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C H A P T E R 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition
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example, if you were processing documents you didn’t write but which
contain words you use).
2 For the second option, select “Yes” to preserve previously gathered
language data. If you select “No,” this data will be lost. You could select
“No” if you wanted to overwrite data gathered previously (for example,
if you processed the wrong documents the last time you ran Vocabulary
Builder).
This option will be dimmed (grayed out) the first time you run Vocabulary
Builder, since there are not yet any previous sessions.
3 Make your selections and click Next to continue.
4 On the final dialog box of Vocabulary Builder, review the summary
information and click Finish to save your changes.
If you ever make unwanted changes to your speech files when running
Vocabulary Builder, you can restore a backup copy of your user. See “Restoring a
backup copy of a user” on page 136.
Managing vocabularies
If you have Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional or a higher edition,
you have the option of creating additional vocabularies with specialized
words.
An additional vocabulary can improve recognition accuracy if you have
different and distinct writing styles and if the writing you do requires a
large vocabulary of specialized terms. For example, a doctor who uses
Dragon NaturallySpeaking for dictating medical reports and also for
sending e-mail to friends and family may be able to enhance recognition
accuracy by having two different vocabularies: a vocabulary for
professional writing and one for informal correspondence.
Whether or not you need an additional vocabulary depends on how
many words you would need to add to your current vocabulary to make it
effective for all the writing you do. Unless this number is greater than
10,000 words (as it might be for a doctor), you should be able to add all
the specialized terms you use to your current vocabulary without
compromising the recognition accuracy of other words.
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