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(More customer reviews)The real-time speech recognition of IBM ViaVoice 10 is extremely good. It is possible to get 99% accuracy. Possible is the key word here. In order to do that, you need a good microphone (better than what is included) and you will have to teach it words that it doesn't know (i.e. Plantronics, uncommon names). And you'll need to be in a supported product like Microsoft Word. If all these conditions are met, you're in like Flint.
I, unfortunately, was trying to use Internet Explorer, and the support was less than stellar. The voice command "surf the web" did launch it and the "home", "back", and "forward" commands worked well to do the obvious. But the undocumented commands became key to navigation. To tab from one field or link to the next, you say "next field". "Previous field" is like a shift-tab to go backwards. "next line" and "previous line" seem to be equivalent to the down and up arrows.
The microphone included with this package is the Andrea NC-61 along with the Andrea USB pod, which is a half of a sound card (microphone side only) that connects through your USB port. I found the quality of the pod to be excellent. Andrea advertises the NC-61 headset as using noise cancelling technology, but I found this microphone to not even be directional, and pretty much useless in any environment in which anyone else was speaking, however softly, in the same room. I did purchase separately an Andrea ANC-750 microphone and the noise cancelling on that microphone was quite good. (note: there is some white noise in the background that is audible if you use the ANC-750 to make a recording, but this should be ignored, as it is part of the noise cancelling system.)
The best performance was when I used a high quality studio microphone in a quiet environment to create my voice profile by reading their text. The recognition accuracy was amazing. I used an AKG C-3000 (needs phantom power), but I've heard that a Sennheiser MD431 II is another excellent microphone, and has noise canceling properties as well. The best performance I got from my ANC-750 headset was when I used the voice profile created with the C-3000.
I give the voice recognition part of the software a 5, the navigational ability a 2, and the included microphone a 2, hence my rating of 3 overall.
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IBM ViaVoice Pro USB Edition is the flagship offering of the ViaVoice for Windows. It represents the merger of high-productivity software with advanced microphone technology. ViaVoice Pro USB Edition offers great dictation versatility so you can dictate edit and correct text in SpeakPad the resident speech-enabled word processor or in Word Excel and other applications within the Microsoft Office product suites (including Office XP) or directly into a variety of other PC applications. ViaVoice Pro USB Edition supports Windows XP Professional and Home Windows 98SE Me 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6) operating systems.ViaVoice Pro USB Edition expands the usefulness of the powerful Navigation Macro Center found in earlier generations of IBM ViaVoice for Windows. With ViaVoice Pro USB Edition you can create macros that will run across multiple applications. In addition you can now control the speed at which your macros run. ViaVoice Pro USB Edition supports the use of select digital handheld recorders.ViaVoice Pro USB Edition is the IBM desktop voice-recognition product that features IBM ViaVoice Documents: customized Microsoft Word-based templates for letters reports faxes and e-mails. It also features VoiceMarks which can read you the name of a customized navigation macro as an audio confirmation that the macro is being run correctly.Included in the box are: IBM ViaVoice for Windows Pro USB Edition (release 10) on CD-ROM (U.S. English vocabulary) noise-canceling USB headset microphone a user's Guide and a command reference card.Format: WIN 98MEXPVISTA Genre:PRODUCTIVITY UPC:780420105317 Manufacturer No:G909A-G00-10.0
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