User guide

Chapter 12: Improving recognition accuracy
Managing Vocabularies
This section contains the following topics:
About Vocabularies 240
Opening Vocabularies 250
Adding a Vocabulary to a User Profile 251
Deleting Vocabularies 252
Renaming Vocabularies 252
Importing Vocabularies 253
Exporting Vocabularies 254
About Vocabularies
Dragon uses one or more Vocabularies with your UserProfile to help it to recognize words
and phrases correctly, based not only on the sound of the words and phrases, but also on
their context.
When you create a new User Profile, you select a Base Vocabulary that Dragon then updates
as it adapts to your speech. When you create a new User Profile or add a Vocabulary to an
existing User Profile, Dragon bases the new Vocabulary on an existing Vocabulary.
Language
The languages available for your Vocabulary. Some editions of Dragon support multiple lan-
guages.
Vocabulary type
In most cases your User Profile will be based on the General Vocabulary, a large Vocabulary
providing excellent recognition accuracy for general, business, and professional dictation.
The following specialized Vocabularies are also available:
n Legal (DragonLegal Edition)
A large Vocabulary providing excellent recognition accuracy for legal terms.
n Medical (Dragon Medical Edition)
A set of specialized large medical Vocabularies providing excellent recognition accu-
racy for medical terms. The Vocabulary names are: Surgery, Radiology, Pediatrics,
Pathology, Orthopedics, Oncology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Neurology, Mental
Health, Medical Dictation, General Practice, Emergency, Gastroenterology, and Car-
diology.
Advanced
On the Review Your Choices screen of the New User Profile wizard, you can click the
Advanced button to display the Advanced Choose Models dialog box. On this dialog box
you can choose a different speech model and Vocabulary Type. Dragon automatically deter-
mines the best speech model and Vocabulary Type for your computer when you create a
User Profile, so you do not generally need to change these options.
240