Enterprise Solutions

Roaming Users
Dragon Naturally Speaking Professional 9 makes your user profile available to any workstation anywhere on your network. This is via a mapped drive, UNC Path or http location.

NaturallySpeaking automatically synchronizes, updates & adapts your voice file centrally eliminating the need to train a voice file on every workstation you wish to operate.

This facility gives you the freedom to dictate on any workstation in your hospital installed with NaturallySpeaking, a laptop used at work (& at home) or workstations situated at different offices around the country linked to the same server.

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NaturallySpeaking Medical version 9

Enterprise Solutions - using NaturallySpeaking 'roaming users'

The Roaming User feature lets you dictate with Dragon NaturallySpeaking at different locations using a variety of computing devices connected to a network, without having to create & train individual user files at each location.

For example, a doctor may need to dictate reports in a medical office using a desktop computer, in a hospital room using a Tablet PC, or even at home using a laptop computer.

In each case the Roaming User feature allows the doctor to use the same set of user files containing the same vocabulary words & acoustic information.

After creating & training your NaturallySpeaking voice file on a workstation, this is uploaded to the server & then made available to the other Pcs on that network (& connected to the server) both in the physical building you are in & also other offices/building linked to that server (see diagram below).

How it works?

The Roaming User feature works by employing a single 'master user' that can be opened from multiple networked machines running Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

When you open a master roaming user, the program makes a copy of it in a directory on your computer. You can then disconnect your computer from the network & dictate with that user. The local roaming user is a copy of the user data taken originally from the master user (on the server) but modified locally by corrections & acoustic data gathered during a dictation session.

When you exit Dragon NaturallySpeaking the program saves any changes to the local roaming user & synchronises these changes with the master roaming user (on the server).

In a networked situation, this synchronisation occurs at the time you perform one of these operations. When you dictate using a portable computer not currently connected to a network, synchronisation occurs when you reattach the computer to the network containing the master roaming user & open that user again.