you omit the DayOfWeek, the task runs every day at the time given.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Install Dragon on a computer with Windows administrator privileges. Enable the Roaming feature options required in your environment. These must include the Master Roaming User Profile location set in the Network Directories field in the Roaming tab of the Administrative Settings dialog box and any HTTP or HTTPS settings. Test these settings to make sure the Roaming User Profile connection works. Save your settings by closing Dragon.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Feature Sub-feature NatSpeak None Samples None Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13: Sub-features for ENU (US English): (Sample Commands file) TTS (Text- TTSDEU (German Text-to-Speech) TTSENU (US English Text-to-Speech) TTSENG (British English Text-toSpeech) TTSESP (Spanish Textto-Speech) TTSFRA (French Textto-Speech) TTSITA (Italian Text-toSpeech) TTSNLD (Dutch Textto-Speech) Tutorial TutDEU (German Tutorial) TutENX (English Tutorial) TutESP (Spanish Tutorial) TutFRA (Fre
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Feature Sub-feature ENULegal (US English Legal Large) ENUGeneral (US English General Medium, US English Empty Dictation, US English Commands Only) ENUGenSvc (US English Large General) Speech ENX (English)— ENG (UK English) Dragon NaturallySpeaking13: Sub-features for ENG (UK English): ENGGeneral (UK English General Large, Empty Dictation General, Commands Only for the following accents: n General — Use if your accent is not covered by the
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Feature 155 Sub-feature Speech— ITA (Italian) Sub-features for ITA (Italian): Speech— NLD (Dutch) Sub-features for NLD (Dutch) Speech— FRA (French) Sub-features for FRA (French): Speech— ESP (Spanish) Sub-features for ESP (Spanish) n Australian accented English. n Indian accented English. n SEAsian accented English – South East Asian.
Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI) Feature Sub-feature Spanish Empty Dictation General Large) ESP (Castilian Spanish General Large) 156
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles This section describes how to set up, configure, and enable the Roaming feature on client computers. This section also provides information on how to create, dictate with, and upgrade Roaming User Profiles.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Topic Link The Roaming feature n Overview of the Roaming feature Setting up the Roaming feature n Setting up the Roaming feature n Enabling the Roaming feature on each computer where an end-user will dictate n Creating a Roaming User Profile on the local computer n Dictating with a Roaming User Profile Upgrade Roaming User Profiles to Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 n Upgrading Roaming User Profiles: Overview Enabling Roaming User Profiles as part of an MSI instal
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Topic Link Roaming User Profiles for an MSI installation Overview of the Roaming feature The Roaming feature lets end-users dictate with Dragon from different network locations and on different computers without having to create and train individual User Profiles at each location.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Advantages of the Roaming feature It is important to distinguish the Roaming feature from simply browsing to a network directory and creating files there. Nuance recommends using the Roaming feature rather than storing non-Roaming User Profiles in a network directory. Using the Roaming feature, you can: n Minimize network traffic.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Using multiple Roaming User Profile locations If you have a large number of Roaming User Profiles, you may want to divide them among multiple shared directories. This facilitates performing tasks such as scheduling the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on a subset of User Profiles.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Making it easier for end-users to select their User Profiles As described above, the Dragon Open User Profile dialog shows a list of all of the User Profiles in a shared directory (unless you are using HTTP Roaming to limit access to User Profiles). If there are more User Profiles than will fit on one screen, you can train end-users to go directly to a specific User Profile by typing the first few letters of its name.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles n For more information, see Configuring Internet Information Services and WebDAV for HTTP Roaming.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Creating a network storage location for the Master Roaming User Profiles For any installation of Dragon, you must first determine where on the network the Master Roaming User Profiles should be located. Dragon lets you store your Master Roaming User Profiles on: n Any networked computer. You are not strictly required to store Master Roaming User Profiles on a server.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles UNC paths Using a HTTP or HTTPS web server If you choose to use a HTTP or HTTPS web server, the Roaming feature supports the following types of locations for your Master Roaming User Profiles n HTTP (http:)—Connects to computer on the internet or your local intranet. Format is: http:/// n HTTP with SSL (https:)—Connects to computer on the internet or your local intranet with SSL.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide n For more information, see Configuring Internet Information Services and WebDAV for HTTP Roaming. n If you connected to your Roaming User Profile Master Directory over HTTP and you find that the Open User Profile dialog box does not display all the vocabularies and acoustic models for your User Profiles, make sure that you: l Add all file extensions within your Master Roaming User Profile directories and sub-directories to the Registered MIME types list of your IIS server.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Installing Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 on the same computer as your Master Roaming User Profiles Nuance recommends that you install Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 on the same computer where the Master Roaming User Profiles for your network are located. As the system administrator, you are responsible for running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on the network location of the Master Roaming User Profiles.