Edit your vocabulary manager and got rid of the wrongly spelled or other undesirable words.

Close ViaVoice.

In My Computer, or Windows Explorer, locate *.ADD file in your User folder. In ViaVoice 8-10 this can be found in C: \ Program Files \ ViaVoice [or wherever you keep the ViaVoice programme] \Users \[your user name] \ *.ADD. In VV 10.5 this can be found in C: \ Documents and Settings \ Application Data \ IBM \ ViaVoice \\Users \[your user name] \ *.ADD.

Open the *.ADD file using Word Pad or Notepad. (When you are doing this, make sure that you uncheck the box that says "always use the selected programme to open this kind of file".)

When you have opened this file, click Edit and then Select All, then copy. Close the *.ADD file.

Go to Microsoft Word, or other word-processing program, open a blank page and paste. Save this document with a name (such as "my words") and in a location where you'll find it easily. I suggest that you do this periodically, in order to update your new custom vocabulary.

Export your dictation and navigation macros to a location where you will find them.

Go back to your user name folder, copy it and paste somewhere else on your computer or external back-up, where you will find it.

After a period of use, the user files do deteriorate. On other occasions, you may find glitches with ViaVoice starting and getting weird messages. I found that the simplest thing is to do a complete uninstall including ViaClean (including deletion of user files), and and then do a clean reinstall, When VV is installed I do not start it. I copy the backup user folder and paste it into VV user folder.

I then go to Control Panel \ IBM ViaVoice Options, and apply my user name. By then go through the various tabs and set up my settings. I exit this, and open ViaVoice.

I then set up the audio, import my macros from the backup location, and then analyse the document "my words" with Analyse My Documents. Uncheck the case sensitive box. (You're only looking for single words which you had added since doing the backup to be trained.)

Proceed with the training in the usual way (you should only have to train in the new words that were not in the backup) , and you will have restored your voice files to pristine condition.

The entire operation should not take more than 15-20 minutes (depending on the speed of your computer).