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# Voice Training Window

The Voice Training window allows you to read aloud stories which Dragon Dictate uses to create a voice model to recognize your speech.

To open the Voice Training window:

- Choose Tools > Voice Training.

The Voice Training window will also appear automatically as part of the sequence of events when you create a new profile.

To train with a story:

1. Click the right-arrow at the lower right. The stories are listed; stories that you have not trained for this profile are unmarked.

2. Select a story and click the right-arrow again.

3. When you’re ready to begin, click the microphone button at the top right. Read the story aloud.

   > As you read aloud, passages that have been recognized will turn green. If passages turn red, try again or click “Skip Word”. When you first start to train a profile, you will need to read quite slowly, in very short distinct phrases (but smoothly and naturally), waiting each time for the display of green text to catch up with you. After three or four pages of text, however, you will be able to read at a considerably more normal speed and in larger phrases.

   > When you’ve reached the end of the story, or when Dragon Dictate has heard enough, the window will change to indicate that your training is being processed into the voice model.

You must train the voice model with at least one story prior to using a new profile. After that, further training is optional. Reading additional stories (there are three of them) might improve Dragon Dictate’s accuracy in recognizing what you say, but in many cases the recognition engine will prove to be remarkably accurate after you have read just one story.