[MV] Re: ViaVoice update 3.02

[Frank Flynn]

On 1/3/03 12:57 PM, "T. Patrick Henebry" <tphenebry at comcast.net> wrote:

>> I suppose that one *could* say that it "works", depending on one's
>> definition of the word. On my MDD 1.25 GHz G4 running 10.2.3 with
>> 1.5 GB of RAM, there is a noticeable increase in speed. (I've never
>> bothered to listen for the glitches in the recorded sound.) My
>> principal gripe, namely that in both 10.2.2 and 10.2.3, the "Add
>> word or phrase..." in the connection window is still non-functional,
>> has in no way been addressed. Without this feature, ViaVoice is in
>> my opinion almost completely useless--but when it *did* work
> 
> John,
> 
> I did not quite understand why having this one particular feature not
> work puts ViaVoice in the category of being almost useless.  There
> are other ways new words can be added to the vocabulary.  They can be
> added at the time documents are analyzed, added with the document is
> analyzed on save, or added using the vocabulary manager.  If I need
> to add a new word or phrase on the spot I use the vocabulary manager
> (easily accessed by clicking on the middle button in the second row
> buttons that appears when you open the Voice Center drawer).  Yes,
> being able to do this directly from the correction window would be
> more convenient; but the lack of this capability hardly places the
> software in the category of being unusable in my opinion.

If the one doesn't work then neither do any or the other methods; at least
that's the case for me.  It is very irritating this problem has gone on so
long and not been addressed.  This has not worked for me since day one (in
vv 3.0, it always worked in the earlier version).

I did manage to fix it once then a few days later my disk died and the back
up I had did not include whatever I'd changed and I cannot get it back to
working.  Uninstall and reinstall do not fix this.

On machines affected by this bug "Analyze My Documents" will produce a list
of words to add but you cannot add them because you cannot record your
pronunciation.  "Manage my Vocabulary" will open and allow you to enter a
new word but here again you cannot record it.  When you try nothing gets
recorded as if the mic is not plugged in (the headset was working normally
in SpeakPad and in the System Preferences).  If you record nothing VV
ignores the new word.

Frank

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Frank Flynn
Poet, Artist & Mystic