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IBM VIAVOICE for Mac OS X USB |  | From: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Category: Software
Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 5658
Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Mac OS X
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8 x 2.8
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: SCAB2
Model: H501A-G00-3.0
UPC: 780420105355
EAN: 0780420105355
ASIN: B0000A58IY
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| Features:
| • | Brings natural, continuous speech voice dictation to Mac OS X | | • | OS X/Aqua human interface look and feel | | • | Dictate, correct, edit, and format by voice text within SpeakPad | | • | Create customized voice commands in favorite Mac applications | | • | Noise-canceling USB headset microphone included |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
IBM ViaVoice for Mac OS X brings natural, continuous speech voice dictation to Apple's highly anticipated Mac OS X. Optimized to work with this cutting-edge UNIX-based operating system, IBM ViaVoice for Mac OS X brings a new level of accuracy and ease of use to voice recognition on the Apple Macintosh computer platform. All aspects of Mac OS X, including the new Command Center and re-designed Voice Center, use the Aqua OS X look and feel. Mac OS X Edition is also optimized for use with G4 and multiprocessors. Support is also available for specialized vocabularies such as legal and medical.
Users can dictate, correct, edit, and format text with their natural voice in the IBM ViaVoice speech-enabled word processor, SpeakPad. They can also take advantage of the new DSR technology, which enables direct dictation into text-fields of Mac applications, with correction and editing in SpeakPad.
Mac OS X Edition also provides voice command and control of the Internet, so users can move back and forth between Web sites. An enhanced Speech Recognition Engine takes advantage of Mac OS X audio features and provides for faster enrollment than previous IBM ViaVoice for Mac products. Main Features Manufacturer: Nuance Communications, IncManufacturer Part Number: H501A-G00-3.0Manufacturer Website Address: www.nuance.comSoftware Sub Type: Voice RecognitionSoftware Name: IBM VIAVOICE v.3.0 Mac OS X Edition - Complete ProductFeatures & Benefits: Aqua user interface/look and feel throughout the application, including VoiceCenter, Command Center, SpeakPad, and Preferences. Faster enrollment allows the IBM ViaVoice for Mac OS X user to create a personal Voice Model and get up and running more quickly than any previous IBM ViaVoice for Mac product. Re-designed Voice Center. New Command and Preference Centers. G4 Processor Optimization (Optimized for G4 w
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 14
 Does not work on Mac OS X above .4 October 27, 2009
Mark F. Roberts (New England)
Product is for older operating systems of Mac. (No disrespect to seller) There are no patches and Viavoice just threw up their hands and said it will not work. Unless using old system with old software, do not buy. According to my conversation with the helpless desk at ViaVoice there is no plans to patch this version to work.
 Works great...when it works December 12, 2007
NT (Towaco, NJ)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I 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. Even though it has a "back-up" utility that supposedly saves all your user info, I could not restore it. Essentially, I had to start from scratch, after using it for several months. Well, I did all that, and I had it up and running again, and then WHAM. Everything lost again. And I was running a pretty fast G4 at the time (this was around 2 years ago). Now I understand Nuance is selling the program, but it's substantially the same. So I cannot recommend it if you're looking for a long term solution. Now I'm thinking... Windows XP runs well in Parallels on my Intel iMac -- maybe I should pick up a copy of Dragon!
very poor, like most IBM softwre for consumers January 20, 2007
The Count (Raleigh, NC, USA)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
a 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 news is that the only other voice recognition software for the mac i know of, ilisten, is pretty bad also. best is dragon naturallyspeaking 9 for the pc.
Don't buy this product October 7, 2006
Tom Harnish & Kate Lister (Authors of Undress For Success) (San Deigo, CA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
While 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.
 mediocre program, but better than nothing August 29, 2006
Alan S. Cameron (Bealeton, Virginia)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Dragon, 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.
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