Hello,

I added a list of custom words to my recorder profile, but the "train" button in the vocabulary editor is grayed-out, presumably because the microphone is turned off.

I assume I need to turn the microphone on in order to train these words, but I don't know how to do it. The procedure has been posted here a million times, but I haven't been able to track it down. Could you post it again?

Thanks. I'm still using Dragon v10.1 on Windows XP SP3. Recorder is a DS5000id.

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In Windows XP, search for:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\Users\ (Your User Name)\current\options.ini

and open the file in Notepad. Locate the line:

dictation source=8

and replace the "8" for a "2". Save and close the file. Also run the Audio Setup Wizard on the microphone.

Rüdiger

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Well, it's past the point where we can make any changes in the code, but we can still make changes to the Easter Egg!

You should know that Nuance disables microphone input on a digital recorder profile specifically to prevent you from training because of the differences between a microphone profile and recorder profile. We additionally don't recommend training imported vocabulary because for the most part, you're just making a lot of extra unnecessary work for yourself. NaturallySpeaking is normally pretty good at guessing but having made the previous warnings, we think the end-user should be able to make their own choice and completely agree with hacking the ini file so that you can toggle your microphone on and off

Note #1: If you're going to do a lot of work with your DS-5000, we would highly recommend upgrading to the NaturallySpeaking Premium 11.5 Upgrade because we feel that the most significant improvement to Ver. 11 is how well it transcribes digital recordings.

Note #2: 1 of the disadvantages of DNS Preferred and Premium, is that you cannot perform batch file transcription where you can drop your recorder into the cradle and walk away while NaturallySpeaking transcribes each file from beginning to end with no human intervention. However, the Ver. 6 Dictation Module includes a new batch file transcription feature that even works in Preferred (which does not include the exclusive Dragon Pro AutoTranscribe Folder Agent). It looks like Olympus reverse engineered NaturallySpeaking on this particular feature but the Ver. 6 software is “temporarily” unavailable without the DS-7000 digital recorder.

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Thanks.

Unfortunately, Dragon doesn't recognize a lot of the words I use. For example, I'm constantly swearing when I dictate and Dragon is a total prude and refuses to transcribe my filth correctly. Also, I dictate a lot of fiction and nonfiction with strange character names and slang and so on, most of which gets mangled.

I'd like to upgrade to 11.5, but at the moment I can't afford the hardware upgrades that would be required to use it. My laptop's OK, but I'm pushing it as it is with v10.1.

The one part of training custom vocabulary for a recorder profile that I don't understand is how you do the actual training. I assume you would use the desktop microphone to train the words, but does that work with a recorder profile?

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Under the circumstances, you probably don't have any other recourse but to train some of your vocabulary although other parts of your vocabulary could possibly be combined with additional words which is another bulletproof approach. We hear you loud and clear about transcribing swearing. The Big Haired Lady spends a good deal of time training 4 letter words.

The reason why Nuance, by default, disables the microphone of the digital recorder user profile is to prevent microphone training but considering the high quality of your DS-5000, we believe it would be worth the risk to use your microphone to train specific vocabulary.

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