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A Navigation Macro Wizard guides you through creating these shortcuts. ViaVoice is sure to appeal to budget-conscious people looking for a strong voice recognition program.

Excellent 4. More Inside PCMag. Learn More. This item is currently out of stock and it may or may not be restocked. Out of Stock. Want to switch from dictation to program control? Office XP's own speech recognition mode makes you manually switch between dictation and program control by clicking a button on the toolbar.

Finally, ViaVoice will read, in a robotic voice, any text in any open document or dialog box. Click the Begin Reading command in VoiceCenter's menu to start this tool, which is a boon to anyone with a visual impairment. Although it sounds a bit stiff, ViaVoice's text-to-speech voice is always understandable, even when it reads names and places.

If you already own ViaVoice 8. But if you have version 7. Among version 9. ViaVoice's helpful technical support is just a click away. The help file is thorough and the online FAQ is quite detailed. If you can't find an answer in either of those sources, you can email questions or call technical support. If you need only an occasional built-in typist, Office XP's speech recognition engine may suffice.

This year, version 10 also lets you create voice macros -- voice-activated shortcuts, in essence -- that work with any Windows application that's installed on your machine. SpeechPad, the basic writing tool that comes with ViaVoice, is adequate for short jobs, but to get the most from this application, we recommend using it with Microsoft Word or ViaVoice remains the best speech-recognition program for Word users, and version 10 also dictates into virtually any other Windows application.

Try to dictate foreign words and phrases, however, and you'll end up with some odd translations. ViaVoice excels at navigating the Web using spoken commands. We had excellent luck here: ViaVoice rarely failed to recognise a link. As before, ViaVoice includes text-to-speech skills that can read documents aloud in a robotic voice -- handy when you want to hear a playback of what you've written or dictated. Version 10 adds some new tricks, too: it now supports digital recorders from Olympus and Sanyo, letting you talk into these recorders, then upload the audio file to your PC, where ViaVoice turns it into typed text.

Performance Although its interface hasn't changed much, ViaVoice 10 has changed for the better under the surface. Version 10's much improved speech engine significantly increases its speed and accuracy. Even with the briefest training, ViaVoice 10's transcription abilities impressed us.

ViaVoice took dictation on our test jobs -- business-style letters, news stories and short memos -- with a In a short word letter, the program made just five mistakes.