VIAVOICE SIMPLY DICTATION (WIN 98SE,ME,XP)

by Nuance

Product Features

• FOR MAC OS X

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 ounces
• ASIN: B0000A58JR
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 21, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,355 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #35 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Scanning & OCR
  • #65 in Software > Operating Systems > Macintosh

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Exceptional dictation accuracy and the Mac OS X "aqua" look-and-feel can make IBM ViaVoice Simply Dictation for Mac OS X Edition an exciting introduction to continuous speech recognition on Macintosh computers. Simply Dictation Edition can be an enjoyable alternative to the mouse and keyboard for creating letters, stories, reports, memos, and email.

Features:

• Use your voice to dictate, edit, and correct text in SpeakPad, the voice-enabled word processor that comes with IBM ViaVoice Simply Dictation...
• ...and easily transfer completed SpeakPad documents into other text-based programs.
• Say editing and formatting commands in SpeakPad such as "select to beginning of line," "italicize this," "copy this," and "move to end of document."
• "What Can I Say?" is a pop-up menu displaying the formatting and editing commands you can use in SpeakPad.
• Use DSR technology to dictate-only directly into many popular Macintosh applications.
• Easily create a Personal Voice Model so Simply Dictation can understand your voice and accurately place your dictation on the screen.
• The 160,000 word vocabulary can be supplemented by specialized topics such as Computers and Business & Finance.
• Text-to-Speech feature means Simply Dictation can read back the text you have created--an excellent way to "audio edit" your documents.
• G4 processors optimization (optimized for G4 with Multiple Processors and G4 with Velocity Engine).

Product Description

VIAVOICE SIMPLY DICTATION (WIN 98SEMEXP)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

54 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding product! Still is as of 1/10/2007, September 29, 2004

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Donal B. Botkin "View[ + ]Finder" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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(Original review date 9/29/2004) I'm not typing this review. It is being dictated directly into the space using the ibm ViaVoice simply dictation for Mac OS X. (the failure to capitalize is due to my lack of familiarity with the software, not the software itself)
As you can see, this is pretty easy to use! In fact I just started using it at about 30 minutes ago. It took about an hour to train the system to my voice and set it up. I've had many years of experience in dictating to tape recorders and to live people, so my technique may be more consistent with what the dictation software expects than yours. All in all this seems to be a very useful tool particularly for people who dictate versions of the same letter on a daily basis. The software allows you to train it to words that are specific to your work and also to capture "Macro phrases" that might include entire paragraphs of text.
I would highly recommend this software to anyone who has had experience in dictating for transcription. This is not for everyone as some attention to articulation and phrasing is necessary in any dictation, computer or human. If your willing to speak clearly and distinctly to your friendly computer this software will enable you to do exactly what I've done: to transcribe a paragraph without having to touch a key.

UPDATE! I don't know what happened for the "*" reviewers below, but I'm still using it as of 2007 on OS X 10.4.8 and it works fine.

39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This version is NOT compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, January 12, 2006

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Larry A. Portzline "The National Council on B... (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This version is NOT compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. The manufacturer says a new version may be available in 2006. Be aware: the box says it is compatible with 10.1 and 10.3, but doesn't say anything about 10.2 and 10.4. Of course I had to find this out after I received it since Amazon doesn't mention it.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stay away from IBM Viavoice for Mac osx, August 23, 2006

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F. Gregory Salvatini - See all my reviews
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This program consistently fails to recognize even the slowest speech. I've trained it for three readings and it still makes a huge amount of errors. The errors don't even resemble a phonetic approximation, let alone what I dictated. Correction is user hostile. It doesn't seem to learn as I painfully try to correct the spellings. This voice recognition software isn't one tenth of Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC.