Millennium Edition - Macintosh
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 Just talk naturally and watch your words appear on the screen.


Dictate, edit and polish letters, reports, homework and e-mail

"A column I would normally spend 4 or 5 hours writing now takes half that time. As fast as the words flow out of my mouth, they're on paper. It's a sight to behold."
Dave Horrigan
Internationally Syndicated Mac Columnist

Easy to Use

  • There's a set-up assistant to help you get started quickly.
  • Just talk into SpeakPad and send your text into AppleWorks, Microsoft Word, Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger and AOL. You can transfer your text into other programs using the clipboard.
  • Create voice shortcuts for text you use frequently, like addresses.
  • Make your corrections quickly by voice or keyboard. Use the recording of your voice to help you.
  • Do your formatting by voice, either as you dictate, or afterwards.
  • Share it! ViaVoice can be used by different people, from teenagers up, on the same Mac computer.
  • Listen to Apple's Plain Talk read your text back to you as an aid to proof-reading.
  • ViaVoice for Mac comes with a lightweight noise-cancelling headset microphone that leaves your hands free while you create your text.
  • And you can colour co-ordinate your microphone to match your iMac flavour!

High accuracy for a fast finish

  • ViaVoice can tailor itself to your unique speech patterns to enhance voice recognition accuracy.
  • ViaVoice for Mac comes with a UK English vocabulary of 100,000 words.
  • You can add up to an additional 64,000 of your own words - great for names and technical terms.
  • ViaVoice can help you personalise your vocabulary by learning new words from your existing documents.
  • And it can spell and pronounce the 260,000 words in the back-up dictionary.
  • ViaVoice is excellent at handling words in context - distinguishing between words like to, too and two.
  • Every time you make a correction, ViaVoice learns - so the more you use it, the better it gets!

You talk,
Mac types. Really