As the CMO of Nuance and the GM of Dragon, I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking all the time. For me, Dragon is freakishly accurate. With these hacks, Dragon can be just as accurate for you. Check these out and let me know if I missed any important accuracy hacks by leaving a comment.

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accuracy hacks for
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
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Hi. My name is Peter. I am the
CMO of Nuance and the general
manager of the Dragon business.
I’m also a fanatic user of Dragon
because it is insanely accurate for
me.
Dragon can be just as accurate
for you too, if you use my favorite
accuracy hacks.
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Make sure your microphone or headset works well. One of the
most common causes of poor accuracy is a low quality audio
signal. If Dragon can’t hear well, how can it understand you?
A USB microphone or headset often improves your quality,
especially if you have a low quality audio subsystem in your PC.
Need a new mic? Check out our hardware compatibility list.
1. audio

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Dragon will never recognize your friend Bob Blinkelzaket’s name. Same
goes for company and product names that might not be in the dictionary.
Dragon knows a lot of words, but it doesn’t know the ones that people
keep inventing.
You can add words to Dragon’s vocabulary one at a time, or have Dragon
analyze your sent email folder or a document folder. Analyzing stuff you
wrote is the best because Dragon will find the crazy words you use and
will also learn your writing style. Check out the Vocabulary menu in
Dragon for all these tools.
2. vocabulary

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If Dragon makes a mistake, you need to tell it! Bad Dragon! How
else will it learn?
You can say “correct that” to fix the last thing that you said and in
the latest versions of Dragon (version 12 or higher) you can
simply type over the mistake and Dragon will learn from that too.
Bad Dragon. Don’t let that happen again.
3. correction

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How does Dragon learn the special way that you speak? By
running a super sophisticated accuracy tuning algorithm. It is so
sophisticated that even your fancy new computer can’t do much
else while Dragon is running accuracy tuning.
That means you need to let Dragon take over your computer
every once in a while to do some real deep thinking about its
relationship with you. You can Launch Accuracy Tuning from
Dragon’s Audio menu.
4. tuning

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Our researchers are constantly working to make Dragon better
and better.
To make sure you get the best accuracy possible, make sure you
are using the latest version of Dragon.
You can always find the latest version at the Nuance website.
5. upgrade

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accuracy hacks? If I did, tell me
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