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17 MacSpeech DictateChapter 4 — Training
Working With Profiles
Your profiles — your personalized voice files — are the most
important part of MacSpeech Dictate. You have invested your
time and effort into building them. So knowing how to back up
and restore these valuable files is important.
More About Profiles
You can have as many profiles as you have room on your hard
drive space. Each profile takes a little over 40MB of space
— not a lot when today’s Macs come with 80GB drives and
larger! Your profiles are stored in a folder named MacSpeech
Profiles, which is located inside your Documents folder. It is
important you do not remove or relocate any of the files inside
this folder.
Backing Up A Profile
The worst thing that can happen is to invest hours training and
adding new words only then have your hard drive go belly up,
or have an update install incorrectly, and wipe out all of your
hard work.
You can backup your profiles by simply burning a copy of the
MacSpeech Profiles folder inside your Documents folder to
a CD, or drag it to an external drive to make a copy.
A Note For Users Of Backup Utilities
It is reasonable to wonder how well backup programs, such
as Apple’s Backup, Time Machine, or Retrospect from
Dantz Development, deal with it. We are happy to report they
work just fine with MacSpeech Dictate. In short, any backup
utility that is fully compliant with Mac OS X should backup
MacSpeech Dictate and its files with no problem.
Adding Profiles
To create a new profile, follow these steps:
1. Choose “Proles”fromtheToolsmenutoopenthe
Proleswindow,asshowningure4-10.
Figure 4-10
2. Click the PlusSigntocreateanewprole.
MacSpeechDictatewillcreatethenewprole,as
showningure4-11.
Figure 4-11
3. Follow the procedure in Chapter 3 to complete
creatingthenewprole.
Switching Profiles
If more than one person is using MacSpeech Dictate on your
Mac, each person will need to have his or her own profile.
1. Choose “Proles”fromthe“Tools”menutoopen
theProleswindow,asshowningure4-10.
2.Highlighttheproleyouwanttouseandclickthe
“Make Active” button.
3.MacSpeechDictatewillloadtheprole,asshown
ingure4-12
Figure 4-12