[MV] IBM ViaVoice 3 and 10.4.7

[revDAVE]

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On 8/29/2006 12:27 PM, "Jonathan Levi, M.D." <drjlevi at netonecom.net> wrote:

> At 10:30 PM -0400 8/28/06, revDAVE wrote:
>> Does anyone know if poor old ailing IBM ViaVoice 3 works any worse in 10.4.7
>> as it did in 10.4.6? I'd like to check b4 I upgrade...
> 
> Although the following doesn't exactly answer question, it might
> still be helpful.
> 
> I installed 10.4.7 on my office computer, but went back to 10.4. 6,
> not so much because of ViaVoice problems, but problems with other
> applications.  

- I am curious what other applications you had trouble with?

- I have a Canon printer -  do you think that will still work?


>ViaVoice is pretty lame either way: VoiceCenter has a
> nasty habit of dying abruptly with the message, "The Microphone Is
> [sic] Been Used Exclusively By Another Application", plus at least
> one suite of commands (containing "backspace", "Pick [n]") doesn't
> get installed.

Here's a solution from David - that ended up being a good workaround...
Sometimes I have to jump between several programs and hit the f8 a few times
before it starts up...


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From: David K. Wehe <dkw at umich.edu>
To: revDAVE coolcat at hosting4days.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 7:10:44 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: [MV] IBM ViaVoice 3 Having Problems In Tiger


Just use the F8 key. I don't know if this will work on the new MPBs.

dkw.






> 
> Nevertheless, I've kept struggling on with it, wondering every day
> why I don't just give up and buy iListen. (Probably because I dread
> too much the thought of having to retrain a new program with my
> entire custom medical lexicon of over 1000 words and macros.)
> 
> I know that at least one other person was having trouble with "The
> Microphone Is Been Used..." several months ago.  If anyone has
> figured out the reason for for this bug, please let me know.
> Meanwhile, for a workaround I've devised an AppleScript/shell script
> that quickly kills and restarts VoiceCenter, then leaves a terminal
> open: subsequently, for the remainder of the session I can quickly
> restart VoiceCenter with just two or three keystrokes.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 


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