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Improving Accuracy
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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Tools to improve your vocabulary
Each of the next group of commands in the Accuracy Center lets you
add words to your vocabulary. When Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
analyzes what you say, it uses a statistical model of what words tend to go
together and what words you use most often. The built-in model in
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
Preferred or Professional editions is
designed for general business writing. (Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
Medical Solutions, Legal Solutions, and Public Safety Solutions include
models specific to medical, legal, or public safety dictation.) The
software works best “out-of-the-box” when you dictate business letters,
memos, and other documents of similar language. If you dictate a
laboratory report or a poem, Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
will tend to
make relatively more errors.
For best accuracy, you need to show Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
samples of the types of documents you write and the words you use most
often. The tools in the “Improve your vocabulary” section of the
Accuracy Center let Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
learn your writing style
and specific words that you use. Using these tools affects the software’s
estimates of how often words are used but does not change the acoustic
model of how your voice sounds.
Add a single word to your vocabulary
Sometimes there may be a name, abbreviation, part number, or other
word you use that Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
does not know. To add
any word to the vocabulary, click “Add a single word to your vocabulary”
in the Accuracy Center. In the Add Individual Word dialog box that
appears, type the word you want to add and click Add.
To teach Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
the pronunciation of the new word
you added, select the check box “I want to train the pronunciation of
this word” before clicking Add, as shown in the illustration above.
