Word 2000 and IBM Via Voice

[Puck1987]

I've successfully installed Via Voice and started setting up and discovered that I have a compatability problem with the Via Voice templates installed in the Office Startup folder. Word 2000 won't even open with them there. So, I removed them from the startup folder. Now Word is fine, but I can't use Via Voice with the wordprocessor. I've checked ScanSoft's knowledge base as well as Microsoft and can't find a solution. The version I'm using, Via Voice USB Pro 10, is supposed to be fully compatable with my OS (Win2k) and my Office suite (2000). Is there a way to solve this problem so I can use ViaVoice with Word? It would appear from the lack of reference to this probem elsewhere that the rest of the Via Voice users have found a satisfactory solution.

Barrister87@yahoo.com

 

[brit54]

Hi Puck1987:

Hope you're still monitoring this post of yours. You must be disappointed not to have even a single respondant,

I'm afraid I cannot contribute either but wanted you to know that I had used viavoice a few years ago (2), and had problems that went unresolved. I finally discarded the program (Via Voice Gold), and planned to look at it again a few years later to see if things had improved.

I need it now more than ever because my disability (MS) is progressing and makinmg typing harder and harder.

I hope you have found a resolution to your very basic question by now. That's got to be the first gol to be able to use the program to dictate messages in word!

Regards,
Peter
Tucson, AZ

 

[Dreamboat]

Puck: What is the indication that you "have a compatability problem with the Via Voice templates installed in the Office Startup folder"

Are you getting error messages or what?

Have you been to:

http://www-3.ibm.com/software/speech/support/us/vvr9_faq.html

Anne Troy

 

[Puck1987]

I have resolved the conflict. The indication came when I got an error message and Word generated a log and shut down. I can't recall the error message, but the MS knowledge base indicated that it is a known problem when ViaVoice installs its global templates in the startup folder. In any event, my problem stemmed from a conflict between the ViaVoice templates and the templates installed by the version of Quickoffice I use for my PDA, all in the Office startup file. I have put the ViaVoice templates in another folder and activate them when I need them directly from Word after disabling the Quickoffice stuff. Since I can't see a time when I will be using ViaVoice to work on docs I create on my PDA and load into Word via hotsync, this seems like a workable solution. As for ViaVoice USB Pro 10.0 as a utility, I'm impressed with it. It takes time and patience to learn how to use it and train it to your voice, prononciations, etc., but so far, I think it's going to be worth the investment. I got it to cut down on the amount of typing I do as a result of reptitive motion stress in my neck and shouders.