I work with court reporters who have used DNS for many years going back to 4.  Over the years we have heard many stories about never do this or never do that.  Accoustic optimizing is one of those things we were told never, ever to do.  I believe at times we were given inaccurate information or what may have applied then doesn't apply now.  One such idea is about saving your user files/profile. 

Some believe that clicking yes when Dragon asks you if you want to save your files is harmful in two ways.  1) It will corrupt your profile and 2) if you click yes in a document that hasn't been 100% corrected, I mean every single word has been corrected, you will be teaching Dragon that your misrecognitions were actually correct.  (I don't belive this to be accurate but I always check with you guys before I make any wild statements.)  If you never click yes, I understand that words added, trained or deleted won't stick.  The greater concern, I think, is saving corrections in a document that hasn't been 100% corrected.

I choose yes when I've added, deleted, trained words or when I've anaylyzed some documents.  Otherwise, I choose no.  I discovered in DNS 11 that Dragon asks me to save my profile when all I did was open and close Dragon. I actually did that just to see if I would get that window.

There has been much said about how more efficient 12 is.  It doesn't make sense to me that one would have to correct every single misrecognition in a document to improve recognition accuracy.

As a court reporter, we take down the job and deal with misrecognitions when we get home from court or depos.  We may add a word or phrase at the start of a job or during a break.  When we close that file at the end of the day, some believe that if they click yes, Dragon will accept every word in our dictation as true and correct, the good with the bad. 

So what's the word on saving your profile?
Thanks again, guys!

As a court reporter, you’re in a bit of a unique situation in that for the most part, the words you dictate our not only not your own words but not even your writing style. With that in mind, we don’t think you would get much out of optimizing but you certainly don’t have to worry about corrupting your speech files from not correcting your dictation. That has never been an issue.

Because of your unique situation, saving your user files probably isn’t as important to you as it would be to others but it’s the only way to save corrections and vocabulary changes. In our opinion, which with 2 bits might buy you a cup of coffee, we recommend saving your user files, skipping optimization and not worrying about corrections.

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Thanks!  Not only do we not dictate our own words, we don't get to choose how fast we dictate either.  Voice court reporters certify at 225 words per minute.  Some proceedings can hit 300 wpm.  We don't get the best recognition at those rates but you would be amazed at what we can eek out of Dragon.

I do recommend selective corrections to my CRs.  We do want Dragon to learn when we want physcian and not position.  Plus, we dictate into a mask that contains a microphone so Dragon doesn't hear us the way it hears someone using a headset.  Every Dragon gets smarter and smarter and we don't have the misrecognitions we did years ago.  I can't wait to load DNS 12!

Thanks again for all you do.