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Data Distribution Tool : Add and removing custom words

You can use the Data Distribution Tool to make new words available to all user profiles on a particular installation.

To distribute a set of custom words (for example, a list of new drug names) to a particular installation, you must

first either:

• Create a text (.txt) file and enter each word or phrase you want to add to the vocabulary on a separate line.

Make sure words are spelled correctly. Each word, phrase or name that you add must be on a separate line.

To add a multiple-word phrase, such as "Mayberry Tribune," enter it on one line.

To include a spoken form for a word, type the word followed by a backslash (\) and the spoken form. For

example, to have "Robert F. Kennedy" entered when you say "RFK" type Robert F. Kennedy\RFK.

• If you have Dragon NaturallySpeaking available on another machine, you can use it to create those words

and export the words to a .txt file. For more information, see your DNS documentation.

Notes

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After you have have imported the custom words using nsadmin, you must close your users, then re-open

and save them for the changes to become available.

• Paths can be entered as complete local paths, relative paths, mapped network drives, a UNC path, or the

path to removable media, such as a CD-ROM or ZIP drive. Pathnames that include spaces must be

enclosed in quotation marks.

Before adding the custom words

Once you have created a .txt file (newwords.txt in the following examples) containing the custom words:

1. Copy the .txt file to a shared location accessible to all the client computers where you want to add the

words.

2. On each client computer, map a network drive to the shared location you created or reference the network

UNC address of the location in the nsadmin program.

Adding custom words

To add custom words:

1. Select "Add or remove words to share across vocabularies" from the Data Distribution Tool and click Next.

2. Select the languages of the user profiles that will have the custom words added and click Next.

3. Use the Import button to select the .TXT files containing the custom words you want to add.

You can use the View button to view the files that you added. You can modify the list by using the Remove

and Remove All buttons.

Click Next to continue.

4. The Data Distribution Tool displays a log of all operations it performed.

5. Click Finish when to re-display the Data Distribution Tool main screen; click Cancel to exit..

The NewWords.txt file will be copied to the following directory on each machine where it is run:

\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\Dragon

NaturallySpeaking9\Custom\enx\NewWords.txt