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1 0 Improving Accuracy
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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To add contact names:
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From the Accuracy Center, click or say “Increase Accuracy from E-mail.” The
Increase Accuracy from E-mail dialog box opens. Click Next to continue.
2
Select the e-mail program you use from the choices provided. After selecting
one or more e-mail programs and the appropriate options, select Next. For
example:
■ Scanning the contents of your sent e-mail can take several minutes if you
have a large amount of e-mail in your program's Sent mail folder.
■ Depending on how your system is set up, you may be prompted to supply a
password.
■ The “Improve my speech files from my e-mail writing style” option lets you
analyze the e-mails that you’ve already sent for your style. For best accuracy
when writing e-mail, leave this option selected.
3
Once e-mail processing is complete, the dialog box displays a list of contact
names to add to your vocabulary. Check the contacts you would like to add to
your vocabulary and click Next.
4
Check the contacts for which you would like to train the pronunciation and click
Next. A check mark indicates that you want to train the word.
5
For each contact you selected to train, Dragon NaturallySpeaking brings up the
Train Words dialog, where you can speak the name of the contact. Once you
train a name, the next name you selected appears in the dialog box until you
have trained the entire list of selected names.
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Once you are done, Dragon NaturallySpeaking adapts your speech files based
on your selections.
Add a list of words to your vocabulary
Using the “Add a list of words to your vocabulary” feature, you can add many new
words to the Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabulary at the same time. This feature is