Customer Reviews

ViaVoice for Macintosh OSX 3.0

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I've only had ViaVoice for about one week now, but I have a pretty good impression of it. At first, what I was using it, I thought that it wasn't doing very well. It was making a large number of mistakes, and I was spending a lot of time correcting them. However, IBM seems to have done a good job, since I find that I'm correcting the program less, even after just one week. I probably use it for about one hour a day. The interface is actually very good, and mostly shows that they did try to write a Mac program. What finally convinced me that this program was great, is a test that I did earlier tonight. I read several paragraphs, and then figured out just how fast I was dictating to the software. It turns out, that I've been dictating at 150 words per minute.

However, there are a couple things wrong with the program. At least a couple times a day when using it, SpeakPad just stops responding. And I have to save my work, and restart the program. Not deadly by any means, but rather annoying. I also find that the in line correction that ViaVoice uses can often screw up. Sometimes when I'm correcting it will start inserting text randomly or cutting out text randomly and I can't figure out a pattern, and it's obviously a bug. However, for the most part it works. I have a repetitive stress injury in my wrists, and even though I'm spending time correcting, I still think that I'm probably getting at least 70 words per minute, which is about how fast I can type. The speed of ViaVoice is not an issue, at least on my Cube. It's plenty fast enough to keep up with my dictation.

And just for your information, I dictated this review using ViaVoice, and there were six mistakes (that I noticed). =)

Well, maybe I am totally wrong but I just have had it trying to use this product... I don't know what is wrong... the OS X or the ViaVoice, but I have had it. The support is only during the day time hours... great tostay on the line for a large segment of your day waiting to speak to someone... calling some long distance number... so use email ... last email he wanted to know how many "Favorates" I had in Internet Explorer... This product works well for about 5 to 10 minutes ... then you start to talk to the wall... nothing works... bombs sometimes, abberrant behavior other times... accuracy is not too great... bought the Medical Vocabulary and it works well a while then God knows what happens... it goes into some funky state ... I can't get it to work.... It is just as bad as ViaVoice Millenian edition and just as slow... helps.....if.... you......talk.....like..... this.........ViaVoice Beta Version all over again -

I tried ViaVoice on Mac OS X. I was disappointed that it turned out to be so unstable with such poor recognition. It's a pity because it is a really nice looking program.

I ended up buying iListen, that's much much better, and a little easier to use. I guess I expected something from IBM to be better than something from a small mac only company, MacSpeech - I was wrong.

This review of his of ViaVoice for Macintosh OS 10. to begin I am using ViaVoice to dictate this review. So if you find a glaring errors, words out place caught or sentences that makes little sense please rest assured it is not my use of English grammar.

If I were you and I would save my money I am actually dictating this review using ViaVoice, and today it is behaving as usual. In just these first few sentences the software has missed multiple words, and important to punctuation. As I continue to take you will notice that the sentences really don't make a lot of sense that I am afraid of this garbage software.

I have attempted to upgrade as well as teaching the voice model her IBM instructions to no avail. This is an incredibly frustrating software program. I took it with me to Africa so that I could dictate my daily journal and other documents. I spent more time tweaking, restarting, just plain and trying to make this program work I would have been better off just typing as I have in the past. If you think this program will save you time, think again. You'll probably spend more time trying to get to work then if you simply typed by the hunt and peck method I use. Bottom-line is IBM has produced [bad product]

Tried it on my new g5, under OSX 10.2.2. It never really ran enough for me judge how well it would work if it did.