Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Administrator Guide - Nuance

Chapter 9: Maintaining a Dragon installation
To run the acoustic and language model optimizers
on non-Roaming User Profiles:
1. On the DragonBar, select Profile > Open User Profile.
2. In the Open User Profile dialog box, select a User Profile to run the optimization on and click
Open.
3. On the DragonBar, select Help > Improve my accuracy. The Accuracy Center opens.
4. Click Launch Accuracy Tuning now. The Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer
dialog box opens.
5. If the end-user has not dictated and corrected recognized text since the last time the optimizer
was run, you receive this message: There is no new data in the acoustic archive. Acoustic
Optimizer does not need to be rerun. Click OK and the Acoustic and Language Model
Optimizer opens with the Perform Acoustic Optimization option grayed out.
6. Check the types of optimization you want to perform, Perform Acoustic Optimization (to
optimize the acoustic files of the User Profile), Perform Language Model Optimization (to
optimize the language model of the User Profile), or both.
7. Click Go to start the process. The process may take some time to complete. When the process
completes, you receive a message notifying you that it has completed.
8. Click Done.
9. When asked if you would like to save your User Profiles click Yes to return to the Accuracy
Center. Click Exit in the Accuracy Center dialog box.
Running Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on
Roaming User Profiles
To run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on Roaming User Profiles:
1. Be sure that a copy of Dragon is installed on the computer where you plan to run the Acoustic
and Language Model Optimizer.
2. Select Start > All Programs > Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.0 > Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Tools > Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler. The
Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler dialog box opens.
3. To access the master directory of the Roaming User Profiles you want to optimize, in the
Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler dialog box, select File > Set User
Directory. The Set a Directory Containing User Files dialog box opens.
4. On the Set a Directory Containing User Files dialog box, either enter the path to the directory
or click the Browse button and browse to the location of the Master Roaming User Profiles,
then click OK. If the User Profiles you want to optimize are located in multiple
directories, you can later repeat the steps outlined here and change this directory to locate the
additional User Profiles.
5. In the tree of User Profiles, select the User Profile you want to optimize. Notice that if you
expand that User Profile in the tree, you see one or more dictation sources under the Acoustic
Optimization tasks in the tree. You also see the vocabulary of the User Profile under the
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