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CHAPTER 3
Improving Your Speech Recognition
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Keep in mind that a single vocabulary is easier to maintain. If you have
different vocabularies, you may have to add and delete words in multiple
places.
Language data gathered when you run Vocabulary Builder is specific to a
single vocabulary. But acoustic data—information about how you
pronounce different words—applies across vocabularies. When you
correct a word in the Quick Correct list or the Correction dialog box, or
train it in the Train Words dialog box, Dragon NaturallySpeaking adjusts
the acoustic data for that word and all other words with similar sound
patterns.
The one case in which acoustic data isn’t shared across vocabularies is
when a spoken form is added for a word. For example, if you edit the
written form of “Laura” to add a spoken form of “Laura my officemate,”
as in the example on page 43, this pronunciation information is stored in
the vocabulary along with the word, so it’s specific to a single vocabulary.
You can create, open, delete, rename, import, and export vocabularies in
the Manage Vocabularies dialog box. See the next section for details.
Creating vocabularies
This procedure applies only to Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional
and higher editions.
To create a vocabulary:
1 On the NaturallySpeaking menu, point to Advanced and click Manage
Vocabularies. The Manage Vocabularies dialog box opens.
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