Viavoice for Windows Personal Edition 10.0

by IBM

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 7.7 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006IIT2
• Item model number: 45P8699
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,393 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

With the same accuracy and ease-of-use found throughout the ViaVoice 10 product family, ViaVoice Personal Edition provides an exciting introduction to natural, continuous speech recognition on personal computers. Speak to your computer instead of typing--use your natural voice, and watch your words appear on the screen.

You can use ViaVioce's own SpeakPad, a dictation-oriented word processor, or Microsoft Word 97, 2000, or 2002 to dictate text for letters, reports, memos, papers, faxes, or anything else you can think of. There's no need to grab the mouse if you make a mistake; ViaVoice features voice commands to format, edit, and correct your dictation. You can even create voice shortcuts to insert blocks of text like greetings, addresses, and quotes directly into your documents.

ViaVoice comes with over 300,000 vocabulary and backup dictionary words, and you can add your own terms, names, acronyms, and other words. ViaVioice for Windows Personal Edition 10 also comes with a stereo headset microphone.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

48 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good system, October 30, 2002

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Joyce C. (Kansas City, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Viavoice for Windows Personal Edition 10.0 (CD-ROM)

I bought this system three weeks ago for transcription purposes. It is easy to install and comes with a headset that is pretty sturdy. You can teach it how to recognize the way you speak with the ability to constantly add new words. I am sure you could pay more for this type of product but why would you want to? This one will do the job. ...

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Extremely useful; reliability problems, March 15, 2003

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Andrew Bird (San Andreas, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Viavoice for Windows Personal Edition 10.0 (CD-ROM)

I have mixed feelings about this program, which I have used extensively in my one week of ownership. It is one of the most useful and freeing programs I've ever found. Suddenly, entering notes for lengthy research projects became a breeze. However, this program crashes constantly. Although I am able to recover the text after a crash, the dictation portion is lost -- and I am unable to execute the correction procedure necessary for the program's effectiveness and voice recognition accuracy. This program was designed for dictating letters and similar, brief documents. I have learned, now, to break up note-taking sessions into smaller documents. Once you get past a couple of pages of dictation, you risk crashing the program.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Buy, May 2, 2003

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Arthur W. Scholbe "awscho" (St. Louis, Mo) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Viavoice for Windows Personal Edition 10.0 (CD-ROM)

I bought this program to transcribe text from a word processor to my computer and I've been delighted with the results. The only reason I don't give it five stars is that the system requirements they give are sorely understated. The computer I was using origninally had 256M RAM and was running at 533MHz, and I had continual problems with voice recognition. Now, I have 512M RAM and am running above 1GHz, and the difference in ease of use is like magic. All of these programs (from the reviews I've read) understate system requirements this way. Sure, you can (probably) get the program to run with their minimum; but to perform the way you'ld expect...not gon'na happen. That said, this is a great buy for the money and I recommend it wholeheartedly.