On Fri, 27 Feb 1998 12:31:52 -0500, you wrote:
>Susan,
>
>I'm still plugging away with standard ViaVoice (to keep the learning
>curve down), while I do look forward to upgrading in the near future.
>While the price of the ViaVoice Gold has gone down, I have not
>encountered any rebates for a standard ViaVoice user other then the
>competitive upgrade offered to all.
>
>Since I do have minor problems with repetitive strain related to mouse
>use, I look forward to getting into some command and control stuff with
>ViaVoice Gold. In the meantime, however, your posting raises for me a
>question, to which I have not figured out an answer:
>
>What is the best way of getting speech recognition software to recognize
>a web site address in its proper format? As in
>http://www.out-loud.com/ (typed manually).
>
>Whenever by start out with a http:// (which I trained to be a phrase) I
>get into a mess, especially with the ".com" (which I just inserted
>manually). Do you have a suggestion that would help about this newbie?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Regards, Alan
>
>
>Susan Fulton wrote:
>>
>> ViaVoice Gold comes with a "Bonus pack for Internet Explorer 4".
>> Curiosity got the best of me and I tried downloading Explorer 4 and
>> installing this program, but was unable to get it to load properly.
>> This does not mean, however, that you wouldn't be able to. If one
>> could get to work, I am assuming it will work in the same way as the
>> "Netscape connection" products that worked with IBM's discrete speech
>> applications. This let you jump to a web site by speaking English
>> words in the link that was in hypertext on the page you were looking
>> at. Pretty cool.
>>
>> SF/Dictated using ViaVoice Gold speech recognition software. Please forgive "typos."
SF/Dictated using ViaVoice Gold speech recognition software. Please forgive "typos."
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