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Viavoice 10 - sluggish correction in Speakpad and freezing
Submitted by ng on Tue, 11/28/2006 - 12:12.
Hi there
I'm having problems with Viavoice 10 - when working on Speakpad, sometimes correcting can become very, very sluggish - despite having 1GB RAM - and the whole app will often freeze and have to be shut down. I've recently tried installing an older version of MSOffice, which seems to have relieved the problem. Does VV interact with MSWord in some way, and is there some conflict between VV 10 and MSWord 2003 that might explain this?
Thanks for any advice
NG
Which version of ViaVoice 10
Which version of ViaVoice 10 are you using, and when did you buy it?
If you're using VV 10 version prior to VV 10.5, then it will not work in Word 2003. It was upgraded to 10.5 which will work in Word 2003 and other 2003 MS office applications.
All VV versions interact specifically with MS-Word versions current at the time of publication of the any particular VV version.
Check your VV Options Command Sets and make sure that all relevant boxes are checked.
Do you regularly defragment your discs? If you do not this could be causing problems.
However from what you're saying, it would appear that you have the penultimate version and trying to use it with Word 2003. If this is the case, then you should upgrade. Please see my postings as to how to do this. It is unlikely that you'll get it for free, since VV 10.5 has been out for more than the year, and Nuance will only replace the older version with the newer one if it is less than one-year old.
Certainly you should have no problems if you put back an older version of MS-Office.
I have never had any problems using MS-Office 97 (including Word 97), and I have not found any reason to upgrade to later versions. My entire office operates on Word 97.
Quentin
Thanks, Quentin - yup, it's
Thanks, Quentin - yup, it's 10.0 - bought...many years ago. It seems to be working nicely now I'm using 97, so it's easier to stick with that than upgrade.
What confused me was that I wasn't actually dictating into Word 2003 when I was having these problems - I was using speakpad. Can I take it that VV DOES therefore interact in some way with Word whether you're dictating into it or not?
Neil
Neil, I have never used
Neil,
I have never used SpeakPad, so by cannot advise as to whether or not there is a cross link or interactivity between Word and SpeakPad. I always dictate into Word.
I would suggest that you click-on User Options, click-on the Command Sets tab. Uncheck everything that you do not use, and check those that you do. You could try unchecking the Word Dictation and Word Natural Commands, apply, and then dictate into Speakpad and see if it has any effect.
If you want to dictate into Word, then check the Word Dictation and Word Natural Commands.
I do not check the box for Active Programs, as I found this slows up the computer dramatically in XP, and in any case, it does not work in WIN 2000.
I would still recommending upgrading to 10.5, as there are major improvements, particularly in the Vocabulary Manager in Tools \ Manage my vocabulary". Words are listed in alphabetical order, and it is very easy to locate a word you want to train or delete. You simply click anywhere in the window, and type in the first two letters of the word you're trying to locate, and then simply scroll down through the alphabetical list of words to locate the word that you want.
As a said before, it is also compatible with Word 2003, which you can use as you did in the earlier versions of Word.
If you have any other problems, I would suggest that you type in my name in the search box, and you will find the answers to most problems that have come up over the last one year and 26 weeks. And you can also refer to the Via-voice Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Via-voice/, whilst closed down now as this Website has consolidated the speech recognition user groups, the messages are still accessible.
Quentin
I'm on 10.5 and I have that
I'm on 10.5 and I have that problem from time to time as well. Sometimes it will crash, sometimes it will just hang, sometimes CTRL-ALT-DEL'ing will unlock it...
It doesn't happen very often to me, but I'd say maybe 10 times in the past three or four months (using it nearly every day for class).
We ended up using Eclipse to dictate to instead and that has solved it. Eclipse is not a good answer for the general consumer since it's like $4000 to be used for captioning or real-time cart calls, but I'd say try dictating to another program.
I suspect it is one of the
I suspect it is one of the problems of XP. As I have previously stated, I never had any problems with 2000.
I have found XP to be quite glitchy (a new word for VV! and possibly not in the normal dictionary!). Despite all efforts at replacing drivers, I frequently find that my USB ports refuse to work, and my Speechmike will suddenly stop working in the middle of dictating.
I have rarely had a VV crash, but I frequently have the Windows closing apology message in Word 97.
Another problem is on start-up of VV, when one of the user files becomes corrupted, and I get the series of error messages which tells me to replace my user with my back up. Again this never happens with 2000.
I have learned to live with these problems, and one of the things that I always do this to save any documents I'm dictating at the start in a temporary folder (which opens automatically when I click "Save") except when they are specific for a particular folder, and from time to time I delete the contents of the temporary folder of all the dictated files I do not want any more.)
I have never heard of Eclipse. What does it do? From what I have read, it seems to be some sort of platform for API's.
Quentin
You know how a stenographer
You know how a stenographer uses software to take keystrokes from their steno into a computer? Eclipse is that software and we have started using it for voice captioning. Eclipse still uses the voice recognition engine of either DNS or VV, but it's a very powerful tool for formatting and passing that information over networks for real-time captioning or cart calls. I have had no problems fixing my recognition errors in it and have had the same problems you describe with Speakpad, so I think the problem is Speakpad's handling of error-correction.