You can also return to the User Wizard for further training. Luckily, ViaVoice is designed to continue improving its speech-recognition vocabulary by analyzing the text errors that you correct. ViaVoice is IBMs innovative, award-winning voice recognition. It recognized larger words, such as subscription, but fumbled with smaller parts of speech that people tend to mumble, such as prepositions and contractions. IBM ViaVoice 1.0.2 is constructed as a helpful tool which can make computer work as convenient as speaking into a computer microphone, mobile recording device or a telephone handset. ViaVoice understood our straight dictation moderately well. Not surprisingly, ViaVoice also has lower memory requirements-about 750KB per minute for recorded speech, which is less than the 1.5MB of memory that Dragon requires. For example, you need to click the mouse to pause text as ViaVoice reads it back to you, and you can't use your voice to enter keyboard commands, as you can with Dragon. ViaVoice is a dictation program, however, not a hands-free app like Dragon. Nuance (formerly ScanSoft) now distributes both programs, which even share some voice commands, such as "Scratch that" (to erase text) and "Go to sleep" (to turn off the microphone). In some ways, ViaVoice 10 is a lightweight and less expensive version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8. ViaVoice 10 also comes in a Mac-ready version, which demands OS 10.3 and 192MB of RAM. You'll need an Internet connection and a 16-bit sound card as well.
The more advanced ViaVoice Pro Millennium, which will retail for about $180, contains the Web features and an advanced vocabulary of commonly used business and computer terms.ViaVoice has moderate RAM requirements: 64MB for Windows 98 SE and Windows Me, and 192MB for Windows XP Home and Professional.
wanting to get a computer that will run speech recognition software it is always. The software also incorporates the ViaVoice Online Companion, which let users talk their way through chat rooms. There is now a version of IBM ViaVoice for recent Apple Mac computers. In addition, a new feature will read e-mail back to the user. If a people want to click on the graphic, they can call out the corresponding number. It also lets users navigate through Web graphics by assigning them a number on the screen. (NSYE: AOL) to a list of ISPs users can access. ViaVoice Web Millennium, $80, adds America Online Inc.
ViaVoice Standard Millennium, which costs about $60, lets users create and edit documents.
In addition, the consumer version is simpler than previous ViaVoice releases, while the professional version contains a variety of advanced features. "There are just more user-friendly features," Helene Lunden, ViaVoice product line manager said. IBM (NYSE: IBM) said ViaVoice Millennium would be more accurate than previous versions of the product and contain enhanced Web surfing features.
will unveil an upgraded version of ViaVoice Millennium Wednesday. In addition, IBM recently began selling a companion to its ViaVoice speech-recognition software that allows people to compose e-mail and dictate into Internet chat rooms using headsets with. Hoping to lure more people to the brave new world of speech recognition software, IBM Corp.