The latest stable version of IBM Via Voice was 9.0 and was able to transfer text directly into Microsoft Word.
The most important process for the correct use of this software is the so-called 'quick training', and 'enrollment': it consists of reading many specific words and sentences in order to make the software adapt itself to the specific users' sound and intonation features.
Users are able to improve decoding accuracy, by reading prepared texts of a few hundred sentences.
In addition, user specific text files could be parsed to tune the language model.
In the Executive package are included: Prior to the development of ViaVoice, IBM launched a product in 1993 named the IBM Personal Dictation System (later renamed to VoiceType)[8] which ran on Windows, AIX, and OS/2.