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Copying or Transferring a User Profile

As you learned, each person who uses Dragon NaturallySpeaking creates a User profile, which the software

holds in a set of files that contains, among other things, acoustic and lexical data. When you add a

personalization to the Vocabulary (spoken form, alternate written form, capitalization property…), correct a

recognition error, read a training text, or change an option, Dragon can save these changes in the open profile.

Although Dragon automatically creates a profile backup (by default, every five times the profile is saved), it is

a good idea to keep your own record of customizations, by exporting your custom words for instance, or noting

what Word Properties you have changed.

You can also copy your whole profile, for safe-keeping or to make it available on another computer. In editions

Premium and above, transferring a profile is a simple two-part process accomplished through the Manage User

Profiles dialog box.

Step 1: Say manage user profiles (or choose Manage User Profiles in the DragonBar’s Profile menu). In the

Manage User Profiles dialog, select your profile, then choose Advanced > Export. (You may see a

message about saving changes to the current profile.)

Step 2: A Browse dialog opens. Choose a destination (if you wish, make a new folder) then click OK.

If both computers are on a network with a shared drive, this drive is probably the easiest location.

Otherwise, you can export your profile to a media storage device, such as a portable USB drive.

Now that your User profile is exported, it can be imported:

Step 1: From the second computer, open the Manage User Profiles

dialog. Choose Advanced> Import.

Step 2: When the Browse window opens, locate the folder containing

the exported profile (this folder bears your profile’s name).

Once it is highlighted, click OK.

Key points about exporting and copying a user profile

 You must export the profile from the original computer, then import it to the recipient computer.

 Exporting and importing profiles is done through the Manage User Profiles dialog box—available through

the DragonBar’s Profile menu or by saying manage user profiles.

The documentation contains more information about managing User profiles: deleting, renaming, backing up,

restoring… See for instance topics on Dragon’s Roaming User feature (available in Professional and higher

editions), which presents administrative advantages and is particularly useful for people who frequently dictate

from different PCs connected to the same network.