11.5

Customizing the Vocabulary from Your E-Mail

As you learned, Dragon can adapt its Vocabulary based on designated documents. It also has the ability to

quickly learn from your usage of several e-mail programs: Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, and

Windows Mail. By “studying” the e-mails you sent as well as the recipient names, Dragon can identify

potentially useful contact names to add to the Vocabulary, as well as adapt its statistical information on word

usage (frequency and context). This will help it transcribe your dictations more accurately.

You should take advantage of this tool as soon as possible after creating your User profile.

Step 1: Say open Accuracy Center, then say or click the link Increase accuracy from e-mail.

Step 2: The tool will detect supported e-mail programs installed on your computer and display their names

(this may take a moment). Check the checkbox of the program(s) you want Dragon to analyze.

Step 3: Use the checkboxes to indicate whether you want Dragon to only look for contact names to potentially

add to the Vocabulary, or whether you also want Dragon to adapt its statistics based on your sent mail.

The option to “Improve from my

e-mail writing style” will adapt

the statistical language model; it

is recommended EXCEPT if what

you sent in that email program

contains another language.

Note:

The analysis may keep Dragon

busy for a while, especially the

first time. Later on, it will go

much faster if you choose the

option button “Consider e-mail

written since my last scan.”

IMPORTANT: When you start this process, your e-mail program may bring up a message box for you to

allow Dragon to access it. If you have several windows open, this message may not be visible initially because it

is under another window.

Step 4: After its analysis, the tool will display what it identified as potentially useful additions.

The rest of the process is similar to the analysis of specific documents: you can uncheck items

(individually or all at once), edit items, and train items acoustically if you wish, then Dragon adds to

the Vocabulary the checked items -- plus it adapts its language model to the “writing style” (word

frequencies and word sequences observed), if you opted for that.