Easy -- In just minutes, ViaVoice can learn to recognize your voice, then it's off to the races. The intuitive interface, easy online help and an easy-to-understand User's Guide ensure you'll get the most out of ViaVoice -- and your Mac -- every day.

Natural -- the Mac is really intuitive and what's more intuitive than speaking? So why tie yourself to a keyboard? ViaVoice can work with you, learning as you use it, tailoring itself to your unique speech patterns to enhance voice recognition accuracy.

Fun -- OK, maybe not everything you do on your computer is for fun. But with ViaVoice for Mac, even such tasks as an overdue report, or the letter you owe Aunt Edna, can become faster, easier and a lot more interesting. And because more than one person can use ViaVoice for Mac on the same computer, maybe you can get someone else to dictate that letter . . . Whoa, this really is fun!

And we're only getting started . . .

	Setup Assistant can create a Personal Voice Model for each system user, ensuring the greatest voice recognition accuracy.
	"Analyze My Voice" teaches ViaVoice your speech patterns.
	"Analyze My Documents" teaches ViaVoice the context in which you use certain words and phrases.
	Dictation Macros create "shortcuts" for recognizing your most commonly used expressions.
	Automatically learns how you speak and write, improving accuracy as you use it
	Build personal vocabulary by Analyzing your Documents
	Use Apple PlainTalk® technology to read the text of your documents aloud
	Dictation into IBM SpeakPad
	Modeless operation when dictating (say voice commands and dictation interchangeably, without stopping dictation or requiring an attention word)
	Natural dictation of numbers, dates, times, measures, and prices
	Dictate letters, reports, and e-mail and then transfer them to your favorite Mac program
	Multiple ways to correct and edit text
	Deferred and delegated correction
	View your personal vocabulary and delete unneeded words using 'Manage My Vocabulary'

ViaVoice for Mac provides users with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface to perform everyday computer tasks, such as creating e-mail and editing documents, by speaking. The software is available this week on store shelves, online and in catalogs in time for the holiday buying season.

"IBM listened to the thousands of requests from Mac enthusiasts and brought its leading ViaVoice speech recognition technology to one of the most popular operating platforms," said Krishna Nathan, director of consumer voice systems, IBM Speech Systems. "ViaVoice for Mac is part of our continuing effort to make it easier and more natural for people to interact with their computer. IBM is the only company to offer its speech recognition technology on all of the most popular desktop operating platforms -- Windows, Linux and Macintosh."

"We are thrilled IBM is bringing its award-winning speech recognition software to the Mac," said Clent Richardson, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "ViaVoice for Mac makes the most user-friendly Mac even easier to use."

The ViaVoice Advantage
Based on IBM's award-winning speech recognition technology, ViaVoice for Mac speech recognition software was created with simplicity in mind. The software incorporates an easy-to-use interface specifically designed for the Mac platform -- making it both easy and natural for all Mac users to conduct common computing tasks. 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 AppleWorks or Microsoft Word. Users can create voice shortcuts for commonly-used phrases by literally "calling" them out with the software's dictation macro editor. ViaVoice for Mac includes a 64,000 active word vocabulary, the largest on the market for Macintosh, and also integrates Apple's text-to-speech function that lets Apple computers read text back to the user. Also included with the product is a newly designed noise cancelling microphone for Mac users. This new mic has changeable colored accents to coordinate with all the popular iMac flavors.

Power for ViaVoice for Macintosh
IBM's ViaVoice for Mac runs on Mac OS 8.5.1, 8.6 and 9.0. The software requires a 233 MHz Power PC processor or higher, 48 MB RAM, 200 MB of hard disk space and a CD-ROM drive. The software runs on iMac, PowerMac G3 and G4, and PowerBook G3 computers, and requires an audio input jack that is compatible with Andrea NC-71 microphones.


About IBM Speech Systems
IBM speech recognition technology is based on 30 years of speech recognition research and development. With a portfolio of more than 100 patents, an established R&D business that includes researchers worldwide and a robust, proven speech technology available in many languages, IBM is a leader in speech recognition.


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