FastToys,
I believe the plugin is based on ViaVoice 10.6. The other versions of ViaVoice that you mentioned that are still available commercially are older, I doubt they would be compatible, though I must say I don't KNOW that for a fact. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who knows for sure. If I knew it was compatible, I'd probably buy it.
I have a very old version of ViaVoice, the 2000 "Millenium" addition. I haven't tried to use it with the plugin, because of the large version difference. Maybe I should try to see if I could get any of the training tools to work with the plugin, but I haven't tried because I've really doubted it could work.
Bill819,
I found what you said about the mike sensitivity to be true with the older version of HAL, but with HAL 6.2, I found the mike was not nearly as over-sensitive, and worked much better, even with the Microsoft speech recognition.
I was ready to do the training exercises several times to improve accuracy, but the problem with the ViaVoice plugin is, that it only lets you do the training session once, then it becomes inaccessible.
That, combined with the fact that there is no training window to make corrections in, has made it extremely difficult to make corrections to pronunciation errors. You can only do it while communicating with Hal, and that interferes with training HIM.
I don't see what more I can do with the plugin, I'm getting desperate. I recently got an offer to buy Dragon Speaking 10, for 65% off, so I ordered it. I think my computer may have a processor that is not compatible with it, so I may have to wait till I upgrade my computer (which I'm planning to do soon) before I can use it.
Meanwhile, if I could find a better way to train with the ViaVoice plugin, that would be ideal.
- Chaz