User manual NUANCE VIAVOICE 10-ADVANCED EDITION

[. . . ] IBM® ViaVoice® for Windows® Advanced Edition User's Guide Release 10 Note Before using this information and the product it supports, be sure to read the information in Appendix B, "Notices" on page 127. First Edition (August 2003) This edition applies to version 1, release 10, modification 0 of IBM ViaVoice for Windows Advanced Edition US English (program number 5724-C96) and to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions. SSFT PART NUMBER: 50-H01A-10095 When you send information to IBM, you grant IBM a nonexclusive right to use or distribute the information in any way it believes appropriate without incurring any obligation to you. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 1998, 2003. US Government Users Restricted Rights ­ Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Welcome to ViaVoice . [. . . ] The speech-session data includes all audio and alternate words for your dictated text. To save the speech session in Word, select the Save Dictation Session check box on the dialog that appears when you close your file. To save your SpeakPad speech file, select File > Save Session from the SpeakPad menu. Because speech-session data occupies a lot of space on your hard disk, you should periodically remove the data that you no longer require. You can NOT save speech session data when using Direct Dictation. To correct a previously saved speech session: 1. If this is a SpeakPad document, look for files with the VPS extension. (If you did not save the speech-session data, the file opens automatically without the speech-session data. ) 3. Perform corrections in any way you prefer--type the words you want, use the Correction window, or re-dictate. You can use Playback to remind you of the original dictation. 60 ViaVoice for Windows Advanced Edition Delegated correction If someone has delegated correction of a previously saved, dictated speech session to you, you can retype, re-dictate, add dictation or use the Correction window and your voice to correct text. Just make sure that you do all of this under your own user name so that the author's personal speech files do not become corrupted. When you open someone else's file to make corrections, first make sure that you--not the author--are the current ViaVoice user. To update the author's personal speech files with the corrected text, switch to the author's name, then process the text through Analyze My Documents. Chapter 6. Correcting your dictation 61 62 ViaVoice for Windows Advanced Edition Chapter 7. Dictating to your applications This chapter describes how to dictate directly into virtually any Windows application that accepts text. You can dictate directly into text fields, text boxes in dialog windows and in table cells--virtually anywhere where text can be entered from the keyboard. Almost all dictation capabilities available in SpeakPad are also available in Direct Dictation. To get the best results when you dictate directly: v Dictate at a moderate pace. If you are speaking ahead of what you see ViaVoice currently displaying, you may be speaking too quickly. v Dictate a paragraph or more at a time and correct errors after you finish. v Avoid skipping around the document with mouse clicks, cursor movement keys, or cursor-positioning commands when dictating. v Turn the microphone off whenever you do most of your correction with the mouse and keyboard instead of your voice. Dictating directly To dictate directly to your application: 1. Say "Open program <program name>" to open your application, where <program name> is the name of your application, such as Lotus® Word Pro®. Say "Dictate Directly" and wait for the message Dictating directly. . . Dictate into text fields, dialog text boxes or table cells--anywhere text is accepted. [. . . ] (1) Describes an application, dialog or window that currently has focus on the desktop. (2) Describes the vocabulary, displayed in the Vocabulary field in ViaVoice Options, which is currently in use for dictation and command and control. One or more words displayed in the Correction window that sound like the word selected from a dictation. An application macro that works for any application whenever it has focus. [. . . ]