ViaVoice for Mac OS X Edition, the third award-winning entry in the IBM line of continuous speech recognition products for the Macintosh, was introduced in July 2001 at MacWord NY, where it won Best of Show and was featured in the Steve Jobs "10 on X" keynote speech.

With a release-to-market timed to the introduction of Mac OS X 10.1, ViaVoice for Mac OS X Edition is a native Mac OS X application that takes full advantage of Apple's dynamic "Aqua" user interface.

• Aqua user interface/look and feel throughout the application,
  including VoiceCenter, Command Center, SpeakPad, and Preferences
• Faster enrollment allows the ViaVoice for Mac OS X user to create a personal Voice Model and get up and running more quickly than any previous ViaVoice for Mac product
• Re-designed Voice Center
• New Command and Preference Centers
• G4 Processor Optimization (Optimized for G4 with Multiple
  Processors and for G4 with Velocity Engine)
• Dictation, editing and formatting into ViaVoice Speakpad
• DSR functionality - Direct Dictation into Text-Fields of Mac Applications
• Launch and surf websites with your voice in Internet Explorer
• Navigate the Finder with your voice
• A vocabulary more than twice the size of any previous ViaVoice for Mac product can provide greater dictation accuracy
• IBM ViaVoice Outloud Text-to-Speech (TTS) Technology
• Comes with noise-canceling digital USB headset microphone

*ViaVoice for Mac OS X is optimized for the G4 processor. Power Mac G3 and PowerBook G3 systems introduced before August 1998 are not supported. G3 systems upgraded from older machines are not supported.

Note to Mac OS X - Unix File System (UFS) users: