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CHAPTER 13 Improving Accuracy Tools to improve your vocabulary Each of the next group of commands in the Accuracy Center lets you add words to your vocabulary. When Dragon NaturallySpeaking® analyzes what you say, it uses a statistical model of what words tend to go together and what words you use most often. The built-in model in Dragon NaturallySpeaking® is designed for personal and general business writing. The software works best "out-of-the-box" when you dictate business letters, memos, and other documents of similar language. If you dictate a laboratory report or a poem, Dragon NaturallySpeaking® will tend to make relatively more errors. For best accuracy, you need to show Dragon NaturallySpeaking® samples of the types of documents you write and the words you use most often. The tools in the "Improve your vocabulary" section of the Accuracy Center let Dragon NaturallySpeaking® learn your writing style and specific words that you use. Using these tools affects the software's estimates of how often words are used but does not change the acoustic model of how your voice sounds. Add a single word to your vocabulary Sometimes there may be a name, abbreviation, part number, or other word you use that Dragon NaturallySpeaking® does not know. To add any word to the vocabulary, click "Add a single word to your vocabulary" in the Accuracy Center. In the Add Individual Word dialog box that appears, type the word you want to add and click Add. 156 To teach Dragon NaturallySpeaking® the pronunciation of the new word you added, select the check box "I want to train the pronunciation of this word" before clicking Add, as shown in the illustration above. NOTE You can also access the Add Individual Word dialog box by clicking New from the Words menu on the DragonBar. Dragon NaturallySpeaking User's Guide