IBM Via Voice 98 Home Edition

Pros: Voice Commands, Glitch-free Installation
Cons: Training, Training and Misinterpretations

Talk, Talk, Talk! Does Anyone TYPE Anymore?

As an experiment, I am using IBM’s ViaVoice 98 Executive speech recognition software to write this review. I thought this might be the best way to demonstrate how well or otherwise the...

Pros: Aids my aching arms
Cons: Training takes patience

I hope you will ignore the actual errors in this review. This review is written by dictation to ViaVoice enhanced addition. This is a new software I purchased because of the restrictions I experience through repetitive stress injury.

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Pros: Software installs ok
Cons: Dreadful at recognising your voice. Useless if you can't get it to recognise you!!!

I first encountered this product 6 months ago, when a neighbour (who purchased this software as a means to help him with his studies) asked if I could help him set it up.

My only previous encounter with a voice recognition system was in a...

Pros: Simple Commands for punctuation
Cons: Terrible accuracy. etc.

Writing for Epinion's has been a lot of fun. Although I love it so much, it requires a lot of writing. This means that I type about an hour day for each review. This problem was solved last week when I got a program called Via Voice for...

Pros: voice commands for opening and closing programs are ok
Cons: This program will frustrate you more than it's worth

Funny..I even forgot I owned this program until I came upon a review here. I bought the IBM Via Voice Gold about 2 years ago. I installed it..used it about a month and uninstalled it.

First, let me say this about IBM...I am one of their...

Pros: Good recognition, performance; works
Cons: Limited features; not integrated with OS

Over the past three or four years, I have managed to injure myself to the point where typing quickly becomes uncomfortable. However, as a Computer Science graduate student I just can't get away from computers. And so I've turned to voice recognition as...

Pros: Some commands work, but not many.
Cons: Terrible accuracy. Lots of bugs in the software.

I have had this program for about a week now and I have yet to see the slightest bit of usefulness in its design. Time and time again the program continues to make multiple mistakes even within the same sentence. Not a sentence goes by without at least...

Pros: Installs quickly
Cons: Must be trained to recognize your voice.

We received IBM Via Voice as a gift for our daughter who is dyslexic. The average cost for this product in our area is around $50.

The program installed easily and I would rate it as user friendly. The majority of the training was accomplished...

Pros: easy install, good recognition rate
Cons: messes up Word for regular use

I am writing about ViaVoice Milleniuim Edition, not ViaVoice 98. I bought it because I have some preliminary signs of RSI, and I do a great deal of typing in my work. I thought it would be good to get a speech recognition system now, before I truly...

Pros: Great Dictation Recognition if You Don't Mind Waiting
Cons: Formatting & Program Control Nonexistent; Not ready for Real World/Professional Use.

THE SOFTWARE:
ViaVoice Millenium Edition (purchased in Nov. 99) and L&H Voice Express 4.0 (purchased in Aug. 99).

TRAINING PERIOD: For both programs, I did at least three training sessions [Where you go in to select from a list of...

Pros: New technology
Cons: Not good enough technology yet

Have you ever wanted to talk to your computer instead of typing? If so then hurry up and wait because this one is a disappointment. Via Voice Gold, made by IBM, is a futile attempt to make typing a way of the dinosaurs. Apparently either the program...

Pros: Kind of neat to have around
Cons: Requires lots of work

ViaVoice 98 came free as part of my Lotus SmartSuite program. It had been redesigned, or so they claimed, to interface freely with the WordPro.

It installed quickly and easily, but that was about as far as the simple work went. I was then...

Pros: Good for a laugh
Cons: Not accurate enough, editing too time consuming

I got Via Voice 98 along with a keyboard I bought. My husband and I thought it would be a cool thing to have, since I write newsletters and various other things. When we reviewed the lengthy set-up process, we were a little apprehensive (you are required...

Pros: Voice dictation software is better than it was
Cons: Voice dictation software still needs work

I'll admit at the outset I wanted voice dictation technology to work the first time I ever heard about it, back in the 70s. That was when IBM was still working on trying to get typewriters (PCs were just showing up in the marketplace then) to take...

Pros: Surprisingly actuate, cheep.
Cons: Bad surfing.

ViaVoice for Mac provides users with the ability to create, edit and format documents in the most natural way. After text is created, the software's integrated transfer feature lets users transfer text into popular Macintosh applications, such as...