User guide

Dragon 12 Installation and User Guide
The Dragon Glossary
Use this glossary for a list of terms specific to Dragon.
.DRA files (definition)
Dragon Recorded Audio (DRA) files. If your edition supports it, Dragon automatically saves
audio and text transcripts of your dictation in the DRA files.
Dragon Accuracy Center(definition)
Offers a central location for tools you can use to personalize your vocabulary, improve acous-
tics, find or manage commands, or get more information about improving your accuracy.
Click the links to open the related Dragon tools.
To open the Accuracy Center, say “display Accuracy Center” or click Help> Improve My
Accuracy on the DragonBar.
Accuracy Slider (definition)
A sliding control that Dragon uses to adjust speed relative to accuracy as it performs speech
recognition. A higher accuracy setting means that Dragon may take longer to display your
text, while a higher speed setting means that Dragon displays the text more quickly.
Accuracy Tuning (definition)
A process Dragon can use to adapt to your usage. Once you have been dictating for a period
of time, Dragon uses Accuracy Tuning to automatically refine your User Profile, analyzing
your dictation, corrections, commands, and any other acoustic training you have done. Accu-
racy Tuning uses two of Dragon's accuracy tools, the Acoustic Optimizer and the Language
Model Optimizer, and you can schedule them to run automatically.
Acoustic and Language Model Optimization
(definition)
Increases User Profile accuracy based on
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