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But if you have version 7.0, you should, if only for ViaVoice 9.0's vastly improved speech surfing. If you already own ViaVoice 8.0, there's no need to upgrade. Although it sounds a bit stiff, ViaVoice's text-to-speech voice is always understandable, even when it reads names and places. Click the Begin Reading command in VoiceCenter's menu to start this tool, which is a boon to anyone with a visual impairment. (Office XP's own speech-recognition mode makes you manually switch between dictation and program control, either with a voice command or by clicking a button on the toolbar.)įinally, ViaVoice will read, in a robotic voice, any text in any open document or dialog box. Want to switch from dictation to program control? If you're in the middle of dictating to, for instance, Word, ViaVoice needs only a short pause to recognize that "File open" means you want to open a file, not stick those words in your document.
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The program rarely stumbles here occasionally we had to say a link twice. Unlike the speech engine bundled with Office XP, ViaVoice navigates the Web-through Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, or AOL 6.0-guided by voice commands such as "Back" or "Scroll down," and the first few works of a link.
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ViaVoice is better than ever at operating your computer and particularly excels at guiding the browser. Within Word, you can dictate and even edit using your voice, with plain-English phrases such as "Delete this paragraph." Even Office XP's own speech engine can't do this and ViaVoice 9.0 seems to take dictation faster than the previous version, too.
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ViaVoice comes with its own stripped-down word processor (SpeechPad) for dictation, but the speech software works best with Microsoft Word 20. Once, when we said, "Fetch our slippers," ViaVoice wrote "Fetch Christopher's." (We give credit to the first-rate Plantronics USB microphone headset, a $110 device bundled with the Pro edition.) Still, be prepared for embarrassing errors. Of course, accuracy varied, depending on what we read-a generic memo with short words and little specialized vocabulary turned in the best scores-but, on average, ViaVoice puts down the correct word 92 percent of the time, a substantial 5 percent improvement over last year. We used ViaVoice to talk to scores of programs, from Outlook Express to Quicken and Excel.
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With just a click, you can start dictating in any Windows application. The first way is the most impressive, the second is the most useful, and the third is the most reliable. First, it dictates your words into every application that accepts text input second, it lets you command and control most Windows applications (and the desktop) by speaking commands and third, it reads text back to you. ViaVoice works with the spoken word in three ways.
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(A free update to make ViaVoice 9.0, completely compatible with Windows XP, will be available for download from the IBM site in early November.) We tried it under Windows XP as well, and although dictation worked fine, we weren't able to use voice commands within programs. ViaVoice 9.0 works under Windows 98 (Second Edition only), Me, and 2000.
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You can also shrink VoiceCenter to just a single icon in your system tray, turn it into a cartoon-character "agent" that rests on the screen, or even dock it against an application window (smart if you dictate mostly into Word, for example). The VoiceCenter toolbar, which holds all the program's major commands, occupies a thin strip at the top of the screen and sports just a single button (to turn the microphone on and off) and one menu (to access the program's commands). There's no change, either, in ViaVoice's interface. Thankfully, ViaVoice Pro 9.0 has what it takes to stand alone: it boasts high (if not perfect) dictation accuracy, works better within Word than Office XP's own speech engine, and lets you surf by speaking. Perennial competitors NaturallySpeaking and Voice Xpress face an uncertain future, since Lernout & Hauspie, the owner of both, is in serious financial trouble (though the company recently announced a new corporate version of NaturallySpeaking). The downside? Its $220 price tag.You heard it here first: IBM ViaVoice wins the speech-recognition battle by default, but we'd like it no matter what. Thankfully, ViaVoice Pro 9.0 has what it takes to stand alone: it boasts high (if not perfect) dictation accuracy, works better within Word than speech engine, and lets you surf by speaking. You heard it here first: IBM ViaVoice wins the speech-recognition battle by default, but we'd like it no matter what.