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Once Dragon has heard enough, it takes a moment to process the acoustic information you just provided.
Profile creation is now almost complete!
A first opportunity to adapt your profile’s vocabulary
Dragon will then offer to start adapting its Vocabulary. This step is just a basic initial customization which
analyzes texts in your My Documents folder as well as e-mails sent from your installed email program, if any.
(Later, you will be able to designate specific documents for analysis. You do NOT need to copy documents
into your My Documents folder in order to have Dragon analyze them!)
Feel free to skip this basic step. We recommend that, as soon as possible after your profile is created, you take
advantage of the powerful customization tools described in the following lessons. (For example, you can
have Dragon learn from specific documents located in various folders, and you can import lists of words with
spoken forms as warranted. Remember that, to obtain high accuracy, it’s important to give Dragon a chance to
analyze documents containing your words “in context” as opposed to just adding words and phrases to the
vocabulary.)
IMPORTANT: If some of your documents and sent emails are in a different language or in a radically
different style, skip this automatic step and, once your profile is created, have Dragon learn from specific
documents.
Scheduling Dragon's periodic tasks
The next screen will give you the opportunity to schedule Dragon’s Accuracy Tuning, a process which, after you
start using Dragon, can refine your profile automatically based on what you have already dictated. You will be
free to launch this process manually at any time, from the DragonBar. (Some customers do this shortly after
they turn on their computer, or right before they take a break from their computer to go to a meeting, to
make a call, to have food…)
IMPORTANT: For Dragon’s scheduled tasks to run automatically, you must choose a time when your
computer will be on (not asleep, not hibernating) but Dragon is not running (this includes Dragon being in
QuickStart—see the Help for more information).
To schedule Accuracy Tuning, click the Change Schedule button. Dragon then presents the dialog box Select
Time and Frequency. Be sure to also click this dialog’s Language Model tab, so you can pick a suitable time for
the Language Model Optimization. (Note: Language Model Optimization is typically much faster than Acoustic
Optimization. We recommend running it daily.)