11.5

Using Multiple Vocabularies (editions Professional and up)

Every Dragon NaturallySpeaking user automatically has at least one Vocabulary. Editions Professional and

above, allow you to have several Vocabularies. The advantage of having several Vocabularies is being able to

customize each one to perform best for very different topics or styles of dictation. (It is relatively rare for a

person to need more than three or four.)

For instance, suppose an architect uses Dragon to dictate business letters and site reports, but also frequently

uses it for his community theater group. In his work-related dictations, he might use formal business language

and mention technical terms, brands of materials, the abbreviations for building codes, as well as the names of

clients, contractors and other work contacts. When writing for his theater group, however, his dictation style

might become significantly more casual and the words he uses most frequently would be different.

The documentation contains many details about creating and managing vocabularies. This lesson presents the

essentials.

Creating a New Vocabulary

The process starts in the Manage Vocabularies dialog

box.

Step 1: Say Manage Vocabularies or use the DragonBar’s

Vocabulary menu. Click New. (Note: this dialog

box also enables you to manage vocabularies:

import, rename, delete… See the next section.)

Step 2: In the New Vocabulary window, enter a

descriptive name in the Name field. From the

drop-down list, choose the vocabulary on which

you want to base your new vocabulary (what

you see in the list varies if you have the Legal

edition):

 If you want your new vocabulary to contain the customizations already present in your existing

vocabulary, choose this existing vocabulary: e.g. General – Large.

 Otherwise, , choose the Base vocabulary.

Step 3: Dragon will then offer to perform a basic adaptation of this new vocabulary based on documents found

on your computer, or sent emails (this is similar to what Dragon offers when you create a profile).. This