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Storage space required for the Master and Local Roaming User Profiles Adequate storage space must be available for User Profiles that store information about each particular user’s speech patterns. You need to plan for storage space on: n Each computer where you plan to have users dictating with a Roaming User Profile. n The network accessible central computer or computers where Master Roaming User Profiles are stored.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles 1. To set the number of minutes of audio to retain locally, click the Archive size... button and position the slider. 2. To turn off retaining this data locally, check the Conserve disk space required by user profile (for portability) option. A non-Roaming User Profile requires approximately three times as much disk space as a local Roaming User Profile.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide more information on running the Acoustic Optimizer, see Running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer for Roaming User Profiles. n Copies any custom commands created or modified locally (using the MyCommands editor) to the Master Roaming User Profile. n Saves any local end-user options that you changed on the Options or Formatting dialog box to the Master Roaming User Profile, except the options listed below.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles File name or type Copied or updated with the master Roaming User Profile Copied or updated to local cache Acoustic files:*.usr and *.sig At save time if the Always copy acoustic information to network option in the Administrative settings is on. See Acoustic files for more details. Copied if version number on server is different Vocabulary files:*.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide File name or type Copied or updated with the master Roaming User Profile Copied or updated to local cache drafiles.ini the master voice_ container has space. Files are deleted after being copied; aco.ini and drafiles.ini are recreated at zero-length Custom commands created on client PC:Mycmds.dat Copied when User Profiles are saved, or a User Profile is closed and saved. Copied at User Profile open if version number on server is different Options.ini, soptions.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Profiles are synchronized and how much data is transferred in the process. In addition, this table which option controls whether the data is transferred. For more information on what options affect what data gets synchronized between the Master and Local Roaming User Profile, see Setting/selecting Roaming User Profile options. The estimates of the data transferred across the network is for a single Roaming User Profile.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Files copied to the Master Roaming User Profile Acoustic files: *.user and *.sig Transfer Direction & Data Amount 35 MB <----> User Action: Dictation, Audio Setup Transfer time: When the User Profile is saved Vocabulary files: *.voc 18 MB <----> User Action: Dictation, Learn from specific documents, Learn from sent e-mails, Vocabulary Optimizer.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Files copied to the Master Roaming User Profile Transfer Direction & Data Amount Correction 1.3 MB/minute <------ User Action: Dictation, Correction Transfer time: Copied to session folder if the master voice_container has space. Custom commands created on client PC: Mycmds.dat User Action: Changes to some Options on the local PC Transfer time: Copied when a User Profile is closed or saved.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Files copied to the Master Roaming User Profile Transfer Direction & Data Amount Files copied to the Local Roaming User Profile Administrative Setting to enable for Transfer number on the server .INI file changes on client PC: options.ini, soptions.ini, itnoptions.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Files copied to the Master Roaming User Profile Transfer Direction & Data Amount Files copied to the Local Roaming User Profile Administrative Setting to enable for Transfer User Action: Any use of Dragon Transfer time: Copied if the Administrative option is set.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\Program\natspeak.exe”/SetAdministrativeOptions 2. On the Roaming tab, check Enable. 3. Click Apply to save the changes and keep the dialog box open. Note: With the Roaming feature enabled, the Open User Profile dialog box later displays only User Profiles in the Roaming User Profile storage locations.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Note: the location of is per-PC and cannot be changed to an end-userspecific location. To accept the default location (which Nuance recommends), click OK on the Administrative Settings dialog box. You will be prompted to create the default directory if it does not already exist. When you see the following message, click Yes.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Master Roaming User Profiles are located or on an administrator’s workstation. For more information, see Running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer with a Roaming User Profile. Administrative Settings: Roaming tab You use the Roaming tab of the Administrative Settings dialog box to set up the Roaming feature. You must set up the Roaming feature on each computer where you want end-users to dictate with a Roaming User Profile.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles The default location of is: C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\RoamingUsers\\ See Dragon file structure for information about the default location of the RoamingUsers directory for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 on other Windows operating systems. The is a name you assigned as a Master Roaming User Profiles location.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide n For more information, see Configuring Internet Information Services and WebDAV for HTTP Roaming.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Note: With the Roaming feature enabled, the Open User Profile dialog box displays only User Profiles in the Roaming User Profile locations. To let the end-users open both local (non-roaming) and Roaming User Profiles, select the Allow non-roaming user profiles to be opened option on the Administrative Settings dialog box. Clearing this option prevents end-users from dictating with a non-roaming (local) User Profile by accident.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Note: You cannot create a non-Roaming User Profile on an HTTP or HTTPS connection. You can create only Roaming User Profiles on an HTTP or HTTPS connection and only when the Roaming feature is enabled. Setting up HTTP Connection: HTTP Settings You use the HTTP Settings dialog box to define and configure the connection to your web (HTTP) server.