Customer Reviews

Viavoice for Windows Personal Edition 10.0

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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. ...

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.

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.