Simply Dictation

IBM ViaVoice Simply Dictation for Mac OS X User’s Guide 47
Using ViaVoice
Using ViaVoice
Reading E-mail
Provided your e-mail application supports the Select All and Copy to Clipboard
functions, you can have ViaVoice read back the text in your e-mail.
1. Open your e-mail application.
2. SAY> READ ALL
or, highlight the text you want to read and SAY> READ SELECTION.
The text selected is read using the currently selected voice in the Voices panel in
ViaVoice Preferences.
3. Turn on the microphone and SAY> STOP READING to stop playback at any time.
The What Can I Say Window
The What Can I Say window displays all voice commands that are currently
available. All of the voice commands are organized by category names.
Expand each category to see available voice commands.
To display the What Can I Say window, SAY> WHAT CAN I SAY. Or, you can select
this item from the VoiceCenter drawer menu.
Some voice commands displayed in the What Can I Say window have one or more
words or phrases shown in angle brackets < >. Any word in angle brackets represents a
variable in the voice command. When you say the voice command, you must substitute a
word or phrase for the variable.
Some voice commands displayed have the word “(Untrained)” following the command
name. These voice commands do not have a recorded pronunciation available. Follow
these steps to train these voice commands.
1. Select the voice command name.
2. Select the Train This menu item from the View menu. The Train Word window is
used to record and train the pronunciations of new or untrained words.
3. Click the Record button and say the voice command name.
4. Click Done when you are finished. For more information, see "Training a Command"
on page 69.