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Firewall and Proxy Servers Use Proxy Server Select Use Proxy Server if you are connecting to your HTTP server through a proxy server. Type Select the type of firewall used on the HTTP server from the drop-down list: n HTTP Proxy: Select for a proxy server that specializes in HTML (web page) transactions. n Tunnel: Select if you are connecting to the server with tunneling software.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Connection Number of seconds before Dragon should close the connection to the server either when the connection is idle or after the connection has been open for that duration. Type Sets when the connection timeout in the previous text box applies: n Inactivity: Closes the connection after the Roaming User Profile is inactive for the specified time. n Absolute: Closes the connection after the specified time independent of any Roaming User Profile network activity.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Certificate Store The name of the certificate store for the client certificate on the local computer: The storage location is called the certificate store. A certificate store will often have numerous certificates, possibly issued from a number of a different certification authorities: n MY: A certificate store holding personal certificates with their associated private keys.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide n If you select Using OpenSSL, this functionality is provided by the Cipher List. Test Connection Once you have filled in the information, you can click the Test Connection button to test the connection to the HTTPS (SSL) server. Restore Defaults Restores the default settings. After you click OK, you return to the Administrative Settings dialog box.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Message Solution Connection test successful! n None—test successful. Could not connect to the network location. n Check spelling and syntax of the HTTP address in the HTTP Settings dialog. Check your local network for problems.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Message location Solution n n Check that the Local Master Roaming directory exists. MIME types not set to *.* (the file is .txt). Could not get the size of a newly created directory on the network location. n Apache: Make sure DavDepthInfinity directive is set to "on" for Master Roaming directory. Could not rename a file on the network location n Check permissions on the Master Roaming directory.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles verifies that directories contain valid Dragon User Profiles. Directory structures do not display with the Classic setting. Allow non-Roaming User Profiles to be opened Select this box to permit the end-user to open non-Roaming (local) User Profiles. Nuance recommends clearing this option to prevent anyone from dictating with a non-Roaming (local) User Profile by accident. Merge contents of vocdelta.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide n Vocabulary files - when the local end-user modifies the vocabulary with information from the Learn from specific documents, Learn from sent e-mails, or Vocabulary Optimizer dialogs or when the Roaming and Local copies are different. n Acoustic archive files - these files will be copied to session folder if it exists. Once the master voice_container limit is reached, nothing more is copied.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles This option is turned on by default Prompt before saving to network location An administrator can set the Prompt before saving to network location option to let endusers choose where to save their User Profile.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide The transfer of acoustic information based on this option's setting is not limited by setting the Disk space reserved for network archive option. Setting this option will copy approximately 15 MB across the network at synchronization if the Roaming and Local copies are different. Conserve archive size on network Select this box to prevent copying of .
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles synchronize the local and master Roaming User Profiles. n When an end-user that is using a Roaming User Profile exits Dragon, switches User Profiles, closes a User Profile, or saves a User Profile, Dragon saves changes to the Local Roaming User Profile and then synchronizes these changes with the Master Roaming User Profile on the network.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 3. Select the non-roaming local User Profiles you want to convert to a Master Roaming User Profile. 4. Click the Advanced button and then select Save to Roaming from the menu that pops up. The Save to Roaming dialog box appears. 5. Under Select Roaming Master Location to save the user, select the appropriate Master Roaming User Profile location from the drop-down list. In the Choose subdirectory if wanted field, you can select a subdirectory within the Roaming Master location.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles accident. For more information, see Enabling the Roaming feature on each computer where an end-user will dictate. n If you connect to your Roaming User Profile Master Directory over HTTP or HTTP with SSL, and you find that the Open User Profile dialog box does not display all the vocabularies and acoustic models for your User Profiles, make sure that: The .INI extensions is registered in MIME types (ini.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer for Roaming User Profiles When the Roaming feature is enabled on a workstation, that workstation cannot run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer or the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler because the optimizer or scheduler can only be run on the Master Roaming User Profile.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles 2. On the Windows Start menu, select Programs > Dragon NaturallySpeaking > Dragon NaturallySpeaking Tools > Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler to start the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler. 3. Access the master directory of the Roaming User Profiles you want to optimize: select File > Set Speaker Directory from the menu of the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler window.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide accessible to each account on the web server. File security is a function of the web server and the WebDAV software. Making it easier for end-users to select their User Profiles As described above, the Dragon Open User Profile dialog shows a list of all of the User Profiles in a shared directory (unless you are using HTTP Roaming to limit access to User Profiles).
