User manual NUANCE VIAVOICE 10-PERSONAL EDITION

[. . . ] IBM® ViaVoice® for Windows® Personal Edition User's Guide Release 10 IBM® ViaVoice® for Windows® Personal Edition User's Guide Release 10 Note Before using this information and the product it supports, be sure to read the information in Appendix C, "Notices" on page 103. First Edition (August 2002) This edition applies to version 1, release 10, modification 0 of IBM ViaVoice for Windows Personal Edition US English (program number 5724-C96) and to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions. Readers may address comments on this publication to: IBM Austria, Department 00/558, Lassallestrasse 1, A-1020 Vienna, Austria. If you prefer to send your comments by fax, use the following number: Your international access code + 43 + 1 + 21145 6177. You may also send comments on this publication as an electronic mail (e-mail) to the following user ID: pub_comments@at. ibm. com 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. [. . . ] v Every time you press Enter or say "New Paragraph" in your Word document, Word inserts a paragraph marker and counts this as a on the Microsoft paragraph. To see your paragraph markers, select Word Standard toolbar. When you say "Computer select the first three paragraphs", and you have a paragraph marker between paragraphs of text, ViaVoice will select the first paragraph, the empty line and the second paragraph. Chapter 5. Dictating into Microsoft Word 47 v Say "What Can I Say for Natural Commands" to view examples of natural commands. v Place the cursor where you want the change to occur. Use your mouse or say a command, such as "Computer move the cursor to the top of the page" or "Computer select the first word". v Use continuous speech--do not pause or hesitate while saying the command. General hints and tips Keep these things in mind whenever you dictate: v Nearly everything you say into the microphone gets recognized as text or an action to carry out--a text format, a cursor movement or a file-save, file-close command. When your words are not recognized, you'll see a message to this effect in the VoiceCenter status area. ViaVoice translates your speech into text. There is no need to pause between words, but make natural pauses after a phrase or sentence. You may pause at any time to take a breath or collect your thoughts. v Say punctuation marks as part of your dictation. ViaVoice adjusts spacing and capitalization accordingly. For example, when you say "Period" at the end of a sentence, ViaVoice types a period, moves one space and starts the next word with a capital letter. Look in the What Can I Say window for a list of the punctuation and characters that you can insert into your dictation. (Characters and punctuation are also listed in Appendix B, "Frequently used commands in dictation" on page 97. ) v Owing to the concept of paragraphs and paragraph styles in Microsoft Word, saying "New paragraph" in Word has another visual result than it has in SpeakPad. In SpeakPad, "New paragraph" inserts a line and starts the next word with a capital letter. In Word, the same command inserts a paragraph marker (¶), moves the cursor to the next line and starts the next word with a capital letter. So, in order to get the same visual result as in SpeakPad, in Word you will need to manually increase the default paragraph spacing in Word. To do this, click the Format menu and select Paragraph. . . Then, on the Indent and Spacing page, increase the Spacing Before/After values and click OK. Now you should see extra spacing between paragraphs in your document. [. . . ] Software, normally provided by the manufacturers of peripheral computer equipment, that enables that equipment to operate with the Windows operating system. A user-defined word associated with user-specified text. 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. [. . . ]