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IBM ViaVoice Pro USB Edition is the flagship offering of the ViaVoice for Windows. It represents the merger of high-productivity software with advanced microphone technology. ViaVoice Pro USB Edition offers great dictation versatility so you can dictate, edit, and correct text in SpeakPad, the resident speech-enabled word processor, or in Word, Excel, and other applications within the Microsoft Office product suites (including Office XP) or directly into a variety of other PC applications. ViaVoice Pro USB Edition supports Windows XP Professional and Home, Windows 98SE, Me, 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6) operating systems.
ViaVoice Pro USB Edition expands the usefulness of the powerful Navigation Macro Center found in earlier generations of IBM ViaVoice for Windows. With ViaVoice Pro USB Edition, you can create macros that will run across multiple applications. In addition, you can now control the speed at which your macros run. ViaVoice Pro USB Edition supports the use of select digital handheld recorders.
ViaVoice Pro USB Edition is the IBM desktop voice-recognition product that features IBM ViaVoice Documents: customized, Microsoft Word-based templates for letters, reports, faxes, and e-mails. It also features VoiceMarks, which can read you the name of a customized navigation macro as an audio confirmation that the macro is being run correctly.
Included in the box are: IBM ViaVoice for Windows, Pro USB Edition (release 10) on CD-ROM (U.S. English vocabulary), noise-canceling USB headset microphone, a user's Guide, and a command reference card.
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IBM ViaVoice Pro USB Edition is the flagship offering of the ViaVoice for Windows. It represents the merger of high-productivity software with advanced microphone technology. ViaVoice Pro USB Edition offers great dictation versatility so you can dictate edit and correct text in SpeakPad the resident speech-enabled word processor or in Word Excel and other applications within the Microsoft Office product suites (including Office XP) or directly into a variety of other PC applications. ViaVoice Pro USB Edition supports Windows XP Professional and Home Windows 98SE Me 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6) operating systems.ViaVoice Pro USB Edition expands the usefulness of the powerful Navigation Macro Center found in earlier generations of IBM ViaVoice for Windows. With ViaVoice Pro USB Edition you can create macros that will run across multiple applications. In addition you can now control the speed at which your macros run. ViaVoice Pro USB Edition supports the use of select digital handheld recorders.ViaVoice Pro USB Edition is the IBM desktop voice-recognition product that features IBM ViaVoice Documents: customized Microsoft Word-based templates for letters reports faxes and e-mails. It also features VoiceMarks which can read you the name of a customized navigation macro as an audio confirmation that the macro is being run correctly.Included in the box are: IBM ViaVoice for Windows Pro USB Edition (release 10) on CD-ROM (U.S. English vocabulary) noise-canceling USB headset microphone a user's Guide and a command reference card.Format: WIN 98MEXPVISTA Genre: PRODUCTIVITY UPC: 780420105317 Manufacturer No: G909A-G00-10.0
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63 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Good Microphone is Key,
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This review is from: VIAVOICE PRO REGULAR (WIN 98,ME,XP,VISTA) (CD-ROM)
The real-time speech recognition of IBM ViaVoice 10 is extremely good. It is possible to get 99% accuracy. Possible is the key word here. In order to do that, you need a good microphone (better than what is included) and you will have to teach it words that it doesn't know (i.e. Plantronics, uncommon names). And you'll need to be in a supported product like Microsoft Word. If all these conditions are met, you're in like Flint.I, unfortunately, was trying to use Internet Explorer, and the support was less than stellar. The voice command "surf the web" did launch it and the "home", "back", and "forward" commands worked well to do the obvious. But the undocumented commands became key to navigation. To tab from one field or link to the next, you say "next field". "Previous field" is like a shift-tab to go backwards. "next line" and "previous line" seem to be equivalent to the down and up arrows. The microphone included with this package is the Andrea NC-61 along with the Andrea USB pod, which is a half of a sound card (microphone side only) that connects through your USB port. I found the quality of the pod to be excellent. Andrea advertises the NC-61 headset as using noise cancelling technology, but I found this microphone to not even be directional, and pretty much useless in any environment in which anyone else was speaking, however softly, in the same room. I did purchase separately an Andrea ANC-750 microphone and the noise cancelling on that microphone was quite good. (note: there is some white noise in the background that is audible if you use the ANC-750 to make a recording, but this should be ignored, as it is part of the noise cancelling system.) The best performance was when I used a high quality studio microphone in a quiet environment to create my voice profile by reading their text. The recognition accuracy was amazing. I used an AKG C-3000 (needs phantom power), but I've heard that a Sennheiser MD431 II is another excellent microphone, and has noise canceling properties as well. The best performance I got from my ANC-750 headset was when I used the voice profile created with the C-3000. I give the voice recognition part of the software a 5, the navigational ability a 2, and the included microphone a 2, hence my rating of 3 overall.
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Crashes, crashes, crashes - DO NOT BUY,
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This review is from: VIAVOICE PRO REGULAR (WIN 98,ME,XP,VISTA) (CD-ROM)
Installed ViaVoice 10 in Windows XP Pro...And sometimes it opens and sometimes it doesn't. Mainly doesn't. Then I find this...via Google.. Problem: After launching Dragon or ViaVoice and clicking a link in one of the menus, the system locks up or freezes. Other symptoms include Dragon NaturallySpeaking's Select-and-Say or ViaVoice's dictation and commands fail in Microsoft Office XP applications, such as Word and Microsoft Outlook. Cause: Microsoft Office XP's "Alternate User Input" installs a background process called CTFMON.exe which can interfere with Dragon or ViaVoice. The following information was taken from the Microsoft website: "...Ctfmon.exe monitors the active windows and provides text input service support for speech recognition, handwriting recognition, keyboard, translation, and other alternative user input technologies...." And you can get NO, repeat, NO, help from ScanSoft. DO NOT BUY!
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Terrible Support - Many Installation Problems,
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This review is from: VIAVOICE PRO REGULAR (WIN 98,ME,XP,VISTA) (CD-ROM)
An earlier ViaVoice installation 3 years ago went fine and the product was pretty useful and accurate enough for my purposes.ViaVoice version 10 however has been a nightmare. I still have not been able to install it on a Win2K-SP4 computer. I am a fairly advanced computer programmer/systems person with 20+ years of experience. Support is virtually non-existent from Scansoft. My 30 days of free support from IBM where I purchased the product has not been honored. All support has to come from Scansoft. Great features, if you can access them. I am seriously thinking of demanding my money back. Washington State has some very consumer friendly laws regarding "Fitness for Purpose", one more reason I am grateful to live in the Northwest.
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