Administrative Settings dialog box—Miscellaneous tab

Location where Dragon backs up user profiles.

Click to edit the user profile backup location.

You can change the backup location to any directory where Windows has both read and write permissions, including portable devices such as USB sticks and DVD/CD burners. If you change the location, backups for all user profiles are located in the same directory.

Click to set the user profile backup location to the My Documents folder for each Windows user.

Location where Dragon stores customized words and commands.

Click to edit the Data Distribution location.

Click to set the Data Distribution location to C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking15\custom\<language>.

Automatically checks the Nuance Web site for updates to Dragon every time you start the program. Any change to this option does not take effect until you restart Dragon.

Default value: Selected

If selected, prevents restricted Windows users from adding or modifying Dragon commands. Selecting this option allows only users logged in with administrator privileges to add or modify commands.

Restricted users can, however, delete, import, and export commands using the Command Browser, for example using Manage mode.

If deselected, allows restricted Windows users to add and modify Dragon commands.

Default value: Deselected

If selected, prevents users from creating or editing macro recorder commands. Users can still run the commands, however.

If deselected, allows users to create and edit macro recorder custom commands.

Default value: Deselected

If selected, prevents users from creating or editing step-by-step custom commands. Users can still run the commands, however.

If deselected, allows users to create and edit step-by-step commands.

Default value: Deselected

If selected, prevents users from creating or editing scripting custom commands. Users can still run the commands, however.

If deselected, allows users to create and edit scripting commands.

Default value: Deselected

If selected, prevents restricted Windows users from modifying vocabularies.

If deselected, allows restricted Windows users to modify vocabularies.

Default value: Deselected

If selected, Dragon preserves all audio that occurs during dictation, like pauses, background noises, and coughing.

If deselected, Dragon eliminates the wave data from the audio.

Default value: Deselected

If selected, enables Correction Only mode. This allows you to log into another user's profile to edit their dictated document using the Playback feature. Dictation is disabled when this option is enabled to prevent you from unintentionally modifying the other user's speech data. For more information, see Correcting another user's dictation.

To use the Playback feature in Correction Only mode, you must have set the Save recorded dictation with document option on the Options dialog box—Data page to Always.

If deselected, disables Correction Only mode.

You must disable Correction Only mode to run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer.

Default value: Deselected

If selected, prevents Acoustic Optimization from selecting a different acoustic model that more closely matches your accent for your user profile. For more information, see About acoustic models.

If deselected, allows Acoustic Optimization to select a different acoustic model automatically if necessary.

Default value: Deselected

By default, this option is automatically enabled.

When a user dictates using Dragon Medical Practice Edition, Dragon Medical Practice Edition automatically saves all audio and transcribed text in Dragon Recorded Audio (.DRA) files. If the user corrects any of the dictated text, Dragon automatically stores these corrections in .enwv files. Both these files are saved in the background.

These automatically created .DRA and .enwv files are used by Dragon to optimize the user profile. For example, Dragon uses these files when a user runs the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer.

When this option is enabled, Dragon Medical Practice Edition encrypts these automatically created .DRA and .enwv files before storing them in the local or Roaming user profile directories to ensure they do not become a back door into patient data and violate the patient's privacy. These files are also encrypted when a user dictates into a supported application like Microsoft Word or an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) application.

Due to the restrictions mandated by privacy regulations (for example, the United States' Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Europe's EC 95/46 Directive), these encrypted .DRA and .enwv files can only be opened by Dragon Medical Practice Edition for its internal use. For example, these encrypted files cannot be opened by any application other than Dragon Medical internal processes. They cannot be accessed by the non-Medical versions of Dragon, the Dragon SDK Client Edition (DSC), or the Dragon SDK Server Edition (DSS). In addition, any encrypted .DRA and .enwv files automatically created by Dragon Medical Practice Edition, cannot be opened in DragonPad.

Note:Dragon Medical Practice Edition does not encrypt .DRA files explicitly saved by a user. For example, if a user saves recorded dictation when saving a document (for example, in Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, or DragonPad), these saved .DRA files are unencrypted. The user who created these files has the responsibility of saving these files in a secure location.

Default value: Selected