Simply Dictation
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Welcome
- Using ViaVoice
- Users and Voice Models
- Dictating with ViaVoice
- Navigating With Commands in SpeakPad
- The What Can I Say Window
- Playing Back Dictated Text in SpeakPad
- Reading Your Text
- Using Manage My Vocabulary
- Working With Dictation Macros
- Managing ViaVoice Users
- ViaVoice Components
- Getting Help
- Appendix
- Index
56 The VoiceCenter
ViaVoice Components
ViaVoice Components
The VoiceCenter
It’s worthwhile to get familiar with VoiceCenter, the control center of ViaVoice. After
installing ViaVoice, the VoiceCenter is displayed when you run ViaVoice.
VoiceCenter Components
Shown below is the VoiceCenter, from which you can access all of the settings and
options with a click of your mouse. All VoiceCenter functions, such as ViaVoice
Preferences and UserSettings are speech-enabled.
Microphone Button
Click to turn ON or OFF.
Speech Mode Buttons
Switches between the three speech modes: Dictation, Command, and Dictation and
Command. The default is Dictation and Command mode, but you can change this
setting in VoiceCenter panel in ViaVoice Preferences.
Audio Level
Shows the loudness of your voice in lime green, a color-blind-friendly hue. If the Audio
Level is displaying the color fuchsia in a normal tone of voice, you are speaking too
Microphone OFF
Microphone ON
Dictation and
Command mode
Command mode only
Dictation mode only
Lime Green
The best recording level
Fuchsia
You are speaking too loud
Action buttons
Drawer