Chapter 7. Dictating To Your Applications; Dictating Directly - IBM VIAVOICE 10-PRO USB EDITION User Manual

Chapter 7. Dictating to your applications

This chapter describes how to dictate directly into virtually any Windows
application that accepts text.
You can dictate directly into text fields, text boxes in dialog windows and in
table cells—virtually anywhere where text can be entered from the keyboard.
Almost all dictation capabilities available in SpeakPad are also available in
Direct Dictation. To get the best results when you dictate directly:
v Dictate at a moderate pace. If you are speaking ahead of what you see
ViaVoice currently displaying, you may be speaking too quickly.
v Dictate a paragraph or more at a time and correct errors after you finish.
v Avoid skipping around the document with mouse clicks, cursor movement
keys, or cursor-positioning commands when dictating.
v Turn the microphone off whenever you do most of your correction with the
mouse and keyboard instead of your voice.

Dictating directly

To dictate directly to your application:
1. Turn on the microphone.
2. Say "Open program <program name>" to open your application, where
<program name> is the name of your application, such as Lotus
Pro
3. Click the cursor where you want to insert text.
4. Say "Dictate Directly" and wait for the message Dictating directly... to
appear in the status area.
5. Dictate into text fields, dialog text boxes or table cells—anywhere text is
accepted.
6. Correct the recognition errors using the standard procedures described in
Chapter 6, "Correcting your dictation" on page 65.
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The commands Select <text> and Correct <text> are not available for
correcting directly dictated text. Look in the What Can I Say window for
alternate commands to use select and correct text in your document.
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