$159.00 USD
Part Number: 13P0212
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Key Features & Benefits

ViaVoice for Macintosh, Enhanced Edition continues the success of IBM's best-selling, award winning ViaVoice for Mac, Millennium Edition. IBM's newest continuous speech utility for the Macintosh OS offers new features and increased functionality that build on and complement the features found in the original product.

Features such as Direct Dictation, which allow users to dictate and edit speech directly into supported applications, voice commands that allow Internet browser navigation and chat interaction, Universal Serial Bus (USB) support and customized language models are included.

ViaVoice for Mac Enhanced has now been further enhanced, to work with Mac OS 9.1 and Microsoft Word 2001! Click here to find out how to get a CD featuring these enhancements, at no charge to you.

ViaVoice for Macintosh, Enhanced Edition is currently available in US English only.

For the first time, ViaVoice for Macintosh, Enhanced Edition delivers a complete solution that provides users the ability to dictate, edit and correct text within an application. Communicate by dictating in applications such as Microsoft Word and Apple Works using a natural speaking voice - it can't get any easier than that.

• USB connectivity to ensure high quality digital input with USB microphone included in the box.
  
• Direct Dictation with correction into Appleworks 6.0, Microsoft Word 98 and Internet Explorer 4.5.
  
• An Enhanced Correction Interface makes correcting dictation faster and easier.
  
• Online Command and Control of AppleWorks and Microsoft Word
  
• Accuracy improvements including Unsupervised Enrollment, Smart Redictation, and automatic document analysis.
  
• Specialized vocabularies for Computers, Business and Finance, Chatter's Jargon and Cuisine; which can increase accuracy when users work within these disciplines.
  
• VoiceCenter user interface with two views (not zoomed and zoomed).
  

Product Highlights

ViaVoice for Macintosh, Enhanced Edition can maximize productivity by allowing direct dictation, editing AND correction of text with typical everyday applications. Streamline the steps that it takes to create reports, letters and other projects. ViaVoice for Macintosh, Enhanced Edition can convert the powerful spoken word to text. Speak into such popular applications as AppleWorks, Microsoft Word, Outlook Express and Internet Explorer and immediately see the results. (Available in US English only)

The ability to speak "to the World Wide Web" through Internet Explorer can provide the unfettered power to chat with other users - a specialized Internet Chat vocabulary increases the speech to text accuracy, and recognizes words spawned by this unique crowd. Users can navigate the Internet, moving back and forth between web sites and launching their favorite bookmarks - all with natural voice commands.

The productivity and flexibility found in IBM's best-selling ViaVoice for Macintosh product line is now available to iBook users as well. Now with added USB support, iBook customers have access to what other Macintosh users have had all along - award-winning ViaVoice for Macintosh products.

Existing ViaVoice for Macintosh customers will find value in this newest release with the opportunity to purchase all of this functionality without needing to complete additional speech training and enrollment. ViaVoice for Macintosh, Enhanced Edition can migrate the voice models of prior ViaVoice customer installations into this new release - saving time, energy and effort.

• Enhanced User Interface: The user interface is designed for the Macintosh platform and is consistent with the Mac Human Interface Guidelines.
• Migrate Voice Models: Migrate Voice Models and data created with ViaVoice for Mac Millennium Edition.
• Unsupervised Enrollment: From the first time a user uses the software, ViaVoice adjusts the Voice Model, improving recognition accuracy each time the user dictates.
• Voice Recognition Accuracy: Highly developed voice recognition accuracy, which includes technology enhancements to handle extraneous noise and to shorten initial training time.
• Setup Assistants: Audio Setup can optimize the headset and microphone volume levels. Analyze My Voice has users read a short story so that ViaVoice can begin learning how the users pronounce words. Analyze My Documents lets ViaVoice look at existing text documents, to search for words not currently in the ViaVoice standard vocabulary.
• SpeakPad: Speaking naturally into SpeakPad, the ViaVoice speech-enabled word processor, allows users to create and edit text in a simple and easy-to-use manner. Users can also dictate numbers, dates, times, measures and prices naturally.
• Modeless Operation: While dictating into SpeakPad, ViaVoice for Mac allows users to speak a command at any time by pausing briefly before and after the command. ViaVoice for Mac also provides an optional attention word, "Computer," which indicates to the system that what the user is saying is a command rather than dictated text.
• Improved Correction Interface: As users make corrections in dictated documents, a floating window shows alternatives as the user moves from word to word.
• Hands-Free Correction: If a user's goal is more leisurely correction, then ViaVoice can provide the speech commands needed to make corrections using only the user's voice (no mouse or keyboard).
• Smart Re-dictation: When dictation is corrected, ViaVoice can learn the correct word and remember the context in which it is used.
• Automatic Document Analysis: ViaVoice prompts users to train new words for the vocabulary the moment they are used.
• What Can I Say: Voice-activated menu of available voice commands through the "What Can I Say" window.
• Dictating Directly: Users can dictate directly into any area of a supported application that accepts key strokes.
• Apple PlainTalk: Use Apple PlainTalk US English speech synthesis to read the text of documents aloud.
• Specialized Vocabularies: Users can turn on specialized vocabularies, called topics. Use these topics to increase accuracy by expanding the base vocabulary. The topics included with ViaVoice are: Chatter's Jargon, Cuisine, Business and Finance, and Computers.
• Microphone: Lightweight USB noise canceling microphone with frost-colored headset and changeable colored earpiece and headband covers, in iMac flavors.
  

System Requirements

• iMac, iBook, Power Mac™ G3 and G4, PowerBook® G3 (with factory-installed USB port)
  
• Mac OS 9; version 9.0.4 and higher, but not including MAC OS X
  
• 300 MHz PowerPC® processor or higher
  
• 64 MB available RAM
  
• 250 MB available hard disk space
  
• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
  
• Audio Output Jack
  
• Adobe Acrobat Reader v.4.x or higher (for viewing PDF documents - included on ViaVoice CD)
  
• QuickTime 4.0