Backing up Your Speech Profile with Windows Easy Transfer Wizard
Backing Up Your Speech Profile With Windows Easy Transfer Wizard Now that you’ve been using Windows Speech Recognition for Vista a while, and hopefully the WSR Macro facility, you’ve probably noticed that the recognition engine is getting better about understanding you, which means you’re saying “correct *that+” less and less. Good! That’s the way it’s supposed to work. What you need to do now, and periodically afterwards, is to backup this maturing speech profile and all it’s associated data. Why? Well, what if your system crashes? You’ll have to start back at square one and retrain all those misunderstandings again, one-by-one. Not a good thought, huh. Or, you may want to move this increasingly accurate speech profile to another Windows Vista computer. No problem. Until more sophisticated tools become available, you can do this with the Windows Easy Transfer Wizard which is built-in to Vista. Rob Chambers [a Microsoft employee who currently works in the Speech Recognition Group] has explained how to do this on his blog and I’d like to expand on this a bit with step-by-step instructions and actual screenshots. Here’s the quick-list of his instructions: To Use The Windows Easy Transfer Wizard: 1. Click Start 2. Type "Easy Transfer" into the search box 3. Click on "Windows Easy Transfer" 4. Click "Next" 5. Click "Start a new transfer" 6. Click "My old computer" 7. Pick a way to transfer the files (transfer cable, using a network, or removable media) 8. Answer the specific questions about that mode of transfer 9.
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