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1. To open the Voice Training window, do one of the following:
l Say "Show Voice Training window."
l Click the icon in the menu bar and select Improve Recognition > Voice Training.
Dragon shows you a set of instructions for using Voice Training.
2. Click the Next arrow to select a story.
Any stories you have already read are marked with an icon: .
3. Select a story, then click the Next arrow to move to the next panel.
4. Click the microphone button to turn the microphone on.
5. Begin reading the story slowly and in short phrases, pausing until Dragon recognizes your speech. The text
turns green as it is recognized.
If Dragon can't understand a passage, the text turns red. Try reading it again. If a particular word is not being
recognized repeatedly, click Skip Word.
After three or four pages of text, you will be able to read at a considerably more normal speed and in larger
phrases.
When you’ve reached the end of the story, or when Dragon has collected enough audio, the window changes
to indicate that your training is being processed into the voice model. This will take a few minutes.
Related topics:
l Microphone Setup
l Microphone placement
l Troubleshooting audio and recognition
Vocabulary Training
Vocabulary Training allows you to teach Dragon how you use language. It analyzes your written documents to learn
what words you use, how frequently you use them, and the context in which you use them.
To open the Vocabulary Training window
l Say "Show Vocabulary Training window."
l Click the icon in the menu bar and select Improve Recognition > Vocabulary Training.
To select a file for Vocabulary Training
Choose one or more documents written by you that reflect how you normally write. Documents can be in text (.txt and
.rtf) or Microsoft Word (.doc, and .docx) format. Anything over 3MB in size should be divided into smaller size
documents.
1. Click the Add button to browse to files, or drag files into the window.
Click Remove to delete the selected file from the Training window.
2. Click the Next arrow when you have added all the files you want to analyze.
Dragon analyzes your file(s) first to see if there are any words it doesn't know. When it's finished, Dragon
displays a list of new words in the Included column.
3. To exclude a word, such as a typo, that you don't want to add to your vocabulary:
1. Click on the word in the Included column.
2. Click Exclude.
The word moves to the Excluded column.
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