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C H A P T E R 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide 45
appear together. Dragon NaturallySpeaking would then know to favor
these words over similar-sounding words.
Vocabulary Builder also gives you more control than Add Words from
Documents over how words are added to your vocabulary. By building
your vocabulary, you can:
■ add words from a predefined list
■ add words that are not in the backup dictionary
■ filter and sort words before you add them
■ choose whether to adapt to your document style
■ view a statistical summary of your Vocabulary Builder session
You may want to run Vocabulary Builder if Dragon NaturallySpeaking is
still making many mistakes, or any time you have documents you’d like
to analyze. You can run Vocabulary Builder as often as you like without
overwriting language data gathered previously.
To run Vocabulary Builder, you need to complete the following steps:
■ Prepare documents (see page 45)
■ Add words from a list (optional; see page 46)
■ Run Vocabulary Builder
■ Add words found in documents
The following section describes each step.
Preparing documents
Start by finding documents on your computer that are good examples of
the kind of text you’ll be dictating when you use Dragon
NaturallySpeaking.
For example, if you plan to dictate memos and e-mail messages, find
some correspondence you’ve already written. Your e-mail outbox is a
good source of text. Any documents you’re working on currently are also
good ones to use. The more documents you can use, the better.
It’s okay to process documents you didn’t write, but only if they are similar in
style to your own writing (for example, a report written by a colleague in the same
profession).
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