[MV] Re: ViaVoice update 3.02

[T. Patrick Henebry]

At 14:35 -0800 1/3/03, Frank Flynn wrote:
>  > 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.

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>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.

Hmmm...  I have not encountered those problems myself under any 
version of OS X.  If that's what you are experiencing I can see why 
you would view ViaVoice as unusable.  If there is a low enough 
occurrence of this combination of problems I can *guarantee*  that it 
won't be a priority with the ViaVoice software engineers.
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T. Patrick Henebry