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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

Chapter 2. The magic of dictating with ViaVoice

Congratulations! You have successfully set up your speech system and are

now ready to practice dictation with SpeakPad, the speech-enabled word

processor in ViaVoice.

We should first establish a few guidelines to help you get started.

v If you have not used speech recognition before, relax! Talking to

your computer is fun and easy. Get a glass of water and follow

along with us in this chapter.

v ViaVoice understands when you speak clearly and in a normal,

natural manner. For some people, getting comfortable with speech

recognition takes time and practice. So, please be patient and try

not to be self-conscious! Talking to your computer is almost as

easy as talking on the telephone, and the more you use your

speech system, the more comfortable you’ll become.

v As you work through this chapter, consider everything you do as

practice—we sincerely want you to become a great ViaVoice user!

This is your chance to play with the technology and learn how to

make ViaVoice serve you.

v Work through the material in this chapter until you obtain

satisfactory results and feel comfortable speaking to your

computer.

Take your time and just follow the instructions.