User manual NUANCE VIAVOICE 10-PERSONAL EDITION

[. . . ] IBM® ViaVoice® for Windows® Personal Edition User's Guide Release 10 IBM® ViaVoice® for Windows® Personal Edition User's Guide Release 10 Note Before using this information and the product it supports, be sure to read the information in Appendix C, "Notices" on page 103. First Edition (August 2002) This edition applies to version 1, release 10, modification 0 of IBM ViaVoice for Windows Personal Edition US English (program number 5724-C96) and to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions. Readers may address comments on this publication to: IBM Austria, Department 00/558, Lassallestrasse 1, A-1020 Vienna, Austria. If you prefer to send your comments by fax, use the following number: Your international access code + 43 + 1 + 21145 6177. You may also send comments on this publication as an electronic mail (e-mail) to the following user ID: pub_comments@at. ibm. com 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. [. . . ] v Use continuous speech--do not pause or hesitate while saying the command. General hints and tips Keep these things in mind whenever you dictate: v Nearly everything you say into the microphone gets recognized as text or an action to carry out--a text format, a cursor movement or a file-save, file-close command. When your words are not recognized, you'll see a message to this effect in the VoiceCenter status area. There is no need to pause between words, but make natural pauses after a phrase or sentence. For example, when you say "Period" at the end of a sentence, ViaVoice types a period, moves one space and starts the next word with a capital letter. Look in the What Can I Say window for a list of the punctuation and characters that you can insert into your dictation. (Characters and punctuation are also listed in Appendix B, "Frequently used commands in dictation" on page 97. ) v Owing to the concept of paragraphs and paragraph styles in Microsoft Word, saying "New paragraph" in Word has another visual result than it has in SpeakPad. In SpeakPad, "New paragraph" inserts a line and starts the next word with a capital letter. In Word, the same command inserts a paragraph marker (¶), moves the cursor to the next line and starts the next word with a capital letter. So, in order to get the same visual result as in SpeakPad, in Word you will need to manually increase the default paragraph spacing in Word. Then, on the Indent and Spacing page, increase the Spacing Before/After values and click OK. Refer to Microsoft's documentation for more information about paragraph spacing features in Word. When you say "New line" in Word, ViaVoice inserts a manual line break (equivalent to pressing SHIFT+ENTER). To see the paragraph markers and manual line breaks, select on the Microsoft Word Standard toolbar. 48 ViaVoice for Windows Personal Edition v When saying a command, pause before the command, speak the command without pausing between command words and then pause after the command. Incidentally, if you pause just to collect your thoughts, ViaVoice will expect to hear a command. If the next words you say are not a command that ViaVoice recognizes, it types your words as text. v If you find that ViaVoice does not recognize your commands, you can begin every command with an Attention word, which signals that you are about to say a command. When it is specified, you must use it before every command, even commands like Microphone off. When using the Attention word, do not pause between the Attention word and the rest of the command. v You can use a key on your keyboard to signal that you are speaking a command. From the Dictation tab, select the Use key for commands check box, then choose the key you want to use. Then, while dictating, press the key you specified in the Options, say your command, and then release the key. (The key must remain pressed down for the entire duration of the spoken command. ) When the key has been enabled for commands, whenever you press it while dictating in Word, ViaVoice will interpret your next words as a command until you release the key. You can dictate into existing Word documents that you created by typing. [. . . ] Microsoft, Windows, Outlook and Active Accessibility are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. Lotus, 1-2-3, Lotus Notes and Word Pro are trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. Other company, product and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. 104 ViaVoice for Windows Personal Edition Other attributions Some of the artwork in this publication is based on clip art from CorelDRAW 7 by Corel Corporation. Appendix C. Notices 105 106 ViaVoice for Windows Personal Edition Glossary active. [. . . ]