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Dragon Installation Guide
Using Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer and Scheduler tools
Run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler to:
l Optimize the acoustic files for a user profile.
l Optimize the language model for a user profile.
l Schedule one or both types of optimization to occur on a particular day or time at particular intervals.
l Enable or disable the scheduled optimizations.
Checking the optimization status of a user profile
Dragon Group checks the optimization status of a user profile when it is loaded if:
l The profile has never been loaded before.
l The “Learn from specific documents” and “Learn from sent e-mails” wizards have not run within one week of the
profile’s creation.
l The “Learn from...” wizards have not run for six months.
l The Language Model Optimizer has not run in over two months.
l The Acoustic Optimizer has never run and at least one hour of recorded dictation is available.
Keeping custom words up-to-date
Using Dragon’s support for custom words, especially contact names, can make dictating with Dragon faster and more
precise.
When Dragon loads a user profile, Dragon examines how long it has been since the last time custom words were
updated. Dragon displays the Personalize Your Vocabulary dialog box when:
l The “Learn from...” wizards have not run within two days of creating a new profile.
l The “Learn from...” wizards have not run for one month or more. If the user dismisses the Personalize Your
Vocabulary dialog, Dragon displays the dialog once a week until the wizards are run.
The Personalize Your Vocabulary dialog box contains information about the last time the “Learn from specific
documents” and “Learn from sent e-mails” wizards ran for the profile. Users can run these wizards from the dialog box.
The dialog box also displays the total time required to run the wizards.
Checking for user profile maintenance when saving a user profile
When a user saves a user profile or closes Dragon, Dragon checks that scheduled user profile maintenance has been
performed recently. If not, an additional check box appears on the Save dialog box. The maintenance should only take
an extra minute or two to complete and is always beneficial – especially when you have added new custom words.
Running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizers from the DragonBar
If a user profile is open in the Dragon client, you can run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer from the
DragonBar (Non-Roaming profiles only):
1. Select Audio > Launch Accuracy Tuning.
2. If the user has not dictated and corrected recognized text since the last time the optimizer was run, a message
indicates that the Acoustic Optimizer does not need to be run. Click OK. The Acoustic and Language Model
Optimizer opens with the Perform Acoustic Optimization option unavailable.
3. Click Go to start. The process may take some time to complete.
4. A message appears when the process has completed. Click Done.
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