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Chapter 18: Improving recognition accuracy

Chapter 18: Improving

recognition accuracy

Thissectioncontainsthefollowingtopics:

TheDragonAccuracyCenter 240

RecognitionModes 243

TeachingDragontoUnderstandYouBetter 247

PersonalizingyourDragonVocabulary 250

ManagingVocabularies 258

Top 10 ways to improve accuracy

Here'sourtop10listofwaystooptimizeDragon'sabilitytorecognizeyourspeech.

1. Use careful dictation practices DictatingwithDragonisdifferentthantalkingto

someone.Whenwetalk,weoftenhesitate,mumble,slurwords,orleavewordsout

altogether,butwe'restillabletounderstandeachother.Andpeoplecaneasilyfilterout

noise,whichletsusunderstandeachother,eveninnoisyenvironments,likerestaurants,

butspeechsoftwareneedshelpseparatingdictationfromothersounds.Withdictation,

theideaistospeakinaconsistentspeedandvolume-trynottohesitate,exaggerate

yourpronunciation,ortalkloudlyorslowly.Somakesurebackgroundnoisedoesn't

drownyououtandthatyouhavethemicrophonecloseenoughforDragontohearyou

properly,usuallyaboutaninchfromyourmouthandtooneside.Also,rememberto

dictateusingcompletephrases,sothatDragongetsthecontext.Forexample,weuse

ourexperienceandcommonsensetodecidewhethersomeonesaid"IScream,"or"Ice

Cream."ButDragondoesn'tunderstandwhatwordsmean,soitcan'tusecommon

sensethewaywedo.Instead,Dragoninterpretsyourspeechbyusingitsknowledgeof

wordsthattendtoappeartogether.Dragoncalculateshowfrequentlyyouusewordsand

phrasesandcanofferyousuggestionswhenitmakesmistakes.Trytothinkaboutyour

wholephraseorsentencebeforeyoustartdictateit,andyou'llbeonyourwaytodictation

mastery.Formoreinformation,seeDictationBasics.

2. Import lists of words or phrasesRatherthanaddingwordsorphrasesoneatatime,

youcanimportoneormorelists.Thelistscanevenincludespokenforms.Thismethod

canbeparticularlyusefulforbusinessesthathavealotofpeopledictatingsimilarnames

orwordsorifyouneedtousemorethanoneuserprofile.Formoreinformation,see

PreparingalistofcustomwordstoaddtoaVocabulary.

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