IBM ViaVoice Standard V.10

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Product Features

• For Microsoft Windows 98 SE, XP Home, Me
• Intel Pentium 266MHz processor with MMX and 256K L cache or equivalent (including AMD-K6 with 256K L2 cache)
• 64MB RAM; 192MB RAM for XP Home; 500MB of available hard drive space;
• 16-bit sound card with a microphone jack; Quad-speed CD-ROM drive or faster
• For PC

Product Details

Product Manual [1.78mb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• ASIN: B0000A58IV
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 21, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,578 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

IBM ViaVoice Standard Edition is a voice recognition product that includes essential dictation, command, and control features. Windows XP Home, Windows 98 SE, and Windows Me are the supported operating systems in Standard Edition.

With Standard Edition, users can dictate, edit, correct, and format text in the powerful IBM ViaVoice speech-enabled word processor, SpeakPad. Text dictated into SpeakPad can be exported to other text-based Windows applications through use of a single voice command, or through the Windows Copy and Paste features. Users can also dictate directly into Microsoft Word 2002, Word 2000, and Word 97 to easily create letters, reports, and other documents.

Standard Edition comes with a 300,000 word vocabulary that can be customized to add new words, addresses, acronyms, and other personal phrases and expressions. Standard Edition users can initiate basic commands to navigate Internet Explorer.

Key Features:

• Use IBM ViaVoice SpeakPad or Microsoft Word 2002, 2000, or 97 to dictate text for letters, reports, memos, or faxes.
• Say voice commands to format, edit, and correct your dictation.
• Transfer your SpeakPad documents easily into other text-based applications.
• Use voice commands to navigate Internet Explorer.*
• Create dictation voice shortcuts to insert blocks of text-such as greetings, addresses, salutations, and quotes-directly into your dictation documents.
• VoiceCenter is the "command central" of IBM ViaVoice--now you can customize the size, shape, and placement on your desktop.
• A new IBM speech engine with improved background noise adaptation, first used in the IBM ViaVoice for Windows product line in the Release 10 portfolio, can lead to greater dictation accuracy.
• 300,000 vocabulary and backup dictionary words.**
• Add customized addresses, names, acronyms, terms, and colloquialisms to the vocabulary.
• Optional enrollment allows for quick and easy setup.
• Noise-canceling headset microphone included.

* Requires Internet or Intranet access, which much be obtained separately
** Applies to U.S. English vocabulary

Product Description

IBM ViaVoice Standard Edition is a voice recognition product that includes essential dictation and command and control features. Windows XP Home, Windows 98 SE, and Windows Me are the supported operating systems in Standard Edition.

With Standard Edition, users can dictate, edit, correct, and format text in the powerful IBM ViaVoice speech-enabled word processor, SpeakPad. Text dictated into SpeakPad can be exported to other text-based Windows applications through use of a single voice command, or through the Windows Copy and Paste features. Users can also dictate directly into Microsoft Word 2002, Word 2000, and Word 97 to easily create letters, reports, and other documents.

Standard Edition comes with a 300,000 word vocabulary that can be customized to add new words, addresses, acronyms, and other personal phrases and expressions. Standard Edition users can initiate basic commands to navigate Internet Explorer.

Main Features

Manufacturer: Nuance Communications, Inc

Manufacturer Part Number: H109A-G00-10.0

Manufacturer Website Address: www.nuance.com

Software Sub Type: Voice Recognition

Software Name: IBM VIAVOICE v.10.0 Standard Edition - Complete Product

Features & Benefits:

Use IBM ViaVoice SpeakPad or Microsoft? Word 2002, 2000 or 97 to dictate text for letters, reports, memos or faxes.

Say voice commands to format, edit and correct your dictation.

Transfer your SpeakPad documents easily into other text-based applications.

Use voice commands to navigate Internet Explorer.

Create dictation voice shortcuts to insert blocks of text-such as greetings, addresses, salutations and quotes-directly into your dictation documents.

VoiceCenter is the "command central" of IBM ViaVoice-now you can customize the size, shape and placement on your desktop.

A new IBM speech engine with improved background noise adaptation, first

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Getting Pretty Good, April 7, 2004

By	William Cely (Seal Rock, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I thought that voice recognition software had finally reached the point where I would buy it. Based on my research IBM seemed to be the best. The Standard version really is all you need for dictation of reports, articles, letters, etc. Email will require a more advanced version.

It actually works quite well. The key is to spend time at the beginning to train it to your voice and to correct each error. Now its not going to be like Star Wars (Scotty: "A keyboard, how quaint.") but it works and has greatly reduced my Carpal Tunnel wrist pain.

Not quite 5 stars, I am a tough critic, but worth the money and I am using it daily in my work.

33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ViaVoice - very disappointing, December 20, 2004

By	Steven L. Harrison - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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You don't get your money's worth with ViaVoice. At first, it seemed to work fine. Contrary to what the program is supposed to do, the more I used it, the worse it got. "Training" the software is extremely time consuming. However, I did this in hopes of improving its performance. Unfortunately, after spending all the time doing that, it was actually worse, not better. It has finally gotten so bad I cannot use the application at all. As I am dictating, it throws in random words which can't possibly have anything to do with what I am saying, some of them foreign. Dictate, "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country," and you are likely to get "Avarice now is the Bois time for all good men to Gwendolyn." Help is impossible to find, and if you go to the IBM or ScanSoft site, you have to pay for it. Do not buy this software.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great invention!, September 10, 2005

By	Melody A. Hadley (Bryant Pond, ME USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a great item. It is fun to use. It works very well for me. It is easy enough to set up. Then with patience and doing a little reading to help program it you can use it quite efficiently. And it is easy to transfer to another place like wordpad or emails. I found that I could send longer emails to my mom because all I had to do is speak my thoughts out loud!!! If your words dont come through clearly just do a little reading again.