IBM VIAVOICE 3-FOR MAC OS X, User Manual

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Using ViaVoice
Using ViaVoice
The What Can I Say Window
The What Can I Say window displays all voice commands that are currently
available. All of the voice commands are organized by category names.
Expand each category to see available voice commands.
To display the What Can I Say window, SAY> WHAT CAN I SAY . Or, you can select
this item from the VoiceCenter drawer menu.
Some voice commands displayed in the What Can I Say window have one or more
words or phrases shown in angle brackets < >. Any word in angle brackets represents a
variable in the voice command. When you say the voice command, you must substitute a
word or phrase for the variable.
Some voice commands displayed have the word “(Untrained)” following the command
name. These voice commands do not have a recorded pronunciation available. Follow
these steps to train these voice commands.
1.
Select the voice command name.
2.
Select the Train This menu item from the View menu. The Train Word window is
used to record and train the pronunciations of new or untrained words.
3.
Click the Record button and say the voice command name.
4.
Click Done when you are finished. For more information, see "Training a Command"
on page 71.
Playing Back Dictated Text in SpeakPad
The Playback Selection feature in SpeakPad is useful when you are correcting your
dictated text. You can hear your own voice to help determine what you dictated.
Playback is limited to 1,000 words of dictated text (punctuation is included in the word
count). If your selection is over 1,000 words or contains typed text, you can use the
Read
Selection feature to hear a computer-generated voice read the text aloud.
1.
Highlight some dictated text.