User guide

Dragon 12 Installation and User Guide
Vocab-
ulary
Processor
speed
Number of
processors
RAM Recommended Acoustic Model
Large ≥ 2 GHz 1 1 GB BestMatch III
> 1 > 1 GB BestMatch IV
Medium 2 GHz 1 < 1 GB BestMatch III
or
BestMatch V
Note: BestMatch V acoustic models
are not recommended for use with
the large vocabulary in U.S. English
profiles due to the larger file size of
the vocabulary in RAM (552 MB). You
can choose the large vocabulary
from the Choose Models - Advanced
dialog box.
Note: If you don't need to use an extensive vocabulary, you can increase rec-
ognition speed by choosing the medium vocabulary.
Empty Dic-
tation
Designed for use by value-added resellers who want to create specialized
Vocabularies from scratch. Consists of a Vocabulary with a language model with
no words.
Basic Text Control (definition)
The level of dictation control available in programs or windows that are not fully compatible
with Dragon. Normally you can dictate and use Dragon voice commands in any text window
of any application. However, you may occasionally find an application or a specific window
in an application where some voice commands won’t work or won't work consistently.
When the insertion point is in a window that has Basic Text Control, the Text Control Indi-
cator on the DragonBar turns gray .
Backup dictionary (definition)
A store of about 150,000 additional words in Dragon's vocabulary. Atypical large Dragon
vocabulary consists of about 300,000 words and Dragon loads about half of those it under-
stands that you are more likely to dictate into your computer's random access memory for
immediate use. The list of words Dragon loads into memory is called the "active vocabulary."
You can move frequently used words from the backup dictionary into the active vocabulary
or add new specialty words, proper names, acronyms, and unusual abbreviations using any of
the following methods:
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