[MV] Re: taking the plunge (2)

[Jonathan Greene]

Just checking back to see if anyone might have a suggestion here?



On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 09:26 PM, Jonathan Greene wrote:

> It has been a while since I ran ViaVoice, but I am about to undergo 
> surgery and believe that I will have to be in a cast for 4-6 weeks.  I 
> would like to have VV ready to go when that happens but unfortunately 
> it will no longer run for me.  When I tried to install the update 
> below I am getting a message that I cannot install onto my primary 
> volume.  This is more than a bit strange since you would expect the 
> app to upgrade the existing and installed one.
>
> Anyone else have any issues?
>
> Thanks,
> JG
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 05:29 PM, T. Patrick Henebry wrote:
>
>>> I am running OS 10.2.3 and ViaV 10.2.2. I have had little or no 
>>> problem
>>> running mostly older software on the classic platform before this.
>>
>> If you have not already downloaded the update to ViaVoice for Mac OS 
>> X from IBM and installed it do so.
>>
>> <http://www-3.ibm.com/software/speech/support/us/vvmac3_update.html>
>>
>> IBM only supports it up through OS X 10.2.2 officially; but I've been 
>> running it under 10.2.3 without any problems.  This update does solve 
>> many problems with running ViaVoice under Jaguar.
>>
>>
>>> The main issue right now is that I can't get the Setup
>>> Assistant to analyze my documents. When I click on the add button, I 
>>> am
>>> presented with an hierarchical display which I can follow through to 
>>> the
>>> text documents that I want to add, but the documents are ghostly and 
>>> I can't
>>> highlight them, can't add them. Even documents created by my new VV 
>>> program
>>> are not reachable.
>>
>> Any documents you want to analyze must be in Plain Text format. 
>> SpeakPad, TextEdit, and many others use RTF format.  What I did was 
>> create a folder called Sample Documents then use my word processor to 
>> save copies of documents in text format to that folder.  Then I just 
>> told ViaVoice to analyze everything in that folder.
>>
>> NOTE: SpeakPad documents can only be analyzed during a Save and to do 
>> so you must have Analyze When Saving Documents checked in your 
>> SpeakPad Preferences.  Otherwise you must convert them to plain text 
>> and then analyze them.
>>
>>> My speakpad freezes up on me at times and won't respond
>>> to any commands (I know this is a reported problem)
>>
>> What I do for this is to use the Save option in the file menu every 
>> few minute AND check the option to save the dictation session.  You 
>> can *usually* do this via keyboard and mouse right after a freeze 
>> too.  That way when SpeakPad freezes not only isn't much lost, but 
>> When I reload the file after Quitting /relaunching SpeakPad I still 
>> have all the audio data avail;able should I need to correct 
>> recognition errors in what I've already dictated.
>>
>>> I can't get the
>>> program to register the software with  IBM. It states that it "can't 
>>> form an
>>> internet connection" despite the fact that Explorer is working fine, 
>>> up and
>>> running.
>>
>> This is most likely a problem with the server on IBM's end.  If it 
>> persists call support and report it (along with any other problems). 
>> Not being able to register is a legitimate reason for calling >> support.
>>
>>> Please tell me this is some silly little mistake on my part.
>>
>> It isn't.
>> -- 
>> ----------
>> T. Patrick Henebry
>>
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