C H A P T E R 2
Installing and Training
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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Type your name. Change the “Dictation source” and “Vocabulary” settings if you need
to. Then click Next.
About vocabularies
A vocabulary in Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
is a body of information that
includes a word list and a language model. The word list includes
information about all the words that the program can recognize. The
language model contains usage information about those words. Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
®
uses a vocabulary to recognize words correctly based
not only on the sound of the words, but on their context. When you
create a new user, you select the vocabulary on which to base the user.
When you create a new user or new vocabulary for an existing user, you
select the vocabulary on which to base the vocabulary you create.
Vocabulary
You can select from among the following vocabularies:
■
General: A large vocabulary providing excellent recognition accuracy
for general, business, and professional dictation.
■
Commands Only: A limited vocabulary containing only command
words and phrases. Choose this vocabulary if you want to use
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
only for command and control of
programs and not for dictation.
If this user file will be used
with a USB microphone,
array microphone, or
handheld recorder,
choose the appropriate
option from the Dictation
source list.
For Medical, Legal, and
Public Safety Solutions
editions, the vocabulary
defaults to the chosen
edition. To create a
general user, choose
General.
