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Visit Nuance Healthcare on the Web at www.nuance.com/healthcare. 3 Contents Contents 5 Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon Professional Individual 9 Getting started with Dragon Professional Individual 9 Creating Windows shortcuts to User Profiles and Vocabularies 11 Using multiple acoustic models with a User Profile 12 Installing, modifying and upgrading Dragon 15 Chapter 2: Preparing to Install Dragon 16 Preparing for an installation or upgrade 16 Installation checklist 17 Dragon system requirements 17 Storage space considerations 19 Coexistence with other Dragon products 19 Chapter 3: Installing Dragon 22 Installing Dragon on a single PC 22 Post-Installation Considerations 23 Cleaning up after uninstalling Dragon Professional Individual 24 Dragon file structure 24 Turning off voice-enabling of menus and other interface controls 25 Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon 28 Upgrading Dragon: overview 28 What you should know before upgrading from a previous version 28 Installing on or upgrading to Windows 7, Windows 8.x, or Windows 10 29 Preparing to upgrade Dragon 30 Steps to upgrade your Dragon version 31 Manually loading user profiles from a previous Dragon version 33 Upgrading multiple User Profiles 33 Upgrading User Profiles that use third-party vocabularies 36 Chapter 5: Working with Web applications 40 About the Dragon Web Extension 40 Installing and enabling the Dragon Web Extension 41 How to tell if the Dragon Web Extension is Enabled 47 Conditions for loading the Internet Explorer compatibility module and the Dragon Web Extension 49 Chapter 6: Customizing a User Profile 52 Adding words, commands, or Vocabularies to User Profiles 52 Creating the Data Distribution Directory 52 Nsadmin utility for new words, Vocabularies, and commands 54 Starting the nsadmin command line utility 54 Adding custom words from a command line 55 Contents Adding and removing custom Vocabularies from a command line 57 Adding custom commands from a command line 59 Using paths with nsadmin 61 Chapter 7: Maintaining a Dragon installation 62 Maintaining Installations 62 Checking the optimization status of a User Profile 62 Running Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on User Profiles 64 Running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on a multi-core computer 64 To run the acoustic and language model optimizers on User Profiles: 64 Exporting and Importing User Profiles 65 The Dragon log file 66 Handling Dragon Error Messages 67 Working with the Usability Log 68 Accessing the Dragon Knowledge Database 68 Managing end-user administrative privileges 69 Chapter 8: Working with Custom commands 70 Managing and Securing Custom Commands 70 Using the Convert XML to DAT tool 70 Using the MyCommands Protection Utility 71 Chapter 9: Commands that perform actions based on the application state 74 About Structured Commands 74 Structured Commands Samples 75 Importing Structured Commands 77 Chapter 10: Configuring administrative features in Dragon 80 Summaries of Administrative Settings Dialog Boxes 80 Administrative Settings: Miscellaneous tab 80 Administrative Settings: Scheduled Tasks tab 82 Glossary 85 .DRA files (definition) 85 Accuracy Center (definition) 85 Accuracy Tuning (definition) 85 Acoustic Optimizer (definition) 85 Advanced Scripting (definition) 85 Command Browser (definition) 86 Correction menu (definition) 86 Command Mode (definition) 86 Dictation Box (definition) 86 Dictation Mode (definition) 86 Dictation Source (definition) 86 DragonPad (definition) 87 Language Model optimization (definition) 87 6 Contents Language Model Optimizer (definition) 87 Normal Mode (definition) 87 Numbers mode (definition) 88 QuickStart (definition) 88 Recognition Modes (definition) 88 Spell Mode (definition) 88 User Profile (definition) 88 7 Chapter 1: Introduction to Dragon Professional Individual The Dragon Professional Individual Administrator guide is intended for administrators that deploy and manage installations of: n Professional Individual n Professional e dition n Legal e dition The administrator guide refers to these products generically as Dragon Professional Individual. We will mention when a feature applies specifically to one or more of these products editions. Use the Dragon Administrator guide to install Dragon Professional Individual, and to configure and manage the many features, tools, and User Profiles in Dragon Professional Individual. To install Dragon Professional Individual and perform the tasks in this guide, you must have administrator access to the workstations in your network. Dragon Professional Individual contains new features and improvements that enhance the ability to talk to, control, and interact with a computer. This section contains general information about Dragon and the exciting new features of Dragon Professional Individual. Getting started with Dragon Professional Individual For information about new features, fixes, and changes, see the Release notes. 9 DragonProfessional Individual AdministratorGuide Dragon on the Web The Nuance web site (www.nuance.com) gives you access to many resources, including frequently asked questions, usage tips, customer stories, customer service information, and technical support content. Installing, modifying and upgrading Dragon Professional Individual and Installation checklists View information on the different ways to install, modify, and upgrade Dragon Professional Individual. Adding words,commands, or vocabularies to User Profiles You use the nsadmin command line utility when you want to make new words, customized vocabularies or new commands available to all User Profiles on a particular Dragon Professional Individual installation. Using the Convert XML to DAT tool and the MyCommands Protection Utility Using Structured Commands Dragon Professional Individual - include an extension to Text-and-Graphics commands that let you to set the values of variables in text blocks based on voice input. Dragon Professional Individual System requirements 10