IBM VIAVOICE Standard v.10 :: Education by Design Store

Editorial Review
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 Edition, users can dictate, edit, correct, and format text in the powerful IBM ViaVoice speech-enabled word processor, SpeakPad. Text dictated into SpeakPad can be exported to other text-based Windows applications through use of a single voice command, or through the Windows Copy and Paste features. Users can also dictate directly into Microsoft Word 2002, Word 2000, and Word 97 to easily create letters, reports, and other documents.

Standard Edition comes with a 300,000 word vocabulary that can be customized to add new words, addresses, acronyms, and other personal phrases and expressions. Standard Edition users can initiate basic commands to navigate Internet Explorer.

Main Features

Manufacturer: Nuance Communications, Inc

Manufacturer Part Number: H109A-G00-10.0

Manufacturer Website Address: www.nuance.com

Software Sub Type: Voice Recognition

Software Name: IBM VIAVOICE v.10.0 Standard Edition - Complete Product

Features & Benefits:

Use IBM ViaVoice SpeakPad or Microsoft? Word 2002, 2000 or 97 to dictate text for letters, reports, memos or faxes.

Say voice commands to format, edit and correct your dictation.

Transfer your SpeakPad documents easily into other text-based applications.

Use voice commands to navigate Internet Explorer.

Create dictation voice shortcuts to insert blocks of text-such as greetings, addresses, salutations and quotes-directly into your dictation documents.

VoiceCenter is the "command central" of IBM ViaVoice-now you can customize the size, shape and placement on your desktop.

A new IBM speech engine with improved background noise adaptation, first
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Customer Reviews

ViaVoice - easier than I thought.

2005-10-15
This program works better than I expected. I only took a short time to get my voice set up. I didn't clock it, so I might have taken more time than I thought, but I was enjoying the experience, so It was not difficult. If you have trouble typing and want a great program to help you easily produce text documents, You'll love this program.

A great invention!

2005-09-10
This is a great item. It is fun to use. It works very well for me. It is easy enough to set up. Then with patience and doing a little reading to help program it you can use it quite efficiently. And it is easy to transfer to another place like wordpad or emails. I found that I could send longer emails to my mom because all I had to do is speak my thoughts out loud!!! If your words dont come through clearly just do a little reading again.

ViaVoice - very disappointing

2004-12-21
You don't get your money's worth with ViaVoice. At first, it seemed to work fine. Contrary to what the program is supposed to do, the more I used it, the worse it got. "Training" the software is extremely time consuming. However, I did this in hopes of improving its performance. Unfortunately, after spending all the time doing that, it was actually worse, not better. It has finally gotten so bad I cannot use the application at all. As I am dictating, it throws in random words which can't possibly have anything to do with what I am saying, some of them foreign. Dictate, "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country," and you are likely to get "Avarice now is the Bois time for all good men to Gwendolyn." Help is impossible to find, and if you go to the IBM or ScanSoft site, you have to pay for it. Do not buy this software.

This is a waste of time, effort, and money.

2004-09-23
I bought this product to use with Microsoft Word. I can not dictate anything! What a huge disappointment. Too bad I could not rate it 0 stars. Don't even consider this product, it is fruitless to even try to get it to work at all.

Getting Pretty Good

2004-04-07
I thought that voice recognition software had finally reached the point where I would buy it. Based on my research IBM seemed to be the best. The Standard version really is all you need for dictation of reports, articles, letters, etc. Email will require a more advanced version.

It actually works quite well. The key is to spend time at the beginning to train it to your voice and to correct each error. Now its not going to be like Star Wars (Scotty: "A keyboard, how quaint.") but it works and has greatly reduced my Carpal Tunnel wrist pain.

Not quite 5 stars, I am a tough critic, but worth the money and I am using it daily in my work.

Good 2008-06-27
I just purchased viavoice. I read what other users mentioned about usability. It is like any new program. It involves a learning curve. I had my program running on XP. I disabled security during installation and re- enabled after installation.. You just have to tweak it for your system. I called tech support and they told me I should have brought Dragon. I decided to stay with viavoice and after voice test the software recognizes your voice. It is a good program.

Via Voice 2007-12-28
I prefer Via Voice to Naturally Speaking. It is easy to use, has features to scan docs that I did in the past, and dictate words that are new. I find it works well and is easy to dictate to. It writes to both word and its own program, which can then be pasted into a doc. Tech support was also great! I have 3 copies I like it so much.

Viavoice 2007-09-22
I am a little disappointed in the product. When I reboot my computer then the program will not reload. In order to use it I have to reinstall the program and then I can use it. In other words it will not work if I shut down the computer for the night.

Simply Amazing! 2007-03-30
I can't understand why everyone doesn't use it. It didn't make my keyboard obsolete but it was a close call!

The delivery was quick and clean. The product comes with a headset which is the same price in my local store without the voice recognition system.

Once I read an interesting story into the computer so it could get used to my voice, the recognition was extremely good. I will never type 90 words a minute. I don't need to now. I have been speaking that fast all my life and now my computer listens and puts my words on the screen.

not very good 2007-02-28
Takes forever to set up. About an hour to read a story so it gets use to your voice. Your suppose to be able to save the voice recognition. I had to do a complete system restore and it would not let me put the saved recognition back, so I had to read the story again.Terrible voice recognition,very frustrating to use.