Re: Voice input to FrameMaker

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

All that nice West Palm Beach weather has made Michelle (mld) too
conservative.   :)  If you have a good product, beat the drum!

I was one of the lucky recipients of her COMPLETE communication (what
was posted to this group was just a brief) and I found it extremely
helpful.  

If anybody is interested in this subject, be sure to see the referenced
articles and/or ask Michelle (mld@us.ibm.com) for the full version.

Unfortunately, Michelle either could not or did not comment on Via Voice
for use with FM in particular.  However, I can see the possibility for
tremendous productivity improvements in some of the work that we do in
FM ... particularly if this approach works well (or can be tuned for)
in-table navigation.  There are many times that I am editing table
content and have to use all three hands to keep track of my source
references.  

I have a couple FM-related questions which I will post here (and, mld, a
couple non-FM [use on a PC, but which is running windows of unix boxes
through the PC's XServer] which I will send privately):

1) Can Via Voice, or this class of tool in general, be set up to execute
"hot key" functions.  As an example, would the following be possible?
(Win95, FM 556)

a) Can the user make/train/assign phrases that the voice product will
associate a particular CONTROL activity that the application program
will understand?

b) I would, in each case, use FrameScript to set up a script that is
executable either through the FM/FS menu, or through a hot key
assignment. Are there any problems executing such with a Voice product?

c) Example (maybe bad choice of words, but good for illustration):
Navigation in a table from row to row, column to column, selecting and
replacing content.

   ComputerTableDown ComputerTableDown ComputerTableRight
   ComputerTableRight ComputerSelectSentence 
   ComputerReplaceWith "new text" ComputerTableDown....

This is a good example, because in a TABLE, FM does not understand the
concept of moving the cursor down to get to the table row below (unlike
most word processors).

Jay

mld@us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> I was reserved about taking up everyone's time in my response here on the
> forum, so I replied to these inquiries separately. But since there seems to
> be interest on this, I will provide some information about it here. If
> you have further questions, please send me an e-mail offline.

<really big snip> 

> Regards,
> Michelle De Armas
> 
> IBM - West Palm Beach, FL
> DNRC Member Since 1996
> 

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