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles acoustic models for your User Profiles, make sure that you: l Check that no files in your User Profile directory are locked, password protected, or otherwise access-restricted by your server permissions.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 8. Click Apply to save the changes. 9. Make sure that the files in your Roaming User Profile directory are not locked, password protected, or otherwise restricted for access by server permissions. Configuring Dragon internet roaming Perform the following steps to configure Dragon internet roaming on all workstations. 1. Start Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13. 2. Open the Administrative Settings dialog. On the Dragon Bar, select Tools > Administrative Settings. 3.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Upgrading Roaming User Profiles: Overview This section describes how to upgrade Roaming User Profiles to Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13. Since the Local Roaming User Profile is a copy of a subset of the end-user data taken from the master Roaming User Profile, an administrator cannot directly upgrade the Local Roaming User Profile when they upgrade the local Dragon installation to Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide upgrade those Master Roaming User Profiles directly to Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 Master Roaming User Profiles. If an administrator is unable to install Dragon where the current Master Roaming User Profiles are located, Nuance recommends that the administrator: n Install Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 on a separate computer where the administrator will perform the upgrades.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles i. In Dragon 10.x or earlier, export the custom words and commands ii. In Dragon NaturallySpeaking13, create a new User Profile. iii. In Dragon NaturallySpeaking13, import the custom words and commands Step 2: On the current Dragon end-user systems that use the Roaming feature On the end-user systems where the end-users dictate using the Dragon 11.x or 12.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide iii. On the Roaming tab, make sure Enable is not selected. 2. Close Dragon. 3. Follow the instructions in the next section, Upgrading master Roaming User Profiles. See "Upgrading User Profiles to Dragon NaturallySpeaking13" in Dragon - What's New for administrators for more information. Upgrading master Roaming User Profiles You must use the User Profile Upgrade Wizard to upgrade master Roaming User Profiles to Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles Continue to add User Profiles from other local locations or use the Remove from list button to remove specific User Profiles. Click Next to continue.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 3. If you choose to upgrade only one User Profile, the wizard displays the number of minutes the upgrade requires to complete the upgrade. 4. If you upgrade a UK User Profile, the wizard displays a page that lets you select a region for the profile. 5.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles not visible, click Browse, find the correct location, and click Next. 6. The Begin profile upgrading page displays the number of User Profiles that the wizard is prepared to upgrade. Click Begin upgrading to start the upgrade process. The upgrade process can take 224 minutes or more per User Profile, depending on the speed of the computer system and the speed of the network. Click Stop at any time to interrupt this process.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide the original profiles. This ensures the original profiles are available in case someone requires them. An administrator can optionally rename or remove the Dragon 11.x or 12.x master Roaming User Profiles through the Manage User Profiles dialog box. Step 3: Copy the Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 Master Roaming User Profiles to their network location (Optional) If you were unable to install Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 where you store the Dragon 11.x or 12.
Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles 3. Click Administrative Settings on the DragonBar Tools menu. This displays the Administrative Settings dialog box. 4. On the Roaming tab, select Enable. 5. The Network Directories list displays the network location of the current master Roaming User Profiles.
Chapter 7: Using Dragon through a remote desktop connection This section contains information on using Dragon through a remote desktop connection, including support for using the PowerMic II and Terminal Services.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Tasks Topic Overview of how client users can remotely connect to Dragon running on a remote computer.
Chapter 7: Using Dragon through a remote desktop connection End-users can use Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 on the remote computer with the same applications they use when Dragon runs on a workstation.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide running Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13, you must: n enable the audio recording option on the remote client software n enable the audio recording redirection policy on the remote computer Important notes The number of concurrent end-users that can simultaneously use Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 on a remote computer is determined by a number of factors, including disk space capacity and network bandwidth.
