When you install Dragon NaturallySpeaking13, Dragon installs using the primary language for the product. You cannot install Dragon using a language that is different than the primary language. For example, when you install Dragon, Professional - English version, Dragon installs using the English language.
If you attempt to use the /l option with setup.exe to install Dragon NaturallySpeaking13 using a non-primary language, the installation process uses the primary language for that edition of Dragon and ignores the /l option.
Perform the following steps to use the Dragon command line:
1. Open a command prompt window in administrator mode. For more information about run- ning a command prompt as an administrator on Windows 7 or on the Windows 8 Metro interface, see Windows 7, Windows 8 Notes.
2. Insert the product DVD in the DVD drive, search the DVD for the path where the Dragon setup.exe is located, and switch directories to the path on the product DVD where the Dragon setup.exe is located.
3. Enter the following command line to install Dragon on this initial computer (ignore any errors you receive regarding the serial number, as it is not required for this in initial install- ation, unless you plan to dictate later):
setup.exe /s /v"INSTALLDIR=c:\Dragon13 /L*v C:\Logs\logfile.log /qn"
The /s option sets the silent option for every .exe that setup.exe provides a wrapper for - so that no GUI pops up. When you perform a silent installation of Dragon, the installation process does not display any messages. To view installation messages, administrators should view the setup log.
By contrast the /qn inside the quotation marks after /v sets the silent option for the Dragon .msi installation.
The /v option introduces any series of msiexec.exe options you want to pass to the Windows installer, all enclosed in quotation marks after the /v, with no space allowed between the /v and the opening quotation mark. Among the options inside the quotation marks are:
n INSTALLDIR — Indicates the full path to where you want Dragon installed
n /L*v — (either upper or lowercase) Indicates the log file where messages about the installation should be written. You can refer to the /L Option in the table in the following Microsoft website: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367988(v=vs.85).aspx. n /qn — (Quiet mode—also called Silent mode—no GUI) Turns off the Dragon GUI Caution: The first time you test any installation, you should not run it in Silent mode, because if you have neglected to provide information about a setting that does not have a default, you receive a GUI prompt for that information. You should initially pass the /L*v option because it runs the entire installation GUI. When the Welcome dialog appears, you can stop and look into the log file., where you can search for Command line to verify that all command line parameters are being incorporated. The line you find will have this format:
MSI (c) (##:##)[##:##:##:###] Command Line: <OPTION>=<value> <OPTION>=<value> ...
The above command line is to install the primary language of the Dragon product.
Logging errors and other messages
Sub-option Message type sent to log file
i Status messages
w Nonfatal warnings
e All error messages
a Start up actions
r Action-specific records
u User requests
c Initial UI parameters
m Out-of-memory or fatal exit information
o Out-of-disk-space messages
p Terminal properties
v Verbose output
x Extra debugging info (Windows Server 2000 only) + Append to existing log file
* Wildcard. Log all info except v and x options *vx Log all info including v and x options
Running natspeak.exe to Set Options
When the installation completes, you then set up the configuration on this initial computer by running natspeak up to five times in total, in the steps that follow. All steps are optional; by skipping a step, you are choosing to accept the default values for the options applicable for associated options.
1. On a workstation PC where Dragon is installed, close Dragon if it is running.
2. From the Windows Start menu, select All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt to open the Command Prompt window.
3. Switch to the Program directory. The default is:
4. Enter the following natspeak command: natspeak.exe /setdefaultsoptions
5. When the Options dialog box appears, select the default options that should apply to all cli- ent installations and click OK. This dialog box is where you set up all the options under the various tabs (Correction, Command, and so on).
Note: Settings under the Playback/Text-to-Speech tab are not saved. To include Text-to- Speech as a feature of your installation, work with options in Summary: MSI Options for Installing Dragon Features/Advanced Options.
Note: At least one supported third-party indexing/search software should be installed on the system before you install Dragon, or the Enable Desktop Search commands check box will not only be unchecked, but will not be available to be checked. Dragon supports
Google Desktop and Microsoft Search. 6. Enter another natspeak command:
natspeak /SetDefaultFormattingOptions
7. When the Auto-Formatting dialog box appears, select Auto-Formatting options to apply to all client installations and click OK.
8. Enter a final natspeak command:
"C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13
\Program\natspeak.exe"/setdefaultadministrativeoptions
9. When the dialog box appears, if you want to set up Roaming User Profiles, set the options under Roaming User Profile (to set the HTTP or HTTPS settings under the HTTP Settings or HTTPS Settings button, you must have either http:// or https:// in front of the network dir- ectory path); whether you have Roaming User Profiles or not, set the options under Mis- cellaneous and Scheduled Tasks tabs and click Apply for each; then, when you have set all the settings, click OK.
10. Dragon has saved the configuration you created with running natspeak.exe in the nsde- faults.ini and roamingdef.ini files (the roamingdef.ini file is created only if you set up Roam- ing User Profiles). You can find these .ini files under
C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking13\. Note:
These .ini files are now considered customized files, because they now contain the custom settings that will be applied to each of the DNS client installations you deploy. Retrieve the nsdefaults.ini and roamingdef.ini files and copy them to a directory where you can access them from the other client computers. (If you did not run natspeak.exe on the command line, you do not find a roamingdef.ini file; in that case, you can use a roaming.ini file from an existing installation whose settings you’d like to replicate. If you did not change the Network Settings, you do not need a roamingdef.ini or roaming.ini file at all.)
11. When you have located the nsdefaults.ini file, verify that your option settings have been changed. Double-click the nsdefaults.ini file to open it in a text editor. You should see val- ues defined for the options you changed.
has been turned on, the nsdefaults.ini file contains this statement:
12. Include the newly created nsdefaults.ini file in your MSI package to distribute the file to all end-user workstations where Dragon is installed.
You are now ready to install the same configuration you just established here onto other computers.
Note: If you are installing Dragon on more than one client computer and over a network, you can use the same .ini files with the MSI Installer (msiexec). You also use SMS Server or another server-based program that pushes the installation out to several clients at once. Even if you are installing from a server, you should run through the initial installation before you carry out the administrative installation. Then, for more information on installing from a server, proceed to Overview of Installing Dragon using the Windows Installer (MSI).