User manual NUANCE VIAVOICE 10-ADVANCED EDITION

[. . . ] IBM® ViaVoice® for Windows® Advanced Edition User's Guide Release 10 Note Before using this information and the product it supports, be sure to read the information in Appendix B, "Notices" on page 127. First Edition (August 2003) This edition applies to version 1, release 10, modification 0 of IBM ViaVoice for Windows Advanced Edition US English (program number 5724-C96) and to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions. SSFT PART NUMBER: 50-H01A-10095 When you send information to IBM, you grant IBM a nonexclusive right to use or distribute the information in any way it believes appropriate without incurring any obligation to you. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 1998, 2003. US Government Users Restricted Rights ­ Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Welcome to ViaVoice . [. . . ] Dictating to your applications This chapter describes how to dictate directly into virtually any Windows application that accepts text. You can dictate directly into text fields, text boxes in dialog windows and in table cells--virtually anywhere where text can be entered from the keyboard. Almost all dictation capabilities available in SpeakPad are also available in Direct Dictation. To get the best results when you dictate directly: v Dictate at a moderate pace. If you are speaking ahead of what you see ViaVoice currently displaying, you may be speaking too quickly. v Dictate a paragraph or more at a time and correct errors after you finish. v Avoid skipping around the document with mouse clicks, cursor movement keys, or cursor-positioning commands when dictating. v Turn the microphone off whenever you do most of your correction with the mouse and keyboard instead of your voice. Dictating directly To dictate directly to your application: 1. Say "Open program <program name>" to open your application, where <program name> is the name of your application, such as Lotus® Word Pro®. Click the cursor where you want to insert text. Say "Dictate Directly" and wait for the message Dictating directly. . . Dictate into text fields, dialog text boxes or table cells--anywhere text is accepted. Correct the recognition errors using the standard procedures described in Chapter 6, "Correcting your dictation" on page 55. The commands Select <text> and Correct <text> are not available for correcting directly dictated text. Look in the What Can I Say window for alternate commands to use select and correct text in your document. © Copyright IBM Corp. 1998, 2002 63 If you pause dictation for some reason (to navigate to another field, for example) you can resume dictation by navigating (shifting focus) back to your original text window. You can have many text windows open at the same time--all enabled for direct dictation. ViaVoice suspends direct dictation automatically when focus is not on a valid text field. You may find, however, that some applications continue to accept voice input, which may result in unusual behaviour. Should this happen, say "Pause direct dictation" or "Stop direct dictation" until the unusual application behaviour stops, then say "Resume direct dictation" to continue. Using Auto-start dictation You can dictate directly into some applications without having to say "Dictate directly" when the application is started. From the ViaVoice menu, select User Options > ViaVoice Options > Direct Dictation tab. Select the Auto Start Dictation check box to dictate directly into the active application without having to say "Dictate directly". For example, when creating an e-mail message, you can start dictating the body of the message when the cursor is in the message section without saying the command. [. . . ] When the word is correctly recognized during a dictation session, the associated text is displayed in the dictation window. Any application window into which the user's dictated text appears. When used during a dictation session, SpeakPad and the Word document window are examples of dictation windows. An area in a window where data can be typed or otherwise specified. [. . . ]