Chapter 7: Using Dragon through a remote desktop connection 4. If using Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise or Windows Server 2012, configure the server to allow connections from any version of Remote desktop (Control Panel > System Properties > Remote). 5. If using Windows 8 Professional and Enterprise, configure the workstation to allow remote connections (Settings > System > Remote settings).
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide n PMIIControl.exe - the Powermic II Button Control application: a standalone application that provides a way to customize the buttons on the PowerMic II. The buttons can be used with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 while working across the remote desktop connection, and can also be used with local applications, independent of installing and using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13. User Profiles and using Dragon through a Remote Desktop session 1.
Chapter 7: Using Dragon through a remote desktop connection Overview of configuring a PowerMic II for use with Dragon through a remote desktop connection 1. On the local machine, add the PowerMic II as a dictation source to a User Profile. Make sure to choose USB as the device type. 2. Run the Audio Setup Wizard on the local machine to ensure the PowerMic II is properly detected and high-quality audio is available. 3. Configure the PowerMic II buttons using the PowerMic II Button Control application.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Configuring the remote computer 1. Ensure the remote computer meets the system requirements. See System Requirements for using Dragon through a remote desktop connection for more information. 2. Make sure that the "Remote audio" recording device already exists on: -Windows Server 2008 R2 -Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise -Windows 8 Professional and Enterprise -Windows Server 2012 3.
Chapter 7: Using Dragon through a remote desktop connection 4. Select Add Roles. 5. On the Before You Begin screen, click Next. 6. On the Select Server Roles screen, select Remote Desktop Services, click Next. 7. On the Remote Desktop Services screen, click Next.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 8. On the Select Role Services screen, select Remote Desktop Session Host, click Next. 9. On the Uninstall and Reinstall Applications for Compatibility screen, click Next.
Chapter 7: Using Dragon through a remote desktop connection 10. Select Do not require Network Level Authentication , click Next. 11. On the Specify Licensing Mode screen, click Next. 12. Click Next.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 13. Select the Audio and video playback option and the Audio recording redirection option.
Chapter 7: Using Dragon through a remote desktop connection 14. Confirm your selections, and click Install. The Installation Progress screen display the status of the installation. 15. On the Installation Results screen, verify that the installation was successful. Click Close. 16. Restart the computer. 17. Proceed to Configuring Remote Desktop Connection for Windows Server 2008 R2 Part 2.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 4. Enable the Allow audio recording redirection option: on the Allow audio recording redirection screen, click Enabled and Press OK. 5. Launch regedit on and set the following registry setting to 0: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp fDisableAudioCapture REG_DWORD 0x00000000 6. 7. 8. 9. Open the Control Panel. Navigate to System and Security > System. Select Remote.
Chapter 7: Using Dragon through a remote desktop connection 5. Enable the Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop (less secure) option. 6. From a command prompt, run gpedit.msc.\ 7. Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Device and resource redirection. 8. Enable the Allow audio and video playback redirection option. 9.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Configuring the client computer to connect to Dragon through a remote desktop connection After you install Dragon on a remote computer and Dragon Client for Remote Desktop on each client computer, perform the following steps on each client computer that will connect to Dragon on the remote computer. 1. Ensure the client computer meets the system requirements. See System Requirements for using Dragon through a remote desktop connection for more information. 2.
Chapter 7: Using Dragon through a remote desktop connection 5. Select the Local Resources tab, click Settings. 6. Select Play on this computer and Record from this computer, and click OK.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide nection. 7. Recommended only for the PowerMic: On the Local Resources tab, set the Apply Windows.key combinations field to Only when using the full screen. Using full screen lets you use the PowerMic II Button Control application correctly. Note: If not using full screen mode, key combinations may not work as expected and may be limited.
Chapter 7: Using Dragon through a remote desktop connection 8. Recommended only for the PowerMic: On the Display tab, set the Display configuration to Full Screen.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 9. In the Windows sound settings, verify that Remote Audio device appears. Updating earlier versions of Dragon to support audio redirection As mentioned in other sections, whenever you create a new User Profile and want the ability to access Dragon with Remote Desktop Connection 7, you must perform short training.
