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Table Of Contents

Contents
Welcome to ViaVoice
- Conventions in this book
Chapter 1. Setting up your speech system
- Installing the ViaVoice software
- Setting up your microphone and audio system
- Creating a voice model
- Analyzing your voice
- Analyzing your documents
- Troubleshooting setup problems
Chapter 2. The magic of dictating with ViaVoice
- Practice dictating
- Finding recognition errors
- Correcting errors
- Next steps after correction
- Analyzing My Documents
- Troubleshooting dictation problems
Chapter 3. Introducing VoiceCenter
- VoiceCenter components
- ViaVoice menu
Chapter 4. Dictating into SpeakPad
- SpeakPad menus and buttons
- General hints and tips
- Dictating numbers
- Dictating numbers in number mode
- Spelling words in spell mode
- Saying commands while dictating
- Dictating e-mail user IDs and URLs
- Transferring your dictation to another application
- Saving your dictation in SpeakPad
  - Saving a speech session
  - Saving your dictation as text
- Finding new words in your document
Chapter 5. Dictating into Microsoft Word
- Installing Word Program Support
- Try your first dictation into Word
- ViaVoice menus and buttons in Word
- General hints and tips
- Dictating numbers
- Dictating numbers in number mode
- Spelling words in spell mode
- Saying commands while dictating
- Dictating e-mail user IDs and URLs
- Saving your dictation
  - Saving a speech session
  - Saving your dictation as text
- Finding new words in your document
Chapter 6. Correcting your dictation
- Using the Correction window
- Correcting by voice
- Correcting words by typing
- Delayed correction
- Delegated correction
Chapter 7. Dictating to your applications
- Dictating directly
- Using Auto-start dictation
- Dictating directly into a spreadsheet
Chapter 8. What Can I Say
- Views
- Interacting with What Can I Say
- Using an Attention word with commands
- Training a command
Chapter 9. Using natural commands
- General guidelines
  - Using commands that have variables
  - Correcting errors
- Word
- Excel
  - Entering data into a spreadsheet
- Outlook
Chapter 10. Using the Internet and E-mail
- Internet Explorer
- Working with e-mail
  - Composing e-mail
  - Checking for e-mail
- America Online (AOL)
Chapter 11. Navigating with your voice
- Desktop commands
- Navigate the active program
- Voice Mouse
Chapter 12. Customizing ViaVoice
- Changing VoiceCenter's appearance
- Changing the microphone's startup state
- Creating additional voice models
- Selecting a vocabulary or topic
- Adding a user
- Making a user name the current user
- Backing up and restoring user data
- Deleting a user name or voice model
- Setting dictation options
- Changing the appearance of the Correction window
- Enabling command sets
- Setting Text-To-Speech options
- Adjusting recognition sensitivity
Chapter 13. Creating macros
- Creating a dictation macro
- Creating a macro template
  - Before you start
  - Creating the template form
- Creating navigation macros
Chapter 14. Getting help
- Information Central
- Getting context-sensitive help
  - Question Button Help
  - What's This Help
- Printing help
- Using Teach Me commands
- How do I troubleshoot a problem?
Appendix A. Frequently used commands in dictation
- Formatting and spacing
- Punctuation in dictation
- Symbols and characters in dictation
- Symbols and characters in number mode
- Symbols and characters in spell mode
Appendix B. Notices
- Trademarks
- Other attributions
Glossary
Index

HowdoItroubleshootaproblem?

ViaVoiceisahighlyaccuratespeech-recognitionproduct.Sometimes,however,

problemscanoccurthatcauseyourrecognitionaccuracytobelessthanit

shouldbe.IfyoufindthatViaVoiceisnotrecognizingyourwords,please

followthesesuggestionstodeterminetheproblemandcorrectit.

Readme

BesuretoviewtheReadmefileforthelatestinformationabout

ViaVoice.ToviewtheReadmefilefromInformationCentral,clickon

ProductsupportandselectViewtheReadme(RTFformat).

SolvingRecognitionProblems

TheRecognitionWizardcanhelpyousolverecognitionproblemsthat

occurduringdictationornavigation.Thewizardopensautomatically

wheneveritdetectsapooraudiosignal,anditmayopenwhenyou

saytoomanycommandsthatarenotrecognized.Youcanopenthe

RecognitionWizardbyselectingTools>Helpmewithrecognition

problemsfromtheViaVoicemenu.

GettingHelpontheInternet

TheViaVoiceHomePageontheInternet

(http://www.scansoft.com/viavoice)containsusefulinformationabout

ViaVoice.

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