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Customizing the Vocabulary from Existing Documents

You now know about importing lists of entries into the Vocabulary. Another efficient way to boost your

accuracy is to let Dragon analyze text that is similar to what you are likely to dictate: the Add Words From

Documents tool use many documents at once to “harvest” potential words to add to the Vocabulary, as well as

to “adapt to the writing style” (i.e., learn frequency information). The greater the amount of relevant text

Dragon gets to analyze, the better it can adapt its Vocabulary to what you usually need to dictate. (This is

similar to giving a just-hired transcriptionist many documents in which to observe the terms used, their

spellings, the words that often appear before or after, etc.; doing so would help the transcriptionist get ready

to transcribe your dictations most accurately, right from the start.)

Dragon can perform its text analysis on files of the following types: .txt (plain text), .rtf (Rich Text), .doc(x)

(Microsoft Word), .wpd (Corel WordPerfect), and HTML formats.

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If significant text exists only in an application that doesn’t normally produce files of these types

(PowerPoint is an example), see whether this application lets you copy text so you can paste it in the

DragonPad and save it from there, or whether it offers a way to extract plain text (it could be called “export”

or “save as outline” for instance.) Also, if essential text only exists as PDF or in paper form, consider using

Optical Character Recognition software such as OmniPage to convert into one of the accepted formats.

Step 1: Locate some electronic documents you have written—think of reports, letters, memos, proposals... (As

long as they are similar to what you intend to dictate, you can also use documents written by someone

else.) The more closely these documents match the dictation you will usually be doing, the better.

Step 2: Spell-check the documents if necessary (since Dragon would detect misspellings as unknown words.) In

addition, remove any foreign-language sections that might be present. Then, make sure the

documents are closed. The Help contains more details on this tool, including how to best prepare

documents for analysis.

Now that you have a sample of text similar to your intended dictations, let’s designate this sample for

analysis. (If you obtain more documents later, you can designate them to Dragon later.)

Step 3: Say "switch to DragonBar", then "vocabulary" to open the menu, then "learn from specific

documents."(There are other ways to do, by voice or by hand.)

Make sure that the box “Preview

the list of unknown words” is

checked, and click Next.

Checking the box “Adapt to

writing style” will make Dragon

learn frequency information,

which increases accuracy since it

helps differentiate between

homophones like “world” and

“whirled”. Leave this box

checked unless you only want to

“harvest” potential custom words—

for instance, if the text is very

different from your normal style,

or contains a foreign language.

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