Reading E-Mail; The What Can I Say Window - IBM VIAVOICE-SIMPLY DICTATION FOR MAC OS X User Manual

Reading E-mail

Provided your e-mail application supports the Select All and Copy to Clipboard
functions, you can have ViaVoice read back the text in your e-mail.
Open your e-mail application.
1.
SAY> READ ALL
2.
or, highlight the text you want to read and
The text selected is read using the currently selected voice in the Voices panel in
ViaVoice Preferences.
Turn on the microphone and
3.

The What Can I Say Window

The What Can I Say window displays all voice commands that are currently
available. All of the voice commands are organized by category names.
Expand each category to see available voice commands.
To display the What Can I Say window,
this item from the VoiceCenter drawer menu.
Some voice commands displayed in the What Can I Say window have one or more
words or phrases shown in angle brackets < >. Any word in angle brackets represents a
variable in the voice command. When you say the voice command, you must substitute a
word or phrase for the variable.
Some voice commands displayed have the word "(Untrained)" following the command
name. These voice commands do not have a recorded pronunciation available. Follow
these steps to train these voice commands.
Select the voice command name.
1.
Select the Train This menu item from the View menu. The Train Word window is
2.
used to record and train the pronunciations of new or untrained words.
Click the Record button and say the voice command name.
3.
Click Done when you are finished. For more information, see "Training a Command"
4.
on page 69.
IBM ViaVoice Simply Dictation for Mac OS X User's Guide
SAY> READ
SAY> STOP READING
SAY> WHAT CAN I
Using ViaVoice
Using ViaVoice
SELECTION.
to stop playback at any time.
SAY. Or, you can select
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