Chapter 7: Using Dragon through a remote desktop connection 2. Double-click PMIIControl.exe. The following screen appears: 3. Place your cursor in the text box under Button Pressed Key Sequence.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 4. Enter the Windows keystrokes that will be sent to the remote computer when you press the microphone button, release the button, or press and release the button. l l l 235 Button 1: is set to send the sequence {Shift + Ctrl+D}, which is assigned to the Dragon desktop shortcut and will start Dragon. Simply pressing Button 1 starts Dragon ; nothing happens when you let go of the button.
Chapter 7: Using Dragon through a remote desktop connection Notes: Notes: Configuring the PowerMic II buttons n If you type a letter key (A-Z), the system automatically adds "Ctrl+Alt" as a modifier. n If you type a digit (0-9), the system adds "Shift+Alt" as a modifier. n Support is present for the Ctrl and Alt modifiers for all keys; Shift can only be allowed with another modifier, followed by a letter or digit key. For example, you can assign “{Shift+Extended -},” but not “{Shift -}.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide n LEFTARROW n MINUSKeyPad n PAGEDOWN n PAGEUP n PLUSKeyPad n RIGHTARROW n SLASHKeyPan n STARKeyPad n TAB n UPARROW System Requirements for using Dragon through a remote desktop connection n Dragon client: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13, Dragon Professional or Legal.
Chapter 7: Using Dragon through a remote desktop connection n Client Hardware: Disk space: 8 MB n Dictation source: End-users can use the same types of dictation sources as for a local installation of : Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13. l Smartphones: Apple iPhone 3GS and higher, Smartphones and tablets using Android OS 2.2 and higher. See Using a smart device as a microphone over VPN for details.
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile This section contains information on how you can add or remove the custom words, vocabularies, and commands for a User Profile. 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.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide n Creating the Data Distribution Directory n Starting the Data Distribution Tool n Adding and removing custom words n Adding and removing vocabularies n Adding and removing custom commands You can also run nsadmin from the command line. For more information, see Nsadmin utility for new words, vocabularies, and commands.
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile 6. When the Administrative Settings dialog box opens, if the user opens automatically, click Cancel to close the user or go to the DragonBar and select Profile > Close User Profile. 7. Click the Miscellaneous tab. 8. In the Data distribution location text box, click Change... and browse to a location where you want Dragon to store custom words and commands. 9. Click OK. 10. Click Apply to save the changes. 11. Click OK to close the dialog box.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Before you use the Data Distribution Tool, you must create a data distribution directory. For more information, see Creating Data Distribution Directory. You must first either export words from an existing user profile or create a text file of custom words (for example, a list of new drug names) before you can distribute them to a different installation of Dragon.
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\Dragon NaturallySpeaking13\Custom\enx 3. Click Next. 4. Associate a language with the custom words. 5. Click Next. 6. When the list of files appears, use the Import button to select the .txt files that contain custom words. To view the content of a file, select the file and click View. To remove a file from the list of files, select the file and click Remove. To remove all files from the list, click Remove All.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Use the Data Distribution Tool to add a vocabulary 1. In the Data Distribution Tool, select Add or remove base vocabulary. 2. Click Next. 3. Click Add to add a Base Vocabulary. Dragon displays the Add Base Vocabulary dialog. 4. In the Add Base Vocabulary dialog box: n Give the vocabulary a name. The name should describe the content of the vocabulary, such as Astronomy or Marketing. n Select the location of the vocabulary, either a mapped drive or a UNC address.
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile MyCommands Editor to create custom commands or the Command Browser to modify custom commands. You can use the Data Distribution Tool to copy a set of custom commands to the data distribution directory and make the set of custom commands available to all users at a particular installation of Dragon. Before you use the Data Distribution Tool, you must have already created a data distribution directory, as explained in Creating Data Distribution Directory.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide The next time you open a user, Dragon updates the commands in the associated User Profile. Use the Data Distribution Tool to remove shared commands 1. In the Data Distribution Tool, select Add or remove shared commands. 2. Click Next. 3. Select the languages for the User Profile that you will remove words from. 4. Click Next. 5. In the Existing shared commands list, select the command. 6. Click Remove. 7. Click Next.
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile The nsadmin utility supports both mapped drives and UNC paths. For more information, see Using paths with nsadmin. Before you can use the nsadmin utility, you must create a data distribution directory. For more information, see Creating Data Distribution Directory. Start the nsadmin utility 1. Select Start > All Programs > Dragon NaturallySpeaking > Tools > NSAdmin nsadmin starts in a DOS window and lists the nsadmin syntax.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Create a text file that contains custom words Perform one of the following two actions before you distribute a set of custom words to a particular installation of Dragon: Create a text file that contains custom words (missing or bad snippet) See also "To reuse word lists from earlier versions of Dragon" in the main Dragon Help file.
