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IBM ViaVoice 10.0 Standard Edition

by IBM
Platform:   Windows Me / XP / 98
3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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System Requirements

  • Platform:   Windows Me / XP / 98
  • Media: CD-ROM
  • Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features

  • Use voice commands to format, edit, and correct documents
  • Includes microphone headset
  • Improved background noise adaptation
  • Customized shortcut commands useable in multiple programs
  • Over 300,000 vocabulary and backup dictionary words

Product details

  • Item Weight: 663 g
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  • ASIN: B00006IIP2
  • Release Date: 15 Aug 2002
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,574 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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IBM ViaVoice 10.0 Standard Edition

IBM ViaVoice 10.0 Standard Edition

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Amazon.co.uk Review
IBM is one of the two main contenders for the PC speech-recognition crown and IBM ViaVoice 10.0 Standard Edition moves it closer to a complete natural-language solution. Gone are the days when you had to speak to your computer in a stilted word-by-word patois. ViaVoice works better if you speak with a natural rhythm, though a little slower and more precisely than in normal conversation.

Once installed, the ViaVoice VoiceCenter bar sits at the top of the screen and whatever you say into the supplied noise-cancelling headset is interpreted as either dictation or a command. The program works with Microsoft Word but if you use a different word processor ViaVoice's SpeakPad text editor will take dictation just as happily; you can then cut-and-paste into the application of your choice.

ViaVoice 10.0 Standard Edition understands a wide range of dictation-specific commands (such as "go to end of line" and "new paragraph"), and this will help you move around your document. You can work entirely by voice, but most people use a combination of dictation and mouse clicks for highest productivity.

No speech recognition system is completely accurate and to cope with the occasional mistake, ViaVoice 10.0 Standard Edition provides a correction window in which a numbered list of likely alternatives is shown. Saying "pick " substitutes the word or phrase at that position in the list.

When you first start using the program, you need to train it to understand your voice. This takes around 20 minutes, and further training can improve accuracy. Getting it used to your voice is only half the battle: getting it to understand your vocabulary is just as important, particularly if you use specialist words. ViaVoice 10.0 Standard Edition can search through your previous documents, adding new words to its already extensive vocabulary. This is a cunning shortcut to boosting accuracy. --Simon Williams

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 Edit

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110 of 114 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best software packages on the market, 2 Oct 2002
By Ben (Kent, England) - See all my reviews
Faultless. This is the only word that can describe this product, it does exactly what it says - You Talk, It Types. Before buying ViaVoice 10 I was very sceptical about speech recognition systems, as my only experience with them was frustrating and a waste of time as no matter how much training, they would still type absolute rubbish. It was only after seeing how many awards this version has won, IBM's experience with speech recognision and the price of the standard edition, that I was persuaded to buy ViaVoice 10. After installing, I did only the basic level of training and went straight to voice dictation, I was amazed! It recognised everything I said perfectly without a single mistake, I could hardly believe this after so little training! Set-up is dead easy; there is no need to look at the instruction book. You can speak relatively quickly as long as you pronounce words clearly, providing you do, you should have every word recognised first time, every time. I would advise everyone to buy ViaVoice 10 as it is worth a 10 times its price!
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Training is everything, 27 Mar 2003
Recognition of individual words is decent, but the feature that gives ViaVoice wings is its internal database of which pairs of words tend to occur together. This lets ViaVoice correctly guess whole streams of text ... provided that your document has a similar style to the documents that the program has already been trained on.
Out of the box, ViaVoice feels as if it has been "pre-trained" to expect business documents and poetry <!>, so if you want to use the program for business invoicing or writing your romantic novel, then the program will probably be fine as soon as you have trained it to recognise your voice.

For anything else, though, you will probably need to supply ViaVoice with a largeish collection of documents that have a similar style to the sort of thing that you want to produce, so that it can analyse them and can learn to re-weight its word-associations accordingly.
Otherwise, your piece on car maintenance is liable to contain runs of text about invoicing the Frankfurt office, or organising sick leave, or whimsical stream-of-consciousness passages about fluffy clouds and unrequited love. I'm still trying to stop my copy from recognising "phenomenology" as "phenomenal orgy", so I now have some suspicions about the sorts of "typical" business memos that typically reside on IBM's servers!

SO: great for writing business letters or Jackie Collins novels, but for other things you'll need a reference library of similar documents for it to analyse and learn from. Which is fair enough. Just be prepared to set aside some training time for the automatic document analysis, make sure that you have a suitable collection of documents written in the same style as your intended masterpiece, and expect the resulting database and speech template files to use up a fair bit of hard drive space (think gigs rather than megs).

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Could have been worse, 10 Jun 2003
By Martin Foster (Warwickshire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
A frustrating peice of software. The program takes about an hour to do all the reading exercises to train the system to your voice but after that it still gets it wrong if you talk normally. I don't have a particullary strong accent but it didn't pick up everything I had to say. I wrote a document and it took me 10 minutes to read a page to it and then another 10 minutes to spell check it and proofread it. Good for people who cannot type or the horribly lazy. A clever system but with a lot of flaws. I'd go for the cheaper "Dragon" software as you can't go far wrong with it for less than £10. Amazon is brilliant for deliveries, it got there On tuesday morning and I sent for it on Saturday afternoon.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Very good product....eventually
I owned a previous version of Viavoice, and found it very useful, and very accurate. After having to wipe my hard drive following a virus attack and losing the installation disk... Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2005 by Mr. C. Billing

1.0 out of 5 stars ViaVoice sucks
this is the worst piece of programming I've ever come across. I've NEVER, in five years of owning it, been able to get it to work on ANY Macintosh, despite buying 500Mb of memory... Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2004 by Mark

1.0 out of 5 stars This package sucks
The installatation does not work on Windows NT, 2000, XP or XP Home though it claims that it works on XP Home. I am totally irritated by this and have sent it back.
Published on 3 Sep 2003 by ram_t

3.0 out of 5 stars Good if you work it properly
I have found like many others, that speaking to the computer in a "normal relaxed tone of voice" rarely works because the computer is simply incapable of recording your voice and... Read more
Published on 16 Jul 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly clever system at a ridiculously low price
I was sold the product by Mandy4Moore's recommendation above and the bargain price. The product arrived in a couple of days and was easy to install. Read more
Published on 15 April 2003 by Mike Taylor

5.0 out of 5 stars It works
I was a little sceptical about buying this product as I had tried voice recognition software in the past and it churned out a stream of rubbish. This is fantastic! Read more
Published on 11 April 2003

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