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Contents
Welcome to ViaVoice .........v
US English and UK English are both
described in this book ........vii
Conventions in this book .......viii
Chapter 1. Setting up your speech system . 1
Installing the ViaVoice software ......2
Setting up your microphone and audio system 6
Creating a voice model.........8
Analyzing your voice .........10
Analyzing your documents .......12
Troubleshooting setup problems .....13
Unable to install ViaVoice ......13
Problems with audio setup ......13
Poor recognition .........14
Chapter 2. The magic of dictating with
ViaVoice .............17
Practice dictating ..........18
Finding recognition errors .......20
Correcting errors ..........21
Try re-dictating your text before correction 21
Correcting misrecognized words ....21
Removing inserted words ......22
Correcting capitalization errors.....22
Next steps after correction .......23
Analyzing My Documents .......24
Troubleshooting dictation problems ....24
Chapter 3. Introducing VoiceCenter . . . 27
VoiceCenter components ........28
ViaVoice menu ...........30
Chapter 4. Dictating into SpeakPad . . . 33
SpeakPad menus and buttons ......34
General hints and tips.........36
Dictating numbers in the US English version
of ViaVoice ............37
Currency ............37
Dates .............37
Decimals ............37
Ordinals ............37
Long numbers ..........37
Timeofday...........37
Dictating numbers in the UK English version
of ViaVoice ............37
Currency ............37
Dates .............37
Decimals ............38
Ordinals ............38
Long numbers ..........38
Timeofday...........38
Dictating numbers in number mode ....38
Spelling words in spell mode ......38
Saying commands while dictating.....39
Inline dictation commands ......39
"Scratch that" command .......39
Text-editing commands .......40
Bullet lists............40
Commands recognized as text .....40
Dictating e-mail user IDs and URLs ....42
Transferring your dictation to another
application ............43
Saving your dictation in SpeakPad ....44
Saving a speech session .......44
Saving your dictation as text .....44
Finding new words in your document . . . 45
Chapter 5. Dictating into Microsoft Word 47
Installing Word Program Support .....47
Try your first dictation into Word .....48
ViaVoice menus and buttons in Word . . . 50
Using natural commands .......52
General hints and tips.........53
Dictating numbers in the US English version
of ViaVoice ............54
Currency ............54
Dates .............55
Decimals ............55
Ordinals ............55
Long numbers ..........55
Timeofday...........55
Dictating numbers in the UK English version
of ViaVoice ............55
Currency ............55
Dates .............55
Decimals ............55
Ordinals ............55
Long numbers ..........56
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