IBM VIAVOICE 10-STANDARD EDITION, User Manual

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Contents
Welcome to ViaVoice . . . . . . . . . v
US English and UK English are both
described in this book
. . . . . . . . vii
Conventions in this book . . . . . . . viii
Chapter 1. Setting up your speech system . 1
Installing the ViaVoice software . . . . . . 2
Setting up your microphone and audio system 6
Creating a voice model.
. . . . . . . . 8
Analyzing your voice . . . . . . . . . 10
Analyzing your documents . . . . . . . 12
Troubleshooting setup problems . . . . . 13
Unable to install ViaVoice . . . . . . 13
Problems with audio setup . . . . . . 13
Poor recognition . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 2. The magic of dictating with
ViaVoice .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Practice dictating . . . . . . . . . . 18
Finding recognition errors . . . . . . . 20
Correcting errors . . . . . . . . . . 21
Try re-dictating your text before correction 21
Correcting misrecognized words .
. . . 21
Removing inserted words . . . . . . 22
Correcting capitalization errors. . . . . 22
Next steps after correction . . . . . . . 23
Analyzing My Documents . . . . . . . 24
Troubleshooting dictation problems . . . . 24
Chapter 3. Introducing VoiceCenter . . . 27
VoiceCenter components . . . . . . . . 28
ViaVoice menu . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 4. Dictating into SpeakPad . . . 33
SpeakPad menus and buttons . . . . . . 34
General hints and tips. . . . . . . . . 36
Dictating numbers in the US English version
of ViaVoice .
. . . . . . . . . . . 37
Currency . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Decimals . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Ordinals . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Long numbers . . . . . . . . . . 37
Time of day . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Dictating numbers in the UK English version
of ViaVoice .
. . . . . . . . . . . 37
Currency . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Decimals . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Ordinals . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Long numbers . . . . . . . . . . 38
Time of day . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Dictating numbers in number mode . . . . 38
Spelling words in spell mode . . . . . . 38
Saying commands while dictating. . . . . 39
Inline dictation commands . . . . . . 39
"Scratch that" command . . . . . . . 39
Text-editing commands . . . . . . . 40
Bullet lists. . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Commands recognized as text . . . . . 40
Dictating e-mail user IDs and URLs . . . . 42
Transferring your dictation to another
application
. . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Saving your dictation in SpeakPad . . . . 44
Saving a speech session . . . . . . . 44
Saving your dictation as text . . . . . 44
Finding new words in your document . . . 45
Chapter 5. Dictating into Microsoft Word 47
Installing Word Program Support . . . . . 47
Try your first dictation into Word . . . . . 48
ViaVoice menus and buttons in Word . . . 50
Using natural commands . . . . . . . 52
General hints and tips. . . . . . . . . 53
Dictating numbers in the US English version
of ViaVoice .
. . . . . . . . . . . 54
Currency . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Decimals . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Ordinals . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Long numbers . . . . . . . . . . 55
Time of day . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Dictating numbers in the UK English version
of ViaVoice .
. . . . . . . . . . . 55
Currency . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Decimals . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Ordinals . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Long numbers . . . . . . . . . . 56
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