Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Administrator Guide - Nuance

Dragon 12 Administrator Guide
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To save the User Profile to the local cache, in the dialog box, select Save Locally. If you are on a
slow network, you can save the User Profile to the local cache to avoid waiting for the profile to
synchronize with the master profile in the master location.
To save the User Profile to the master location on the network, in the dialog box, select Save to
Network. Nuance recommends that you save a User Profile to the master location for accuracy
improvement and to ensure that updates to the profile are available on other computers.
Conserve archive size on network
Select this box to prevent copying of .DRA files (files that contain the acoustic data from the
latest dictation session) to the Master Roaming User Profile location when the program synchronizes
the Local and Master Roaming User Profiles. Leaving this box unchecked allows the
local .DRA files to synchronize with the Master Roaming User Profile, which makes the .DRA
files available to the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer when it is run on the Master
Roaming User Profile locations and provides increased accuracy.
However, because .DRA files can be large, if you experience excessive network slowdowns,
checking this option may solve the problem by eliminating the copying of these files each time
the Master and Local Roaming User Profiles synchronize. You can still run the Acoustic and Language
Model Optimizer on the Master Roaming User Profile, but since it will not have the
.DRA files to process, the accuracy gains will be less.
Note: The .DRA files will not be copied once the maximum size is reached in the Disk space
reserved for network archive option.
At synchronization, setting this option will copy approximately 1.3 MB for each minute of dictation
saved in the .DRA files. These files are only copied from the Local Roaming User Profile to
the Master Roaming User Profile; they are never copied from the Master Roaming User Profile to
the Local Roaming User Profile.
Disk space reserved for network archive
Use this option to specify the maximum size of the directory containing the acoustic data (the .dra
and the log files) available to the Acoustic Optimizer. By default the archive size is 500 MB per