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile Note If you add custom words to a Commands Only vocabulary, Dragon does not retain those words if you upgrade the user at a later date. In general, you should not add custom words to a Commands Only vocabulary. Adding and removing custom Vocabularies from a command line You can use nsadmin to make a customized Vocabulary available to all users on a particular installation of Dragon.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide has the greatest recognition accuracy on dual-core systems with more than 2 GB of RAM). To check this, select the Advance button on the Creating a User Profile screen of the New User Profile wizard and make sure that BestMatch IV is selected. Prepare to use the command line to add a Vocabulary 1. If you have not already created it, create the data distribution directory. For more information, see Creating the Data Distribution Directory. 2.
Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile \nsadmin /vocabulary delete The following nsadmin command deletes a Vocabulary with a topic id of 9005: \nsadmin /vocabulary delete 9005 Adding custom commands from a command line Custom commands are voice commands that you can create and modify to enter text, insert graphics, 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.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 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. \nsadmin /commands G:\NsAdmin\NewCommands.dat /language=fra Use the command line to overwrite a custom command file Use the /overwrite option to overwrite an existing command file. The following command overwrites the NewCommands.
Chapter 9: Maintaining a Dragon installation This section contains information on the tools and procedures you can use to maintain Dragon installations, including User Profiles and vocabularies. You can also view information on resources that can help you trouble shoot issues that may occur in Dragon.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 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 (s
Chapter 9: Maintaining a Dragon installation take an extra minute or two complete and is always beneficial – especially when new custom words have been added. Running Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on Non-Roaming User Profiles An open local end-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.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 5. If the end-user has not dictated and corrected recognized text since the last time the optimizer was run, you receive this message: There is no new data in the acoustic archive. Acoustic Optimizer does not need to be rerun. Click OK and the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer opens with the Perform Acoustic Optimization option grayed out. 6.
Chapter 9: Maintaining a Dragon installation the Select User Profiles dialog box. a. In the Select User Profiles dialog box, use the Add> and > or <
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 5. When the Browse For Folder dialog box opens, navigate to the folder where you want to store the exported User Profile (or create a new folder by clicking the Make New Folder button) and click OK. 6. When a dialog box opens displaying a message indicating the export was successful, click OK. 7. Repeat steps 3 through 6 for each set of User Profiles you want to export. 8. Click Close to close the Manage User Profiles dialog box. 9.
Chapter 9: Maintaining a Dragon installation Dragon displays the Profile Restore wizard when it cannot load a User Profile. End-users can also launch the Profile Restore wizard through the Manage User Profiles dialog box. . Dragon places corrupt profiles in to the 'BadUsers' directory located beside the 'Users' directory. To back up a User Profile: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. On the DragonBar, select Profile > Manage User Profiles. The Manage User Profiles dialog box opens. Select a User Profile in the list.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Dragon log filename format The Dragon log filename format is “Dragon_Date_Time.log”: n Date: the date when the file was created in YYYYMMDD format. n Time: HHMMSS in 24-hour format. The log file is named “Dragon.log” when the log services is updating the file. When the log file is closed, the log service renames the file using the “Dragon_Date_Time.log” format. For example: “Dragon_20130820_105023.log”: This Dragon log was created on the 20th of August, 2013, 10:50:23.
Chapter 9: Maintaining a Dragon installation 4. Copy the error message log file (Dragon.log) to a safe place. To locate this file, click Start > Programs > Dragon NaturallySpeaking > Show Dragon Log. In Dragon 13, the Dragon.log file is located in the following directory: %programdata%\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\logs\WindowsUserName WindowsUserName is the name of the user that is sending messages to the log service. 5. Exit Dragon and start it again.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 4. In the Refine by Category drop-down list, select a category to further refine the search criteria. 5. In the Search by Keyword field, type the words that would be expected to be found in the pages that contain the answer. Do not use words such as "how", "why", "the", "in", or "on". 3. Beside the Search by Keyword field, click the magnifying glass to start the search.
