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it works same way as the one in Simply Speaking Gold; however I have
successfully used ViaVoice Gold in our mainframe editing system,
"windowed" in Windows for us here, even though it does rely on
different keystroke combinations than those used by Windows. The way
this is done is by creating macros, which are very easy to create. I
have no clue about Unix, but, David, I would be curious if you still
have Simply Speaking Gold if you would try creating a macro and see
what happens in your terminal emulator. That said, it is definitely
true that DragonDictate has the most elaborate macro building
capability.
Susan
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998 12:31:56 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
>> I am yet to start using a voice recognition software and was hoping to
>> get some hints from the voice users group on whether to choose ViaVoice
>> Gold or Naturally Speaking. My work involves mostly working with a
>> Smarterm Unix terminal emulator (40% of the time), Non Microsoft Email
>> (40% of the time)and 20% on miscellaneous software.
>>
>> I can live without mouse control by voice (i.e. can get by with using
>> the mouse. I am getting intermittent pain in my hands and want to
>> switch to voice s/w as a preventative measure).
>>
>> I also need to know if a Dell Pentium 166 with 64MB RAM is sufficient
>> to run either ViaVoice Gold or Naturally Speaking.
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>>
>> David
>
>I have not used IBM ViaVoice Gold, but I have used Simply Speaking Gold,
>and my impression is that ViaVoice Gold shares the same interface for
>direct dictation into generic Windows applications. If this is true,
>you should be aware that the Simply Speaking Gold direct dictation
>interface assumes that the Windows application uses the default keyboard
>combinations for several operations
>
>I know that it used shift plus the arrow keys to select previously
>typed text. I think that it also used control plus the arrow keys to
>move by words, and shift plus control plus the arrow keys to select
>words. This is of course in addition to backspace to delete previously
>typed characters.
>
>Most terminal emulators used to connect to Unix hosts pass these
>keystrokes directly to the Unix host, rather than interpreting them as
>Windows keystrokes. Therefore, I found that it was impossible to use
>Simply Speaking Gold to dictate directly into a terminal window. If
>you are planning on dictating directly into the terminal emulator, you
>should definitely check if this is true of ViaVoice Gold.
>
>Both DragonDictate and NaturallySpeaking (preferred or deluxe with the
>free natural text add-on), on the other hand, only use backspace to
>make corrections, which works fine with most terminal emulators. In
>addition, DragonDictate has a much more powerful macro language then
>the IBM products, which is invaluable if you are doing work in Unix.
>The Deluxe Edition of NaturallySpeaking has a large fraction of the
>macro capabilities of DragonDictate, but not all of them, a more
>rudimentary system for voice corrections when dictating directly into
>another application, and a more awkward interface for writing a large
>number of macros. However, the Deluxe Edition includes a copy of
>DragonDictate, which you can use for those tasks for which you do not
>require continuous dictation and for which DragonDictate is more
>appropriate. The only disadvantage is that the Deluxe Edition is quite
>a bit more expensive than ViaVoice gold.
>
>I run NaturallySpeaking Deluxe at home on a Pentium 166 with 80 Mb of
>RAM. It tends to get a bit behind if I speak rapidly. (I once try a
>test where I dictated as fast as I could, ignoring errors for five
>minutes straight. It took one minute for NaturallySpeaking to catch
>up.) However, under normal circumstances the performance is adequate, so
>if you already have a Pentium 166, I would go ahead and try it. If you
>are considering buying a new machine, I would probably go for something
>a little bit faster if you can afford it. For comparison, my Pentium
>pro 200 with 64 MB at work keeps up with me just fine. (I assume the
>Pentium II 233 would perform at least as fast.)
>
>David Fox
>davidfox@@fas.harvard.edu
>http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~dcfox/index.html
>
>P.S. if any of my assumptions about direct dictation in ViaVoice Gold
>are incorrect, I would happy if someone more knowledgeable
>would enlighten me, as I am very curious to know myself (but not
>curious enough to shell out $150).
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>Well, well! It cannot be helped, and it is difficult not to slip in
>talking to a dragon, or so I have always heard.
>
> -- Balin, The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien
>
>
>
SF/Dictated using ViaVoice Gold speech recognition software. Please forgive "typos."
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