General Hints And Tips - IBM VIAVOICE 10-PRO USB EDITION User Manual

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.
v Speak clearly in a natural way. 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 A, "Frequently used commands in
dictation" on page 133.)
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. Refer to Microsoft's documentation
for more information about paragraph spacing features in Word.
When you say "New line" in Word, ViaVoice inserts a manual line break
(equivalent to pressing SHIFT+ENTER). To see the paragraph markers and
manual line breaks, select
v When saying a command, pause before the command, speak the command
without pausing between command words and then pause after the
command. This way, ViaVoice can translate your speech into a command.
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ViaVoice for Windows Pro USB Edition
If you are using the UK English version of ViaVoice, substitute "Full stop"
whenever you see the US English command "Period" in this User's Guide.
on the Microsoft Word Standard toolbar.