ViaVoice is IBM's award-winning Speech Recognition technology that enables a computer to respond to the human voice in place of a keyboard or mouse. It allows you to interact with machines in the same way you interact with people -- through natural speech. What could be simpler? You talk, it types! Or the computer talks, and you listen. ViaVoice Speech Recognition technology makes working as convenient as talking into a telephone handset, a mobile recording device, or a computer microphone. ViaVoice technology provides the power of computing to those with disabilities. Visit our IBM Special Needs Systems website, ViaVoice is delighting millions of users and winning major awards worldwide.

You talk, it types!
You can get the job done faster, be more effective and simplify your work. ViaVoice 98 Office gives you the ability todictate documents directly into Microsoft Word 97 and the ViaVoice SpeakPad. Transfer your dictated text from SpeakPad to you favorite applications. With ViaVoice 98 Office you can even say commands during dictation.

Start immediately!
In less then one hour you can use your voice to do things you never thought possible. It is easy to install and easy to use. If you don't know what to say, just ask your computer,"What Can I Say?" and ViaVoice 98 Office will show you commands that might apply. A comprehensive User Guide and multimedia Quick Tours provide additional help to get you started.

Correct, edit and format hands--free!
With ViaVoice 98 Office, you don't have to stop dictating to correct or format text. ViaVoice 98 Office keeps your actual voice recording with your file, so you can correct now, wait until later or delegate the file to someone else to 'polish'.

Take control!
ViaVoice 98 Office gives you the power to control your PC and spplications with speech. Instead of wasting time searching for hard-to find programs in folders and directories, simply start your programs by voice. You can also created single-word voice commands for the tedious, repetitive things you normally do with multiple keyboard actions.

Read that back to me !
Rest your eyes and open your ears. ViaVoice 98 Office provides you with ViaVoice Outloud text-to-speech that reads you e-mail and document aloud. You can even proofeard your dictated documents by having the recog-nized text read back to you.

Take shortcuts!
Instead of repeatedly locating, copying and pasting from one document to another, use VoiceText dictation macros or VoiceForm dictation templates to insert your addresses, company profiles, and boilerplates with a simple spoken word or phrase.

You know what you want, now just tell your PC!
Using ordinary words inside Microsoft Word 97, you'll gain thousands of Natural Language Commands with the power to format and edit documents naturally. You can even say commands interchangeably with dictation. Just slightly pause, then command.

Customize your vocabulary!
ViaVoice 98 has the largest active vocabulary in the industry. Words, words and more words! Srart with the 64,000 word active base vocabulary. Then add up to 64,000 of your own words. ViaVoice 98 Office includes the ViaVoice Business & Finance Topic so that you can further supplement your vocabulary. Other Topics can be purchased and downloaded from the ViaVoice web site.

Speak numbers naturally!
Whether you talk time, money, dates, weights or numbers, ViaVoice 98 Office gets it right as you say it. When you say "four thousand five hundred and twenty one dollars", you see $4,521.

Many people and many places!
ViaVoice 98 Office supports multiple users on one computer. If you're mobile, you can teach ViaVoice 98 Office to recognize you in the different places where you work...on the plane, in the conference room and in your study.