Nuance Management Center

Chapter 13: Working with custom
words
This chapter describes how to work with and manage custom words.
Overview of custom words
NMS provides support for custom words for multiple Nuance products, including Dragon Group ).
The client applications for these products obtain custom words from the NMS and add them to an
end-user’s vocabulary.
Words are associated with users and are added to all user vocabularies.
Like with auto-texts, custom words must be unique in each level (Site, Group, User) in the NMS.
For example, word X can exist at the Site level and at the Group level, but only one instance of
word X can exist at each level.
An administrator can delete words but not necessarily for large quantities.
The Dragon client and words
The Dragon client allows users to create and manage words. Users can create words by
specifying the written and spoken forms of a word in the word browser or by importing words.
Users use the vocabulary editor to set word properties or train words. As well, the Words menu on
the DragonBar provides many options for working with words.
For details, see the Dragon Help.
Using the Word sharing feature instead of the DDT when upgrading to Dragon Group
In Dragon Group you use the word sharing feature instead of the Data Distribution Tool (DDT) to
share custom words across your organization.
If your organization has used the DDT to share custom words, before you upgrade to Dragon
Group, you should import these DDT custom words into the NMS. This can prevent the NMS from
unnecessarily sharing custom words to a user's vocabulary. Sharing a large number of custom
words can delay the loading of a user's profile and thus slow down the log in process.
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