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Renaming, Deleting, Copying or Transferring a 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 then 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.

The Manage User Profile dialog box also enables you to rename or delete a profile, as well as to see a profile’s Properties (such as its

source(s), backup location, and date of last backup).