User guide

The Dragon Glossary
n accumulated acoustic data from your corrections and any additional training you have
performed
n commonly used word sequences extracted from your User Profile's .DRA files.
Acoustic Optimizer (definition)
Looks for any corrections you have made or additional training you may have performed
since you created your User Profile or ran the optimizer. Optimization enhances recognition
accuracy and helps predict words most likely spoken in a given context by a speaker (the lan-
guage model).
Active vocabulary (definition)
A list of about 150,000 words that Dragon loads into your computer’s random access mem-
ory for immediate use during dictation. These are the words that Dragon is most likely to
recognize on the first try, without requiring you to do anything extra such as correcting the
words with the Correction menu.
The number of words in the active vocabulary always remains the same. When new words
are added, words that have not been used recently are removed from the active vocabulary,
but remain on the computer's disk in the backup dictionary.
Advanced Scripting (definition)
Supports using programming languages such as Microsoft® VBA to create commands that
can perform virtually any function on the computer with voice commands.
Anchored (definition)
Indicates that the Dictation Box is attached to the an unknown text field where you are dic-
tating. You can reposition the Dictation Box as required. When using Anchored Mode, Hid-
den Mode is disabled.
AutoTranscribe Folder Agent (definition)
A feature of Dragon Professional, Legal and Medical editions which automatically detects
and transcribes recordings copied to a specified directory. Use the AutoTranscribe Folder
Agent to specify which Dragon User Profile to use for transcribing the recordings found in
the specified directory, and to specify where to put the text files created from the record-
ings.
Base Vocabulary (definition)
The initial Vocabulary a User Profile is based on. Vocabularies can be the following sizes.
Specialized medical and legal vocabularies are also provided in the Dragon Medical and
Legal editions.
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