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Step 1: From the Accuracy Center, click or say Check your Acoustic Settings. The Audio Setup Wizard opens.

(You can also access the Audio Setup Wizard directly by saying check audio or check audio settings.)

Note that opening the Audio Setup Wizard automatically turns off the microphone.

Step 2: Follow the Wizard’s screens as when you first created your User profile: click the Start button and read

the content of the gray box. Dragon will indicate whether the check passed.

• If it failed, verify that your microphone is plugged in correctly and that its listening side is facing your

mouth. If these are correct, there is probably a problem with your audio hardware; click the Help

button (and see knowledgebase.nuance.com

if needed.)

• If it passed, click F

inish. (If accuracy is still lower than expected, use the Accuracy Assistant.)

Performing Additional Training

Everyone should consider providing some reading for acoustic training after the first few days of practicing

dictation: by then, speaking clearly into the microphone will be familiar, and acoustic training should reflect

how one actually dictates.

If your speech presents a challenge for Dragon, due to an Italian or French accent for instance, you should

perform additional training as soon as possible.

Step 1: Say start Accuracy Center, then click or say Perform Additional Training.

Step 2: When the Select Text window opens, choose a text to read, then click OK. The General Training

window will open. Click G

o to begin reading.

IMPORTANT: Remember, try to speak clearly but naturally and read exactly what is on the screen. If the

software needs to hear you read something again, a yellow arrow will show you where to resume reading. If

necessary, click P

ause, then click Go when you are ready to resume.

Key points about acoustic training

9 In general, the best thing you can do to make Dragon recognize your speech even better is to use the

software regularly, personalizing the Vocabulary

and correcting misrecognitions.

9 In certain cases, however (if a certain word is consistently misrecognized, or if overall accuracy is

lower than you expected) you will want to provide some additional acoustic data.

9 You can train Vocabulary entries from the Vocabulary Editor (either one at time or several at once).

9 When providing acoustic training, remember to speak as in your regular dictation. This is particularly

important when you train a corrected segment and the original misrecognition (avoid over-enunciating

the difference between the two alternatives.)

9 At any time, if you feel that the accuracy is not as high as usual, you can access Dragon’s Audio Check

to verify that there is not a problem with your audio hardware—through the Accuracy Center, or by

saying a command like Check Audio.

9 If your audio quality check passes but accuracy is not as high as expected, take a moment to perform

some reading for acoustic training—you can do this via the Accuracy Center.