Chapter 10: Working with Custom commands This section contains information on how you can use tools in Dragon to control access to your custom commands. Managing and Securing Custom Commands Make your custom commands more secure in two ways: To prevent users from editing command files, convert any XML files of commands to DAT format. For details see Using the Convert XML to DAT tool. To prevent any Dragon end-users from editing the commands, lock the commands and then import them.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Convert XML to DAT syntax Convert XML to DAT (mycmdsxml2dat.exe) uses the following syntax: mycmdsxml2dat.exe [options] Parameters Type Description Required The full path to the local copy of the current end-user's .DAT file Required The full path to the .XML file -v Optional Validates the specified .xml file over the Internet with a Nuance DTD (Document Type Definition) file. Disabled by default.
Chapter 10: Working with Custom commands 4. Enter the following on the command line: protectcmds.exe [] 5. Once you press return, after an end-user imports these commands, if that end-user attempts to view, copy, or edit any of them, the following message indicates that the commands cannot be edited: The command was protected by . Please contact for more information.
Chapter 11: Commands that perform actions based on the application state This section contains information how to create and use structured commands that perform actions based on the state of the application. About Structured Commands Dragon includes an extension to text and graphics commands that lets you set the values of variables in text blocks based on voice input.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Structured Commands Samples Importing Sample Commands Methods For more information on the methods used by the sample commands, refer to the following: n Global Methods SetState GetState n EngineControl Methods MyCommandsActiveState PromptValue Structured Commands Samples Dragon includes several sample text and graphics commands with variables and sample structured commands. You can import the samples into Dragon to use them as templates for your own commands.
Chapter 11: Commands that perform actions based on the application state GroceryListSample_WordPad GroceryListSample_WordPad.xml contains Advanced Scripting commands similar to those of GroceryListSample_DragonPad.xml. It demonstrates how to set and change command states and to use the command prompt in WordPad and uses a different coding style.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide document based on the sample template. Both the template and the commands are designed to work in Microsoft Word 2003 or 2007. Importing Structured Commands You can import existing structured commands, such as the Structured Commands Samples, into Dragon to use as templates for your own commands. Use the following procedure to import the sample structured commands that are supplied with Dragon: To import the sample structured commands: 1.
Chapter 12: Configuring administrative features in Dragon This section contains information how to use the Administrative options, in the Administrative Settings dialog box, to set and control many administrative features in Dragon.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide 1. Click the Add button. You use the Roaming User Network Location dialog box to define the network location of the master Roaming User Profiles. The location you pick must be accessible to all computers on the network that you want available for dictation with Dragon. 2. Set the Display Name and the Address under Network Location. The Roaming feature supports the following types of locations: n Mapped Drive—the format is: :\. For example, y:\roaming
Chapter 12: Configuring administrative features in Dragon Restore Defaults Returns the Administrative Settings dialog box to the state it had when you first installed Dragon. Note that the default is to have the Roaming feature turned off.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Administrative Settings: Roaming User Network Location You use the Roaming User Network Location dialog box to define the network location of the master Roaming User Profiles. The location you pick must be accessible to all computers where end-users will dictate using a Roaming User Profile.
Chapter 12: Configuring administrative features in Dragon 1. Under Network Location, enter the URL address of your HTTP or HTTPS server where your master Roaming User Profiles are located. 2. Click n HTTP Settings...to display the HTTP Settings dialog box, where you can set information specific to your HTTP connection like Authentication, Firewall, and Proxy Server information. You can also test your connection to the HTTP server from this dialog box. For more information, see HTTP Settings.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Check for product updates at startup Automatically looks on the Nuance Web every time you start Dragon. Any change to this option does not take effect until you restart Dragon. Do not allow restricted users to add or modify commands Select this check box to prevent restricted Windows users from adding or modifying Dragon commands. Selecting this option allows only end-users logged on with administrator privileges to add or modify commands..
Chapter 12: Configuring administrative features in Dragon If you are using .Dragon NaturallySpeaking, see Using multiple acoustic models with a User Profile for information on acoustic model selection and User Profiles that use two acoustic models. Restore Defaults Returns the Administrative Settings dialog box to the state it had when you first installed Dragon. Note that the default is to have the Roaming feature turned off.
Dragon 13 Administrator Guide Configure Click Configure to open the Select Frequency, Data Collection tab and set the Data Collection schedule. You are immediately asked to log in with your Windows Administrator password to make a schedule change. After you log in, you can set one schedule for Acoustic model tuning and another for Language Model tuning by clicking the appropriate tab and choosing Daily, Weekly, or Monthly and the start date and time.
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