After you have set up the network location for the Master Roaming User Profiles and installed or upgrading Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 on the computers in your network, you must enable the Roaming feature on each computer where the end-user will dictate using a Roaming User Profile.
Step 1: Start Dragon NaturallySpeaking
You must start Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 to enable the Roaming feature.
Step 2: If already Dragon is running, select Administrative Settings
If Dragon is already running, on the DragonBar, select Tools > Administrative Settings
and click Proceed. This action closes all open User Profiles and displays the Administrative Settings dialog box.
Step 3: Turn on the Roaming feature
After closing any open User Profiles:
1. If Dragon is running, from the DragonBar menu, select Tools > Administrative Set- tings. This action displays the Administrative Settings dialog box.Note: You do not have to be running Dragon to act as an administrator of the product. Instead of opening the
Administrative Settings dialog box from the DragonBar menus, you can open the dia- log box from the command line by selecting Start > Run, then entering the following com- mand in the Open text box (include a space between natspeak.exe and the
/SetAdministrativeOptions option that follows it): “C:\Program
Files\Nuance\Nat-
urallySpeaking13\Program\natspeak.exe”/SetAdministrativeOptions 2. On the Roaming tab, check Enable.
3. Click Apply to save the changes and keep the dialog box open.
Note: With the Roaming feature enabled, the Open User Profile dialog box later displays only User Profiles in the Roaming User Profile storage locations. To let the end-users open both local (non-roaming) and Roaming User Profiles, check the Allow non-roaming user profiles to be opened option in the Administrative Settings dialog box. Clearing this option prevents end-users from dictating with a non-roaming (local) User Profile by mistake.
Step 4: Set the location of Master Roaming User Profiles
On each computer where you plan to have end-users dictating as Roaming users, you must tell that installation of Dragon where the Master Roaming User Profiles are located.
After selecting Enable on the Roaming tab:
1. Click the Add button. The Roaming User Network Location dialog box displays. You use the Roaming User Network Location dialog box to define the network location of the master Roaming User Profiles. The location you pick must be accessible to all computers on the network that you want available for dictation with Dragon.
2. Set the Display Name to the way the name of the directory should display in other dialog boxes. The display name later appears in the Roaming tab of the
Administrative Settings dialog and the Location of user profile text box of both the Open User Profile and the Manage User Profiles dialog boxes.
3. Set the Network Location. See the types of locations that the Roaming feature supports in Creating a network storage location for Master Roaming User Profiles.
4. If you are using a web server to store Master Roaming User Profiles, click the
HTTP Settings and SSL Settings (if you are using HTTPS) button to set information about your HTTP and HTTPS connection and proceed with HTTP Settings and SSL Set- tings for further information. After entering the HTTP and SSL Settings, use the Test Connection button to make sure your settings are correct. For help troubleshooting a problem with the connection, see Testing and troubleshooting an HTTP connection . 5. Click OK in the Roaming User Network Location dialog box.
For more information on setting the location of the master Roaming User Profiles, see
Roaming User Network Location.
Note: You cannot create a non-Roaming User Profile on an HTTP connection. You can only create Roaming User Profiles on an HTTP connection when the Roaming feature is enabled.
Step 5: Set location of Local Roaming User Profiles
When an end-user opens a Master Roaming User Profile, Dragon transfers a copy of that User Profile to the local computer. That local copy is called the Local Roaming User Profile. This is the location on the computer where changes made during a dictation session, such as corrections or new acoustic data, are stored before they are synchronized with the master Roaming User Profile.
You can set this location, called <Roaming Local>, from the Administrative Settings dialog box. Nuance recommends leaving this option at the default setting.
Note: the location of <Roaming Local> is per-PC and cannot be changed to an end-user- specific location.
<Roaming Local>
To accept the default <Roaming Local> location (which Nuance recommends), click OK
on the Administrative Settings dialog box. You will be prompted to create the default directory if it does not already exist. When you see the following message, click Yes.
The default location of <Roaming Local> is:
n Windows 7, and Windows 8:
C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\RoamingUsers\<display name>\
See Dragon file structure for information about the default location of the RoamingUsers directory for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 on other Windows operating systems.
The <display name> is the name you defined for the Master Roaming User Profile location. You can have multiple network storage locations for your Master Roaming User Profiles and each has its own corresponding directory for Local Roaming User Profiles.
Changing the default location for <Roaming Local>
1. Use the Browse for Folder dialog box to open a location where you want to store the local Roaming User Profile. This is the location on the computer where changes made during a dictation session, such as corrections or new acoustic data are stored before they are synchronized with the master Roaming User Profile.
2. If the directory does not currently exist, click Make New Folder and type a name for the new folder. The new directory can have any name, but calling it something meaningful, such as Local Roaming User Profiles, will make the folder easier to find in the future. 3. Click OK.
Step 6: Set Roaming feature options
The Administrative Settings dialog box also contains several options that affect how the Roaming feature works. You select the options that indicate how you want a Roaming User Profile to function at each Roaming User Profile location. For a list of the options to choose from, refer to Selecting Roaming User Profile options.
Notes:
n Once you set up an installation of Dragon to use the Roaming feature, end-users on that computer can only open Roaming User Profiles; they cannot open any locally created User Profiles unless you choose the "Allow non-roaming user profiles to be opened" option. For a list of the options to choose from, refer to Selecting
Roaming User Profile options.
n If an end-user is dictating with a Roaming User Profile, the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler is disabled on the local end-user's computer. You must run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on the computer where your
Master Roaming User Profiles are located or on an administrator’s workstation. For more information, see Running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer with a Roaming User Profile.