ViaVoice knows the text, and it matches your voice with the words it expects to hear. ViaVoice has a clever initial training routine, where you read a story to your Mac. Voices are different, accents are different, and it’s not likely that a system customised for me will work for you. Voice recognition is an interesting challenge. As a novice touch-typist, it took me a month before I could find the ‘B’ key with any consistency, but I eventually got with the program, and I’m going to give ViaVoice an equally fair trial. I’m going to spend a month with ViaVoice. So I’m going to do some Reviewing Beyond the Call of Duty. My first impression is that this is going to be a workable system once I get up to speed with it. To be fair, we should compare this session with my first day as a typist, and by that standard I am smoking!Īnd in this hour, I’ve seen enough to believe this is more than a technical oddity, more than a gee-whiz-what’ll-they-think-of-next. It ought to be, since I’ve been stroking keyboards for a living for 15 years and talking to ViaVoice for an hour. OK, I’ll admit it, my typing is faster and more accurate then my ViaVoice dictation. From here on out, I’ll correct my mistakes. Note: The text above is the raw and uncorrected transcript of my first ViaVoice session. I’ve had this dream since March 2nd, 1984, and though this stream has taken much longer than I expected to come true, here it is at last, of voice recognition program worth using. I’m talking, and my words appear-proof-right there on my monitor. Here I sit, with my little plastic headset on my head and my fingers least behind my back. I’m letting ViaVoice write its own review. “ this is going to take some getting used to do This is going to take some getting used to. See, I messed up before when I said and, “Paragraph,” because the proper command for a new paragraph is “New paragraph,” and to speak that phrase into text you have to say “New” and then pause and say, “Paragraph. Requirements: G3- or G4-based Mac, 48 MB of RAM, 200 MB available disk space, audio input jack compatible with Andrea NC-71 microphone.

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