A powerful tool to increase accuracy
Posted by Peter Maddern on 26th May 2009
It can be extremely worthwhile running the Acoustic and Language Model tool in Dragon NaturallySpeaking on a regular basis. This is a valuable tool to increase your accuracy from your cumulative corrections (as long as you have diligently been using Dragon to make corrections that is!)
What is this tool and what does it do?
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The Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer can automatically “tune” Dragon by making it review all the acoustic data and/or text data it has gathered from your usage. You may wish to run it after a few weeks of using Dragon regularly, and subsequently about once a month or even more often.
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This Optimization can be launched at any time from the Accuracy Centre. It can also be scheduled so that Dragon performs it at a specific frequency and time.
You can do this manually or for convenience, Dragon lets you schedule a specific time and frequency for these optimizations.
To launch the Acoustic and/or Language Model Optimization manually:-
Step 1: In the Accuracy Centre, use the link “Run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer”
Step 2: Check the Acoustic or Language Model checkbox as desired, then click Go. (As the dialog box mentions, you should run this tool when your PC is not being used actively.)
To set up an automatic schedule:-
Step 1: In the Accuracy Centre, use the link “Schedule Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer to run later”. This opens the Accoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler.
Step 2: Select the user profile from the list of profiles presented
Step 3: Go to the menu bar and click on “File” followed by “New Task” – you will be prompted for your Windows user name and password
Step 4: Follow the prompts to enter the time for optimization to take place. Choose a convenient time when you don’t actively use the PC e.g. I choose lunch time
See also this previous blog post of mine on the subject.
Peter Maddern
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