IBM VIAVOICE 10-ADVANCED EDITION, User Manual

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Say only the words shown to you for the tests. Should you talk to
someone while the microphone is on, ViaVoice will capture your
conversation and not recognize your words as part of the story.
Hesitation noises like 'um' or 'uh', coughing and 'slips of the tongue'
are picked up as words.
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If a word can be pronounced more than one way—like 'thuh' and
'thee' for the word
the —try both pronunciations.
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Are you actually saying all words correctly? For example, do not
misread
this as the . Do not skip any words.
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If you are speaking in a room with a lot of unusual background noise,
wait until the noise subsides before reading the story.
Chapter 1. Setting up your speech system
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