SayWhatPro7
New! - SayWhatPro7 now compatible with all ScanSoft versions and Service Packs (7.0, 7.1, 7.1 SP1, 7.2, 7.3).
New! - SayWhatPro7 now supports non-English 7.1 (French, German, Spanish, Dutch).
SayWhatPro7 is a macro file viewer/editor utility program for ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional Series Version 7 only. Users of SayWhat for NatSpeak Pro 5 or SayWhatPro for NatSpeak Pro 6 will feel right at home. It provides functionality similar to "What Can I Say?" did in DragonDictate.
Why another command browser? After all, Dragon has provided a completely new Command Browser in version 7. Answer: SayWhatPro7 has features, speed of loading, and usability the supplied browser does not have.
As far as I know, SayWhatPro7 is the first and only third party version 7 macro viewer program available. It comes in two levels, a freeware level, very similar to that of the version 6 SayWhatPro, and a registered level, where almost all commands can be edited and created. The rest of this page will describe the freeware version only.
It is very handy for those situations where you know you have a macro defined for some task you want to perform but you can't remember what command phrase you called it. Furthermore, the actual command details are available to view. Other features include:
- New ! - Tabbed layout for more power and convenience! Screenshot below.
- Printing a list of COMMANDs!
- New ! - Print quickly the body of the current command
- Exporting to .dvc file format (handy for sharing or moving macros among applications or users).
- Exporting to pseudo dvc file format (handy for studying the new version 6 type macros)
- Exporting to spreadsheet format
- All of the above can be narrowed down in various ways and all can be sent to a printer, a file or the Windows Clipboard.
- View options- follow 1 COMMAND and all its LISTs, show all COMMANDs that reference 1 LIST, turn on/off viewing of KEYS, SCRIPTs, Text and Graphics, Plain Text, Macro Recorder, Step-by-step, Advanced Scripting.
- Group designations can be followed as well.
- New ! - File, Properties - show count of command, LISTs, etc.
- New ! - HTML Help
File, Open and Searching have been moved to the registered version.
In case you hadn't noticed it, most of the above features do not exist anywhere else (including Dragon)! For a detailed command listing see Command Help
Known limitation:
- Some large graphics (Text and Graphics commands) will not display properly.
- Since ScanSoft removed my ability to update mapped legacy dvc files, I have decided to simplify my life, and have removed viewing of mapped legacy dvc files entirely from SayWhatPro7. They can still be viewed with an updated version of the original SayWhat.
Note new tabbed dialog layout for more power and organization:
This program was written in Visual Basic 6 using (of course) NatSpeak Pro version 7.