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CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition chapter concludes by explaining when and how to run General Training again to improve your recognition accuracy. About the vocabulary The Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabulary contains the words the program can recognize when you say them. The vocabulary contains thousands of words and their common pronunciations. It also contains language data about how frequently words are used alone and in combination with others. When you first start Dragon NaturallySpeaking, it creates a standard vocabulary on your computer. A vocabulary contains active words (the active vocabulary) and backup words (the backup dictionary). Active words The most commonly used vocabulary words are kept active (stored in computer memory). When you dictate these words, Dragon NaturallySpeaking is likely to get them right on the first try (that is, without requiring you to do anything extra, such as correcting the words). For example, all the words in the following sentence are active (including "Mbeki"), so Dragon NaturallySpeaking should be able to recognize them all correctly on the first try. Today [comma] the Prime Minister met President Mbeki of South Africa Don't worry that the words you want to say won't be active. The list of active words is very long and continually changes (as you correct mistakes) to always include words you're likely to use. Backup dictionary words All the vocabulary words that are not currently active are kept in the backup dictionary (stored on your computer's hard disk, not in memory). Dragon NaturallySpeaking can recognize words in the backup dictionary, but not on the first try. If Dragon NaturallySpeaking has trouble recognizing a word, it may mean that this word is only in the backup dictionary. You can add a word to the active vocabulary by correcting it (see "Correcting recognition mistakes" on page 15). 32 Dragon NaturallySpeaking User's Guide