See also: IBM ViaVoice Speciality Vocabularies
Topics are a group of words, pronunciations, and corresponding word usage statistics (language model) that are created for a specific subject, e.g. a Legal or surveying Topic. Topics supplement the base vocabulary which ships with ViaVoice products or others that may be purchased separately. Topics can also be created to supplement the speciality vocabularies, such as a Neonatal Topic to add to the IBM ViaVoice Healthcare Vocabulary. No topics ship with IBM ViaVoice Release 8 but topics such as the Topic for Surveyors and a Tax Topic are available from selected Business Partners. To build Topics requires the use of the IBM Topic Factory which is a tool available for the creation of topic vocabularies. The IBM Topic Factory is not included in ViaVoice retail products, but is available as a separate tool for Value Added Resellers, System
Integrators and Software and Application Developers. Please note that ViaVoice users can add up to 64,000 words of their own choosing with their ViaVoice product without creating a topic. IBM ViaVoice Legal Topic The IBM ViaVoice Legal Topic that used to ship with previous versions of IBM ViaVoice is now included in the base vocabulary of the ViaVoice Release 8 products. Legal abbreviations and citations can be dictated naturally as if you are speaking to a colleague or your assistant. Many common Latin terms and phrases are also included with the vocabulary. |