If you’ve been using Dragon Naturally Speaking for a while to dictate your computer, then chances are you’ve spent thousands of hours logging in corrections and helping the voice-recognition software to recognize your voice little better. You probably don’t want to lose that hard work. Thank goodness for backups.
My Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 user profile broke today.
- Something got corrupted somewhere, but fortunately, I was able to restore from within Dragon.
- This month, I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8, but I don’t think that caused any problems.
- I recently wrote this post, and this post just fine with Windows 8 (64 bit). The new enhanced Bluetooth headset still seems to be slow, but the Plantronics Calisto BT 300 II wasn’t working well under Windows 7 either.
- Restoring a user profile seems to work just fine. Good to know.
- Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 doesn’t like it if my user backup location is in my dropbox folder. I have to temporarily pause dropbox or Dragon Naturally Speaking can’t actually backup my user profile.
I wonder how many students actually backup their user profiles.
Then again, do user profiles really make a difference?
- Two years ago, I was able to get a 97.6% word accuracy rate using Dragon straight out-of-the-box with a brand-new user account (Dragon 11).
- My last post using Dragon 12, got 97.4% of the words correct.
- When I dictate, Dragon consistently transcribes between 97 to 98% of my words correctly.
Maybe, losing your Dragon user profile isn’t such a big deal, after all.