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CHAPTER 3 Improving Your Speech Recognition appear together. Dragon NaturallySpeaking would then know to favor these words over similar-sounding words. Vocabulary Builder also gives you more control than Add Words from Documents over how words are added to your vocabulary. By building your vocabulary, you can: s add words from a predefined list s add words that are not in the backup dictionary s filter and sort words before you add them s choose whether to adapt to your document style s view a statistical summary of your Vocabulary Builder session You may want to run Vocabulary Builder if Dragon NaturallySpeaking is still making many mistakes, or any time you have documents you'd like to analyze. You can run Vocabulary Builder as often as you like without overwriting language data gathered previously. To run Vocabulary Builder, you need to complete the following steps: s Prepare documents (see page 45) s Add words from a list (optional; see page 46) s Run Vocabulary Builder s Add words found in documents The following section describes each step. Preparing documents Start by finding documents on your computer that are good examples of the kind of text you'll be dictating when you use Dragon NaturallySpeaking. For example, if you plan to dictate memos and e-mail messages, find some correspondence you've already written. Your e-mail outbox is a good source of text. Any documents you're working on currently are also good ones to use. The more documents you can use, the better. NOTE It's okay to process documents you didn't write, but only if they are similar in style to your own writing (for example, a report written by a colleague in the same profession). Dragon NaturallySpeaking User's Guide 45