Panther, ViaVoice & iListen

[Camner]

With much trepidation, I have upgraded my Dual G4/867 to Panther, and have
upgraded iListen to version 1.6.3. I have also attempted to run  ViaVoice.
Ilisten 1.6.3 seems to function under Panther just as well as previous
versions under Jaguar. That this, I continue to find myself somewhat
frustrated by low accuracy rates in iListen.

ViaVoice did not start initially under Panther. Voice Center simply didn't
launch. I manually uninstalled all ViaVoice related files, except for my
user profile. I then reinstalled ViaVoice, did an initial enrollment, and
then restored my former user profile. ViaVoice functions, with only one
hitch: after starting Voice Center, issuing the command "dictate to speak
pad" launches speak pad, but then it unexpectedly quits. However, I can get
into speak pad by directly opening the speak pad application.

I am quite frustrated by the fact that ViaVoice has far greater accuracy for
me than does iListen. In fact, much to my surprise, ViaVoice after initial
enrollment (that is, reading only one story) is far more accurate than is
iListen after reading nearly all of the stories (I have only the long
Dracula story to train). I wish I understood why the speech recognition
engine in ViaVoice seems so much better at understanding me than iListen's.
It is particularly frustrating knowing that iListen is the only actively
supported and developed speech recognition product for the Mac. I really
don't want to use ViaVoice anymore, but at least for me, ViaVoice has
greater accuracy, and that makes it difficult to simply move entirely to
iListen.  And yes, I am using a recommended mic (TalkPro Express).

Robert

On 10/25/03 12:57 PM, "Damien Fox" <ahdfox at mac.com> wrote:

> ViaVoice runs fine on the Panther for me--PowerBooks G4 12 in.,
> 640MB/867MHz.  Just in case anybody is interested, virtual PC needs to
> be updated to 6.1 For panther compatibility.  the only issue I can
> think of that might distinguish the varying results is that I simply
> upgraded both my G3 and G4 PowerBooks from Jaguar to Panther without
> doing a clean install.  When I upgraded the Jaguar installation on an
> external hard disk drive to panther and then installed ViaVoice, I
> couldn't launch speech center--no error message, just Nothing.
> 
> Good luck with your own installations,
> Damien Fox
> On Oct 25, 2003, at 9:38 AM, Charlie Moody wrote:
> 
>> ViaVoice will not launch under 10.3.
>> No error is generated;  it simply won't run - at least, on my PowerMac
>> G4 (MDD).
>> 
>> If anyone finds a work-around, I'd love to hear about it.
>> 
>> Charlie
>> 
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