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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

checkbox

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 be hidden under

another window. Note also that the process may take quite a while if there are many emails to

analyze.

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.