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Binding: CD-ROMBrand: Nuance Communications, Inc. EAN: 0780420105355 Format: CD-ROM Item Dimensions: Label: Nuance Communications, Inc. Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product. Manufacturer: Nuance Communications, Inc. Model: H501A-G00-3.0 MPN: SCAB2 Platform: Macintosh, Mac OS X Publisher: Nuance Communications, Inc. Studio: Nuance Communications, Inc. Features:
Editorial Review: Product Description: ViaVoice for Mac OS X takes advantage of the Mac's new abilities to create a powerful new voice recongitionand command tool! Dictionaries for specialized vocabularies for computers, business and finance terms Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Works great...when it worksI originally used this product in it's OS9 version, then upgraded when it was available on OS10.1. Then upgraded again to V3. Once trained properly, I could count on very high accuracy, even with technical words I taught it to understand. I was doing medical reports with long scientific words, and though every once in a while it would have a "brain fart," but otherwise the program did a fine job. Fine until one day when... WHAM. The program crashed, and I could not recover anything of my training. ... Read More Rating:  - very poor, like most IBM softwre for consumersa huge company like ibm is unable to produce a half way acceptable product for the masses. sad but true. actually, has ibm EVER produced a pc program that was ready for prime time? they sold DOS to gates and thus made him a millionaire and pretty well messed up with OS/2...reminds me of AT&T that are also unable to produce anything successful outside of their major line of business (telcom). anybodty remember the att&t line of computers, think theyt were called B1 or something??? the bad ... Read More Rating: - Don't buy this productWhile the box claims this product is OS X compatible, we have not been able to even complete installation. Turns out it used to work with OS.X, and customer support in India sez they're working on a new version. yeah, right. IBM has nothing to do with it, they dumped it on another company. Rating:  - mediocre program, but better than nothingDragon, the leader in voice recognition software, never bothered to make a Mac version. IBM's Mac 10.3 ViaVoice is better than nothing, but not by much. As others have noted, it crashes every few minutes even on the best Mac hardware. I use it anyway because it has better recognition than I-Speak, the only alternative. Someday, someone will make a lot of money creating a decent voicetype program for the Mac, but this isn't it. In the meantime, IBM owes us a crashproofing patch for 10.3. Rating: - Dying productI find ViaVoice an important tools to save my arthritic fingers. Once trained, its dictation is reasonably accurate (even sorting out most homonyms), and the voice-directed correction (available only in SpeakPad) makes it useable. It learns as you correct it and can easily be taught specialized words in your business vocabulary or proper names. Direct dictation into applications other than SpeakPad, such as MS Word or Safari, is less successful (interaction with Word's automatic formatting ... Read More |
