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Table Of Contents

Contents
Welcome to ViaVoice
- US English and UK English are both described in this book
- 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 in the US English version of ViaVoice
- Dictating numbers in the UK English version of ViaVoice
- 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 in the US English version of ViaVoice
- Dictating numbers in the UK English version of ViaVoice
- 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
- Creating ViaVoice Documents
- Creating ViaVoice Templates
- Using ViaVoice Bookmarks
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
- Changing the active vocabulary to improve performance (UK English version only)
- 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

v Use SpeakPad, described in Chapter 4, to dictate your documents and

letters. A word of advice: make sure you’ve gone through Chapter 2,

mentioned above, before turning to this chapter.

v Do you prefer using Microsoft

Word? Chapter 5 gives you the complete

picture on dictating into Word 97, Word 2000, or Word 2002.

v Your dictation is not finished until you have corrected the recognition errors

in the text. Correcting these errors is one of the most important ways to

help ViaVoice learn what you say. Do not close your dictation sessions until

you have corrected them as described in Chapter 6.

v What do you want to do? You can see all the commands for controlling

your computer in the What Can I Say window, described in Chapter 8. If

you are primarily interested in dictating documents rather than speaking

commands, you can skip this chapter.

v If you are not comfortable with the mouse and keyboard, no problem! Issue

commands and control your computer by speaking. See Chapter 11 for

information on navigating by voice.

v Once you are comfortable with your system, personalize ViaVoice.

Chapter 12 describes the features for extending the usefulness of your

system and gives you suggestions for tailoring it for your needs.

v ViaVoice is loaded with information like online help and printable online

material. Chapter 14 describes all the information available at your

fingertips.

viii ViaVoice for Windows Pro USB Edition