We created one of these always-active macros to pop up any program's Help window whenever we said "show help." Impressive. This year, version 10.0 also lets you create voice macros-voice-activated shortcuts, in essence-that work with any Windows application that's installed on your machine. Like most consumer-priced voice-recognition applications, ViaVoice 10.0 offers the usual complement of tools and functions, including voice dictation, a text-to-speech engine, and voice-enabled applications control. But that's par for the course among speech-rec apps. ViaVoice's disk space appetite is as hearty as ever, too you'll still need half a gigabyte for this program-510MB in our test installations. There's only one new feature here: you may now opt to float the VoiceCenter rather than docking it to one of the screen edges, letting you position the VoiceCenter anywhere on the screen. This thin, toolbarlike strip features just one menu (to access the program's commands and options) and one button (to turn the microphone on or off). Since version 9.0, ViaVoice's interface, called VoiceCenter, hasn't changed. ViaVoice 10.0's VoiceCenter control bar can now be set in Floating mode so that you can drag it into position anywhere on the desktop.
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