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Data Distribution Tool : Adding and removing vocabularies

You can use Data Distribution Tool to make a customized vocabulary available to all user profiles on a particular

Dragon NaturallySpeaking installation.

For example, say you have extensively customized a vocabulary using the Voctool. Using the Data Distribution

Tool , you can copy the user's vocabulary to be used as a base vocabulary on any Dragon NaturallySpeaking

installation. By adding a base vocabulary to a Dragon NaturallySpeaking installation, any user profiles created

after adding that vocabulary can use that vocabulary.

Notes

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For a default installation, vocabularies for existing Dragon NaturallySpeaking users are located in:

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

NaturallySpeaking9\users\<user_name>\current

• Vocabulary files end with the *.voc extension.

Before adding a vocabulary

Before adding the new vocabulary with the Data Distribution Tool :

• Copy the vocabulary to a shared location accessible to all the client computers where you want to add the

vocabulary.

• On each client computer where you plan to add the vocabulary, map a network drive to the shared location

you created or reference the network UNC address of the location in the nsadmin command.

Adding a vocabulary

To add a new base vocabulary:

1. Select "Add or remove base vocabulary" from the Data Distribution Tool and click Next.

2. On the screen click "Add". This displays the Add Base Vocabulary dialog.

3. On the Add Base Vocabulary dialog box:

o Give the vocabulary a name. The name should describe the content of the vocabulary, such as

"Astronomy" or "Marketing."

o Select the location of the vocabulary. This can be either a mapped drive or UNC address

o Give the vocabulary an unique numeric ID. Use a value greater than 9000 for the topic ID

parameter.

4. Click OK when you are done.

Adding exported vocabularies

If you used a separate installation of Dragon NaturallySpeaking to create a vocabulary, you can use the Data

Distribution Tool to distribute that vocabulary.

An exported Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabulary is saved as a group of files.