About vocabularies – Sony ICD-BP150VTP User Manual

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C H A P T E R 2

Installing and Training

Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide

14

Type your name. Change the “Dictation source” and “Vocabulary” settings if you need

to. Then click Next.

About vocabularies

A vocabulary in Dragon NaturallySpeaking

®

is a body of information that

includes a word list and a language model. The word list includes
information about all the words that the program can recognize. The
language model contains usage information about those words. Dragon
NaturallySpeaking

®

uses a vocabulary to recognize words correctly based

not only on the sound of the words, but on their context. When you
create a new user, you select the vocabulary on which to base the user.
When you create a new user or new vocabulary for an existing user, you
select the vocabulary on which to base the vocabulary you create.

Vocabulary

You can select from among the following vocabularies:

General: A large vocabulary providing excellent recognition accuracy
for general, business, and professional dictation.

Commands Only: A limited vocabulary containing only command
words and phrases. Choose this vocabulary if you want to use
Dragon NaturallySpeaking

®

only for command and control of

programs and not for dictation.

If this user file will be used
with a USB microphone,
array microphone, or
handheld recorder*,
choose the appropriate
option from the Dictation
source list.

(*Works in Preferred
edition only.)

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